Ed Taylor is an investigator for a major insurance company and he received a message from his mother that his Uncle had died. His mother lives 250 miles from him in the village that he grew up in and left years ago to go to the big city for work. He arrives in the town and finds that his Uncle supposedly committed suicide but after meeting with the medical examiner, they find that the man didn't kill himself, he was murdered. Now it's up to Ed to investigate the cause of the murder. Before...

Doyle is a homicide detective. He’s a good detective, but he has a problem, he’s getting fed up with crime. A hostage situation comes up involving the Mayor of Detroit and a mugger, who Doyle put in the hospital. The hostage exchange goes slightly wrong, but it was enough to make Doyle quit the PD. He goes out on his own to become a private eye and along with another ex-detective, Oscar Drew, they start their business. Their first client is a woman looking for her missing father. But is th...

(This book is not part of the Jim Richards series - it is all new)From the East coast to the West coast the NY Slasher carved his murderous spree on thirty women, and then just disappeared. Derek Harcourt wrote about the Slasher’s crimes in his first book. Now writing a second book, Harcourt has ulterior motives for this novel and is following the Slasher’s journey all the way from New York to Washington state. Sarah Keller is Harcourt’s editor and the unsuspecting victim of horrib...

Authors Note: This book was first written in 2009 and I had no real editor to go through it. But in the last five years this book has gone through a number of professional editors and various Beta readers. If you find any grammatical errors, please send what you find in an email to me at [email protected] rather than pointing them out in a review. I can correct them. This book was revised and re-edited by December 2014, and if you have a copy of the book prior to t...

This book is a novella.Gus Mackie is not a Hollywood type private investigator, he not good looking, muscle bound or full of knowledge. He’s rough around the edges and is imperfect. His cases are few and far between but he gets free rent by living in his office. His closest friend is a Native-American Police Detective who acts as his conscience and covers his ass from getting in trouble. Gus has been hired by a man to find out if his secretary is cheating on him, even though the ma...

This book is a novella.Jim Richards is a thirty-one year old bachelor who doesn't realize that he's on his way to a marriage that he isn’t ready for. He also doesn't know about his fiancé’s crazy parents who make Jim's life miserable, as hard as he tries to adapt to married life. Plagued by oddball neighbors and friends that make his already shaky marriage even more unstable, Jim struggles to keep the peace in his two-room flat in the suburbs of Detroit. This is an early look at the...

Sam Hunt was a decorated Viet Nam Army sniper. He now lived in the quiet suburbia outside of Detroit and yet he enters a battle for justice after his neighbor was murder in what looked like a hit. Seems a local mob wanted to get a lucrative contract to pave the county roads with shoddy concrete and after Sam and a police detective start investigating, war breaks out for Sam as he tries to battle the mob and his own inner demons caused by PTSD and alcohol. The mob messed with the wrong vete...

Leviticus, chapter 18, verse 22, from the Bible has been interpreted as “a man having sex with a man, as one does with a woman, is an abomination to God.” Many modern day Christians have used this one archaic law to show hate towards gays. Now a killer is using the rest of the Leviticus laws to punish people for their sins. Most of these laws demand death by stoning or burning. This killer is selecting people for breaking God’s laws and proving the point that if we believe in one law, we h...

Jake Wyler owner of the cemetery where a body will be buried and the police, FBI and DOJ all want the body but it's protected by diplomatic immunity. They believe that the body contains bio-warfare evidence but much be careful in taking the body. In addition to that a hole was dug by unknown persons leaving Jake and his police friend to solve who was going to occupy the hole.

This book includes the first three novellas of the Jake Wyler Mysteries.Book one: Jake Wyler bought a cemetery. It was one of those impulse buys and now he was having to spend a large portions of his life savings to be a property owner. He had returned to his hometown to find his life turned upside down and involved in murder, missing money and love letters. He meets an old high school classmate and she handles his money in the bank where she works. Jake has no ide...

Detroit Homicide Detective Russ Baker has been sent to work the Cold Case Division due to a screw-up he committed on a case. He was all alone in the basement office until he was visited by an unlikely partner. A dead former detective who was now an annoying ghost. Would the ghost help him solve the cold cases allowing the murdered victims to go on to the hereafter?This book contains the second four books of the series. Each book is a novella.Murder, mayhem, humor, ghosts galo...

Nick Cain and Bill, his parter in their investigation business go to pick up a barrel of wine for Nick's wine cellar. They discover that the barrel contained blood instead of wine which starts then on the path to solving the case as to how two men ended up in barrels. This is a novella, shorter than a novel but longer than than a short story.