Los Angeles-based writer Patricia Smiley is the author of four novels featuring amateur sleuth Tucker Sinclair. PACIFIC HOMICIDE (November 2016) is the first in a new series about LAPD homicide detective Davie Richards and is based on her 15 years as a volunteer and a Specialist Reserve Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department. Other novels in the series are OUTSIDE THE WIRE (November 2017) and THE SECOND GOODBYE (December 2018). Patty's short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and TWO OF THE DEADLIEST, an anthology edited by Elizabeth George. She has taught writing at various conferences in the U.S. and Canada, and also served as vice president for the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America and as president of Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles.

Books by Patricia Smiley

The Second Goodbye: A Pacific Homicide Novel

by Patricia Smiley - Fiction, Mystery

For every homicide investigation she undertakes, Detective Davie Richards is determined to learn as much about the victim as she does about the killer. But there's nothing about 34-year-old Sara Montaine or her death that makes sense. Was Sara a saint caring for her dying husband or a gold-digger with a sketchy background? Did she commit suicide or was she murdered? Before her marriage, Sara lived comfortably without any obvious source of income, unusual for an orphan raised in foster care. As Davie digs deeper, she unearths Sara's troubled past and a viper's nest of villains who are willing to kill to keep their secrets hidden.