Piper and Bill Robins, a retired married couple, are enjoying their leisure years spent in the tranquil, leafy Washington, D.C. suburb of Beverly Park, Virginia. Bill watches “Pawn Stars” on TV and mows his lawn while Piper shops for clothes and solves crossword puzzles. One sunny June afternoon, Emily Davenport, who lives in California, telephones Bill and asks if he’ll check on her elderly mother Anna living next door to the Robinses. She hasn’t answered Emily’s repeated attempts to call...

Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, is like any other sleepy small town until Jake Robbins is murdered, and his fiancée Megan Connors is arrested for it. The laidback, good ole boy Sheriff Roscoe Fox feels smugly confident he’s got the right culprit, Megan Connors, locked up in his jail. It’s a feather in his cap to help give his re-election campaign for town sheriff a boost. However, not all the townies believe Sheriff Fox has so niftily solved Jake’s murder. Megan’s feisty septuagenarian aunts, I...

Deadlines is a nightmarish excursion into fear featuring stories from 20 up-and-coming authors of horror and dark fiction. From serial killers to zombies, from sinister dolls to malicious cats, this collection is a veritable a-z of evil and a deadly trip down the darkside of human nature.Sonar4 Publications Review:Deadlines has some of the scariest stories wrapped together in one convenient package. Stories that grab a hold of your breath refusing to give it back until you t...

Bestselling and award-winning mystery author Ed Lynskey introduces a new cozy mystery series set in the small town of Cat’s Paw, Virginia. Plucky and resourceful, Juno Patchen operates her family truck farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains and sells her produce at the weekly Farmers’ Market. Her athletic cousin and godmother Fern McPhee and outspoken mother Rhoda McPhee help Juno while her seven-year-old son Chip pitches in whenever he can. The lurid murder of local resident Liz Kershaw throws ...

Pelham Fell Here offers readers Frank Johnson's rich back story, an unusual departure from most of today's private eye series. We learn how the ex-military cop and part-time gunsmith Frank, now back living in his hometown of Pelham, Virginia, gets into the private investigator racket. He discovers somebody has killed his cousin Cody Chapman with a twelve-gauge shotgun blast. Enraged, Frank wants some answers and wants them fast. Was Cody involved in an illegal arms smuggling scheme? The di...

P.I. Frank Johnson investigates several of his clients' cases over the course of a week in frosty October. In his largest case, a woman hires him to locate her birth mother, who was last heard from in Frank’s hometown of Pelham, Virginia. He also declines an offer to join a bounty hunter team because the leader is dangerously reckless. Later, he discovers something very wrong is in his abandoned phosphate quarry, which requires his immediate attention before it’s too late.As he alw...

P.I. Frank Johnson accepts several cases of infidelity, which have become his primary source of income. Beth Humphreys hires Frank to follow her cheating husband, Trey. Frank loses sight of Trey’s vehicle during a torrential rain, which he reports to the enraged Beth. She decides to give him one more chance. Later, Frank achieves better results for his next clients who also have cheating spouses and is able to bill them for his detective work.Frank also seeks new ways to expand his...

P.I. Frank Johnson takes up investigating the violent death of Roz Fleming. A local prostitute, she’s been found dead from two headshots behind the local truck stop on a February morning. Roz’s older sister, Hallie, incensed and desperate, approaches Frank to investigate Roz’s grisly murder. Since the state cops, led by Sergeant Collingsworth, show only feeble interest in resolving “the whore’s homicide,” Frank agrees to take Hallie’s case.As Frank probes deeper into Roz Fleming’s ...

P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a missing person case when Cain Milsap seeks out Frank’s assistance to find Milsap’s 28-year-old daughter, Brett. Of course, nothing is simple as it seems on the surface in Frank's world. As he delves deeper into the twisty investigation, the more questions arise. All the while, he also deals with his personal problems and handles his other PI cases. He depends on his long-time business partner Gerald Peyton, his medical examiner wife Dreema, and his brilliant bu...

P.I. Frank Johnson takes up the homicide case of Cedric Barker, the bouncer at Aphrodite’s Crib, a local strip club. Engaged to the ex-stripper, Blaze O’Dwyer, Barker is found murdered at their outdoor wedding minutes before they exchange their marriage vows. Of course nothing is as it appears on the surface in Frank’s murky noirish crime world.Simple things become complicated and messy affairs, where more violence and mayhem come into play. As Frank probes deeper into Barker’s mur...

For their twelfth mystery, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the retired sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, undertake solving yet another murder mystery. Their neighbor Trish Cox’s grandson Jason is found murdered on the old highway bridge spanning the Cornet River. Isabel and Alma put on their detective hats, sharpen their wits, and commence their snooping. Of course, Sammi Jo Garner, their gritty sidekick, and Petey Samson, their irrepressible beagle, help to develop the leads, id...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a case from a distraught woman who suspects her husband of 10 years is having an affair with his female office manager. Before Frank can launch his investigation, her husband is found murdered in his insurance office. Frank’s client quickly comes under suspicion by the town sheriff. He identifies two other murder suspects, the office manager and a disgruntled insurance customer. As always, he depends on his long-time business partn...