Unwritten Rules: A Dickie Floyd Detective Novel

A dead cop. A missing family. A cover-up that goes to the top.

Hard-nosed L.A. detective Dickie Jones won’t let things lie. When a California Highway Patrol officer is found dead in an apartment and the family who lives there is missing, the relentless cop vows to find out why. But he runs into trouble when his captain orders him off the case, certain it was no homicide.

Ignoring orders to back off, Dickie and Josie follow a trail that leads them to bikers, dirty cops, and a temptress with whom Dickie has crossed paths before. When they stumble upon an undercover operation gone rogue, they find themselves pitted against a ruthless opponent who’ll stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.

Unwritten Rules is the sixth book in the riveting Dickie Floyd Detective Novel series. If you like authentic crime investigations, unconventional characters and police smartassery served up with a side of suspense, then you’ll savor every page of the latest offering from Danny R. Smith.

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‘The L.A. cop novel is different from the New York cop novel, from the Miami cop novel, and, thank God, from the Minneapolis cop novel. It has become nothing less than a peculiarly American art form, a chronicle of the deterioration of what Scott Fitzgerald called the last and greatest of all human dreams. L.A.’s cops and killers and the streets they troll have attracted the very best American crime writers. People like Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, James Ellroy, Joseph Wambaugh, Walter Mosley, and Michael Connelly. To that list, you now need to add one more name: Danny Smith. Nobody has ever written the L.A. cop novel better than Danny Smith does. Nobody. Ever.’ - Jake Needham, author of the Mean Streets Crime Novels

Professional Review

‘Terrific story and characters. I enjoyed meeting Dickie and Josie and watching their interaction. The story itself is compelling and kept me wanting to turn the pages to find out what happens next. Your voice and writing style are succinct and on-point. I never felt as though you were too wordy, or just putting in filler to round out the story. You make each word count, which is so important in books of this genre. You manage to perfectly keep the pacing and tension, and your expertise in the subject matter shines through in a very accessible way for the reader. Although your story would be considered a police procedural, I never felt as though you were overdoing the descriptions. You give enough information to add believability to your plot and to your characters. The plot itself was interesting enough to keep my interest. Great job I look forward to reading more of your work in the future.’ - Judge, 8th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards.