The Drumbeat Dancers (Nick Teffinger Thriller 15 - Novella)

In this riveting novella (72 pages) from master thriller author R.J. Jagger, a killer uses a beautiful TV correspondent to pass a chilling message to Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger about an unstoppable murder that will happen in two days time.

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R.J. Jagger's ATTORNEY PREY (NICK TEFFINGER THRILLER 14 - NOVELLA) is available.

In this riveting novella (60 pages) from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger spirals into the addictive maze of a beautiful young criminal defense attorney who has murder on her mind.

At Kindle Here.

Attorney Prey is also coming soon as an audiobook.
Narrated by David H. Lawrence XVII.

Cover Art by Harry Bennett

A Twist of Sin - New Cover

In this riveting thriller, A TWIST OF SIN, an exotic Jamaican woman who just finished her first year of law school at NYU finds herself in Tokyo, slipping deeper and deeper into a deadly hunt for an ancient map. As time runs out and danger closes in, her world collides with that of Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger, who has travelled halfway around the world in an impossible attempt to stop an international killer from taking his next victim.

Coming in Audiobook in March 2012.

A Way With Murder - New Cover

Private investigator Bryson Wilde (The Scroll Lawyers, The Shadow File, A Way With Murder) lives in an edgy 1952 world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz. In this riveting noir thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Wilde finds himself spiraling deeper and deeper into the deadly world of a beautiful young client who by day is a lawyer and by night is a dame on the run. This book will be released in hardcover by Pegasus Books in August 2012.

Available now at Kindle here.

The Shadow File - New Cover

Bryson Wilde, investigator for hire, lives in an edgy world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz. In this riveting noir thriller from R.J. Jagger, The Shadow File (402 p.), Senn-Rae Vaughn, Esq., a beautiful young solo attorney, hires Wilde to conduct an investigation on behalf of her client that is so dangerous and against the rules that she can’t even tell her client it is being done. Almost immediately both Senn-Rae and Wilde are thrust into a staggering thriller of unimaginable consequences.

Thanks, John!

Many thanks to John from Sydney, Australia, who sent me an email pointing out a mistake in the text of Bad Client. Thanks, mate!

Witness Chase - New Cover

Pretty Little Lawyer (Nick Teffinger Thriller 4) - New Cover

Law student Paige Deverex gets her perfect life jolted to a stop by a chilling telephone call from a stranger. He gives her the option to either attempt to save the life of his next victim or hang up and never be bothered again. What follows is a deadly thriller set in the throes of lust, power and greed.

Available at Kindle here.

Kill Theory (Nick Teffinger Thriller 13) - Available at Kindle Now!

This atmospherically-charged thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Kill Theory, is the first book featuring Nick Teffinger in his new position as head of San Francisco's homicide detail. 

As Teffinger frantically hunts for an elusive killer who is poised to take the next victim by the end of the week, he finds himself pulled deeper and deeper into the world of solo attorney Song Lee, a seemingly insignificant lawyer with a one-room office in a Chinatown alley who has been hired by a mysterious woman to find out if she killed someone. (395 pages).

Reverse Run (Nick Teffinger Thriller 11) - New Cover

Reverse Run, one of the more riveting Nick Teffinger thrillers, has an awesome new cover.

Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger goes to Bangkok to hunt for a friend who has disappeared. While there, he wanders into the city's seedy, lust-drunk Soi Cowboy district on a steamy neon night where encounters a sexy little thing. It’s that night that his dark side comes out. A life gets taken and he’s the one who took it. Now everything is reversed. As he joins forces with a young female Bangkok detective to hunt the person or persons who took his friend, the lovely detective is simultaneously closing in on him. This is a deadly, whiplashed, never-saw-it-coming thriller set in the underbelly of a dangerous foreign land where nothing is as it seems and time is running out. (422 p)

R.J. Jagger - Taking a Break from Writing to Mess Around on the Drums

Dead in Hong Kong

Buckle up and hold on tight for the exotic dangers of Dead in Hong Kongl, one of the most riveting pulse-pounding thrillers yet to come from the pen of acclaimed author R.J. Jagger. In this sinfully-charged thrill-ride, homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself negotiating the dark undercurrents of Hong Kong in a frantic effort to prevent the impending murder of a beautiful china doll who he knows only from a few brief hours of anonymous lust.

Available exclusively at Kindle here.

Attorney's Run - New Cover

Fresh out of law school, London Vaughn discovers there's no room in Denver's prominent law firms for a middle-of-the-class graduate. While barely making ends meet as a waitress, she encounters a beautiful woman who engages her services irrespective that she has no experience, no office and no reputation. Almost immediately, London and her client are thrust into the deadly throes of a high-stakes international thriller of unimaginable scope.

Available exclusively on Kindle here.

R.J. Jagger's "The Scroll Lawyers" Audiobook is Available

We are excited to announce that the audiobook version of R.J. Jagger's noir thriller, The Scroll Lawyers, is available for purchase at amazon.com, audible.com and iTunes. Check out one of the links for a free sample of this noir thriller narrated by the extraordinarily talented voice over artist, David H. Lawrence XVII.

