Inspirational Suspense Fiction

Blossom Daniels lost her job moments after she reported to work, because she couldn't climb the stairs for mail delivery, thanks to a permanently broken down elevator. Her day was only beginning. Little did she know, before it ended, she'd be fighting for her life in the chilly grip of the Potomac.

An old-fashioned murder mystery with a private detective and a beautiful femme fatale, set in an exotic location – the Australian outback – with potent under-currents of spiritual warfare. Australia’s most famous Aboriginal painter is dead, supposedly killed when a heavy object tumbled onto him in his studio during an earth tremor. But then doubts arise. For a start, the police now suspect murder. And how come the victim had been heard earlier predicting his own violent death? Enter private detective Johnny Ravine to solve the mystery, and suddenly he finds himself thrust into a ...

An ancient shaman and his granddaughter travel to Harvard to pick up 2,047 skeletons stolen from the ruins of their family pueblo. She wants their time together to heal their broken hearts. He hopes the road trip will make her appreciate family. He fashions a dreamcatcher which sometimes hurls Hollow-Woman into the past to experience her ancestors.

Official verdict: Suicide. But why would that vigorous department chairman kill himself? To avoid disgrace? Those rumored ventures on the dark side? Some other secret life? Visiting professor Preston Barclay wonders. But his questions bring no answers, only anonymous threats. He has enough problems already, proving himself on a strange campus while radical faculty do all they can to undermine him. Worse yet, that sexy siren assigned as his assistant complicates his courtship of the beautiful Mara Thorn.

Forgiveness is the most attractive of the virtues. Until you actually have someone to forgive. When Melissa Stonelea’s born-again Christian husband Grant is found strangled in the bondage room of the city’s classiest brothel, a page of the Bible stuffed in his mouth, she doesn’t need to hear more of her pastor’s sermons on the healing powers of forgiveness. She needs revenge. Enter private detective Johnny Ravine, seeking the quiet life in Australia after more than twenty years as a freedom fighter in East Timor. The murdered man was his best friend. But, as he starts to investigate...

West Africa and the Sahara Desert – where the Muslim north meets the Christian south. Where drought, famine and poverty meet drug-runners, terrorists and Muslim extremists. Captain John Fisker, a US military officer working to strengthen the forces of moderate Islam in the region, is kidnapped by terrorists. At the same time extremists are threatening the Christian mission hospital where John’s brother Bobby works as a doctor. It is time to call for the New Mercedarians, the clandestine military order dedicated to fighting for Christians under attack around the world. Operatives Brother...

Pastor Jim Reezall is renowned as the hellfire preacher always calling down fire and brimstone on the sinners of the world. So when he dies in a wild bushfire there are some who believe he got what he deserved. Enter private detective Johnny Ravine, asked by the pastor’s daughter - with whom he is trying to develop a relationship - to solve the mystery of the death. It quickly becomes apparent that it was murder. And very soon Johnny learns that huge sums of money are missing from charities administered by the pastor. Was the pastor really using the funds to pay off gunrunners? And, if so...

Jordan Mitchfield is an heir to a media empire worth billions. He also sees and hears things that aren't there. Then someone close puts him in an insane asylum against his will. When it looks like there is no way out but to take his own life, he is stopped. Is it a vision? Is what he's seeing actually real? Whatever it is, it opens his cell door and throws him into a dangerous adventure through his memories.

“Thought provoking!” How far will a man go to protect his family? When the director of Child Protective Services uses his position to exact a personal vendetta in removing three-year-old Ashley from the Blake’s home, Jeff Blake, a financial advisor, responds to the threats in the only way he feels he can – violently. By the end of the short encounter, three people are dead and Ashley, the daughter, is still taken and placed in temporary foster care, so the tragic fiasco gained Jeff nothing. Or, so it seems. Matters are further complicated when Amy, the wife and mother, winds up for ...

It’s the holidays at the salon, and Savannah is tasked once again with solving the case, this time of a Grinch who’s determined to ruin Christmas… for everyone ***This is a 52,000 word Novella*** It starts much like the old fairy tale… everyone asleep in their beds, while a grouchy old Scrooge steals all the decorations and presents. But this time, it’s real. When the spirits of the townspeople are dampened by the loss of their holiday cheer, Savannah sets out with her beau, James Woodley, to find the thief and make him (or her!) bring back Christmas. But Savannah has bigger ...

