When two anglers are brutally murdered on a remote island, new sheriff Dave Trask finds himself in the middle of rising tensions between lodge owners and Native American guides while trying to catch an elusive killer with an inexperienced staff. Dave enlists the help of his twin brother Don, lead agent for the BCA. Together they search for the killer unaware they have become the hunted. Free on Kindle.
Free: Blood River
Free: The Doppelganger’s Secret: A Coastal Murder Mystery
In the small, conservative town of Forest Glen, Oregon, the police department finds itself at the whim of a lawsuit that will shift the face of the department: The Singleton Settlement requires the next six recruits be from minority groups, and Quinn Summerhaving returned to Oregon after testifying against her homicidal husband and surviving a fire that many thought had left her deadfinds herself as one of these six rookies.
But even though the settlement requires the rookies represent minority groups, that doesnt stop the hatred, bigotry, violence, and discrimination these recruits receive from not only the locals, but other officers as well. So, when Quinn learns that the aim of the department is to make sure they dont make it past probation, she takes it upon herself to band them together.
Will their individual strengths prove to be enough to persuade the Chief to keep the rookies on? Or will the prejudices of the masses be too persuasive?
And while Quinn and the others work to prove their own merit, there are still others in Forest Glen that need their help, including a supposed murderer who calls the department often to confess her decades-old crime. The police seem certain that her tale is pure fabrication and a cry for attentionwhile also seeming to dismiss her due to her gender and sexual orientationbut Quinn senses there might be something more to the confessions.
Can she solve the case as she also works to prove herself to the department as a whole? Or is the woman who has confessed to these crimes truly just telling stories to cover a past she regrets?
The Doppelgangers Secret is the second novel in the Quinn Summer series. Come along with Quinn as she races to put the pieces togetherbefore a killer finds a new victim. Free on Kindle.
Puppet Master, A Marceau Mystery
The only constant is change.
Recently retired, Maurice Marceau hardly has a chance to rest. Not that he wants to. Madeleine, his daughter, a West Point graduate, now an attorney, could use his help, and her request is much too tempting.
Betrayal, a kidnapping, and a terrorist attack are just the beginning. $0.99 on Kindle.
Puppet Master: A Marceau Mystery
The only constant is change.
Recently retired, Maurice Marceau hardly has a chance to rest. Not that he wants to. Madeleine, his daughter, a West Point graduate, now an attorney, could use his help, and her request is much too tempting.
Betrayal, a kidnapping, and a terrorist attack are just the beginning. This father-daughter duo will need to learn to work together. In doing so, they travel from Central Pennsylvania to New York, DC, Paris, Shanghai and throughout Turkey.
Their goal? Find the link and find the solution.
At the root of all the trouble they face is one countrys need for regional and global dominance. The world has not been at peace for more than a thousand years, not since the time of the Pax Romana. With a long-term view and the patience to see it through, the new player on the world stage has begun the work needed to establish the new world order, with a distinct new spin.
In peace there is prosperity. But huge profits can be made from chaos. Capitalizing on the crisis it created is that powers ultimate goal. The world is a cauldron. China is stirring the pot.
Hopefully Maurice and Madeleine, can help figure out the how and why before those pulling all the strings succeed. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Greatest Betrayal
Liz Carter is the proud owner of a successful advertising business when she begins a whirlwind romance with handsome airline pilot Callan McKenzie. Yet after his estranged ex contacts him, he disappears without a trace. Liz resolves to move on with her life, but a chain of events has been set in motion that threatens all she holds dear. $0.99 on Kindle.
No More Lies
Every Silent Thing
Claire Deveraux, a shy and deaf twenty-three-year-old, has meticulously crafted her dream life as a foreign service officer at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. But tranquility shatters when she discovers a dying woman in a restroom, uttering three cryptic words and secreting a thumb drive in Claires pocket. Unbeknownst to Claire, these items are the key to locating the proceeds from a bank robbery. $2.99 on Kindle.
Three Strides Out: A Horse Show Novel of Suspense
Saving a champion show jumper from a burning horse trailer gives young rider-trainer Robb Slaughter one job: finding out who tied that horse in that trailer and making them pay.
For Robb, avenging that horse means atonement. Sure, he was just a kid when he left his mother screaming while her lover killed her, but that doesn’t mean he ever quit hearing those screams.
It’s the horses who’ve saved him from the torrent of unanswered cries inside his head. Clearing the big jumps on horses he cares about has given him a hard-won mental peace. He has built a good life for himself as a professional show-jumping rider, on his way to Grand-Prix stardom . . .
