There is something fishy about the apparent suicide of an escort and St.Paul Homicide Detective, John Santana is determined to find out the truth. He and his partner, Kacie Hawkins, start their investigations which seem to get murkier and murkier. When a young girl claiming...

Speak For The Dead is the seventh book in Christopher Valen’s police procedural series about St. Paul homicide detective John Santana. Born in Colombia and exiled after the powerful Calí cartel killed his parents (for reasons unspecified in this book, but which I’m guessing were...

The Darkness Hunter by Christopher Valen is the sixth novel in the John Santana series featuring Homicide Detective John Santana. The Darkness Hunter is told in two parts, titled Then and Now. Then starts off when Santana is called to investigate the murder of a...