Now four books, The Rich Vitalli Mystery Series narrates the exploits of Detective Lieutenant Richard Vitelli of the Metro Police Department. Rich is the Missing Persons Department’s Ace: their man who solves their most difficult cases.
We first meet Vitelli in The Dry Cleaner. In this novel, Vitelli crosses swords with The Dry Cleaner, a mysterious adversary who make bodies disappear: clean off the face of the earth – without a trace. And, for a little extra, The Dry Cleaner will also provide full service: a clean hit and no body left behind.
Then Vitelli comes up against an adversary that will dog him for days (and books) to come: Anubis Cline. It is Cline who advises billionaire Sheldon Hertz in the organization and setup of Hertz’s perfect society in True Believers, the second book in the series. And it’s Cline who avoids exposure by arranging Hertz’s “accidental” death, and eventually gets away with it.
In the third Vitelli mystery, Bobby Doyle is Missing, the Marauders professional football team’s star quarterback, Bobby Doyle, is abducted. Anubis Cline plays off his financial interest in the team, seeing to it that the Russian mob finds Doyle before Vitelli does. What happens next spells the end of the Russian mob, but ends up putting money in Cline’s pocket.
The latest book in the series is Vitelli in Venice. Who else but Anubis Cline is behind a major art theft scheme in Venice? And, of course, he unknowingly times the heist just when Vitelli and his new bride are honeymooning in the ancient city. This time out Cline almost gets Vitelli murdered; but he gets foiled in the end when the heist doesn’t quite work out as planned.
All four books are available as ebooks, or in paperback, online from Amazon and other outlets.