When Things Fall Apart
Newly minted homicide detective Kit Hanover is paired with a crusty veteran who makes no bones about his feelings for Native Americans. Their prickly partnership becomes more antagonistic when her first murder case proves devastating and she is reassigned. Determined to work the case in her own time despite the emotional consequences she finds herself and her family the target of an unknown madman. She withstands the inexplicable attacks as she continues her investigation until she finds herself face to face with the murderer. $2.99 on Kindle.
The Black Widow’s Prey (GILDED AGE CHICAGO MYSTERY SERIES Book 3)
Series Nominated for Reader’s Choice Awards as Best Historical Mystery and Best Traditional Amateur SleuthFor Fans of Cozy Mysteries, Amateur Sleuths, and Gilded Age Chicago History
GILDED AGE CHICAGO MYSTERY SERIES
Chicago in the 1890s is the fastest growing metropolis in America. It rivals New York as the City of the Century and the epitome of the Gilded Age. This melting pot of thieves and corrupt politicians, robber barons and immigrants, is rife with scandal and social injustice. An eccentric heiress and a star reporter find themselves repeatedly drawn into the hidden world of intrigue and murder that lurks within the shadows of the White City.
Volume Three – The Black Widows Prey – ARKANA SERIES CROSSOVER
Consulting detectives Evangeline LeClair and Freddie Simpson face their most challenging case yet when a priceless Egyptian artifact is stolen from a Chicago museum. To make matters worse, the museums richest patron is robbed of a diamond necklace shortly afterward. Suspicion immediately falls on a wealthy widow and her scheming son. Trapped in their clutches is the widows hapless daughter, about to be forced into a marriage of convenience against her will.
The investigation is complicated by two mysterious strangers who have also taken an interest in the missing Egyptian relic. Solving both thefts will lead Freddie and Evangeline down some strange avenues of inquiry involving secret societies, international criminal masterminds, gentlemen jewel thieves, unexpected ocean voyages, and underworld kingpins. The two sleuths must either solve their case or join the ranks of fatalities numbered among THE BLACK WIDOWS PREY. $0.99 on Kindle.
Once Upon A Crime
Come Full Circle
Come Full Circle is a visceral experience that will linger in your thoughts long after you’ve turned the last page! This fiction is a heart-wrenching military and psychological thriller with Christian undertones that navigates the treacherous landscape of the War in Ukraine while delving deep into a human psyche on a path to redemption.
Written for mature audiences, this gripping narrative spares no detail in portraying the raw reality of the violence, abuse, and depravity of war.
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Free: Seriously, Murder?
Don and Alice are recent law school grads, and they know what theyre doing. But when they find themselves assigned to their first murder case, they might be in over their heads! And of course they cant forget about their other crazy clients (or Alices love life, for that matter). Part romcom/part mystery, this R-rated whodunit is laugh-out-loud fun! Free on Kindle.
The Russia Leak
Cam Warfield never flinches from duty. So after building a stellar reputation as an Army intel operative, he doesn’t hesitate to answer the call when the president requests his involvement in a leak of classified information.
In the resulting hunt for stolen Russian nuclear material, Warfield follows a winding thread through Moscow, Langley, Paris, and Tokyo, digging ever deeper into the layers of lies and betrayal. But when the former intelligence officer discovers who sold the government top secret, his own CIA and FBI set out to kill him…
Despite the target on his back, can Warfield survive long enough to prevent a mushroom cloud blooming over the deaths of millions of innocent Americans?
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The Covid Murders: Another American Health Policy Detective Story
A dead patient in a Nashville hospital triggers an investigation-and uncovers other suspicious deaths. Could they all be explained by Covid? Or were these just the result of medical errors? Or is there a systematic care problem at play that threatens future patients? Or something far worse? The quest for truth also runs into political complications of the highest order even exploring the fundamental defects of American health policy. A frightening whodunnit with real-world implications.
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Free: The Case of the Missing Photographer in Las Vegas
Cupcake-loving croupier and private investigator Tiffany Black has a strange new case: why did the photographer go missing twenty-five years ago, and is she still alive?
Meanwhile, the mysterious Rosie insists on being her assistant, but what secrets is Rosie hiding and why are strange men following her? Free on Kindle.
