Brett Wallach: 7 books

In the guise of a tough, noir detective novel, TORMENT, the sixth in Brett Wallach's Phil Allman, P.I. series, is actually a poetic, romantic elegy on obsessive love. The street-smart humor and colorful cast of characters that have been staples of the series remain, but the sad cloud of unrequited...

Felix Brigati, New Jersey rock legend, has been getting threatening, anonymous texts. He hires an old acquaintance, Phil Allman, a private investigator, to safeguard him, not trusting those already in his camp, due to the personal nature of the messages.Instead of protection, the desolate Allman...

Each of us, I suppose, has had a 'to be or not to be’ moment. We wonder, during those dark minutes, if maintaining our existence is worth the pain and effort. Happily, most of us shrug off such thoughts and plod along, hoping for brighter times down the road. And so begins "Susceptible",...

Private Investigator Phil Allman is in pursuit of Jesse Garon Presley, the heretofore thought stillborn twin brother of Elvis Presley. Along the way, Allman also seeks wealth, family stability, and love, not to mention the perpetrator(s) of three murders as he travels from his hometown of Philadelphia...

Bored and desolate, the fortyish divorced Allman begins an innocent, though questionable online dialogue with the pretty teen Marci Downes. Phil’s initial “comments” of advice plunge into something deeper, as he descends into the abyss of forbidden love, put to the test when Marci is kidnapped.Romantic,...

How far can you push a man? In the second Phil Allman P.I. detective novel, Allman tackles the most important and agonizing case of his career. In AND I LOVE HER, we get a noir glimpse into a marriage gone bad… and a divorce and custody battle gone worse, set against a backdrop of Beatles...

Leonard Smallwood's extraordinary ordinariness compels NASA to recruit him for its study of the effects of extended isolation in space on “the average person”. While our hero hovers in orbit for three years, a plague kills all of the males on the planet. Thus, when Leonard finally descends, he...