Welcome to the website of Chicago-based crime novelist Sam Reaves. Sam writes gritty, character-driven mystery and suspense rooted in American settings. He has penned two crime series and several stand-alones, in addition to co-authoring a mobster memoir.
Under the name Dominic Martell he has produced a series of geopolitical thrillers set in Barcelona and beyond, featuring Pascual Rose, an ex-terrorist trying to go straight.
The Dooleys
The Dooleys are a Chicago police family. Homicide 69, set in the summer of 1969, introduces Mike and his sons, Kevin and Frank. Frank is the protagonist of Dooley’s Back, set thirty years later. And Freeze, set in 2003, focuses on Kevin, heading the CPD cold case squad. In all three books the Dooleys take on the deep roots and far-reaching branches of Chicago organized crime.
Stand-alones
Cooper MacLeish
Cooper’s a Chicago cabbie who just can’t stay out of trouble– because he just can’t let people get away with things.
Non-Fiction from Sam Reaves
