A small resort town in northern California has a very low crime rate until Vincent Tate shows up and buys an old estate just outside town. Vincent soon recruits two locals for a daring bank robbery. One of the locals buries the $5 million in a nearby forest, then refuses to tell Vincent where he buried the cash. That begins a series of kidnappings, murders, and extortions. When a 13-year-old girl disappears, a friend contacts Jack Beckett. Beckett and O'Connor must unravel the mystery of t...

Niles Bergman was a wealthy tech executive by day. At night, he was a diabolical serial killer. His victims were young women from Reno who saw ads offering help to break into the high tech world. The ads were too good to be true, but desperation blinded a few young women. Niles promised a well-paid job, a free apartment, and access to a glamorous life. The woman needed to be a certain age and a certain body size. Amazingly, a few came and then paid the price, washing up dead in the San Fra...

Things went wrong as soon as FBI Agent Riley O'Connor took the Peter Vox case.She came home to find a shadowy figure sitting in her bedroom. The dark figure demanded that she stop working the case or be killed.Then her boss called and pulled her off the case of the missing artist.But there was no quit in O'Connor. Jack Beckett helped her come up with a plan to keep looking for Vox, now suffering from dementia.As Beckett and O'Connor dig deep...

New from D.G. Baxter, action and suspense as Jack Beckett infiltrates a domestic terrorist group. Two FBI agents working the counterintelligence unit out of Sacramento go missing. The FBI can't afford to lose another agent, so they throw the book away and ask Beckett to go undercover. He uncovers a plot to take over the US government financed by a Saudi prince and a shadowy English mastermind. If Beckett doesn't escape with the truth, innocent lives will be lost. Beckett has seven days to ...

When someone tries to kill Riley O'Connor in the nation's capital, her good friend in California tells her to come home. But she's not a quitter; she is determined to find the truth about a friend who was murdered. The answer is hiding in the middle of a conspiracy involving a Russian oligarch and a web of shadowy figures who have worked their way into the FBI and even the White House. It comes down to the last 24 hours, and how good O'Connor and Jack Beckett are at stayin...

Jane Doe fell to her death from the Oakland Bay Bridge. No one claimed her or seemed to know her. But Jack Beckett had tried to save her.He didn't sleep well that night, and the next morning he vowed to find out why she died. He had held her hand for a few seconds until it slipped away. He saw her eyes as she fell, and he knew she didn't want to die.He found a clue, a young man who lived above a Chinese restaurant had briefly talked with her. The young man ...

An FBI agent is kidnapped by a psychopath who hears voices telling him to go on a killing spree. The agent is Riley O'Connor, and the man who snatched her is going more insane by the day. O'Connor got on a flight to San Francisco and was never heard from again. The search comes up dry, but Jack Beckett will not quit until he finds his friend. Along the way, he needs help from people who don't want to play ball, including a radio station host and the owner of a white van with a dark past. B...

Jack Beckett was arrested but not charged with murder in Casper. His crime was being tall and driving a late 60s car, which apparently the real suspect did.Deputy Janie Sherman cuffed him near Devil's Gate, but the sheriff soon cut Beckett loose. Sherman made up for it by taking Beckett to dinner that night.The town was on edge with news of back-to-back murders, and Beckett is drawn into the hunt. When Sherman's baby sister is kidnapped, things begin to loo...

Police Chief Mike Burdick had a problem. Two out-of-town visitors were shot dead sitting in their pickups on back to back nights. The only clue was the same passage from the Bible tucked into each dead man's pocket. When two of his detectives were shot in a downtown hotel just hours later, Burdick figured he wasn't going to get much sleep for a while. He was relieved when the FBI offered to lend a hand. Riley O'Connor and Jack Beckett showed up ready to help. Before they could make headway...

Take a trip back to 1877 Lincoln, New Mexico with a retired history professor and a teenager who looks remarkably like Billy-the-Kid. The kid wonders if he's related to the legendary outlaw, and the old man wonders if his great grandfather really did once save Billy-the-Kid's life. They both get answers, but not necessarily the ones they expected.

She was the wife of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. On a rainy night in June, two men broke into their six-bedroom Georgetown home inside a gated community. One of the men took her to a bedroom down the hall while the other man murdered her husband. The next day she walked out of protective custody after giving a taped interview. Jack Becket and Riley O'Connor must find her and keep her alive. Once the killers realize Julia Stewart was a witness to the horrific mur...

A 16-year-old and his mentor, a man in his late 70s, begin to search for the heir to Henry McCarty, also known as Billy-the-Kid. What they uncover leads them to believe that the Kid's girlfriend was pregnant when he died in 1881. There was no record of Paulita Maxwell giving birth…or was there? Follow along as a historian and his protégé search for the missing chapter in Billy-the-Kid's life.