“Bruneau doesn’t rush the book club members’ backstories, likes, and routines. The reader feels they know these women, which raises the stakes. A believable time frame, intelligent dialogue, an abundance of twists, and escalation in the psychopath’s violence lead to quick page turns... highly recommend.”

KIRKUS REVIEW

A book club marked by a killer.
An insane professor.
An innocent undergrad.
…or is she?

When a young woman is murdered in a Cambridge apartment, the residents are horrified. Then a jogger's body is discovered on Boston Common at dawn—and the whole city is in shock. The killings are just beginning. Members of an innocent book club start falling one by one.

Homicide detective Dimase Augustin has two crime scenes and one sickening realization: whoever did this isn't finished. As Dimase digs deeper, a chilling pattern emerges: each victim connects to a string of unsolved murders, and all roads lead to MIT.

His adversary isn't just smart—he's brilliant. A professor whose intellect rivals Dimase's own, and whose capacity for evil seems insatiable. In this dark academic thriller, detective and killer circle each other, while the professor's female undergrad blurs moral lines beyond recognition.

When you're hunting a genius, one mistake could be fatal.

"In the tight, twisting thriller the Scotus Affair, an affable detective pursues the truth about a far-reaching political conspiracy.”

FOREWORD REVIEWS

A plot to assassinate a Supreme Court Justice. A coma victim hiding secrets. 

Entrepreneur Ben Johnson has spent forty years loving a woman the world can never know about. Acadia LaFleur — matriarch of Louisiana's most powerful political family. Now she's in a life-threatening coma, the victim of a savage home invasion, and Ben can't call the police.

All he can do is call his old friend, homicide detective Dimase Augustin. 

What Dimase uncovers in Louisiana twists the knife deeper. A second Acadia LaFleur — young, desperate, and running from something that reaches all the way to Washington DC — has turned up brutally murdered in her mother's rural home. Two women. Same name. Both silenced. It can't be random.

As Dimase pulls at the threads, a conspiracy of staggering proportions emerges — corrupt politicians, rogue FBI agents, and a plot to assassinate a sitting Supreme Court justice. Could a ruthless criminal seize control of the nation's highest court?

A flight home. A corpse in the next seat. An oligarch poisoning the well.

Dimase Augustin is barely back on American soil when his world turns upside down. The lights come on in the first-class cabin at Logan Airport — and the Ukrainian professor he'd been chatting with for hours is dead in the seat beside him. No warning. No struggle. Only silence.

After authorities clear him, Dimase expects to walk away. Instead, he's pulled into something far darker than a single murder.

Somewhere beneath New England, a billionaire Russian oligarch is executing a plan decades in the making — a covert operation to contaminate and take full control of the region's water supply. In a secret world of cutting-edge bio-engineering and organ transplantation, the body count is already rising.

The oligarch's logic is chilling in its simplicity: in the wars of the future, whoever controls the water controls everything.

Dimase has one chance to stop it — before millions of people drink what's coming.

The most dangerous threats are the ones you never see coming.

A killer who can't possibly exist. A dead man who doesn't know it yet.

Iraq War veteran Keith Stone beat the odds twice — once on the battlefield, once with a lottery ticket that changed his life forever. Twelve years into a twenty-five-million-dollar annual payout, he's living the dream. Until the nightmare begins.

Two of the people he'd named as beneficiaries — the ones who'd collect if Keith died — are dead themselves, both in unusual accidents. Coincidence? Keith doesn't think so. And neither does homicide detective Dimase Augustin.

Drawn into the case as a favor to an old Cambridge PD colleague, Dimase starts pulling at the threads. As he does, more beneficiaries fall. The logic is inescapable: someone on that list is killing off the competition. But here's what makes Dimase's blood run cold — not a single suspect had any means or opportunity to commit the murders.

Someone is hiding in plain sight. And Keith Stone is running out of time to find out who.

The luckiest man alive is about to discover how unlucky he really is.

He swore no prison could hold him. He was right.

