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4th in The Preston Andrews Mysteries series! Press is angry, heart-broken, depressed, and--yes--he's downright pissed! He's lost his woman, his plans for the future, his ability to get along with anybody, even his dad.

Lt. Wallace is watching the Virginia Beach PD's homicide squad implode, as Press takes his anger out on everyone in site. Press is put on leave of absence and told not to return until he is released by the department shrink.

Well--that went over well!

Press packs for a trip; Jones packs his own bag to go along. The pair head off for Maine. They arrived just as the first victim is found! Why does a killer always get in his way?

RCMP Inspector Catherine Wildman and Investigative Reporter Johnny Riel find themselves in the wrong place and the wrong time when a corrupt city councilman wants to have a few "words" with Johnny in this short story from the upcoming GREEN EYED BURN II - "The Inkwell"

A Poe-inspired cat cozy mystery novelette.

Librarian Penny Copper and her cat, C. Dupin, never expected to find bodies in the book returns. Dupin reluctantly assists Ms. Copper as she attempts to solve the mystery of the murders in the Reed Moore Library!

Accidents, thefts, murders, terrorist plots....they all plague Sgt Major Crane who is not happy with his babysitting job of looking after Team GB as they prepare for the Olympic Games and Paralympics on Aldershot Garrison. He likens it to 40 Days and 40 Nights in a personal wilderness before he can get back to his real job of investigating; but it turns into 40 Days and 40 Nights of chaos. Aldershot is besieged by elderly Gurkhas, Crane's pregnant wife has health problems and the Intelligence Corp keep sticking their oar in. Will Crane be able to keep the athletes safe or will the terrorists win?

It was originally planned that Aldershot Garrison would host a Team GB Training Camp for the 2012 Olympic Games. This is the story of what might have happened if they had.....

It’s another typical day in the life of Ms. Aggie Underhill…

An ATM going bonkers shooting out wads of cash, a shady bank owner with a nasty habit, two teenage bank robbers, a picture perfect teller and her thug of a boyfriend, plus two unexplained murders.

Naturally curious, Aggie can’t help but be nosy. Despite the warning from her daughter to mind her own business, Aggie takes detective matters through the world of gossip into her own hands.

If you like sassy, independent, crime solving women then you’re in for a treat. You’ll love the Ms. Aggie Underhill Mysteries.

Special Agent Stevie Winters is a single mother of three children who has just transferred into the boys club that is the Violent Crimes Unit of the FBI's Cleveland Division. She has a leap-before-you-look type of attitude that doesn't settle well with Luke Johnson. They can't seem to be in a room together for more than two minutes before they start to argue. They also can't seem to be in a room together without wanting to rip each other's clothes off. A case from Luke's past comes back to haunt him when a serial killer he never caught starts killing again. Things get hairy when Stevie gets caught in the crossfire between a crazed suspect and the sociopathic serial killer, who has his sights set on her as his next victim.

Steal Away is book one of the Teri Blake-Addison private investigator series. Teri's specialty is finding people. But Teri often finds a lot more than her clients want! In Steal Away Teri is hired by a well know evangelist to find out what really happened to his wife. Five years previously she was in a sailboat accident with two friends. Their bodies were found. Hers wasn't. The minister wants to get married again yet is troubled by "ghosts of the past" and he wants to put to rest once and for all what happened to his wife

Someone is chasing Amy Watson in the small western Florida community. After running into an adorable man named Mark Dallas at the beach, she realizes he's not all he seems to be, becoming almost like a superhero to her. He has bodyguards from his business—a gaming software company named Madcap—and seems to know all the big shots in town. But when she confronts him, he just says he's an ordinary programmer. When a dead body is found in Amy's apartment, it's time that Mark sets the record straight, leading them on a scavenger hunt around the nation to find out why Amy's being targeted. Could it be because she's collaborated with the NSA to tell them how to do their job, or maybe her ties to the Department of Homeland Security to explain how to find terrorists without racial profiling? Or maybe it's a simple game of cat and mouse, hunting for something long lost. Regardless, Amy and Mark are on the run, to save her life while she gains the infamous glass slipper in Mark Dallas' world.

Mayhem, murder, and a $4,000,000 book.

In Miami.

Eamonn Shute is smart, capable and larger than life. There is nothing he can't handle. Until Nicky, the love of his life, is framed by her ex-husband. Eamonn needs to hark back to his rough and tumble youth in Donegal, taking on some of the most dangerous people in Miami to clear Nicky's name.

In the style of Harlan Coben. When counterfeiter Steve Stricker leaves prison he discovers that his former partner-in-crime was murdered on the same day he was arrested by the Secret Service. His attempts to bring the killer to justice exposes a family torn apart by incest and political corruption. Steve shares what he knows with the Secret Service agent who arrested him, but can he be trusted?

