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## Posts

- [Press](https://www.samreaves.com/press/) - Interviews and reviews of books by Sam Reaves.
- [](https://www.samreaves.com/362-2/) - New book by Sam Reaves 2018.
- [Mean Town Blues](https://www.samreaves.com/men-town-blues/) - Mean Town Blues A veteran of the war in Iraq and a refugee from a sad Kentucky family history, Tommy McLain places his faith in a beat-up blue Chevy and the city of Chicago, where the jobs are. What he doesn’t count on is Lisa DiPietro. She’s pretty, openhearted, with dark eyes you could
- [Bury It Deep](https://www.samreaves.com/bury-it-deep/)
- [Favorite Books](https://www.samreaves.com/favorite-books/) - Books Sam likes
- [Favorite Writers](https://www.samreaves.com/favorite-writers/) - Writers Sam likes
- [HOMICIDE 69 en français](https://www.samreaves.com/homicide-69-en-francais/) - Homicide 69 - Calman Levy Sam Reaves a le grand plaisir d'annoncer que Calmann-Lévy publie une traduction française de son roman Homicide 69.
- [Homicide 69 ](https://www.samreaves.com/homicide-69/) - The summer of 1969: There were Americans on the moon and Americans in Vietnam. And a Chicago homicide dick was working the case of his life.

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- [Home](https://www.samreaves.com/) - Welcome to the website of Sam Reaves. Sam has published seven crime novels set in Chicago.
- [Books](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/) - Books by Sam Reaves
- [Links](https://www.samreaves.com/links/) - Check out these useful sites for those interested in police work and crime fiction: Sam Reaves WYCC Mystery Marathon Interview My Book in 15 Seconds - Cold Black Earth by Sam Reaves
- [Dooley's Back](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/dooleys-back/) - Dooley’s Back Not even a day is Dooley back, and already he’s helped a Chicago gangland punk with a switchblade in his hand and rape on his mind to a deadly fall. It’s instinct; Frank Dooley used to be a cop. Things went bad for Dooley eight years ago, when a case of homicide prompted
- [Mean Town Blues](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/mean-town-blues/) - Mean Town Blues A veteran of the war in Iraq and a refugee from a sad Kentucky family history, Tommy McLain places his faith in a beat-up blue Chevy and the city of Chicago, where the jobs are. What he doesn’t count on is Lisa DiPietro. She’s pretty, openhearted, with dark eyes you could
- [A Long Cold Fall](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/a-long-cold-fall/) - A Long Cold Fall "Gritty...brutal...fiercer than the wind that knifes in from Lake Michigan... a smartly paced mystery, full of terse, adrenalized action and punchy writing." People "Smashing...credible...satisfying...new voices are always welcome, and Sam Reaves' first mystery is an exemplary beginning." Los Angeles Times Book Review "Sam Reaves is too good, he makes me nervous.
- [Freeze](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/freeze/) - In 2003, Kevin Dooley is the head of the Chicago Police Department's cold case squad. Tasked with re-investigating a 17-year old cop killing after the man originally convicted is exonerated and released, Dooley needs a good investigator with South Side experience on his team. Detective Linda Washington, who knows the territory, needs a new partner. Freeze, Sam Reaves, Dooleys, Chicago Crime
- [Stalking Horse](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/stalking-horse/) - Stalking Horse Stalking Horse finds Cooper out of the cab and running his own private limo service, chauffeuring wealthy clients around town in his own Mercedes. Meanwhile, Diana is in graduate school at the University of Chicago. Her new best friend is classmate Isabel Albala, the wife of a high-powered corporate lawyer. A stalker is
- [Get What's Coming](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/get-whats-coming-2/) - Get What’s Coming Even with his cab-driving days now only a memory, MacLeish doesn’t need to look for danger; it finds him. In Get What’s Coming, Cooper is newly married to longtime girlfriend Diana and gainfully employed as chauffeur for the very well-heeled Regis Swanson, a powerful Chicago real estate developer. Cooper seems to have
- [Fear Will Do It](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/fear-will-do-it/) - Fear Will Do It “Gritty, fast-paced... seamy... satisfying” Publishers Weekly “Strong escapist fare... hurtles on with satisfying conviction” Kirkus Reviews Vietnam vet Cooper MacLeish has a good job pushing a hack around Chicago—and the love of a beautiful Caribbean lady named Diana. But Diana has a past she never shared with him.
- [Bury It Deep](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/bury-it-deep/) - Bury it Deep After agreeing to accompany his newspaper reporter friend Melvin Moreland on an evening drive, Cooper is drawn into a circle of corruption as wide and deep as Lake Michigan. Moreland’s beat covers nothing more risky than the occasional city hall press conference, yet when an old source comes out of the
- [Homicide 69](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/250-2/) - Homicide 69 It’s the summer of 1969, and veteran Chicago homicide detective Mike Dooley is investigating the brutal torture-murder of a young woman. Eventually it becomes clear that the victim is a former Playboy Bunny and mobster’s girlfriend. Dooley suspects this is more than a sex killing, a dogged suspicion which leads him into the
- [Running in the Dark](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/running-in-the-dark/) - Running in the Dark Abby Markstein is a young Manhattanite, a gifted mathematician lookingforward to an academic career at a prestigious eastern school. After hercareer plans are derailed by a personal tragedy, she is forced to accepta position at a small college in Indiana. Resigned to a year or two ofexile in a part of
- [Cold Black Earth](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/cold-black-earth/) - Cold Black Earth Disillusioned by professional failures, freshly divorced and desperately tired after service in a war zone, Foreign Service officer Rachel Lindstrom resigns from the State Department and comes home to the western Illinois farm where she grew up, hoping to find peace. At home, however, there is little comfort, only a stressed rural
- [Mob Cop](https://www.samreaves.com/books-2/mob-cop-2/) - MOB COP: The true memoir of Fred Pascente as told to Sam Reaves Former Chicago police officer and Outfit associate Fred Pascente is the man who links Tony Spilotro, a central character in Nicholas Pileggi’s Casino and one of Chicago’s most notorious mob figures, to William Hanhardt, chief of detectives of the Chicago Police Department.
- [Biography](https://www.samreaves.com/biography/) - Biography of Sam Reaves
- [Press](https://www.samreaves.com/press/) - Interviews and press about Chicago crime novelist, Sam Reaves.
- [Contact Sam](https://www.samreaves.com/contact-sam/)

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