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Retired Naval officer Gus Sevens spent a decade researching the lost gold of Victorio Peak before setting out to find it, along with his much younger wife and newly acquired assistant. In the canyons of New Mexico, after weeks of searching, they find the ninety bars of gold that had been missing since 1937. Their cause for celebration quickly turns sour when, upon arriving home in Miami Beach, Gus’ wife is kidnapped and the ransom is the gold. In an attempt to save his wife, Gus is thrown into a plot of deception and betrayal that ultimately ends in murder.

John Bekker returns in an all new crime/mystery/thriller titled The Fellowship of the Bobs. All of his old favorites are along for the ride. His daughter Regan, girlfriend Sheriff Jame Morgan. His ex-partner Police Captain Walt Grimes and his best buddy, Oz, and, of course Wally Sample. Contacted by his old friend and former lawyer to the mob, Frank Kagan, Bekker takes on a new assignment, that of investigator for Kagan and another old friend and former prosecutor, Carly Simms. Simm’s partner, Campbell Crist, daughter of deceased mobster Eddie Crist and owner of the local, minor league ...

Jarron Rourke, The Apostle, returns in another mystery/thriller titled Lockbox. One time a member of the Irish Mafia, Rourke was pardoned from prison and recruited by Federal Prosecutor Benning to become his investigator, Paired with Detective Jane Diaz, Rourke is tasked with finding the murderer of members of the Kruger family. Arthur Kruger, billionaire real estate developer, passed away at the age of 103 in a nursing home. At the reading of his will, in addition to the many millions he left family members, he bequeath his most prized possession to his five children, a locked box. A ...

Former US Marine, part-time investigator and full-time tough guy Kellerman returns to action in Shades of Gotham. A serial killer is loose in New York and his targets are middle-aged women. Recruited by the lawyer responsible for the killer’s freedom, Kellerman’s task appears simple. Find the killer and execute him. Except things aren’t as simple as they appear. The killer is younger, faster and even more powerful than Kellerman himself and will stop at nothing to continue his murderous spree. And this deadly game can only end one way.

Sinner or Saint? That’s the question on everyone’s mind that comes in contact with the mysterious stranger and lives to talk about it. The stranger is a killing machine who appears to pick his victims at random, but really uses a very select process to make his choice. And he can’t be stopped. Not by the police, the FBI or the special task force chasing him across the countryside. And the more he kills, the stronger he grows. Moving at breakneck speed, Messenger races to its shocking conclusion and the final twist will leave the reader breathless. This is Horror/Suspense at its finest.

It’s an all out mob war in The Bronx. When seven million dollars disappears from a Las Vegas casino, the number one suspect is a mid-level Vegas mobster named Anthony. The problem is Anthony has vanished without a trace along with the money. Casino owner, a powerful mob boss named Viny Boots calls upon the highly regarded skills of organization hit man Michael DeSousa to track down Anthony and bring the stolen cash home. This takes Michael back to the Bronx in New York City where he and Anthony grew up in the legendary section known as Little Italy. Once in the neighborhood of his roots, ...

Jarron Rourke returns in the fifth installment of The Apostle. He is settled into a daily life with girlfriend Jane Diaz, his niece Pepper and her pregnant friend Jill, when an assignment comes down from his boss, Bennington, The Attorney General for New York that has devastating consequences for all involved. A dying, Irish mobster that disappeared in Ireland, contacted Bennington and requested that Rourke meets with him before he dies. Rourke flies to Ireland where the dying mobster gives him a tell-all journal naming all the Irish and Italian mobsters in New York and outlines their long ...

Good, bad or indifferent, the job makes no difference to LT if the price is right. A jack-of-all-trades in the city’s underworld, LT is a true outlaw when it comes to solving your problems, generally at the point of a gun. In Noir, LT is hired by a doctor and his barren wife to help deliver the ransom money for a kidnapped, surrogate baby. According to the doctor, the young woman he hired to carry his surrogate baby demanded more money once the baby was born. It seemed simple enough a task, deliver the ransom and pick up the baby. Simple enough until a mysterious group of people murder ...

Just Another Day In The Life It’s an all out mob war in The Bronx. When seven million dollars disappears from a Las Vegas casino, the number one suspect is a mid-level Vegas mobster named Anthony. The problem is Anthony has vanished without a trace along with the money. Casino owner, a powerful mob boss named Viny Boots calls upon the highly regarded skills of organization hit man Michael DeSousa to track down Anthony and bring the stolen cash home. This takes Michael back to the Bronx in New York City where he and Anthony grew up in the legendary section known as Little Italy. Once in ...

Beyond The Big Woods continues the saga of the Boyd family from the years 1874 through 1877. As the country grows, so does the Boyd family as they face new challenges with each passing year.

