Pictures Book

"Few authors are [Daley’s] equal in portraying the workings of the criminal mind and the motivations of the police."—The Kansas City Star

 
When photographs of a duchess’s husband cavorting with another woman are spread across every scandal magazine in Europe, a dynasty’s image is at stake. Who is the woman? Who is the photographer? And who made sure the pictures would be taken? Ex-NYPD captain Vincent Conte is hired to find out. But as an investigation that takes him to Milan, Amsterdam, the French Riviera, Rome, and the high Alps turns dangerous, Conte realizes that pictures aren’t the only things that lie.
 
PRAISE FOR ROBERT DALEY
 
“Daley’s strength as a writer is his understanding of how cops think, feel, and act.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Daley knows all the angles and how to tell a story.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

 “A mature, gifted writer . . . who understands his characters thoroughly, [and] cares about them.”—The Miami Herald

ROBERT DALEY is the author of seventeen novels, including Year of the Dragon, and eleven nonfiction books, including Prince of the City. Born and educated in New York, he served one year as an NYPD deputy commissioner. Daley lives in Connecticut and Nice, France.

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The Washington Post - Anthony Giardina

In a literary age when every fictional detective seems to need a tic, or an "interesting" past, or a cat, there's something satisfyingly retro about Robert Daley's Vincent Conte, who has only his own grumpiness to recommend him. Cashiered from the NYPD after slugging the superior officer who was sleeping with his wife, Conte's not looking for redemption. He's signed on with Probe Inc., an outfit specializing in ex-cops for private hire. "Conte was a brusque kind of man," Daley offers upfront, and if such a sentence seems to usher in the ghost of Mickey Spillane, let's be generous and allow in the ghost of Hemingway as well, or at least Hemingway's Thomas Hudson, the hero of Islands in the Stream, whose motto Vince Conte could easily take for his own: "Get it straight . . . love you lose. Honor has been gone a long time. Duty you do."