When retired journalist Jim Stanton learns of the death of long-lost friend Mickey Buchanan, he is drawn into what he thinks is a nostalgic visit to his roots in Michigan's northern lower peninsula.In reality, this trip forces him to exercise his best traits as an investigative reporter while relying on training he learned as a covert warrior during the Vietnam War to stay alive. Stanton's life following his military service has been a tribute to thought over violence; reflection ov...

The 8th Jim Stanton Mystery finds the retired journalist caught in the middle of a three-way intersection between the past, present, and future involving family trees, predictive genetics and political extremism woven in a spiraling story that involves many more than twenty-three possible solutions.

In this, the second Jim Stanton Mystery, the retired community journalist is confronted by two mysteries, one trivial, the other fatal, but in the end they combine to remind him that even in perfect stories, everything doesn't always "work out" for all concerned.Lucja Rantford, matriarch of the James Ranch and Sheep Co., near Pendleton, Oregon, goes missing as the city prepares to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its rodeo.As Stanton shows off his city and its rodeo the Law...

In this, his third mystery, retired community journalist Jim Stanton comes face to face with something that had always been missing from his character – anger that boils down to hate.Trained as a young man by the U.S. Navy to be one of a select group of covert warriors, Stanton walked away from that life at his first opportunity, recognizing that the anger that fueled his teammates was absent from his makeup.Now, forty years later, a chain of events sees him attacked and seve...

In this, the 6th Jim Stanton mystery, Janice Coldwell Stanton decides to attend her high school class reunion with takes the Stantons back to Jan's tiny hometown of Stoney, Michigan.Jan has become a poised, beautiful, and successful business woman, but to her classmates and the rest of the residents in her hometown, she would be remembered as a tall, skinny, frumpy, piano-playing accompanist.Stoney High School will cease to exist after this school year, and with its closure s...

Encoding...In this, the 7th Jim Stanton Mystery, the retired journalist is confronted with deciphering a maze of codes, ultimately requiring him to evaluate his personal code of ethics.A long-time friend has gone missing. Jim has been asked to help in a search to find the man.What follows is a baffling search that takes Jim inside a Phoenix crime family. From there the trail leads to Las Vegas, Silicon Valley, and finally to San Jose where his unique talent for asking ...

Wins and losses…When Ed Sweet loses his job of 35 years it is devastating. Two years later, when he wins the American Tribute Sweepstakes Grand Prize worth millions of dollars, everything seems to be coming up roses.When Ed starts receiving calls threatening his seven grand-children, he turns to his high school hero, Jim Stanton, because he knows Jim is always a winner.When Jim and his wife, Jan, then hurry to the northern Missouri town of Elliotsville they find a town...

When state high school track champion Suzanne Czarnopias goes missing her home town is shocked, but as the police find no clues to her fate, that shock turns to anger, first at the Lake City, New York, police, and then, when their newspaper prints letters to the editor claiming to be from the culprit, that anger and fear focuses on the new managing editor, Jim Stanton.And as the community questions the newspaper's reporting, and rumors about the possibility of Stanton's role in the ...

Detective Mike Bennett takes on a chilling man trying to play god as he threatens New York with a terrifying epidemic in this gripping novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author.A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. For New York's elite, it is...

From the world's most celebrated author, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are ready to escape New York for a vacation in Maine—but a shocking scene deep in the woods reveals a dark world of drugs and murder.Haunted by guilt and shame, Michael Bennett is living with a father's worst nightmare. Reeling from a crisis that would destroy lesser families, the Bennetts escape New York for a much-needed vacation. But it turns out the brochures don't tell the full s...

"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book BlogIncluded in Zoom Street Magazine's Summer Reading (Mysteries/Noir) RoundupOne of "1...

The swindling of an elderly widow leads to " a greased-lightning tale of scam and counterscam" from an Edgar Award–winning author ( Kirkus Reviews).When a drunk driver kills her entire family, Florida retiree Irene Gustafson is left rich and alone. Between savings and life insurance, the death of her son and his family leaves her with nearly $300,000—a veritable fortune in a community where most live off social security. Following the advi...