"Stay away" - Those are the two words written on the forehead of every pedophile murdered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Joshua Theaker is tasked with finding the killer whose killing methods involve strange weapons. Theaker and local law enforcement find it hard to agree on where the trail goes, while the local FBI is distracted by child kidnappings. For Theaker, there is a pattern among the victims. But just when Theaker thinks he is getting closer to the killer, he strikes again. And again.

In the first installment of the Bowman Case Files, bored and entitled university student Julia Strauss meets a captivating man during a random encounter at a cafe. She is instantly attracted to the handsome stranger and pursues him obsessively. What she doesn’t know is that behind all the charm, he has a secret agenda of his own. Can Julia see beyond the haze of her infatuation before it’s too late?

2023 American Fiction Award Winner! On the run from the FBI for a crime she didn't commit, Larissa Baxter faces an unexpected threat. The secret life she's been living is about to be exposed, and she's in extreme danger. Texas bounty hunter Clyde Hopkins, duped by the false promise of a million dollar reward, begins a relentless search for her. A routine apprehension then becomes a kidnapping, and Hopkins faces a life-changing decision--kill or be killed. With almost certain death now facing Larissa, she's defenseless but for the strength of her faith.

Is Hailey Anderson up to the challenge of her life? Hailey Anderson’s job at the family textile mill is simply frustrating. During a time when mills are closing all around them, her father won’t listen to her ideas for saving the business. Finally, she leaves North Carolina and moves to Colorado, to be near her sister. But when a health crisis strikes her father only months later, he asks Hailey to return and take over as acting president of the mill. Maybe she’ll be able to save the mill and finally gain her father’s approval. Hailey returns home but things aren’t what they seem ...

A Hair Expo with Deadly Consequences ***This is a 52,000 word Novella*** The gang is headed to New Orleans for a hair competition and expo. What they don't expect to encounter is sabotage to many of the attendants' products along with a ghastly murder. Colorful people adorn the suspect field, including a little person with a new invention and a woman with revenge on her mind. Mix ups and cheating lead to secrets that emerge on a hot and sultry weekend in The Big Easy. Join Savannah and crew as they leave Knockemstiff for the big city and find themselves in an entirely new world.

Illegal Hooch, A Suspicious Death, & Facing the Unknown When an old moonshiner is found dead, ugly rumors and insinuation circulate through the town of Knockemstiff and the Teasen & Pleasen hair salon. Did the competition rub him out? Did he know too many secrets? And why was Nellie's husband seen with the old codger shortly before his death? Not only does Savannah have to deal with the aftermath of another death, but she also has big life questions of her own that include Sarah and James Woodley. ***This is a 54 thousand word Novel***

When a woman is killed in Savannah’s own salon, it’s up to our heroine to find the one responsible ***This is a 52,000 word Novella*** The town of Knockemstiff is once again plunged into chaos when a woman receives a killer dye job at The Teasen & Pleasen Hair Salon… and this time, it’s permanent. Hairstylist Savannah Jefferies finds her business the center of a murder investigation, with herself as a suspect. Savannah attempts to solve the case, but is distracted when she’s tasked with raising a friend's child, who’s got a sharp mind… and a smart mouth. To make things more ...

In the port of Charleston, South Carolina, post-Revolutionary War passions reach fever pitch. There, Lilyan's past catches up with her. As a former patriot spy, she is charged with the murder of a British officer. Thrown into the "Exchange Building" and chained alongside prostitutes, thieves, and murderers, she seeks the courage to survive and the faith to believe she will find her missing child, Laurel. Determined to free his wife at any cost, Nicholas finds himself forced back into a life of violence.

When I wrote the original version of PILOTS DAWN in the last decade of the previous century, the world was a different place. Three manufacturers of passenger aircraft existed in the United States. Boeing dominated the global market for airliners without serious competition. Airbus, whose share of sales fell short of 20%, was considered by many experts a challenger doomed to failure—if not an outright joke. Politically, the Soviet Union had ceased to exist. The Cold War was over; the KGB had receded into history and expectations of a peaceful democratic Russia were the norm.

What impact will a dying mother’s tragic prediction have on the life of her newborn daughter? In the hectic halls of a mental hospital, a woman pleads with the nurses to attach a handwritten poem to the daughter she’s about to give birth to. The nurses tell the woman she’s overreacting because she believes she won’t survive childhood. But just as she predicted, the woman who gives birth to Sonnet slips away shortly afterward. Adopted at an early age, Sonnet has never been curious about her birth mother until her 18th birthday.