Finding a corpse in the trunk of your cab is a rotten way to start the day. For Bo Forrester, things go straight downhill from there. The cops are asking an awful lot of questions. The murder weapon turns up too close for comfort. And the attractive woman giving him the eye turns out to be Trudy Hauser, a cute-but-crazy deputy dead set on arresting him for murder.

Bo returned to Rhodes, an upstate New York college town, hoping to reconcile with his parents, gentle hippies who couldn’t accept his decision to join the Army at eighteen. Twenty years later, the commune where he grew up is a subdivision, and his parents are long gone. Pondering his next move, Bo takes a job driving a cab. And he has no clue how the bullet-riddled body of art philanthropist Fred Davies ended up in the trunk.

Now, he can’t turn around without bumping into Trudy--it’s not her case, but that’s not slowing her down. The local cops, suspecting robbery as the motive, are right behind her. When Davies’s beautiful widow asks Bo for help, he can’t say no. Starting his own investigation, he’s plunged into a world of privilege, corruption, and high-stakes greed. A lot of people had reason to want Davies dead: a flirtatious art history professor with a taste for booze and men; her insanely jealous, ex-felon husband; the business partner with a secret addiction; and an avant-garde artist who proclaims that murder is the ultimate art form.

As the body count escalates, Bo must combine the skills he learned as a soldier with the values he grew up with on the commune to flush out a vicious murderer--if he manages to stay alive that long.

Crane, Virgil and Dan leave the city to go to their suburban childhood home of New Hebron and mourn the death of their friend Drexel who died in a suspicious accident. One other friend is absent at the funeral and the young men go looking for him and find him. His name is Benjamin and he was the rich kid when they grew up. His lips also happen to be stained blue from an accident in high school that connects the beginning and the end. An unresolved grudge haunts the characters and now so does a suspicious accident they find isn't an accident at all.

This is a short story originally published by "The Sylvan Echo" in a modified form. There is a bonus piece of flash fiction included as well. In Blue lips and crayons, friends go home to mourn their friend and find out that more things have changed over time than just themselves.

A young boy discovers a bone in a snow-covered forest. Initially, Adrian Calvert thinks it could simply be that of an animal. But it belongs to a young girl who has been missing for three years.

Adrian's father, Frank, an ex-detective who now works as a private investigator, has hidden from his son his responsibility for his wife's death. When he confesses the truth to him, Adrian runs from his home into the worst snowstorm for decades.

Frank's search for his son brings him into contact with Jeremiah Grazier and his drug-addicted wife, Judith, a damaged refugee from an orphanage who now sees herself as an avenging angel.

Meanwhile, in the derelict orphanage, a tramp discovers a sexually mutilated and decapitated corpse, later identified as that of the grotesquely abusive head warden of the institute. Based on a true story.



“The Darkness of Bones recreates the details of a child sex abuse scandal [Kincora] with shivery vividness.”
BookReviews, Irish Times

Here is a smashing, red-blooded mystery yarn, packed with fast action. This is crime as the police investigate it, with twists, turns, and rather amoral behavior on many people's parts.

An average and apparently normal young man has suddenly transformed himself into a hired assassin. Clayton Albrecht experienced the emotional effect of three life altering events and slowly allowed his moral character to accept performing the unthinkable. Blindly he constructs a personal code that he believes will allow him to sit in judgment of others and only assassinate people he deems to be deserving of death. But fate hasn't bought into his code and throws unforeseen obstacles in his path. Naively he doesn't anticipate the toll it will eventually inflict on himself, his family and friends.
Come along and experience just how wrong he is to think he can cross the line of human morality and still be in charge of his emotions and his future.
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5th in The Preston Andrews Mysteries series! Press has a very important appointment he absolutely must make, but we won't give that away here.

Wouldn't you know some whacko would start leaving dead bodies on his beach? Three Jane Does with absolutely nothing in common, except they're all dead.

Enter a young soldier to report a missing friend. Can Press talk PFC Samantha Hartley into letting him solve the case, or will she put her pretty nose in where it doesn't belong?

How can Press put all the pieces together, keep a well-meaning friend from getting hurt, solve three murders, and get ready for his Pressing Engagement?

Detective Dan MacCready, Homicide Detective for Miami PD, has two seemingly unrelated cases thrown his way in the space of 12 hours. Mobsters, slacker partners and a brother who just won't move off his sofa all combine to make this the hottest November in South Florida history.

The first "Kip Yardley" mystery. Kip is caught up in the search for the killers of a young highway construction worker. He fights his way through beaches full of beach bums, barns full of marijuana and sleazy strip joints full of beautiful dames. Something tells him that an old friend might not be playing straight with him. The cops toss him in the pogey for a murder he didn't commit and someone tries to gun him down on a LA freeway. But when the game gets tough, Kip gets tougher. "Stands well above most first novel attempts": SCOTT MEREDITH LITERARY AGENCY.

