Don’t Shoot My Angel (Seamus Taggert, Private Detective Book 2)

“Don’t Shoot My Angel” is a hard-boiled detective story set in the early 1940’s in St. Paul, MN, still recovering from its reputation as the most corrupt city in the country and the preferred hideout for Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and the Karpis-Barker Gang during Prohibition. Seamus Taggert, dubbed the “Hero Cop” for his actions during a bank robbery, hung out his shingle as a private eye after being forced into retirement due to injuries suffered in the robbery and was heavily involved in cracking a Nazi sabotage ring (The Lock and the Damned), further burnishing Taggert’s public reputation as a hard-nosed get-it-done gumshoe. “Don’t Shoot My Angel” is Taggert’s second high profile case. Recruited by his former partner, who can’t be trusted, the “Hero Cop” is reluctantly dragged into a deadly street war for control of St. Paul’s criminal operations. With the disreputable former bootlegger Quinn Delaney and McGinty, the mysterious shotgun-toting cabdriver, backing him up, Taggert is soon dodging bullets as well as bedroom advances from his randy secretary, whose husband he’d put in prison, and a teasing raven-haired beauty whose father had saved Taggert’s life, losing his own in the process. And then things got complicated.