Sheldon Siegel Books in Order

Decades after teenager Luther Johnson was gunned down in Hunters Point and no one was charged, new ballistics evidence leads to the arrest of retired cop Sully Sullivan, and Mike and Rosie join Luther’s legendary detective father to untangle a cold case soaked in loyalty, racism, and regret.

When a wealthy Marina District lawyer is beaten to death in his driveway, a homeless heroin addict named Freddie Alvarez is found at the scene and blamed, and Mike and Rosie race from mansions to encampments to learn whether the evidence against him was built or simply found.

In an upscale North Beach strip club, former cop Cesar Ochoa is accused of stabbing star dancer Chloe Carson, and Mike and Rosie must sort through surveillance footage, jealous lovers, and the secrets of San Francisco’s nightlife elite to decide whether a disgraced officer is being framed.

Tyson Gore, rockstar CEO of a cryptocurrency start up, is shot dead in Salesforce Park, and a homeless addict is charged with his murder, pushing Mike and Rosie into a case that reveals greed, broken tech dreams, and corruption stretching from downtown San Francisco to Sand Hill Road.

Late one night in a neighborhood bar, a troubled off duty officer is stabbed, and a young bartender Mike knows wakes to find himself charged with killing the cop, sending Mike, Rosie, and Pete through bars, encampments, and case files to unravel what truly happened before closing time.

After three combat tours left him addicted and living on the streets, Lenny Garcia is accused of killing a friend with fentanyl laced pills he swears were legitimate, and when the pandemic delays court, Mike scrambles alone to clear him as the city begins to shut down.

Sports agent Robbie Blum, whose client list runs from Giants sluggers to Bay Area stars, is pulled from San Francisco Bay with his skull crushed and a bat floating nearby, and streetwise vendor Jaylen Jenkins becomes the prime suspect Mike and Rosie are determined to defend.

Dreamer student Mercy Tejada, an undocumented aspiring nurse, finds celebrity chef Carlos Cruz dying behind his Mission District restaurant with a knife in his gut and her fingerprints on it, pulling Rosie into a politically charged murder case that could destroy Mercy’s future in the country.

San Francisco sugar baby Lexy Low is accused of killing her billionaire lover when he dies from a heroin injection during an after party, and Mike and Rosie trace the drugs, the money, and the grudges through Silicon Valley’s venture capital circles and exclusive hillside mansions.

After rookie cop Johnny Bacigalupi, Mike’s godson, kills a Black motorist during a rainy night traffic stop, body cam footage, protests, and politics collide, and Mike takes leave from the Public Defender’s Office to defend Johnny while Rosie holds the office together under fire.

High school senior Thomas Nguyen never went inside the liquor store where his friend was shot by the owner, yet California’s felony murder rule leaves him facing a murder charge, and Mike and Rosie must attack both the case and the harsh law that put him there.

Chicago homicide detective David Gold, still haunted by a bombing that killed his partner, joins forces with new partner A. C. Battle when a shadowy bomber demands a prisoner’s release and begins targeting train stations, museums, and busy streets with increasingly deadly car bombs.

When their sixteen year old daughter’s boyfriend is discovered holding the bloody hammer that killed his father, a respected judge, Grace Daley becomes his only alibi, and Mike and Rosie uncover a sex scandal that links a troubled family to San Francisco’s most powerful citizens.

With only days before the execution of Nate Fineman, a former mob lawyer convicted of a Chinatown triple murder, Mike and Rosie race to prove his innocence, even as new evidence threatens the reputation of Mike’s late father, one of the cops first on the scene.

When the lawyer leading a devastating sexual harassment suit against the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese turns up dead, suspicion lands on Father Ramon Aguirre, and Mike and Rosie battle damning forensics and buried church secrets to defend Mike’s old friend from a potential life sentence.

Years after a controversial trial wrecked Mike and Rosie’s marriage, their former client Leon Walker reappears accused of stabbing a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, and the dying, homeless defendant insists they clear his name while police and prosecutors seem determined to bury him for good.

After egotistical film director Big Dick MacArthur is bludgeoned to death with his own Oscar, suspicion falls on his coked up young wife, Angelina Angel Chavez, and Mike and Rosie must navigate movie financing schemes and city development deals to keep their client out of prison.

When ambitious district attorney Prentice Skipper Gates wakes up beside a dead teenage prostitute, the man who helped get Mike Daley fired suddenly needs his representation, and Mike and Rosie dig into San Francisco’s political machine to learn whether Gates is a killer or a target.

Fired from a powerhouse San Francisco law firm, ex priest and former public defender Mike Daley opens a tiny practice just as his best friend is charged with a brutal double murder, forcing him and his ex wife Rosie to confront their old firm’s darkest secrets.