Richard S. Prather, author of the Shell Scott mysteries, had this to say:

Bodies and Beaches" is a good job with a likeable lead and a lot of interesting action I enjoyed reading and you write very well indeed. Verdict: Well done! I like your lead character. I think in Kip Yardley you have created a fictional P.I. strong enough, real enough, likeable enough to carry a series (if you ever felt like doing several more "Kip Yardley" books.)"

Tom Ryan — firstborn of five children in an Irish Catholic family, smart and acerbic, a cheat and a bully — calls himself the future king of the Ryans. There are other opinions. His mother calls him a holy terror. Mrs. Ioli calls the police on him. His father says that had Trouble been a saint, that would have been Tom’s middle name. But his parents, neighbors, peers, and siblings all must bow down before him or suffer the consequences. Just ask the Christmas turkey leftovers he buried in the side yard.

Harry, the youngest Ryan, was the shining star of the family. Bright, sensitive, and caring, he was protected by parental radar, called by God and Grandma Ryan to the priesthood, and was in Tom’s eyes, a brown-nosing little punk who had become a threat to his kingdom and the primary target of his search and destroy missions.

Then Harry changed. He abandoned his vocation and quit the church, and when he left for college, he left for good. He never called. He rarely wrote. His picture disappeared from the mantle. It was as if he had ceased to exist and his shining star had been but a passing comet. The enemy had retreated and Tom’s war was over.

“Four Years from Home” begins on Christmas 1972 during Harry’s senior year at college. The Ryan family has gathered without Harry for another bittersweet holiday celebration. When an unexpected and unwelcome gift arrives, the family demands answers and Tom Ryan, bully cum laude, must make a reluctant journey of discovery and self-discovery into a mystery that can only end in tragedy.

Written by the son of Irish Catholic immigrants, “Four Years from Home” redefines brotherly love in the darkly humorous and often poignant actions of its principal skeptic, Tom Ryan.

Lillian Morgan, a retired mathematics professor who can remember any number but not what she did yesterday, is resigned to living a boring life when Gerald Weiss, a Nobel-prize-winning Economist and fellow resident of Silver Acres Retirement Community starts choking and then dies during a weekly meeting of the bridge club.

Gerald was holding a bridge hand of 13 diamonds when he died, which is rarer than winning the lottery. When the autopsy reveals that his death was caused by an extreme allergic reaction to shellfish in what was supposedly a tuna casserole served by the bridge club lunch committee, Lillian decides to investigate the possibility of murder.

With the help of her best friend, Lillian finds out that two of the four members of the lunch committee were more-or-less girlfriends of Gerald; there may even be senior sex involved. A third member of the lunch committee owed Gerald money and the bridge hand may be a fraud.

Lillian’s investigations almost get her expelled from Silver Acres, but she persists, coming close to getting herself killed in the process.

Former New York cop and Federal Prosecutor Max Brady has returned to his hometown of Fort Lauderdale, his emotions locked in cold storage after the death of his beautiful young wife in the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11. Brady is determined to mind his own little beach bar business, and stay out of the fight his friends are waging against greedy developers and corrupt politicians at the height of South Florida's real estate boom that's about to go bust. Then, as a behemoth hurricane approaches, motels start burning and friends start dying.

Enter Rose Becker, aka Madame Butterfly, a feisty beauty who has become the Joan of Arc of the resistance movement. Rose is not only trying to rescue Fort Lauderdale Beach, but also Max Brady’s grieving heart. In a story that sweeps from the white beaches of Florida to the alligator infested Everglades, Max and Rose are locked in a deadly struggle to save the beach, their friends and, ultimately, each other.

Halifax cop Allan Stanton is a troubled homicide detective who has lost everything, including his family and his sense of justice. When he finally decides to leave the force and start over, he's assigned a string of murders that all bear the signs of a serial killer collecting trophies. As Stanton unravels each grisly crime scene, the mounting evidence points uncomfortably close to him, forcing him to confront a past he'd rather forget--and a dangerous future when the killer targets Stanton himself.

Sam Jenkins never thought about being a fish out of water during the twenty years he spent solving crimes in New York. But things change, and after retiring to Tennessee, he gets that feeling. Jenkins becomes a cop again and is thrown headlong into a murder investigation and a steaming kettle of fish, down-home style.

The victim, Cecil Lovejoy, couldn’t have deserved it more. His death was the inexorable result of years misspent and appears to be no great loss, except the prime suspect is Sam’s personal friend.

Jenkins’ abilities are attacked when Lovejoy’s influential widow urges politicians to reassign the case to state investigators.

Feeling like “a pork chop at a bar mitzvah” in his new workplace, Sam suspects something isn’t kosher when the family tries to force him out of the picture.

In true Jenkins style, Sam turns common police practice on its ear to insure an innocent man doesn’t fall prey to an imperfect system and the guilty party receives appropriate justice.

A NEW PROSPECT takes the reader through a New South resolutely clinging to its past and traditional way of keeping family business strictly within the family.