A five-year-old little girl is brutally murdered by her mother’s boyfriend. His true identity is questioned and questionable from the very beginning. Her mother, a social worker, is found culpable but is not the primary killer. The people responsible for her protection have ultimately failed the little girl…and not just once. The story makes national headlines and is covered on every major news station in the local area. The media doesn’t have the whole story, but someone else does. $0.99 on Kindle.
From the Outside In
Never Nerida
When expectant mother Livia Karras spontaneously falls victim to aquagenic urticaria–an allergy where a single drop of water against her skin could be fatal–doctors determine her condition to be purely psychosomatic.
Psychologist Elliot Chiles is assigned to her case. He suspects she is subconsciously sabotaging her own pregnancy due to unresolved guilt over a traumatic childhood accident but Livia believes she knows the real cause–she’s being preyed upon by a malevolent supernatural entity out for revenge.
With time running out and severe dehydration setting in, Livia must confront long-cherished delusions and reconcile with a past mistake–or risk losing her life and that of her unborn child.
Will Livia succumb or prevail? $0.99 on Kindle.
Unspeakable Grudges
Free: Payback
Alex Dunn was a good cop until a bad domestic call leaves two of his fellow officers dead and his partner bound to a wheelchair. Making things worse, the man responsible walks on a technicality.
Shortly after, Alex is recruited into a secret organization that targets criminals who manage to skirt the system and remain untouchable despite their obvious guilt. He becomes one of their best operatives, making a comfortable living supplemented with the satisfaction that he is ridding society of some of its worst elements.
A hack into the organization’s personnel files and an assigned target, who is not a criminal, changes everything. Alex survives an attempt on his life but learns the rest of the team, with the exception of their receptionist, has been eliminated.
With both the FBI and assassins on his trail, it is up to Alex to protect the receptionist while searching for whomever pulled the plug on the organization. Encountering challenges every step of the way, he follows any clue that will lead him to a chance for payback. Free on Kindle.
City of Broken Lights
A mysterious summons to another world.
News no man wants to hear.
Old acquaintances from the past, some of whom Sully would prefer to have never seen again.
A job that pays too well to turn down.
In the hot, gritty streets of the run down industrial district in the city of New Paris, Sully must race against time to find a kidnap victim and the truth in the City of Broken Lights. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Monster
A college student has a strained relationship with his mother and ex-girlfriend. When he sees his ex and best friend together at a Halloween Mixer, he becomes enraged.
Things turn when a mysterious, puppet-themed student attacks the couple, leaving the protagonist seemingly to blame.
Things escalate quickly, and the narrator soon finds himself framed for murder at the hands of the “Puppet Man”.
He decides to go on the run, and finds himself in the company of misfits and criminals while seemingly being stalked by the killer. He believes the criminal overseer may be an opportunity to clear his name and prove his innocence before he winds up in jail, or worse $2.99 on Kindle
Free: On The Devils Side of Heaven
With the drop of a judge’s gavel, Walt Walker has finally lost everything. The badge and gun he used to carry and the moral certainty of right and wrong, good and evil that used to keep him grounded. Now Walt, sans gun, gets his badges from an Army Navy store. He spends his days in South Florida, working for a boutique insurance firm as their investigator. He spends his nights in dive bars, trying to forget the mess he has made of his life.
Ronald Jacobs always preferred the title Human Resource Manager to Hitman. But now that he’s retired, he can concentrate on living in the shadows as a respectable gentlemen farmer. Far from the reach and pull of his past life.
Their transgressions are behind them but a chance encounter and a failed assassination attempt set the two of them on a collision course of violence and retribution. Hunted by contract killers, the law, and corporate bagmen, they are pursued across the unforgiving adobes and the sweeping vistas of the Mesa Valley in Western Colorado.
Survival means putting their past in front of them and their differences aside because in this world the only thing that matters is to cast not others on the devil’s side of heaven, lest you be cast in with them. Free on Kindle.
Free: Santa Fe Mojo
Free: Pseudo President
Pseudo President takes readers through murder, romance, intrigue, mystery and the fraudulent voting technologies widely used in the last several elections, based upon actual events, court cases, news reports, and persons. The main character is a former Special Operations US Marine. Voters want to know their vote counts. Free on Kindle.
Free: Murder at Cluster Springs Raceway: A Brandon Hall Mystery
The Blood-Dimmed Tide
On trial for his life. On the trail of a serial killer.
While on trial for wrongful death, John Jordan must catch a cunning killer who is using the chaos of the decimated post-Hurricane Michael landscape to hide his heinous acts of cold-blooded murder.
John is not only fighting for his very soul but that of his beloved community—and he’s never seen a predator quite like this one. It takes a particularly cruel killer to prey on those who have just been devastated by the most powerful hurricane to ever hit North Florida.
Can John be triumphant again or has he finally met his match? $2.99 on Kindle.
The Predator and The Prey
A burned out, cynical cop. A serial killer who loves the hunt as much as the kill.
Corrupt politicians in bed with a crooked Chief of Detectives.
At the center of it all is a beautiful young woman with a troubled past.
If you think its Los Angeles in the 1950’s you’re wrong.
It’s the year 2454 and Capital City on the frozen planet of Beta Prime is no place for the timid. $0.99 on Kindle.
