Troubleshooters Series, # 20
Official Release: January 29, 2026
A mystery-dramady with romantic elements
Featuring former FBI agent Jules Cassidy and former SEAL Sam Starrett
Location: Southern California
Set in the Troubleshooters-verse, a few months after Beginnings & Ends  
146K words or ~580 pages
Read an excerpt
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Troubleshooters series fan-favorite Jules Cassidy is back!

Starting over is never easy, but when Jules is forced out of the FBI, he has the help of his good friend, former Navy SEAL Sam Starrett, as he takes on his first case as head of the Troubleshooters personal security firm’s brand new Los Angeles office.

Jules’s assignment: Locate a woman named Emily Johnson, the unexpected heir to a Hollywood producer’s massive fortune. The weird twist? The producer’s estranged son is the client who’s hired Jules and Sam to find this mysterious stranger who’ll inherit what should have been his—millions he claims he does not need or want.

Still, the investigation should be simple despite the lack of information about this woman with a very common name. But Jules knows that with Sam’s help, he’ll find her, even if they have to knock on the door of every Emily Johnson in the greater Los Angeles area.

Best of all? This easy case is danger-free.

But as the WTFs surrounding the investigation start piling up rapidly and haphazardly, it soon becomes clear to both Jules and Sam that someone’s gunning for their mysterious and hard-to-find Emily—and for them, as well.

In a novel that’s part mystery, part drama, part comedy and all heart, Brockmann’s long-awaited return to the Troubleshooters world also delivers the story of Jules Cassidy’s first-ever investigation as a seventeen-year-old high school student.

Shortly after his father’s untimely death, Jules and his mother move back to her rural Connecticut hometown, where Jules begins his senior year as the “new kid.” It’s not long before he is immersed in solving a crime—someone is attacking girls at weekend parties. With the help of a new group of friends, Jules is determined to catch and bring the violent perpetrator to justice.

But life doesn’t always go according to plan…

Note: For some reason, Amazon’s not letting their paperback edition show as available for pre-order. Sorry about that, international print lovers. BN’s print (pb and hc) are available here in the U.S., doesn’t it figure.

Here’s my webpage, where you’ll find more info about JULES, as well as links to your favorite ebooksellers: https://suzannebrockmann.com/books/troubleshooters/julescassidypi/

Here’s the JULES Goodreads page with a few lovely reader reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/245144569-jules-cassidy-p-i

A special thanks to everyone who backed the JULES Kickstarter! (For those of you who wanted signed books, I’ve received the paperback proofs—they look good!—so I’m ready to order your books. They should arrive in about three weeks, with the hardcovers coming soon, too. I’ll keep you posted over at Kickstarter!!)

Wishing you peace, light, and joyful inspiration during these dark, uncertain times—with the hope that there’ll be much to be grateful for in the coming days of community, activism, and resistance, brought about by our deep love of democracy!

Love,
Suz