Dr. Hans Berger — the Phantom Professor, the most brilliant and sadistic killer Dimase Augustin has ever faced — has done the impossible. He's walked out of a maximum-security federal prison. And he hasn't wasted a single day of freedom on lying low.

Berger's revenge is as meticulous as it is monstrous. Backed by Russian oligarch Vladimir Pusinsky, Berger undergoes a stunning transformation — a disguise so complete that he slips back inside PKC, the biotech company he founded in his MIT days, unrecognized by the very colleagues who once knew him and feared him. While Berger closes in on his targets with surgical patience, Pusinsky has his own agenda: to exploit the chaos of the Covid pandemic for catastrophic gain.

But this isn't just about power or profit. It's personal. Berger wants Dimase to suffer before he dies — and that means going after the one person Dimase can't protect from a distance: Katie Fallon, the woman he loves.

Dimase has defeated Berger once. He's defeated Pusinsky once. He's never faced them together, and this time the devastating defeat may be his.

Some enemies come back smarter, harder, and closer than you ever imagined.

Two missions. One nemesis. The ultimate showdown.

This installment of the Dimase Augustin Thriller Series takes us back in time, exploring Dimase's roots as a Special Forces operative. What he believes to be a straightforward drug mission in Nicaragua turns into a mission to root out a shady DEA Agent. Fast forward, and Dimase is asked by his FBI pal to investigate the disappearance of a U.S. senator's daughter in Costa Rica.

The FBI has reasons to keep things hush-hush, and Dimase soon realizes the case runs deep, involving a massive human trafficking ring run by the same DEA agent he tangled with years ago. He is forced to navigate a labyrinth of lies and power players, determined to save a senator's daughter from the trafficking ring while hoping to get the ultimate payback against his old nemesis.

In the jungle, the law loses its reach.

When enemies foreign and domestic conspire.

Officially, Dimase Augustin doesn't work for the FBI. As an off-the-books freelance contractor, he operates in the shadows — which is exactly where the President needs him.

His mission is to uncover and expose American powerbrokers compromised by Chinese intelligence operatives. With a pivotal Senate vote on the military defense of Taiwan days away, two key senators from opposing parties are being blackmailed — their votes, and possibly the fate of Taiwan, hang in the balance. The tentacles of corruption reach so deep into the DC establishment that Dimase can't be sure who, if anyone, is clean.

At the center of it all are fifty-four USB drives containing compromising material on a carefully selected group of bipartisan political players. Someone made them. Someone is using them. And when the drives go missing, the trail leads somewhere Dimase never expected — a connection buried inside the White House itself.

The closer Dimase gets to the truth, the more dangerous each step becomes. But he can't stop. Not when the President's survival—and the sovereignty of the United States—now rests on his shoulders.

The enemy within is the most terrifying.

Old adversaries. A union under threat.

In this page-turning installment of the Dimase Augustin thriller series, we find Dimase one year out from the shocking events of Threat Analysis. In this sequel, Dimase has continued to evolve into an elite, off-the-books government contractor through his partnership with Bill Larson and their firm, Augustin & Larson Confidential, LLC (ALC).

The book plunges us into a gripping geopolitical web as Dimase continues to match wits with Chen Pi, the unofficial chief of the Chinese intelligence apparatus in the domestic United States. Pi and his team of undercover spies have discovered a highly classified US government operation, so sensitive that fewer than fifteen people in the entire world are aware of its existence. Unable to call in traditional resources, Dimase is tasked with trying to fit together the random pieces of a seemingly impossible puzzle.

With the credibility of the USA on the line, Dimase races against the clock and across the country in a desperate attempt to preserve America's standing in the world order, even as his Chinese counterparts prepare to pull back the curtain on the unthinkable. As all the players converge on the United Nations building in New York City, Dimase is forced to call upon his doubtful, part-time girlfriend, Katie Fallon, for help. Despite her trust issues stemming from Dimase's need for secrecy, the duo join forces to attempt a high-stakes intervention against all odds.

In a heart-pounding rollercoaster of action and intrigue, can Dimase best old adversaries and preserve the union for another day?

Perfect for fans of James Patterson, David Baldacci, Catherine Coulter, and Nelson DeMille.