Who Is Ricky Burns?
Ricky Burns is a veteran of the NYPD Major Case Unit. He served twenty years, survived two shoot-outs and retired as a Homicide Detective First Grade. No longer with the police department, but still attached to the excitement and satisfaction of that career, he chose to move to south Florida and become a private investigator. His reputation preceded him and before he had even settled into the houseboat an old friend of his donated for merely the price of protection, Ricky was being called by high profile criminal defense attorneys to work on some of America’s most explosive murders.
Ricky Burns Mysteries highlight the career of real-life private investigator, Jerry Lyons.
Two in the Head is the 1st book in the Ricky Burns Mystery Series.
Dazzling wide receiver for the Miami Demons, Rick Ramirez, has just been signed for forty million dollars. Unfortunately, he has also been arrested for three murders. Ricky Burns, a NYC Major Case Homicide Detective has come out of retirement to find the truth.
What follows is a chilling journey into Ramirez’s dark past, a flaming romance, and an ending you never see coming.
Oh Baby! is the 2nd book in the Ricky Burns Mystery Series.
Ricky is angry and ready to return to New York—leaving Private Investigations and Collette behind.
Just when he’s ready to leave, he’s presented with an intriguing death penalty murder case. A beautiful 22-year-old is accused of killing her two-year- old daughter. She has no money for an attorney and is stuck with the worst Public Defender in Dade County.
Will Ricky swallow his pride and go back to Kirschman? Are he and Collette through? Will Kirschman take the case pro bono?
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Killer Camp is the 3rd book in the Ricky Burns Mystery series.
Karen Rogers is found with a bullet in her head. Her best friend, Becky, is charged and convicted of First-Degree Murder. This is detective Ricky Burns’ most dangerous and controversial case yet as he searches for the real murderer.