Western Police Procedural Fiction

Carl is a Yankee cop in a small Texas border town. Isabella is a beautiful Mexican woman that everyone in town loves, including the hapless Pete and the wealthy, powerful Jack Talbott...but most of all, Carl.

In this sequel to Nine Hours to Kill (Book 13), Attorney R. Sloan is fighting to keep his client sane and sober as the police investigate the murder of her brother artist Steve Spaulding. The police believe she did it. She is the sole beneficiary of his multimillion-dollar estate. It gets worse. The police find that she has an ex-felon fiancé who they suspect may be her accomplice.

Everyone understands about the no-go districts - areas of the city so overrun with gang violence even the police stay away. In this book, the first in a new series, DI Hero Nelson sets out to combat the issue. When Saskia Hartley and her nine-year-old son are run down outside a restaurant, DI Nelson knows it is no ordinary hit-and-run incident. He's looking at a homicide case...and the evidence points to the brutal Krull Gang.

Carlisle Homicide Detective Erin McCoy battles the jitters as the first woman in homicide partnered with Senior Detective Christopher Snow. On their first case, they track a serial killer who's stalking family members embroiled in an inheritance dispute. The perp dispatches his victims with toxic chemicals. As the detectives chase clues and connect the related victims, their mutual attraction blooms while she nurses him after a shooting incident. But sparks fly when FBI Special Agent Howard offers McCoy a job if she'll train at Quantico.