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John Bekker returns in First Light to face the toughest challenge of his career. Hired by a man dying of cancer to locate the baby girl he gave up for adoption forty years ago, Bekker discovers the baby wasn't adopted but sold to a New York couple named Gertz. They named the child Sarah, and Sarah Gertz disappeared without a trace twelve years ago in Washington DC. Bekker uncovers evidence linking Sarah Gertz to the powerful Senator Oliver Koch, who is the next candidate for Vice-President. Twelve years ago, Koch and Sarah had an affair that left her pregnant. Bekker is convinced Koch had ...

Sunset Nominated for the Edgar Award for best Mystery of 2012. Police Detective John Bekker had it all: a beautiful wife, a five-year old daughter and a job he loved...but all of that changed in the blink of an eye. Assigned to a special task force investigating organized crime, Bekker got a little too close to mob boss Eddie Crist. As a message to back off, Bekker's home is invaded, his wife murdered and all this witnessed by his five-year-old daughter. A decade later Bekker, a drunk with an institutionalized daughter, comes face to face with Eddie Crist, now near death from cancer with a ...

From Edgar and Nero Award Nominee Al Lamanda. John Bekker is called back to action when his close friend Sheriff Jane Morgan seeks his help with a perplexing mystery. Norman Felton, a resident of Midnight Island, drove his car to the mainland county high school and, in an out-of-control rage, beat an exchange student nearly to death with a baseball bat before being shot by sheriff's deputies. Felton's fourteen-year-old daughter Amanda is missing, and with each passing day the odds of finding her grow slimmer. Bekker works around the clock ferreting out details until slowly the puzzle comes ...

Michael and Michele Dunn, twelve-year-old twins, are wealthy orphans living with their socialite businesswoman aunt, Angela Dunn, in Chicago. Angela is too committed to running the family business to raise the twins and she makes arrangements with the Illinois Detective Agency to send them to California to live with distant relatives. The detective agency is run by the son of its founder, Frank Miller. He contracts to take the twins to California and they leave with a team of his men. On the journey, the twins overhear a plot by Miller to kidnap them and hold them for a very high ransom ...

Jack is a little boy with a big secret. He’s a true telekinetic. Guarded by the US Secret Service round the clock, Jack lives alone with his mother Jennifer in a secret location known only to a few. So it was thought. A leak puts Jack and Jennifer, in grave danger, and aided by Secret Service Agent Ryan Dunn, they are forced to flee and go into hiding. With unknown killers stalking their every move, Dunn is willing to risk his life to save Jack and his mother, but Jack has other ideas. This is a page turner with an ending that will shock you and leave you breathless.

Walking Homeless John Tibbets is not just another homeless man living in New York’s Bowery. He also suffers from advanced amnesia and has no idea how he arrived at the most famous mission in America. A recluse, he lives a quiet life of desperate isolation. While wandering the Bowery streets one summer night, Tibbets comes upon three men mugging a police officer. Acting on unknown instincts, Tibbets intervenes. Displaying the fighting skills of a Navy Seal, Tibbets saves the life of the police officer, suffering a bullet wound in the process. While recovering at the hospital, Tibbets ...

Travis and Helen Dunn are two of the best private detectives in the business. When not wisecracking, arguing or trying to conceive a child, they are highly efficient and extremely deadly. Often aided by Helen’s Korean mother who is a police captain and her Cuban father who is a district attorney and sometimes by her slightly insane mobster brother, the crew makes a formidable foe and desirable friend. When the biggest movie star in Hollywood, Chad West’s three-year-old adopted daughter is kidnapped on an outing in Central Park, his lawyer hired Travis and Helen to deliver the ransom and...

Chino When Navy Seal and Scuba diver John Drew is wrongfully accused of murder and sent to Pelican Bay Prison, his life couldn’t get any worse. It does. Known for having the only prisoner SCUBA diving program in the world, Drew refuses to participate in the program until the heavy rains come and threaten to flood the entire valley, putting his wife and baby in mortal danger. A dive team of prisoners is assembled to make repairs to the Caustic Dam before it breeches and floods the valley. Drew volunteers to lead the team. The team has other ideas and, lead by Drew’s arch-rival Nick ...

Jarron Rourke, The Apostle, returns in another mystery/thriller titled Lockbox. One time a member of the Irish Mafia, Rourke was pardoned from prison and recruited by Federal Prosecutor Benning to become his investigator, Paired with Detective Jane Diaz, Rourke is tasked with finding the murderer of members of the Kruger family. Arthur Kruger, billionaire real estate developer, passed away at the age of 103 in a nursing home. At the reading of his will, in addition to the many millions he left family members, he bequeath his most prized possession to his five children, a locked box. A ...

