Tom Reed Thriller Series

The Complete Tom Reed – Walt Sydowski Thriller Series

This omnibus edition digital box set contains the five novels in Rick Mofina’s award-winning series, praised by #1 New York Times bestselling authors, James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Dean Koontz.

IF ANGELS FALL #1

Tom Reed is a crime reporter with The San Francisco Star, whose superb journalistic skills earned him a Pulitzer nomination. But years later Reed’s life is coming apart. His editor wants him fired. His wife has left him to wrestle with his demons. Alone, Reed is tormented by the fear he may have caused the suicide of an innocent man suspected of murdering a two-year-old girl. Reed’s friend on the case is legendary San Francisco Homicide Inspector, Walt Sydowski, who has one of California’s highest clearance rates. He is also a lonely widower haunted by the fact he cannot solve the girl's murder. Both men grapple with the past while they race the clock to learn the truth behind new abductions tormenting the Bay Area, in this acclaimed thriller set in the late 1990s.

COLD FEAR #2

In the remote region of Montana’s Glacier National Park known as the Devil’s Grasp, 10-year-old Paige Baker of San Francisco disappears while on a camping with her mother and father. A multi-agency task force launches a massive search as Paige fights to survive in the wilderness. Time hammers against her and soon the nation is gripped by the life-and-death drama. Reed and Sydowski are drawn into the case as secretly, behind the scenes, the FBI grows suspicious of Paige’s parents. Their recent history and disturbing evidence links them to a horrible unearthed secret from the past.

BLOOD OF OTHERS #3

The disappearance and murder of a lonely San Francisco insurance clerk puts Reed and Sydowski on separate tracks in their pursuit of a killer. The suspect lures solitary women out of their quiet worlds and into his nightmare as he races the clock and travels the globe searching for the one woman who will forgive the unforgivable. In the course of a widening investigation, Olivia Grant, a shy gift store sales manager who aches to escape her painful solitude, meets Ben Wyatt, an outcast SFPD cop on the case. Wyatt is a man gripped with self-doubt over the shooting of his former partner. This is a study of loneliness and human frailties; a story steeped in terrifying suspense that threatens to destroy the lives of those drawn into it as it rockets to a heart-pounding conclusion. Blood of Others received one of the world’s top literary prizes for crime fiction, the 2003 Arthur Ellis Award, given by the Crime Writers of Canada for Best Novel.

NO WAY BACK #4

On the day Tom Reed decides to finally quit the news business, a sensational story breaks; a heart-stopping robbery-homicide at a jewelry store. The suspects have shot and killed a police officer before fleeing with a female hostage. Reed rushes to the scene, his passion resurrected for one last big story. Arriving at the chaos, Reed is stunned to learn from a clerk, still clutching a receipt, that the hostage is his wife, Ann Reed. Horrified, Reed confronts San Francisco Homicide Inspector Walt Sydowski and other detectives on the case. All know the odds as they follow the grisly trail left by the killers. The clock is ticking down as Reed battles his anguish, his demons and Sydowski, in a life and death search for Ann.

BE MINE #5

A personal message written in human blood is left for Tom’s friend, reporter Molly Wilson, at the murder scene of her boyfriend, homicide cop, Cliff Hooper. Detective Walt Sydowski, has grappled with horrific cases but this one is unlike anything he’s ever faced: the murder of a fellow detective, which shocks the homicide squad. Shaken to the core, detectives go flat out to find his killer. As Sydowski works on his most challenging case Reed pursues his own investigation while racing to save Molly.