Get Your R.J. Jagger Thriller as an eBook at Your Local Library in the US, Canada, Australia or New Zealand!

We are pleased to report that the thrillers of R.J. Jagger are being made available for purchase by libraries in eBook format. Several thousand libraries in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand already have LAWYER TRAP in stock and lendable as part of the libraries' digital eBook lending program. All of the other Jagger thrillers will be made available for purchase by libraries starting in early 2012. If your local library doesn't have the one you want in stock, simply ask if they will order a copy for you. They get them from a distributor called OverDrive, which is the largest distributor of eBooks to libraries.

R.J. Jagger's Thrillers are Coming as Audiobooks

There has been a tremendous amount of demand for Jagger's thrillers in audiobook format. So, we are pleased to announce that they will be made available as downloadable audiobooks at Audible, amazon.com and iTunes, with the first one (The Scroll Lawyers) arriving in early December 2011 and the rest following in the first half of 2012.

The Scroll Lawyers

Narrated by David H. Lawrence XVII

Pub Date: December 2011

Attorney's Run

Narrated by Ken S. Polk

Pub date: Early 2012

The Shadow File

Narrated by David H. Lawrence XVII

Pub date: Early 2012

Lawyer Kill

Narrated by Kiff VandenHeuvel

Pub date: April 2012

A Twist of Sin

Narrated by Barry L. Campbell

Pub Date: January 2012

Pretty Little Lawyer

Narrated by Katherine Joan Taylor

Pub Date: Feb. 2012

Ancient Prey

Narrated by Basil Sands

Pub Date: May 2012

Witness Chase

Narrated by Tim Lundeen

Pub Date: August 2012

R.J. Jagger's Thrillers Are Now Available at Apple's iBookstore

We are thrilled to announce that the entire collection of R.J. Jagger's thrillers has been added to Apple's iBookstore. Get them at iTunes for a mere $4.99 each. Such a deal.

UPDATE 12/19/11: Most of these books were pulled from iBookstore so they could participate in Amazon's KDP Select program. They will likely be restored in iBookstore in March 2012.

R.J. Jagger Finally Gives an Interview

R.J. Jagger finally gives an interview. It's for the International Thriller Writers and can be found here. Many thanks to author Gary Kriss who conducted the interview and wove all of Jagger's incoherent ramblings into a seamless article that actually makes sense. Thanks Gary!

R.J. Jagger's "A Way With Murder" (Hardcover) is Coming from Pegasus on August 1, 2012

In a deal brokered by Lukeman Literary Agency, R.J. Jagger's A WAY WITH MURDER has been picked up by NY publisher Pegasus Books and will be released in hardcover on August 1, 2012 followed by a trade paperback or mass-market re-print in 2013. The HC is available for pre-order at Amazon.

Private investigator Bryson Wilde (The Scroll Lawyers, The Shadow File, A Way With Murder) lives in an edgy 1952 world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz.

In this twisty noir thriller from acclaimed author R.J. Jagger, Wilde’s hunt for the person responsible for a string of brutal murders sends him spiraling into the seductive world of a beautiful young woman who increasingly becomes more and more dangerous to know. Jagger fans who have come to expect a fast paced thrill-ride set to an edgy beat will not be disappointed by this riveting noir thriller.

But, hey, forget the book and look at the cover! The cover illustration is by the renowned Robert A. Maguire who was one of the most talented and sought after pulp artists of the 1950s and 1960s. You got to love that cover!

Lawyer Trap (Hardcover) is coming from Pegasus on November 16, 2011

"VERDICT The pacing is relentless in this debut, a hard-boiled sexual slasher novel with a shocking ending--" Library Journal

"[T]he well-crafted story line makes this a worthwhile read. Stuffed with gratuitous sex and over-the-top violence, this novel has a riveting plot--" Kirkus Reviews

"Lawyer Trap is a terrifying, gripping cross between James Patterson and John Grisham. Jagger has created a truly killer thriller." -- J.A. Konrath

Lawyer Trap will be released by Pegasus Books in hardcover on November 16, 2011. Information on the film rights can be found at the Lukeman Literary Agency. The book is in stock at Amazon. Watch for it in stores and libraries both in hardcover and digital format. The trade paperback or mass-market edition will be released in 2012.

Synopsis: Newly-licensed attorney Aspen Wilde joins Denver’s largest law firm to discover that an attractive, up-and-coming associate mysteriously vanished several months earlier and is presumed dead. She secretly embarks upon a brilliant but dangerous plan to trap the killer only to find herself increasingly intertwined in a complex web of murders involving several different women killed in very different ways. As she frantically searches for answers, not only to trap the killer but also to keep herself from getting trapped, her hunt collides with the ongoing investigation of Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger, a man who has strayed into the edgy world of a beautiful suspect to find out if she is a murderer, a target, or something else altogether.With the stakes suddenly higher than they could have imagined, Aspen and Teffinger find themselves spiraling deeper and deeper into a deadly vortex where nothing is as it seems and time is running out.

