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The bad mage is back Boyd Wright, the five-foot-eight slacker foul-mouthed magician anti-hero, is back. Slender, with teen idol looks, Boyd has spent his short life on the urban frontier in 21st Century America. The first eighteen years in an orphanage and the following decade among the occult nutcases in L.A. and Las Vegas. Boyd has little going for him except quick wits, acute paranoia, and a few magic tricks. Oh yeah, in exchange for the magic, Boyd has to deal with some things called the Others, trying to take over Earth. Big whoop. This time around Boyd agrees to help a nice, ...

Judge. Jury. Executioner. One hundred and forty millennia from now, a limited form of interstellar travel has resulted in over a hundred-thousand planets inhabited by one or more of the seven star-faring species of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. Trade in information, intellectual property, and artifacts created wealth and increased standards. Trade increased protection from the deadliest threat to sentient life by spreading and sharing technology to combat aggressive mutated virus strains that spread from system to system. To manage and protect the basis for their civilizations, the...

Truck farmer. Matchmaker. Detective? Franklin Lee Stafford, called Frankly, enjoys working his farm and being the resident pro-bono matchmaker at The Laughing Rabbit, a faux English pub. Once in a while, his wife, the private investigator Irma McGinnis, runs into a tough whodunit murder, and Frankly becomes an ace detective. Reluctantly. When a man is found drowned in his bathtub, and the only clue is a toy rubber duck, Irma turns to Frankly for help. Frankly agrees to find the killer, even if it is planting season. At the same time, a young mother and former party girl decides she wants a ...

Brilliant. Young. Wealthy. Mutant. Bel Anderson and the detectives at Anderson Services look for a missing person and find a serial killer. A hidden predator who selects his victims in a pattern that only Bel sees. What Bel could not see was how to deal with being a physically gifted freak … until he met a seer. And, of course, the team must recover a bomber jacket that isn’t a bomber jacket.

A $250,000 broken neck. Babies. Franklin Lee (Frankly) Stafford had forsworn solving whodunits to grow vegetables and make matches, until special circumstances lead him to solve the murder of a 60-year-old woman, found laying outside her deceased husband’s study with a broken neck. Inside the study are four sets of seven ceramic figurines: tan kangaroos, white cupids, blue rabbits, and black cats, four of the latter broken. While doing that, Frankly matches a woman with birth defects and a man with a dark past. If that wasn’t enough, he has to find a match for a pregnant lady whose ...

Cynical. Subversive. Irreverent. Boyd Wright is not a typical hero. Five-eight, not six-five. Foul-mouthed. Slender, with teen idol looks, he is a confirmed physical coward. Boyd has spent his short life on the urban frontier in 21st Century America. The first eighteen years in an orphanage and the following decade among the occult nutcases in L.A. and Las Vegas. Boyd has little going for him except quick wits, acute paranoia, and ... magic? Fifteen years previously, Boyd, unwanted and the least important resident of the Carruthers Home for Boys, survived among juvenile predators and ...

A Hot Marshal. A Dead Body. A Spook. When Dorsey Armstrong, young widowed mother and Marshal of the quaint resort town of Briar’s Folly, TX, met Tyron McGee, Director of the Brazos Chautauqua Institute that abutted the town for the second time, they were looking at the nude body of a young male by the side of a back road which ran between the town and the institute. Dorsey suspects McGee is not simply an academic PhD administrator, but some kind of spy. And McGee, English Literature scholar, believes she may be what is missing from his life. They both could be right. As Dorsey attempts to...

A Wicked Hedge Fund. A Framed Innocent. A Puzzle Will. Mutant Children. The new Anderson Services West office in San Diego must save the gentle Donkey King from a false murder conviction. Back in Houston, Bel Anderson and the Labe Clan unite to stop violent gangsters disguised as financial wizards. Chance Garner, the Mailman and stone-faced detective, has to solve a complex puzzle with millions of dollars at stake. Clint Ellerbe, the ex-Ranger-Ranger, and rookie detective Weasel Smith go after a serial killer known only as the Hidden Hit Man. Will star-crossed lovers find romance in San ...

