Death at the Old Hotel
St. Martin's Minotaur
Published June 12, 2007
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0312323004

In this third installment of the series that features the brave, perhaps foolhardy, but definitely likable bartender Brian McNulty, Christmas festivities are marred by murder. Brian’s buddy sets his eye on one of the luscious waitresses at work. But when it turns out she’s married to a cop with a mean temper,an unnecessary distraction turns to murder. Next their nasty boss is killed, and it falls to Brian to solve the murder before he ends up behind bars in more ways than one.


What Goes Around Comes Around
St. Martin's Press
Published February 2005
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0-312-32298-4

The second Brian McNulty book. The red-diaper-baby bartender (abetted by his father and son) attempts to keep Manhattan's crime solved and cocktail glasses brimming. Filling in for a friend at the fancy East Side saloon and eatery called The Ocean Club, McNulty finds more than he bargained for: a body floating in the East River.
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Beware the Solitary Drinker
Poisoned Pen Press
Published 9-15-2002
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 1590580168

Brian McNulty, veteran bartender at Oscar's on the Upper West Side, respects his customer's privacy. And their space. But when one—a tarnished but innocent young woman seduced by New York's bright lights and glitter—is murdered, and another battered innocent charged with killing her, he reluctantly begins his own investigation.

Brian's enthusiasm for the chase is given a boost with the arrival of the dead girl's sister, a young business woman from Massachusetts, equally bent on uncovering the killer. She's put off by his jaded attitude and offbeat lifestyle, but comes to rely upon his familiarity with the city's darker underside. Brian, in turn, enlists the aid of a cadre of neighborhood cronies. The suspects: all of the regulars at Oscar's, each with more to hide than the next.
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