Jackal: A Jessica James Mystery
Philosophy student Jessica James is desperate to find her real father. Broke and crashing with a stripper friend in Vegas, all she knows is that he’s supposedly a washed-up magician. But all bets are off when she discovers a naked guy in a hotel bathtub missing a kidney…
She’s in Sin City to search for her dad. But she might be about to place her final bet? $0.99 on Kindle.
Death on Canvas
While painting on location in one of her family’s hayfields, artist Jessie O’Bourne absentmindedly brushes a note of turquoise onto the canvas – a color she sees out near the haystack. Curious about what added the lovely spot of color, the artist walks over to discover a tennis shoe. The mate is still on the foot of a dying Native American girl crammed between the hay bales. She whispers to Jessie that her attacker was a cop. $4.99 on Kindle.
A Body Resurrected
Tina Leggs oversees the everyday affairs of the Graham-Arlee museum in Almay, California. She has no idea that the mummy exhibit drawing huge crowds, is the same Demen that her ancestor, Mira, bravely fought centuries ago. It’s the 21st century, and he’s returned.
Enter Q, the handsome bounty hunter who’s sent to stop his murderous rampage. As Tina fights side by side with him, she realizes that this man has the power to move her in ways no other could. $0.99 on Kindle.
Dead Men Don’t Chew Gum
Rika isn’t in Bolo five minutes before she’s run off the road, trips over a dead body, and is arrested. And she’s not sure about Nick Owen, the lawyer forced to help her, even when he’s shirtless, in a cowboy hat, holding an extra-long hose. (Okay, maybe then.) Can Nick and Rika solve this case before the murderer gets rid of her for good? $0.99 on Kindle.
Bourbon Street
Desiree Blanc wants to be a gun-moll. Born into poverty in rural northern Mississippi, Dorothy Jellnick grew into an ash-blonde beauty. Everyone told her to go to Hollywood, show the movie people a real southern belle. She made it as far as Bourbon Street, New Orleans, where she became Desiree Blanc, a white-hot stripper at Hotsy Jazz Club. Determined to never be poor again, Desiree discovers a short cut to big money – crime. It is the summer of 1947.
As the story opens, Desiree and her hoodlum boyfriend rob a tourist from Kansas, leaving the man in his skivvies on a rural highway just outside New Orleans. More crimes and more money follows. The white-hot beauty surrenders to avarice – the unreasonably strong desire to obtain and keep the money – in a dangerous and deadly game.
This is a classic noir mystery with a femme fatale, arrogant criminals, La Cosa Nostra mobsters and an army veteran wounded at The Battle of the Bulge whose love for Desiree is her only chance. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Run
Caught within the imbalance of his marriage, work life, and haunting childhood memories; Carter routinely takes to his neighborhood streets to relieve stress with a nightly run. One particularly hot Florida night, he finds he’s not alone. An unexpected deadly encounter quickly turns Carter’s life upside-down, forcing him to make choices he might later regret. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Pillow Talk
Police Detective Lori Daniels has a knack for picking the wrong guy as a lover. This complicates her next big assignment.
Imagine two ex-lovers and a current one suddenly becoming involved in your next big assignment. One wants you to suffer. One will try to kill you. One is a double agent. Free on Kindle.
The Widow’s Husband
Allan Tuttle’s wife identifies his body, the victim of a homicide, and no one is more surprised than he is.
Framed for his own murder, Allan Tuttle is in a struggle for his life, his freedom and even his identity.
His wife, Sarah, insists he is not who he says he is. The police are trying to build a case against him. And he can’t seem to come up with a single person who can vouch for him.
With Sarah pulling the threads that unravel his very existence, Allan meets a stranger who helps him discover a version of himself he never knew.
As the police close in on the ambiguous truth and Sarah works to establish her reality, Allan faces challenge after challenge that threaten to land him behind bars or in the morgue. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Sam’s Song
Sam’s Song is book one in the Amazon #1 Sam Smith Mystery Series. Each book in the series combines a psychological mystery with humour and romance, and can be read as a stand-alone. The series is currently being translated into twelve languages and has readers in over thirty countries. Free on Kindle.
A Sticky Inheritance
When criminal lawyer Nicole Fitzhenry-Dawes inherits her uncle’s maple syrup farm, she sees her chance to escape a life full of murderers and liars. For half a day at least. As Nicole closes in on her uncle’s killer, she not only risks becoming the next victim but also starts to wonder if knowing the truth is even worse than believing the lie. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Lies We Never See
From the author of the Amazon Kindle #1 selection for Mystery Thriller and Suspense, “The EmmaLee Affairs”, his next intriguing and twisting tale of love and loss, betrayal and murder.
Hanna Walsh’s husband is found murdered in Charleston, South Carolina. His failed land deal leaves her family and finances in ruins. The FBI thinks she knows more than she’s letting on and a dangerous crime family thinks she’s hiding several million dollars they want back.
An old letter and journal found in the attic of the family’s beach house on Pawleys Island reveal her distant grandmother, who owned the same house as a young widow during the Civil War, suffered a similar path of emotional loss, crushing betrayal and financial hardship. Her grandmother’s story chronicles the tragic loss of her husband in a senseless battle fought weeks after the war had ended and a mysterious stranger who has returned to tell of her husband’s needless death.
Hanna finds their hopes for deliverance both depend on those they still hold close, but betrayal and ultimate salvation come in many unexpected forms. Free on Kindle.