LT and Candy return in another action-packed adventure as he takes on the most deadly case of his career. Hired by a distraught father to find his missing daughter, LT quickly finds himself immersed in a game of cat and mouse with the world’s most famous television chef Pablo Venable. Venable, traveling on a cruise ship is the last person to see the missing girl alive and although cleared by the FBI of any wrongdoing, he is more than just an innocent bystander. Much, much more. As LT closes in on Venable, the charming television cooking show host proves to be a dangerous adversary and ...

The Big Woods traces the history of the Boyd Family beginning in the 1850’s, through The Civil War and ending in 1871. It is a fast-paced, action and adventure western, laced wit history, humor, family and love.

It’s 1887 and The Illinois Detective Agency now has a new branch in San Francisco to support the existing office in Springfield, Illinois. A gruesome string of murders gives the Justice Department cause to contact The Illinois Detective Agency. Five men, seemingly unrelated have been found murdered with a Bowie Knife in their chest and the Justice Department doesn’t know what to make of it. Two additional men in Canada were found murdered in the same fashion. The entire agency, plus a disheveled, funny, little detective from Scotland Yard named Alfie Birdwhistle goes to work on the case...

When hundreds of empty, unmarked whiskey bottles are found on the reservation known as The Indian Nation in Arkansas and Oklahoma, the reservation police are very concerned. Drinking whiskey is against the Native American’s spiritual beliefs and only those who have lost all hope would indulge in. Concerned with how the whiskey is making its way onto reservation land, Judge Parker, who oversees the Indian Nation, assigns U.S. Marshals Emmet and Jack Youngblood to the task. Emmet, who is also the head of the reservation police force, utilizes all his manpower to find out how whiskey makes ...

Cillian Goodknight is a man blessed with many talents. A Yale and Harvard graduate with a degree in law, he has intellect and education. One of five children to inherit the Goodknight Oil Company, he is blessed with wealth. He has charm and a flair for words and wit. He seemingly has it all, except for one major flaw. What Goodknight doesn’t have is height. He stands just four-foot-four-inches tall, well below the minimum height for military service when World War Two broke out. However, his education qualified him for Army Intelligence and he spent the war years in Europe, gathering ...

When Judge Parker of Fort Smith, Arkansas sends two U.S. Marshals on a routine prisoner pickup and they never make it to their destination, he sends Marshals Emmet and Jack Youngblood to find them. Emmet and Jack, considered two of the best marshals in the west, come upon the dead bodies of the marshals, but their prisoner wagon is not to be found. They follow the tracks left behind by the heavy wagon to Springfield, Missouri. In Springfield, the brothers learn that notorious outlaw Joe Foster, wounded in a bank robbery attempt, was broken out of jail by his gang who disguised themselves as...

Retired FBI Agent Duncan Wyatt and his exotic-dancer girlfriend Lo-Lo Del Ray, the heroes from Key West Takedown, return in an all new mystery/thriller Key West Winter Blues. Recruited out of retirement once again by his former boss Deputy Director Morgan, Wyatt agrees to casually keep an eye on the Hell’s Invader’s motorcycle club, a vicious band of drug dealers and murderers from California that apparently relocated to the Florida Keys. Led by club president Ben ‘Bunny’ Kendrick, the Hell's Invader’s seem benign enough, at first. Once Wyatt makes contact, the fun and the danger ...

Retired on a disability pension after being shot in the hip, FBI agent Duncan Wyatt is bored to tears after making a full recovery. His hum-drum existence comes to an abrupt end when he is recruited by ATF to work undercover in the Florida Keys. A Keys native, Wyatt not only knows the territory, but the target of their investigation, his high school sweetheart of twenty-five years ago, Katherine Wolfe. Wealthy Miami based industrialist Xavier Estes, a first generation born Cuban has long been suspected of gun smuggling to Cuban rebels by ATF. His suspected accomplice is Keys resident ...

Walking Homeless John Tibbets is not just another homeless man living in New York’s Bowery. He also suffers from advanced amnesia and has no idea how he arrived at the most famous mission in America. A recluse, he lives a quiet life of desperate isolation. While wandering the Bowery streets one summer night, Tibbets comes upon three men mugging a police officer. Acting on unknown instincts, Tibbets intervenes. Displaying the fighting skills of a Navy Seal, Tibbets saves the life of the police officer, suffering a bullet wound in the process. While recovering at the hospital, Tibbets ...

Travis and Helen Dunn are two of the best private detectives in the business. When not wisecracking, arguing or trying to conceive a child, they are highly efficient and extremely deadly. Often aided by Helen’s Korean mother who is a police captain and her Cuban father who is a district attorney and sometimes by her slightly insane mobster brother, the crew makes a formidable foe and desirable friend. When the biggest movie star in Hollywood, Chad West’s three-year-old adopted daughter is kidnapped on an outing in Central Park, his lawyer hired Travis and Helen to deliver the ransom and...