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The Big Woods traces the history of the Boyd Family beginning in the 1850’s, through The Civil War and ending in 1871. It is a fast-paced, action and adventure western, laced wit history, humor, family and love.

Retired Naval officer Gus Sevens spent a decade researching the lost gold of Victorio Peak before setting out to find it, along with his much younger wife and newly acquired assistant. In the canyons of New Mexico, after weeks of searching, they find the ninety bars of gold that had been missing since 1937. Their cause for celebration quickly turns sour when, upon arriving home in Miami Beach, Gus’ wife is kidnapped and the ransom is the gold. In an attempt to save his wife, Gus is thrown into a plot of deception and betrayal that ultimately ends in murder.

A New Mexico County sheriff, John Beckett and his wife Shelly celebrate their wedding anniversary by taking a cruise aboard a luxury cruise liner and get far more than they bargained for when the ship is hijacked by international terrorists’ hell bent on nuking American cities. With the ship adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, the terrorists contact the President with their demands. All prisoners in GITMO are to be released or the passengers die. In true Die Hard, roller-coaster fashion, the sheriff sets out to stop the terrorists from launching nuclear weapons even if it means sinking the ...

In 1884, the founder and matriarch of the Illinois Detective Agency is now elderly and active in the way that “Charlie” of “Charlie’s Angels” was. Founded in 1848 as a Stock Detective Agency, the founder is still the backbone of the business he built from the ground up. In the case of the Missing Cattle, the Stock Growers Association of Montana appeals to Porter for help with a major cattle theft problem inside the Montana Territory. Hundreds, maybe even thousands of cattle are being stolen off the open ranges and the local sheriffs and Army outposts are helpless to stop it. ...

John Bekker returns in an all new crime/mystery/thriller titled The Fellowship of the Bobs. All of his old favorites are along for the ride. His daughter Regan, girlfriend Sheriff Jame Morgan. His ex-partner Police Captain Walt Grimes and his best buddy, Oz, and, of course Wally Sample. Contacted by his old friend and former lawyer to the mob, Frank Kagan, Bekker takes on a new assignment, that of investigator for Kagan and another old friend and former prosecutor, Carly Simms. Simm’s partner, Campbell Crist, daughter of deceased mobster Eddie Crist and owner of the local, minor league ...

When hundreds of empty, unmarked whiskey bottles are found on the reservation known as The Indian Nation in Arkansas and Oklahoma, the reservation police are very concerned. Drinking whiskey is against the Native American’s spiritual beliefs and only those who have lost all hope would indulge in. Concerned with how the whiskey is making its way onto reservation land, Judge Parker, who oversees the Indian Nation, assigns U.S. Marshals Emmet and Jack Youngblood to the task. Emmet, who is also the head of the reservation police force, utilizes all his manpower to find out how whiskey makes ...

When Judge Parker of Fort Smith, Arkansas sends two U.S. Marshals on a routine prisoner pickup and they never make it to their destination, he sends Marshals Emmet and Jack Youngblood to find them. Emmet and Jack, considered two of the best marshals in the west, come upon the dead bodies of the marshals, but their prisoner wagon is not to be found. They follow the tracks left behind by the heavy wagon to Springfield, Missouri. In Springfield, the brothers learn that notorious outlaw Joe Foster, wounded in a bank robbery attempt, was broken out of jail by his gang who disguised themselves as...

After the death of David Kleinfeld, Claire Evergreen’s intended, Claire resigns her position as sheriff of Smoky Point and moves over to the state police as the chief homicide investigator for Long island, New York. One year later, while not over his death, Claire has managed to look past it and resume her life. She remains close to Abby Kleinfeld, David’s father and former mob boss and also with her closest friend, Rose, now sheriff of Smoky Point. On an October morning, Claire catches a bad one. A young woman is found floating at a boat launch by a group of boaters. The young woman ...

Echoes of Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island: Publisher's Weekly. Readers will receive two shocks; the spin from mystery-suspense to sci fi, and then the identity of the killer. : The Mystery Gazette Isolated during a severe winter storm in 1959, the small community of Dunston Falls in northern Maine is completely cut off from the rest of the state. When town residents begin to experience strange occurrences such as unexplained migraines and hallucinations, the stage is set for a brutal killer to begin his handiwork. When Sheriff David Peck investigates the murders of two women, he slowly ...

