The Darcy Walker Teenage Sleuth Thrillers
Authored by A.J. Lape

Grade A Stupid
A murderer thinks it was the perfect kill. A teenage sleuth vows to have the last word.
$2.99
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: The Darcy Walker Series - Book 1
Genres: Humor, Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult
No Brainer
Summer break: The mob. A missing boy. And a web of lies.
$3.99
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: The Darcy Walker Series - Book 2
Genres: Humor, Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult
Two weeks before junior year, Darcy hops a plane to Orlando for some R&R. Fresh off the heels of solving three murders, she's ready to sit back and enjoy the vacation capital of the world. Maybe if you're a noun. Darcy Walker, however, is nothing but verb. Before her feet hit soil, she's meddling in another mystery, trying to find a kidnapped boy.
100 Proof Stud
Fighting crime. Dodging bullets. With a little bit of love on the side.
$3.99
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: The Darcy Walker Series - Book 3
Genres: Humor, Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult
Murder isn't Darcy's only problem. All of a sudden it's raining men, and this teenage heroine's personal life turns her inside out. Before she can sort out her feelings, she chases a spray-painting vandal and stumbles upon a case of identity theft. Darcy jumps into the fray to prove she can hang with the big boys... and snag the reward money.
DEFCON Darcy
One evening at a nightclub leads Darcy to the most dangerous caper of her life.
$3.99
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: The Darcy Walker Series - Book 4
Genres: Humor, Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult
Fisher Stanton has a cheating girlfriend. When he hires Darcy to chase her to a local club, in true Darcy fashion she stumbles upon a dead body. Thing is, this body has secrets...secrets that point to Darcy's past. DEFCON Darcy gives Darcy's demons a name. What she thinks she knows as truth, isn't. What she wishes wasn't true...is.
Foolproof
One hormonal, teenage guy + speed dating x Darcy Walker = murder.
$3.99
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: The Darcy Walker Series - Book 5
Genres: Humor, Mystery, Thriller, Young Adult
When Jon Bradshaw convinces Darcy to be his wingman at a speed-dating event, one debacle leads to another, and before you know it, they're the proud new owners of a dead body. Thing is, the body has a tie to Darcy, one that makes her look guilty of capital murder.
Darcy Walker Female Sleuth Thrillers
Authored by A.J. Lape
Side Hustle
This novel is the first book in A.J. Lape's pulse-pounding and hilarious Darcy Walker Investigations series. A blend of Stephanie Plum with the thrilling shocks of Ballard and Bosch, Darcy is an underdog who solves crime one way—living life like a verb.
Book or eBook: $3.99
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: Darcy Walker Investigations - Book 1
Genres: Humor, Women Sleuths, Detective Fiction, Police Procedural, Thriller, Crime Action Thriller, Suspense Action Thriller, Organized Crime, Organized Crime Thriller
Darcy Walker excels at lies, deception, and outthinking the bad guys. She has the résumé to prove it. While waiting to attend the police academy, she takes her talents into pizza delivery. Little does she know, life as a delivery driver isn’t all pizza and wings.
NOTE: formerly released as Side Hustle, Season 1, Episodes 1-3, in an episode/serial format. This novel has all episodes combined.
Gut Check
Book or eBook: $4.99
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: Darcy Walker Investigations - Book 2
Genres: Humor, Women Sleuths, Detective Fiction, Police Procedural, Thriller, Crime Action Thriller, Suspense Action Thriller, Organized Crime, Organized Crime Thriller
Darcy Walker is back hustling pizzas, fighting Los Angeles crime, and attending the police academy. When a customer confesses to her he might’ve committed murder, will she solve the case or be the next body in the morgue?
NOTE: formerly released as Side Hustle, Season 2, Episodes 1-3, in an episode/serial format. This novel has all episodes combined.
Ride or Die
This novel is the third book in A.J. Lape's hilarious and electrifying Darcy Walker Investigations series-an evolution of teenage heroine to pizza delivery driver to police officer on the streets of LA.
Book or eBook: November 2020
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: Darcy Walker Investigations - Book 3
Genres: Humor, Women Sleuths, Detective Fiction, Police Procedural, Thriller, Crime Action Thriller, Suspense Action Thriller, Organized Crime, Organized Crime Thriller
Darcy Walker is a rookie police officer working the nightshift in the Los Angeles Police Department. A job tailor-made for adrenaline junkie Darcy, but one thing her new position entails is following the rules. Barely thirty days in and she fights the itch to go rogue when a Vegas mobster named Fat Tony sends someone to kidnap her and a reality television star winds up dead on her watch.
Against orders, Darcy bloodhounds Fat Tony behind her sergeant’s back and secretly runs her own vice op inside a TV series to find a murderer. But what she sees as going above and beyond the call of duty, detectives take as interference in their cases. She’s on thin ice, and they let her know it.
Can Darcy stay in her lane and leave investigations to those in the suits, or will Fat Tony kidnap her, and it won’t even matter?
Medusa Effect
Darcy Walker is back and entrenched in two crime thrillers that might kill her before walking a beat does.
Book or eBook: August '21
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: Darcy Walker Investigations - Book 4
Genres: Humor, Women Sleuths, Detective Fiction, Police Procedural, Thriller, Crime Action Thriller, Suspense Action Thriller, Organized Crime, Organized Crime Thriller
Darcy Walker isn't making enough bank to pay her bills. But delivering pizzas as a side hustle hits a snag when she finds her customer without a pulse. Problem is, the victim is Ugly Pizza's biggest competitor, and her boss, Rollo, becomes a prime suspect.
For fans of Stephanie Plum, Veronics Mars, Fortune Redding, and other mystery-thriller heroines, Medusa Effect will leave you laughing one minute...then hiding under your bed the next.
