"Satisfying example of 'redneck noir.'"Jeff Pierce, "The Rap Sheet"/Kirkus Reviews"Highly recommended."James Reasoner, Rough Edges Weblog"Great job."Bruce Grossman, Bookgasm.com"I had a blast."Jedidiah Ayres, Ransom Notes: Barnes & Noble Mystery Blog"Lynskey vividly renders backwoods Tennessee, a land where life is hard, and death, sometimes hard sometimes easy, is frequent, and you do whatever is necessary to survive."Publ...

Sergeant “Skeet” Collingsworth of the Virginia State Police, Frank’s long-time friend, is discovered dead in his townhouse after an apparent suicide. Hailey Collingsworth, his younger sister, hires Frank to look into what she believes is a homicide staged as a cop suicide. He concurs with her suspicion. With no support from the state police’s top brass, he delves into Sergeant Collingsworth’s troubling demise and asks many hard questions.On a rural backroad, Frank meets the ghostly...

P.I. Frank Johnson travels to the Northern Virginia suburbs outside of Washington, D.C. He takes up investigating a furtive stalker who has been harassing a veterinarian’s office manager. As he probes into her stalker case, he identifies a few suspects and narrows them down to expose the deranged and ruthless culprit who is following his stressed client.As he always does, Frank leans on his long-time friend and business partner, Gerald Peyton; his medical examiner wife, Dreema; and...

After repulsing three violent attacks by an unidentified adversary, Frank determines that he is facing a “cabal” bent on destroying him. Despite placing his paying clients’ cases on hold while he investigates it full-time, he can’t pin down who they are. Or why they targeted him to kill. He teams up with his ally, mobster don Maggot Nose, who has his own reasons for dismantling the cabal. However, they always seem to be one step behind its elusive maneuvers.Frank realizes that if h...

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...

P.I. Frank Johnson accepts his first birth-parents search for his gorgeous, 23-year-old client, Nikki Colvin, whose adoptive parents are deceased. She has reason to believe her natural mom and dad live in Frank's hometown of Pelham, Virginia. As he delves into his twisty investigation, more questions arise. All the while, he also deals with personal problems and handles his other cases. He depends on his long-time business partner Gerald Peyton, his medical examiner wife Dreema, and his br...

For their next mystery, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, ace sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, are called in by Sheriff Roscoe Fox to investigate the puzzling murder taking place in the florist shop. The late Moses Eppes worked briefly for Corina Moccasin, the owner of the Azul Lago Florist Shop, during the year end's holidays, and now she finds him dead here in May. Isabel and Alma quickly develop three murder suspects including Moses' late wife Liz, the hardware store owner Blai...

For his next hardboiled outing, P.I. Frank Johnson accepts a pair of new cases just before the 2005 year-end holidays. The reader gets two mysteries for the price of one as he stays busy on both cases. First, he hunts for a missing husband, and second, he looks for the truth behind a city police detective’s gunshot death in a remote alley. Frank’s hopes for a timely resolution fade when both cases take him down their twisty paths, including a side trip back to his native town of Pelham, Vi...

P.I. Frank Johnson investigates a phone booth murder at a local campground. Madison Steele, an old high school sweetheart and now a sex worker, is the homicide victim. A vicious stalker is terrorizing her, and she seeks Frank’s help. Her fatal shooting occurs when she is on the phone with him. Enraged, he finds three male suspects, all having close ties to Madison. Things heat up and get nasty before he tracks down her killer.As he always does, Frank leans on his long-time friend a...

A Northern California B&B is the perfect spot for murder in this cozy mystery series debut by the USA Today bestselling author of Murder at the Mansion.If it weren’t for the fact that she’s replacing a dead man, Kelly Jackson would love her new job managing the Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast on the coast of Northern California. But Bob Phillips did plunge off the cliff to his death. And Kelly’s starting to think it may not have been an ac...

Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona’s Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty and mystery.An old woman, a hoarder, is dying of emphysema in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In cleaning out her house, her daughter, Liza Machett, discovers a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden in the tall stacks of books and...

Butch Dixon has been taken for a ride …Not a jump in the car, see the sights kind of ride. He's been taken for everything he has. He's lost his house, his restaurant business, his savings, his car, his best friend, his faith—all to his conniving ex-wife. But that was seven years ago. He picked himself up, left Chicago, and started over in Peoria, Arizona, running the Roundhouse Bar and Grill. He doesn't look back on those bad years; there's no point. Not until two curious cops show...