Free: Dynamite Fishermen
An espionage thriller in the classic tradition of Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, and John Le Carré, Dynamite Fishermen follows junior CIA case officer Conrad Prosser through Civil War Beirut in pursuit of an agent recruitment to revive his sagging career, exploiting friends and colleagues heedlessly along the way. At the same time, Prosser directs his Arab agents to discover who is behind a recent eruption of car bombings, setting off a retaliatory outburst that threatens his life and those of others around him. Free on Kindle.
Free: Louisiana Longshot
Miss Congeniality meets The Golden Girls in this hilarious mystery set in southern Louisiana. With a price on her head and a leak at the CIA, assassin Fortune Redding undertakes her most difficult mission ever…in Sinful, LA. Armed with her considerable skills and two ladies the locals dub The Geritol Mafia, Fortune decides to solve a murder. Free on Kindle.
Free: What Echoes Render (Windsor Series Book 3)
Immerse yourself in this thrilling investigation where the sins of the past cast a long shadow.
From betrayal to blazing fires, ‘What Echoes Render’ is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Follow Jesse and David as they race against time to extinguish a killer’s trail of destruction. Free on Kindle.
Deadly Traffic: A Florida Thriller
Will Harper’s back at it again, as he makes a heartrending discovery: a gritty underbelly of modern-day slavery has been operating right in his own backyard. When Will’s informant, a terrified Guatemalan teenage immigrant who’s just escaped the elegant compound where she was enslaved as a maid, is forced to run from the hired goons sent to capture her, Will knows he has to investigate. With a network that includes corrupt farmers, ruthless coyotes, scheming Russian mobsters and countless henchmen, Will knows it’s only a matter of time until they catch up to his informant and silence her for good.
As he and his live-in girlfriend Callie work to expose the rampant slavery in Florida and find the girl’s missing siblings, Will stumbles on to his biggest mission yet. But will he be able to crack open this slavery ring in time or will the girls become a victim to the Deadly Traffic? $0.99 on Kindle.
Jingle Bell Justice
Turkey Trot Trouble
Nothing good happens in the morning.
Case in point: the Turkey Trot 5K Race. For a night owl like Kenzie, the idea of dragging her bones out of bed to go running at the crack of dawn would typically be a nonstarter, especially on Thanksgiving Day. But her long-time best friend Blaise insisted, and the idea of disappointing him was even worse.
Trotting along with a bunch of cheerful folks in full-on turkey garb is bad enough. But when several runners collapse without explanation, Kenzie realizes she also has a mystery on her hands. As she and Blaise work together to track down whoever sabotaged the race, their relationship is called into question. She must uncover her true feelings for him—even if doing so ends up breaking his heart.
Free: The Fixer
When the mob had a problem they knew just the man to take care of it. They called him “The Fixer”.
Bentley Chance is a retired lieutenant with over thirty years at a mid-size Washington police department. His assignments included patrol, traffic, street crimes, S.W.A.T. and narcotics followed by commands in every division of the department.
Although fictional, his books are heavily influenced by extensive training and experience. With the exception of certain historical figures, the characters are products of imagination. Many real locations and businesses are mentioned. This is not to suggest any involvement in actual crimes. They are used only as a setting within which the stories take place.
The author dedicates these books to the men and women of law enforcement who risk their lives to protect us each and every day. Free on Kindle.
S’More Murder
Jerria Danson isn’t an author. Tasked with preserving great-aunt Henrietta’s family stories, she reluctantly takes time from her busy life to attend a writer’s retreat in beautiful North Idaho. All she wants is peace and quiet to record the oral history for the family and maybe pick up a few writing tips along the way. Met with a happy surprise when she arrives, Jerria settles in for a productive, relaxing weekend.
Although the other writers have their own motives for being there, she quickly picks up on a sinister undercurrent. With her usual good humor and knack for seeing through situations, and knowing Things Are Not As They Appear To Be is a common plot thread in life as well as in writing, Jerria soon finds herself in danger. When the lines between fact and fiction blur, can she unravel the twisted plot threads before the idyllic weekend is marred by murder? $0.99 on Kindle.
The Nocturnal Devil: A Griffin Knight Mystery Thriller
When two women mysteriously disappear within a few days of each other, is it random, or is there something–or someone–more sinister at play?
Detective Griffin Knight was supposed to be at home recovering from the events of his recent investigation in Seattle, but his captain and police colleagues needed his help to find out what happened to the two missing women.
In New York City, there could be any number of explanations. The clock is ticking; Griffin Knight must act quickly before someone else becomes a victim. $0.99 on Kindle.