Client Trap - New Kindle Cover

This is the new Kindle cover for Client Trap.

R.J. Jagger's Noir Thrillers

Sure, Jagger writes the popular Nick Teffinger thrillers. But did you also know that Jagger has been working on another series? In the noir books, private investigator Bryson Wilde lives in an edgy 1952 world where the dames are dangerous, cigarettes dangle from ruby-red lips and the nights are hotter than whiskey-soaked jazz. If you like the Teffinger books, you'll like this series equally as much and maybe even more so. To try one, all you have to do is light up a smoke and drive your Packard down to the 5&10 and pay your two-bits at the cash register; ten cents more if you pick up a vanilla shake while you're there. Or, if you don't mind paying a little more, you can click below and go to Kindle:

The Scroll Lawyers
The Shadow File [Kindle Nook]
A Way With Murder [Kindle Nook]
Dollface Run (Coming late 2011 or early 2012)

Lawyer Kill

The newest Nick Teffinger thriller, LAWYER KILL, is available on Kindle here.

When a young associate attorney at a prominent law firm is brutally murdered, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger finds himself swept into the exotic world of Pantage Phair, a beautiful young attorney suffering from memory loss who is desperately trying to piece her past together only to find that the deeper she digs the more she may be the very killer that Teffinger is closing in on.

Who is R.J. Jagger?

I get a lot of emails from readers wanting to know who the person is behind all these thrillers. They've googled me and found no website, no twitter, no facebook, no wiki, no interviews, no self-promotion, no nothing.

For those who care to know, I play the drums, try cases in court, get into more trouble than I get out of, sing to any Beatles or Beach Boys song that comes on the radio, and occasionally ponder who's hotter, Brittany in "Womanizer" or Shakira in "Hips Don't Lie." That, plus I pound thrillers out at the keyboard every now and then. That's about it. Thanks for visiting!

Bad Client - New Kindle Cover

This awesome cover was designed by Thrilling Covers.

The Order of R.J. Jagger's Books

Lots of readers have been asking the order in which my books were written. First, let me say that the order is unimportant--each book is a standalone thriller, there is no relation forward or backward from any book to another. Although Nick Teffinger is a recurring character in most of them, he is reintroduced in each one and is always the same age (34). So, you can pick up any one and read it first with no problem. That said, here's the order:

Nick Teffinger Thrillers

Witness Chase

Bad Client

Lawyer Trap

Pretty Little Lawyer

Attorney's Run

Never Dead

Client Trap

Ancient Prey
Dead in Hong Kong

A Twist of Sin

Reverse Run

Lawyer Kill

Kill Theory

Agenda Trap

Bryson Wilde Thrillers

The Scroll Lawyers

The Shadow File 

A Way With Murder

Never Dead - New Kindle Cover

Never Dead has a new Kindle cover and is available here.

Product Description: In R.J. Jagger’s riveting thriller, Never Dead, Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger is thrust into his most bizarre, terrifying and frantic case yet as he and an erotic Jamaican woman hunt for the killer of a young woman who was murdered with a wooden stake through her heart, as if she was a modern-day vampire.

Proofreading

Heres why the Jagger books are so thoroully proofreaded:

Ancient Prey

Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger follows a killer to Paris where he and a beautiful young French detective devise a brilliant but risky plan to trap their elusive target before he can take his next kill. Almost immediately their case intersects with a separate cat-and-mouse game being played by a law firm interpreter who is hunting the killer of her uncle, a prominent archeologist. With much more than simple murder at work and with the stakes higher than anyone could have expected, the hunts intertwine and stretch from Paris to Cairo to the Valley of the Kings, deeper and deeper into a deadly world of ancient secrets, unimaginable treasures and archeological murders. ANCIENT PREY is a game that started thousands of years but is not over yet.

Get ANCIENT PREY now on Kindle for only $4.95, here.

A Twist of Sin

In this riveting thriller from R.J. Jagger, A TWIST OF SIN, an exotic Jamaican woman who just finished her first year of law school at NYU finds herself in Tokyo, slipping deeper and deeper into a deadly hunt for an ancient map. As time runs out and danger closes in, her world collides with that of Denver homicide detective Nick Teffinger, who has travelled halfway around the world in an impossible attempt to stop an international killer from doing what he has promised to do.

Only $4.95 on Kindle, here.

The Shadow File

Jagger's newest book, The Shadow File, is now available for the first time anywhere at Kindle and Nook.

Set in 1952 Denver, The Shadow File is perhaps R.J. Jagger’s most riveting and surprising page-turner yet. Senn-Rae Vaughn, Esq., a beautiful young solo attorney, hires private investigator Bryson Wilde (The Scroll Lawyers, The Shadow File, A Way With Murder) to conduct an investigation on behalf of her client that is so dangerous and against the rules that she can’t even tell her client it is being done. Almost immediately they are thrust into a staggering thriller of unimaginable consequences.

The Shadow File, The Scroll Lawyers, and A Way With Murder, all feature Denver investigator Bryson Wilde. Since the stories are separate and independent of one another, any book can be read first. They do not need to be read in any particular order.