Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Storm Warning: A Sonny Marshall Thriller

Sonny Marshall, a gifted saxophonist with a past haunted by violence, lives his life between soulful nights on stage and the quiet discipline of martial arts. But when a friend’s chance sighting reopens the cold case of a girl kidnapped seven years ago, Sonny is drawn into a darkness that melody can’t touch. His unofficial investigation pulls him from the neon glow of jazz clubs into a sinister underworld of child exploitation and ruthless criminals. With the police investigation stalled, S... [Read More...]

Storm Damage: A Sonny Marshall Thriller

The deadliest threat in California doesn’t come with a warning—it slips into your system, rewires your mind, and turns you into a killer with a smile. When a banker opens fire at Folsom Flea Market, Detective Kat Hastings catches the case—but takes three bullets before she can stop the carnage. Now she’s in the ICU, the victim of a drugged-up killer. That night, during a gig, Sonny Marshall watches helplessly as his band’s guitarist collapses mid-set, brought down by a dru... [Read More...]

Free: The Screaming Echo of Death

In this mystery novel, Dart is a private detective whose life is falling apart. Driven by guilt, unable to see the path ahead, he stumbles awkwardly forward. Suddenly he is confronted by two deaths. A boy hires him to discover why a woman walked into a bay and never stopped before killing herself. Then Dart’s ex-wife desperately needs his help in dealing with a murder. Facing twists and dangers, Dart must seek to heal himself before he can save those who desperately need his help. Free on Kin... [Read More...]

Vice & Virtue

Some secrets are buried so deep, it takes a skeleton to unearth them. When a construction crew demolishing an old warehouse uncovers human remains hidden beneath the floorboards, Detective Sergeant Ben Winters knows someone went to great lengths to make sure those bones were never found. Before he can learn whose skeleton it is, Parker City is rocked by something far more urgent — a cop killer is on the loose. Three officers gunned down in cold blood, and Winters and his partner Detective Tom... [Read More...]

Protect & Defend: A Suspenseful Military Thriller

FOR THOSE TAKEN, HE’S THEIR LAST BEST HOPE. Former Army Ranger and FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader Jacob St. Christopher has always operated within the law. That’s about to change. Start reading book #1 in a 5-book series of action thrillers and join Jacob as his career takes an unexpected turn…toward becoming an elite UNSANCTIONED hostage rescue specialist. $2.99 on Kindle. ... [Read More...]

Vigilante Priest

Father Tony is a once-popular New York priest with family ties to the mob, and is troubled with the secrets he holds – torn by what is right and wrong. Eddie Rodriguez is a tough NYC cop with a serious chip on his shoulder, and a hilarious way of expressing himself. And he can tell when the stuff is about to hit the fan. Vigilante Priest is a gripping thriller that addresses a serious issue, and while this may seem ominous and heavy, it is written with a bit of comic relief. Buy Vigilante... [Read More...]

Stars and Six-Shooters

A clerical mix-up leaves Yale astronomer Theodore Pembroke wearing a tin star in Moon Creek, a lawless town that’s already buried three marshals. Armed with probability charts and an unshakable faith in science, Teddy fights crime like no lawman before — trapping outlaws in contraptions and confusing desperados into surrender with physics lectures. But the corrupt mayor wants the peculiar new marshal gone. With a sharp-eyed deputy, a saloon-keeping doctor, and a laundress who knows ever... [Read More...]

The Closing Window: A Novel

A thirty-nine-day war between the United States and Iran ends the way modern wars end now: not in surrender, but in a memorandum. The guns go silent. The money is promised. The world exhales. Buried within the language of the peace are nineteen words that quietly abandon the people who believed the bombing meant deliverance. In Washington, a small policy institute that has spent its life describing the world decides, for the first time, to act on it, and learns that the line between analysis an... [Read More...]

Free: A Whale of a Murder: A Venus Bixby Mystery

Why is this July 4th cozy mystery described as fun and frothy? Because … On the morning of her 50th birthday party, VENUS BIXBY stumbles over orange platform shoes in the gardens of the whaling museum and breaks her thumb. When it’s discovered the shoes are attached to the dead body of the manager of the museum’s gift shop, Venus becomes both a suspect and a sleuth. Will she sing and dance at her party, or will she and her thumb be hauled off in handcuffs? Includes a playlist so you can s... [Read More...]