First Private

When a big city Private Investigator, Ember Morgan gets tossed into a small town murder mystery, will she be able to solve the case, or will she crack under pressure? Hoping to leave behind her troubled past, Ember packs up her belongings and moves to a quiet town on the edge of Washington. What she doesn't know is the small town is on the brink of collapse, as tales of deception and deceit are long overdue. Teamed up with the towns handsome deputy, she'll embark on a journey even bigger than herself.

Here, for your approval, are the first 15 Matt Cooper, P.I. stories in the collection of 420 stories. These 15 take place in the mid-to-late 1940s, and show the beginnings of Cooper Investigations.

With this ring, I thee wed. To have and to hold, As long as we both shall live. The problem is that I don’t know how long that will be. Trouble rises from every direction. Dare and I will stand together and face it all. But if our bluff doesn’t pay off… there’s more than a billion dollar fortune at stake. We’re gambling with our very lives in this dangerous game of wealth and fate.

A Quiet Murmuration by Peter Deeley is a book of musings about our strange and changing life in this new century, offered from the point of view of a father, brother, son, closet philosopher, and CrossFit athlete. From a beach in Thailand or his own porch, he grapples with those nagging life questions we all have, but don’t always admit to. A Quiet Murmuration delves into the depths with humor, honesty and real mercy for the human race. Peter Deeley never spares himself but shares generously with his listeners.

Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn ticket belonging to a dead man tucked into his top pocket - the only clue to the truth.... An old soldier dies alone in his Edinburgh nursing home. No known relatives, and no will to enact. Just a pawn ticket found amongst his belongings, and 50,000 pounds in used notes sewn into the lining of his burial suit....

Twenty years ago, Senior Airman Nate Barrows saw something. Something new and alien, flying through American airspace. Now the military has forced Nate to investigate decades-old UFO sightings in a dead-end office in the unassuming town of Orange, Massachusetts, or face a dishonorable discharge. Things turn around for Nate when he meets a vivacious young woman to share his life with. But as they plan their future together, clues from their past make Callie and Nate realize perhaps their meeting was not an act of destiny.

It is 1946, and Frank O'Brian is a gumshoe in New York, in other words, a private investigator. Having just qualified as a lawyer when the US entered WWII, he quit to work as a field agent for the Office of Strategic Services in Europe. Upon returning to New York, he found the notion of returning to the law too tame and hung up his PI shingle. In his first big case, he is involved in murder, blackmail, and double dealing.

It was Friday, April 11th, 1941. A mysterious flying object crashes near the town of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Three alien-like bodies are found. One survives. Thus begins Cable Denning’s extraordinary adventure of government intrigue, murder, and jam-packed action in a fast-paced mystery filled with colorful characters, beautiful babes, and riddles to the question: Are we alone in this cosmos of endless stars? The charming, beautiful, and sophisticated Eleanor Winston enters Cable’s life on a missing sisters case and things begin to tear at the seams and rip wide open.

She’s a Hollywood reporter with a glamorous assignment that turns deadly: solve a famous cold-case mystery. It’s all fun with movie stars... until the killer reawakens, and targets her! A magazine hires offbeat journalist Kenny Rubin to figure out who killed actress Melinda Rivers five years ago. And she’s supposed to do it before the airing of a new movie about the murder. Many of the people involved in the filming knew Melinda, and one might be the actual killer. As Kenny investigates, people start dying around her, and her bipolar disorder messes with her perceptions. Can she ...