Serial Killer. Demons. A Haunted House. What in the world has Boyd Wright, cut-rate mage, gotten himself into? Our cowardly, foul-mouth, super-anti-hero takes his magical talents to Arizona to help a nice old lady with her haunted house. And to help his best friend, Detective Mary Ann Durkin, track down a serial killer. And then he discovers a nest of demon worshippers. You know he will run into the Others, sent here from beyond to possess humans, that he’ll have to deal with. It was his job. And, oh yeah, Boyd gets a cat as partner. Not just an ordinary cat, but a tourist from another ...

Four Adjudicators, One Quest The ex-warrior monk, Adjudicator Ven Bede (plus his symbiote, Grace) and his comrade, Propat Adjudicator Slayer of Enemies Most Foul, join with a Dilly Adjudicator and a rookie human Adjudicator to enforce the will of the All Thing in support of the Laws of Right Trade. Four Adjudicators against barbarian hordes, belligerent city-states, and religious Jihadists to rescue a world falling into chaos. The Adjudicators must find lost Testament of Prester Jung to the two-head god, Morlolph, to unlock the key to prosperity for the endangered planet, Exeter. Does the ...

A Rural Mafia. Dognappers. Romance. Bel Anderson and the Anderson Services detectives are busy. A gang, run by a clever kingpin, has taken over a third of a rural Texas county. Bel and Martin Labe, the Flashman, unite to take down a corrupt politician and mobster. Someone is stealing young show dogs, an obsessive stalker is after a defenseless woman, industrial thieves abound, and there is a contested will. Can the Anderson Services detectives handle the workload? Will Bel find yet another preternatural ability from his strange DNA? Follow along as Bel takes one more step into becoming ...

A Puzzling Mystery. Tender Romances. Franklin Lee Stafford, called Frankly, does not want to help his wife, P. I. Irma McInnis, solve murders, even if he was one of the best in the nation at figuring out whodunits. After finishing the Rubby Ducky case with a happy bank account, Frankly wanted to tend to the vegetables in his truck garden. BUT he did need a new tractor and the $150,000 reward would not only buy a tractor, it would afford them a long-delayed honeymoon. Who killed the rich guy in a willow grove? Will an evil competitor for the reward win out? Frankly Stafford loves Irma, his ...

Stolen Classic Cars. Disappearing Trucks. A Bicycle Thief. Everything with wheels is being stolen, from Houston to San Diego. The detectives at Anderson Services are busy taking down the street thieves. Then there's the Badass Motorcycle Gang terrorizing a sleepy North Carolina community, and the Lost Cause cold murder case out in Poway, California. An English nanny joins the cast, a love triangle develops among the detectives, and Cammie Anderson sees the future. And what is going on with the Labe Clan? A dynastic marriage into a family of English gypsies? What does that have to do Bel ...

Barbarian Invaders. A Slave Girl. An Evil Twin. Romance. An organized home invasion gang led by an international conman is headed to Houston. When the Labe Clan raises the alarm, Bel Anderson and the detectives at Anderson Services join the fight. If that wasn’t enough, they have to catch a modern-day Fagin who leads young thieves in swoop attacks on defenseless merchants, save a twin from her evil sibling, free a sex slave, and, of course, recover a stolen baseball card. Other questions need to be answered. Who is Mr. Lucky and why is he driving a tow truck? Will Bel Anderson share his ...

Killed by the Statue of Liberty Who bashed Garland Merkle, the curator of a museum devoted to toys, miniatures, and oddities, with a four-ft. replica of the Statue of Liberty? Irma McGinnis wants the $25,000 reward being offered, but can she talk her husband, Franklin Lee (Frankly) Stafford, truck farmer & pro bono matchmaker, into discovering which of Merkle’s four co-workers did the deed? Frankly may be the world’s best detective when it comes to closed-room mysteries, but he does not like murders or dead bodies. Frankly has his farm to care for and matches to make for the lonely. So ...