USA TODAY Bestselling author Steven Henry

Just as Detective Erin O'Reilly and her K-9 Rolf are finding their footing in the NYPD's Major Crimes squad, her world is upended. An unexpected attraction to a gentleman gangster leaves Erin caught between cops and criminals as her sense of duty clashes with her heart.

Books 6-10 of the Erin O'Reilly Mysteries explore Erin's deepening connections to her fellow officers and to an underworld boss. She'll have to solve crimes while balancing her increasingly precarious personal life. "This series gets better with every book and I am in it for the long haul, so I hope Steven Henry has many more stories to share." (Amazon review of "First Love" by Gabi Rosetti)

Book 6: Black Magic – The horrific on-stage death of a magician's assistant ushers Erin and Rolf into a shadowy world of deceit in which illusion and reality blend together.

Book 7: Death by Chocolate – A poisoned box of Valentine candy leaves a toxic trail through New York, showing that love and death can be close bedfellows.

Book 8: Massacre – The mass killing of a restaurant full of mobsters is only the opening shot of a full-on gang war which drags Erin and her squad into the crossfire.

Book 9: Flashback – The burden of accumulated traumatic stress begins to weigh Erin down as she struggles with her own demons and the apparently senseless slaying of an Army veteran.

Book 10: First Love – Erin's personal and professional double lives collide in a devastating clash of jealousy, desire, and murder.