5 Pounds of Pressure
Darcy Walker is back and entrenched in two crime thrillers that might kill her before walking a beat does.
Book or eBook: March '22
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: Darcy Walker Female Sleuth Thrillers - Book 5
Genres: Humor, Women Sleuths, Detective Fiction, Police Procedural, Thriller, Crime Action Thriller, Suspense Action Thriller, Organized Crime, Organized Crime Thriller
Darcy Walker is settling into life walking a beat. But when she delivers a warrant off the clock, her life changes in an instant, giving her a deadly lesson she won’t soon forget. Going back to her roots for a temporary change of scenery, she can’t escape the reality that life has gone on without her—her father might have a girlfriend, her aunt has secrets, and her little sister dresses like a stripper in her prime.
5 Pounds of Pressure is the electrifying fifth novel in the Darcy Walker Crime Thriller series. If you like shock-a-minute twists and heroines who won't quit, then you’ll love AJ Lape's intense mystery.
Heist & Seek
Money talks.
Book or eBook: February 2023
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: Darcy Walker Female Sleuth Thrillers - Book 5
Genres: Humor, Women Sleuths, Detective Fiction, Police Procedural, Thriller, Crime Action Thriller, Suspense Action Thriller, Organized Crime, Organized Crime Thriller
Darcy Walker is settling into life walking a beat. But when she delivers a warrant off the clock, her life changes in an instant, giving her a deadly lesson she won’t soon forget. Going back to her roots for a temporary change of scenery, she can’t escape the reality that life has gone on without her—her father might have a girlfriend, her aunt has secrets, and her little sister dresses like a stripper in her prime.
Heist & Seek is the shock-a-minute sixth novel in the Darcy Walker Crime Thriller series. If you like gritty twists and heroines with a sense of humor, then you’ll love AJ Lape's newest funny mystery.
Rivera & Gutierrez Action Thrillers
Authored by A.J. Lape
Vice
An action-packed series starter: Ruthless criminals. Sordid covers. And a vice operative who's very good at being bad.
Book or eBook: January 2021
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: Ruby Rivera
Genres: Women Sleuths, Detective Fiction, Police Procedural, Thriller, Crime Action Thriller, Suspense Action Thriller, Organized Crime, Organized Crime Thriller
Ruby Rivera has come a long way from running guns for a motorcycle club in Las Vegas. She's now a vice detective in the LAPD, spearheading an op to dismantle a sex trafficking ring led by Chauncy Ford. With her cover as Crush, Rivera's mission is to capture Ford's attention and snag a job as a prostitute in his organization. Besides a stubborn will to never fail, she's got two things going for her - great legs and she's a great liar.
Alejandro Gutierrez is haunted by demons - one tattooed on his back and the memory of the young woman he couldn't save. As a leader to an organized crime syndicate, he's supposed to be all-machine. But he can't convince his heart to stop feeling. When a chance encounter with Ruby Rivera draws him into the middle of a sting, he finds himself attracted and offering his expertise.
Problem is, their day-jobs put them on opposing sides of the law.
When stakes are high and bullets start flying, will they work together as a team? Or will that opposites-attract thing blow up in their faces?
Vice Versa
An action-packed series starter: Ruthless criminals. Sordid covers. And a vice operative who's very good at being bad.
Book or eBook: June 2022
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: Rivera and Gutierrez Action Thrillers
Genres: Women Sleuths, Detective Fiction, Police Procedural, Thriller, Crime Action Thriller, Suspense Action Thriller, Organized Crime, Organized Crime Thriller
Vice detective Ruby Rivera is one piece of evidence away from taking down notorious drug dealer, Mookie Spinks. But when her cover is blown, she reaches out to the only drug dealer who can piece it back together.
LA kingpin, Alejandro Gutierrez, needs an exterminator-one who'll take care of the rats in his buildings and the rat putting them there. When Rivera calls in a favor, he offers his expertise on one condition: she must provide information leading him to an old enemy. Trouble is, the detective knows Gutierrez serves one way--bloody.
When bullets start flying, Gutierrez is torn between saving himself and helping Rivera get her mark. Will their twisted alliance survive, or will Rivera cross a line she can't uncross?
15 Saddles MC Action Thrillers (kindle vella)
Authored by A.J. Lape
15 Saddles MC
When the only way out...is in a body bag.
Book or eBook: July/August 2021
Author: A.J. Lape
Series: 15 Saddles
Genres: MC Romance, Romantic Suspense, Crime Action Thriller, Suspense Action Thriller, Organized Crime, Organized Crime Thriller, Romantic Suspense
Set in the high-rolling strip of Las Vegas, the men of 15 Saddles MC took an oath--trust, loyalty, brotherhood. But when their president is murdered, they find themselves living in a 24/7 hell-loop. As a new leader takes his place, lies unravel, secrets surface, and betrayal becomes epidemic. With enemies coming at them from all sides, even brothers can't trust one another. And the only way out...is in a body bag. (New dual POV each season)
Future Books
- Heist & Seek (Feb '23)
- Of Vice and Men (2023)
- 15 Saddles MC Season 3 (2023)
- White Noise (TBD)
- Nuclear Blonde (TBD)
What The Readers Say
Chris
Reader
Based on Darcy’s rec, I tried GM's Dark Magic coffee. It's indeed everything Darcy said about it. Give Green Mountain’s Double Diamond a try!
Chris
Reader
I love love love your Darcy Walker series!!! I’ve read them all the way thru twice and can’t wait for book 6. Please tell me there’s another book coming?
Jennifer
Reader
Are there going to be anymore audio books? I love listening to the books when I’m at work and I’ve already listened to one and two multiple times.
Olivia
Reader
I can’t wait until the next book in the Darcy Walker Series comes out. How many books do you think there are going to be in total in the series?
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