Frederick Ramsay

Ike Schwartz, sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and his fiancée, Ruth Harris, president of a local university, survived a trying year of academic and local politics and now seek some peace and quiet on Scone Island...

The Eighth Veil is a mystery set in first-century Jerusalem during the Feast of Tabernacles....

Jerusalem’s deadly secrets are emerging from the smoke....

Sheriff Ike Schwartz and FBI agent Karl Hedrick are dispatched to resolve the mystery of the strangely identical murders 150 years apart....

Flying to Baltimore for his class reunion, mystery writer Frank Smith leaves behind the unsolved disappearance of his wife and dogged persecution by the police....

Ike Schwartz is the sheriff of Picketsville, a small town not far from Washington, D.C....

Ruth Harris, Sheriff Ike Schwartz’s fiancée, is involved in a near-fatal automobile accident....

What looks like a simple missing person's case soon catapults Ike into an international thriller with intimations of terrorism that might threaten the nation and its leaders....

Marry new technology to old-fashioned policing, and you've got something special. The car is found just outside Picketsville, Virginia, a smoking ruin of twisted metal....

In Botswana, people of the north live in harmony with the wildlife, yet predators and poachers roam freely. The lions may be kings, but hyenas will steal their prey....

Leo Painter is the CEO of a large energy, mining, and real-estate firm. Sekoa is a male lion who shares with his bipedal enemies the misfortune of being the bearer of HIV/AIDS....

The World Cup, which arrives in June, has ripple effects on all of South Africa’s neighbors....