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...

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 travels to Hogshead Beach, Virginia, a sleazy beach hamlet on the Potomac River. He looks into the murder of his old flame, Vera Freeman, who worked at the plastic bag factory. Her ex, Sal Duckworth, who is Frank’s client, lives on a dilapidated houseboat. Frank quickly discovers a racist cult, which dislikes persistent and nosy PIs, has been active in the local area. Things get complicated and messy in a hurry, as they often do in Frank’s world.Frank relies on h...

P.I. Frank Johnson accepts another infidelity case, this time Bunny Weld suspects her loutish husband, Joe Vic Sackett, is having an affair with his younger office manager, Charlie Stottlemyre. Of course, nothing is as it appears on the surface in Frank’s world. Simple things become complicated, messy affairs where murder and violence come into play, as he probes deeper into Bunny’s case. Frank depends on his long-time business partner Gerald Peyton, his medical examiner wife Dreema, and h...

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...

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 struggles to keep his detective agency afloat when clients stop paying for his investigative services. While he waits for the lean economy (i.e., “famine”) to revive, he works temporary gigs such as process serving, background checks, and security assignments. Getting paid for his part-time labor also proves a challenge. He seeks new ways to market and advertise his PI agency while dealing with an armed robbery attempt made at his office.Frank has the time to thi...

P.I. Frank Johnson takes up investigating the mysterious gunshots hitting the windows in Madison Lopat’s apartment. The second big case he accepts is running surveillance on Joan Proudfoot’s husband, Royce, whom she suspects is having an affair with her younger sister, Mitzi.As he always does, Frank leans on his long-time friend and business partner, Gerald Peyton; his medical examiner wife, Dreema; and his brilliant but outspoken attorney, Robert Gatlin. While juggling these and h...

P.I. Frank Johnson investigates an old hit-and-run accident one year later in his next hardboiled outing. Vivian St. John believes her sister Gwen's death while jogging on a remote stretch of Botha Road was premeditated. Vivian hires Frank to investigate Gwen's cold case homicide, his first such case. The scarcity of clues and leads quickly reveals the difficult task he faces.Frank relies on his long-time friend and business partner, Gerald Peyton; his medical examiner wife, Dreema...

After surviving a bad experience in his hometown, P.I. Frank Johnson moves away to Scarab, West Virginia, drawn by the promise of its leisurely days and the lure of its tranquil leafy mountains. Instead, while relaxing, what he finds is a Stinger rocket exploding over his cabin. The bestselling The Blue Cheer, originally published by the notable crime fiction imprint Point Blank/Wildside, has garnered praise from the San Diego Tribune-Union (“an unpredictable story filled with complex char...

P.I. Frank Johnson is paid to make a video proving that an ex-boyfriend is stalking his client in violation of a protective order. Frank is also battling a midlife crisis as he hears the “clock” tick away. On a traumatic journey to México, he raced against the clock to obtain laetrile therapy for his friend with stage four liver cancer. By the end of the week, Frank has accepted that he cannot stop time and is a more seasoned, if not smarter, private investigator.As he always does,...