Kellerman is back, bigger, bolder and deadlier than ever. When his old friend, attorney Cal Hawkins recruits Kellerman and Maria to bodyguard an eighty-six-year-old man named Aaron Grace, who is the last member of a fifty-year-old tontine worth eight million dollars, it’s an easy assignment for an easy payday. Except that somebody else has a different idea and soon Kellerman, Maria and Kellerman’s usual gang find themselves elbow deep in a plot involving murder, extortion and their own extinction.

Body and Soul is an explosive story of crime, deception, war, romance, lust and redemption. It’s the story of Saint, a young man raised in an orphanage and Angie, a girl from the streets, who fate brings together during the late 1930’s. As they take to a life of crime and grow in wealth and stature, fate again intervenes when Saint is drafted into the Army to fight in World War Two and Angie is left behind to fend for herself. Body and Soul is the ultimate in Crime Fiction and Noir.

Likeable but deadly outlaw Jack Posey is serving a long stretch of hard labor at Yuma Prison in Arizona when his fortunes turn for the better when his older brother Dale pays him a visit. Dale is a United States Marshal and his visit isn’t sociable. Dale is there to offer Jack a deal approved by the governor. Jack s old gang now led by Jack’s former number two man Tom Spooner has become the most wanted outlaws in the west. Dale is authorized by the governor to offer Jack a full pardon in exchange for helping to bring Spooner and the gang to justice.

Former US Marine, sometimes private investigator, oftentimes hit man for hire, Kellerman is as hard core as they come. Peppered into his life, Kellerman’s closest friend from the Corps and sometimes backup man is gay, his business associate is a Cuban mobster in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen and his girlfriend is a cop. In Lollypops, Kellerman sets his sights on a serial rapist and killer of young cheerleaders. Out for blood, Kellerman takes you deep into his seedy world where he tracks the killer cross country, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Its justice, Kellerman style. ...

The Big Woods Book Four : Return to The Big Woods 1880-1881 tests the Boyd family like never before. In this action-packed western, as the country continues to grow and change, each member of the Boyd family must grow with it or get left behind. Ellis Boyd is elected to Congress where corruption slowly works its magic on him. Rip comes of age is determined to destroy his mother’s legacy. Verlander gives in to the temptations of Washington. And US Marshal Emmet Boyd must find a way to hold it all together.

Harbor Island is a sleepy little island town off the coast of Maine. When an old man dies, his eighty year old secret is revealed and the power of Satan is unleashed upon the island. Slowly, the power of the anti-Christ spreads throughout the island, possessing citizens and driving them to insane murders and suicides. Seemingly unstoppable, the power is determined to kill every resident on the island and spread to the mainland. The Harbor is classic horror that will frighten and leave the reader breathless as the story races to its startling climax.

OB delves into the world of the out of body experience known as astral projection, the minds ability to project itself outside the body. Disabled police veteran John Connor lives a quiet life of isolation from his wheelchair in rural Maine. When bizarre dreams begin to haunt Connor, he seeks the aid of a dreams expert who recognizes them as the gift of astral projection. Together, the dreams expert and Connor cultivate Connor’s gift of OB and take his powers deep into the world of the paranormal. Only then does Connor realize why the gift of OB has surfaced at that time. A brutal serial ...

Emmet Lang is a very unique type of outlaw. A veteran of the Civil War, he returned home to find his family murdered and the family farm destroyed. Bitter and disillusioned, he wandered the south and west and struck upon an ideal way to make a living, to steal from criminals.

Jarron Rourke, The Apostle returns in the fourth installment of the series, titled Paradise. When the daughter of a powerful US Senator is kidnapped from Miami International Airport, the Senator turns to his old friend, Federal Prosecutor Bennington. The Senator’s daughter and her friend were on a Christmas break from college and seemingly vanished in plain sight. Bennington assigns the detail to Rourke, his top investigator. Teamed with his partner and girlfriend, Jane Diaz, Rourke dives into the investigation with little hope and sheer grit.. The trail in Miami, leads them to a sex ...

When the inner circle of President John F. Kennedy conspires to assassinate him, they turn to organized crime and the very powerful New York City based LaCasa crime family to get the job done. Irish/Italian mobster Jimmy Fallen came out of World War Two a disillusioned man and followed the career path of his father as a hit man for organized crime. Scarred by years of fighting in the war, Fallen’s existence is bleak and lonely. However, his professional services are highly sought after and he lands the prize of contracted hits when Tommy LaCasa hands him the assassination of President ...

In 1885, Walter Burke and his two partners make their living as bounty hunters as a means to secure enough money to buy the cattle ranch they always dreamed of owning. When Walter's sister passes away, Walter takes a trip east to assume responsibility of her only son. As an heir, the boy stands to inherit his mother's estate, despite protests from the boy's stepfather. Walter takes the boy west on a journey into a world he has only read about in schoolbooks and dime store novels. Midway through their travels, the boy's stepfather kidnaps the boy for his inheritance. Walter and his partners ...