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Chicago Skyline
Coming Late September 2026

The Bill Roper Crime Series

 "Chicago has always had crime. But some crimes lead to places nobody wants a detective to go." 

"The truth and justice don't always arrive at the same address."


Bill Roper

About the Book

A Six-Book Crime Series

Six investigations, one bigger story

Six investigations, one bigger story

 This September marks the beginning of The Bill Roper Crime Series, a six-book novella series following Bill Roper, a seasoned, tough Chicago Police detective who has spent years learning the streets, the people and the systems operating behind them.

Each book puts Roper at the center of a new violent-crime investigation. But the deeper he digs, the more he discovers that murder is sometimes only the beginning.

Six investigations, one bigger story

Six investigations, one bigger story

Six investigations, one bigger story

 Across the six-book series, Roper's cases increasingly collide with a larger and more dangerous world. Each investigation stands on its own. But together, the six books tell a much bigger story and with every case Roper solves, he gets a little closer to people who would rather he stopped looking. 

Meet the Detective

Meet Bill Roper

Bill Roper has spent over twenty years working Chicago's most dangerous streets — long enough to know that the law and the truth don't always show up together. He's seasoned. He's tough. He's not a choir boy, and he's not trying to become one. What he is, is persistent the kind of detective who keeps pulling a thread long after everyone else has told him to let it go.

Roper trusts evidence over people, mostly because people have disappointed him too many times to keep counting. He knows the difference between breaking a rule and breaking a man, and in a city where power protects itself, that distinction matters more than most detectives are willing to admit.

The fictional Bill Roper

 The Bill Roper Crime Series is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. 

What the Series Explores

 Chicago · Crime · Corruption · Detective Fiction · Institutional Power · Investigation 

The cover image of The First body, Bill Roper first book series
Book One

The First Body

 

THE CASE CAME TOGETHER TOO QUICKLY.

A simple street murder unravels into a trail of corruption stretching from the streets to City Hall. Book One of the Bill Roper Crime Series.

 Coming Late September 2026 

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Six Books. One Truth

 "With every case Roper solves, he gets a little closer to people who would rather he stopped looking." 

 "Six books. Six major investigations. One detective following the truth wherever it leads." 

 "Some crimes lead to places nobody wants a detective to go." 

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