Benny Cooperman Series

When Myrna Yates visits private investigator Benny Cooperman to look into her husband Chester’s suspected infidelity, what begins as a routine case takes a sudden, dark turn. Shortly after the investigation starts, Chester is found dead of an apparent suicide. However, when Cooperman discovers that Chester purchased a 10-speed bicycle just two hours…

It’s February in Ontario, and Benny Cooperman’s private investigation business is as frozen as the landscape—until Muriel Falkirk arrives at his door desperate for help: her boyfriend, Johnny Rosa, has vanished. Ten years ago, Rosa was involved in the kidnapping of an heiress; he served his time, but the ransom money was never recovered, and now that…

Niagara Falls is overrun with Hollywood types shooting a film, but private investigator Benny Cooperman isn't scouting for talent—he's scouring the area for Billie Mason, a woman who has gone missing from his hometown of Grantham, Ontario. Has she simply been bitten by the acting bug, or is a much more sinister force at play?

Benny Cooperman is camped out at a Petawawa fishing lodge, tasked with guarding a famous televangelist hiding from a pending court decision. What begins as a simple assignment takes a dark turn when the body of a missing local guide is discovered. Suddenly, the Canadian private detective finds himself embroiled in a deadly mystery where every guest…

When Saul Tepperman, a member of Ontario’s B'nai Shalom synagogue, reaches out to his childhood acquaintance Benny Cooperman, he isn't calling for old times' sake. Now a private investigator, Benny is hired to track down a once-trusted lawyer who has vanished with the life savings of over fifty clients, amounting to a staggering two million dollars.…

Benny Cooperman, Grantham’s soft-boiled private eye, finds himself mixed up in the art world. More out of water a fish can’t get. After all, Benny only heard of Picasso last year, and now he’s hot on the trail of some missing paintings by Wallace Lamb—a trail that leads him to some of Grantham’s illustrious elite who buy, trade, and sometimes steal…

Benny Cooperman is sure that toxic waste isn’t something you should spend too much time thinking about—it just isn’t good for your mental health. But when Jack Dowden’s widow appeals to Benny to investigate the death of her truck-driving husband, Canada’s favourite gumshoe finds himself up to his egg-salad-stained lapels in the deadly filth of Kinross…

It all starts with a noisy toilet. Benny's janitor, Kogan, is too preoccupied with the death of his girlfriend, Lizzy Oldridge, an elderly woman who appears to have starved to death. Lizzy may have died hungry, but she had plenty of money, and somehow former alderman and mayoralty candidate Thurleigh Ramsden, an unsavoury character if there ever was…

Benny is, as always, desperate for paying work, but he flatly refuses an invitation to work for Grantham’s most notorious crime boss. But Benny doesn’t have much of a choice when Abram Wise has him kidnapped in the middle of the night and makes him an ultimatum: either Benny takes the case, or his parents and girlfriend may run into some very bad luck.…