Mingo McCloud Wanted / Needed Author:A. J. Llewellyn Wanted (Mingo McCloud, Bk 1):Honolulu forensic accountant Mingo McCloud's lover has cheated on him again. To escape his heartbreak, a severely depressed Mingo moves to the North Shore of Oahu. Eager to start a new life and to forget, Mingo soon learns that Turtle Bay might be the home of big surf, but it also has even bigger... more » secrets. He catches the eye of a mysterious stranger, Jason, a sexy lone wolf with a troubled, sketchy past. Soon, the two become embroiled in a tempestuous love affair that turns dangerous when Mingo discovers Jason is actually spying on him. Involved in his first big murder case, Mingo needs all his emotional resources to help find a missing young housewife, yet his private life just turned deadly. He has no idea why Jason would be tracking his every move, or even who hired him. Determined to receive answers, Mingo hires big, black, and bad French-Caribbean Francois Aumary, a former mercenary, to help him. Quickly, Mingo not only learns shocking truths, but also goes from 'wanting' to 'wanted.'
Needed (Mingo McCloud, Bk 2): Mingo McCloud, Honolulu's only criminal forensic accountant, has settled into professional and personal bliss on Oahu's North Shore. His life with his lover, Francois, a security expert with mysterious ties to military and DEA authorities, is on course until Francois accepts an apparently routine case of outfitting a Caribbean billionaire's luxury holiday home with state-of-the-art security. When their home is ransacked, Mingo's car is blown up, and a tropical storm heads right toward St. Martin where Francois was last seen, Mingo becomes frantic when his lover vanishes. He heads to the islands even though travelers are being turned away. But nothing will stop him from finding his missing man. Mingo thought he needed Francois, but now realizes as deadly forces try to stop him, that he, himself, is needed.« less