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Private Detective Jobe Carson and the love of his life Anne are enjoying a Vancouver Island whale-watching vacation when an assassin at a taco truck completely upends Jobe’s reality. Turns out what he thought were the mundane memories of his deceased father Maclynn’s 1948 army stint in Japan weren’t quite accurate. Nor were the crazy tales Maclynn had begun to tell in the years before he died. Jobe had thought they were the latter-day ravings of his dad’s dementia-ravaged mind. In truth, Maclynn actually did play a part in an international espionage escapade. The story goes back and...

Private Detective Jobe Carson is minding his own business when he gets an urgent call from an old friend and comedy producer he used to work with back in the eighties. For some unknown reason comics are being found across the northwest, hung from motel room ceilings, the victims of either auto-erotic asphyxiation or murder. Jobe is hired to find the cause—but he is reluctant—his brief foray into stand-up comedy four decades ago left permanent emotional scars. The idea of going back out on the comedy circuit is terrifying. Jobe crisscrosses Washington State and takes the stage from ...

Jobe Carson is a private detective of circumstance—as in “victim of circumstance.” His wife mysteriously disappeared while she was out on a run one evening, leaving Jobe with the emotional, practical, and financial responsibilities of being a single father of three children: Kiah—a grumbling sharp-tongued 18-year-old; Jack—16-year-old sport, videogame, and paintball enthusiast; and his only daughter, Miranda, Mir for short, wise beyond her 11 almost 12 years. His detective career is also hampered by the local police suspecting he may be responsible for his wife’s disappearance. ...

Private Detective Jobe Carson is on a peaceful country drive when out of nowhere another vehicle crashes into his Civic and sends him plummeting off the Carbon River bridge into the abyss below. Now Jobe’s son and daughter, Ky and Miranda, embark on a quest to find the craven committer of the crime. An abhorrent act that has left Jobe languishing in a coma, withering away, destined for death. Suspects include a gallery of rogues from Jobe’s former cases, recently released from prison and hellbent on wreaking revenge. Lying insensate in a care facility bed, the detective has never been ...

Private Detective Jobe Carson is out to catch a cat killer and collect the reward. Then his demented dad is kidnapped, possibly by the same wacko that’s been slaughtering felines. Join Jobe and his smart-cracking sidekick Anne as they search from the Pacific Northwest to the tectonic cracks of Iceland to track down the kitty carver—and possibly find Jobe’s father before he gets carved up too. Is it a cult leader? Or just a craven crazy that can’t stand either cutesy cats or cranky codgers? Olympia Washington. Reykjavik Iceland. Nordic Myths. Calico Kittycats. Coconut Ball Pastries ...

Jobe Carson. Private Detective. Single Dad. Inveterate Grouser. And now he's back. This time he's running down a serial killer who's picking off folks jogging in the woods. But what's killing them? And can Jobe and his fractious family find a clear trail to the answer before someone else DNFs permanently? Jobe is out on a trail run when he witnesses a female jogger jerk suddenly and fall into a ravine. He calls the police, but they cart him off to jail. After getting sprung by his lawyer he sets out to clear his name and runs into a series of suspects including a backwoods hiker, a Vietnam ...

Private Detective Jobe Carson has a new challenge, saving hundreds of lives at a community festival from the explosive carnage created by a depraved narcissistic sociopath. A psycho that’s conceived the notion of altering an everyday home device into a bomb that wreaks destruction and desolation with the force of over 350 pounds of TNT. And is the festival even a target? Or just collateral damage. Will Jobe be able to figure out who the random bomber is? It’s a classic conundrum. The perfect crime, in which the perpetrator has no connection to the victims, no specific objective, and no ...

Private Detective Jobe Carson is on a marathon quest to find the answer to a question he hoped would never be asked: Who is the father of his daughter Miranda? It's a journey as painful as any he has ever encountered, including the grueling ten-hour ultra-run he did with Miranda’s mother across Washington State’s Olympic Mountains. Fraught relationships with faithless family members go head-to-head with hair-raising confrontations with rocks, roots, and ruts. The emotional turmoil has Jobe running for the hills. A classic conundrum of Nurture vs Nature. And DNA may be the only thing ...

Private Detective Jobe Carson finds himself in a shocking situation. Someone is electrocuting his former crew members from the cable access TV show he produced in the mid-nineties. Literally a blast from the past. Coming out of his long-haul Covid affliction, Jobe needs to conduct himself well, avoid resistance, and somehow find the energy to dig deep into his personal history and expose some uncomfortable truths. Truths about not just friends, but family. COVID-19, charging devices, surveillance cameras, indoor spy drones, stained glass, electrical hazards, nosy neighbors, involved in-laws...

Private Detective Jobe Carson, who once faced the trials of being a single parent of three teenagers and the tribulations of caretaking a father stricken with dementia, now has to face an even more difficult challenge—solving the case of a vicious killer who is hiding under cover of the locked down world of the coronavirus and using Zoom meetings to line up victims. COVID-19, bone knives, honing oil, Quarantine, nasal swabs, unmasked marauders, a hermit detective, and anti-social media gone viral. All rolled up in the trappings of 2020’s slow-motion apocalypse. Stay at home reading at ...

Private Detective Jobe Carson and his dementia impaired dad are at it again, this time trying to thwart a couple of D&D Ren Faire techno-nerds who are harvesting stem cells from vulnerable and involuntary donors. Lucky for Jobe, his son Kiah is prepared to help, even if he has to climb a mountain to do so. What do mortuaries, assisted living facilities, cremation, Washington's Mount Olympus, elder porn, millennials, hiking, murder, dark websites, rock climbing, YouTube trends, and women haters have in common? There's only one way to find out. Jobe's Ordeal, Book 6 in the Jobe Carson Mystery...

Private Detective Jobe Carson faces another roadblock in the cycle of life: Handling the challenge of eldercare as his demented dad is dumped on him just as he's hired to find out who is slaying local cyclists. Will he be able to derail the Cycle Psycho and keep his own sanity while managing his frustrating father? Jobe is minding his own business when his tired brother dumps off their dad, whose senile dementia has become too much for the brother to deal with. A former single dad who managed to be a private detective at the same time, Jobe thinks taking care of a demented dad is ...

Single Dad Private Detective Jobe Carson has a double dilemma: Dig into a cold case with a core of a corpse, and solve the murder of an emcee who stumbled on a gopher land scam involving local politicos, cult leaders, and just plain folks. All while his fractious family fuels his frustration. Jobe’s called to look into the origin of the human remains found at the bottom of a gas station pit that have been unearthed by a direct push drilling rig. Shortly thereafter he’s hired to dig to the bottom of the mysterious killing of a local charity emcee and auctioneer. Are the two cases related...

Private Detective Jobe Carson is just trying to enjoy a vacation, exploring the sights of the country’s upper corner with his loving sidekick Anne. But there’s no rest for the weary as a clever killer has found a way to make some people’s vacations permanent. As in, a vacation from life itself. Can Jobe stop him before he kills again? A dark excursion into the world of addiction, from caffeine to methedrine, thrill-killing to just chilling. You may never have a motel cup of coffee again… Jobe chases his past and present in a whirlwind tour of powerful forces, finding answers in ...