Half Moon Bay

Its place in Clay Edison

Half Moon Bay is book 3 in the Clay Edison series. It follows A Measure of Darkness. It is followed by The Burning. See the full Clay Edison reading order.

Jonathan Kellerman's only ongoing series co-written with his son, novelist Jesse Kellerman, trades Alex Delaware's Los Angeles psychology practice for the more procedural world of Clay Edison, a deputy coroner's investigator for Alameda County in the East Bay. Clay isn't a detective and carries no gun; his job is to determine cause and manner of death and identify the dead, which in practice means he's usually first on scene at a body no one has explained yet -- and the person best positioned to notice when an…