A dying mob boss skips over his son and leaves his fortune to his daughter, a Catholic Nun assigned to Central Africa. After his death, the nun, Jenna Costello, flies to New York City to hear the terms of her father’s will. To her shock and the church’s dismay, Jenna’s father has cut his son Vincent out of the will and left his entire estate to Jenna, who plans to use the fortune to build a church and hospital in Africa. Outraged at being cutoff, Vincent has his mob lawyers hire a retired CIA mole to plan the accidental death of Jenna so he can claim his father’s fortune. The mole ...

Sinner or Saint? That’s the question on everyone’s mind that comes in contact with the mysterious stranger and lives to talk about it. The stranger is a killing machine who appears to pick his victims at random, but really uses a very select process to make his choice. And he can’t be stopped. Not by the police, the FBI or the special task force chasing him across the countryside. And the more he kills, the stronger he grows. Moving at breakneck speed, Messenger races to its shocking conclusion and the final twist will leave the reader breathless. This is Horror/Suspense at its finest.

Jarron Rourke returns in the fifth installment of The Apostle. He is settled into a daily life with girlfriend Jane Diaz, his niece Pepper and her pregnant friend Jill, when an assignment comes down from his boss, Bennington, The Attorney General for New York that has devastating consequences for all involved. A dying, Irish mobster that disappeared in Ireland, contacted Bennington and requested that Rourke meets with him before he dies. Rourke flies to Ireland where the dying mobster gives him a tell-all journal naming all the Irish and Italian mobsters in New York and outlines their long ...

Good, bad or indifferent, the job makes no difference to LT if the price is right. A jack-of-all-trades in the city’s underworld, LT is a true outlaw when it comes to solving your problems, generally at the point of a gun. In Noir, LT is hired by a doctor and his barren wife to help deliver the ransom money for a kidnapped, surrogate baby. According to the doctor, the young woman he hired to carry his surrogate baby demanded more money once the baby was born. It seemed simple enough a task, deliver the ransom and pick up the baby. Simple enough until a mysterious group of people murder ...

Just Another Day In The Life It’s an all out mob war in The Bronx. When seven million dollars disappears from a Las Vegas casino, the number one suspect is a mid-level Vegas mobster named Anthony. The problem is Anthony has vanished without a trace along with the money. Casino owner, a powerful mob boss named Viny Boots calls upon the highly regarded skills of organization hit man Michael DeSousa to track down Anthony and bring the stolen cash home. This takes Michael back to the Bronx in New York City where he and Anthony grew up in the legendary section known as Little Italy. Once in ...

Retired FBI Agent Duncan Wyatt and his exotic-dancer girlfriend Lo-Lo Del Ray, the heroes from Key West Takedown, return in an all new mystery/thriller Key West Winter Blues. Recruited out of retirement once again by his former boss Deputy Director Morgan, Wyatt agrees to casually keep an eye on the Hell’s Invader’s motorcycle club, a vicious band of drug dealers and murderers from California that apparently relocated to the Florida Keys. Led by club president Ben ‘Bunny’ Kendrick, the Hell's Invader’s seem benign enough, at first. Once Wyatt makes contact, the fun and the danger ...

Walking Homeless John Tibbets is not just another homeless man living in New York’s Bowery. He also suffers from advanced amnesia and has no idea how he arrived at the most famous mission in America. A recluse, he lives a quiet life of desperate isolation. While wandering the Bowery streets one summer night, Tibbets comes upon three men mugging a police officer. Acting on unknown instincts, Tibbets intervenes. Displaying the fighting skills of a Navy Seal, Tibbets saves the life of the police officer, suffering a bullet wound in the process. While recovering at the hospital, Tibbets ...

Travis and Helen Dunn are two of the best private detectives in the business. When not wisecracking, arguing or trying to conceive a child, they are highly efficient and extremely deadly. Often aided by Helen’s Korean mother who is a police captain and her Cuban father who is a district attorney and sometimes by her slightly insane mobster brother, the crew makes a formidable foe and desirable friend. When the biggest movie star in Hollywood, Chad West’s three-year-old adopted daughter is kidnapped on an outing in Central Park, his lawyer hired Travis and Helen to deliver the ransom and...

Duncan Wyatt and Lo-Lo Del Ray are back for another fun-filled, roller coaster ride as they try to locate and stop a serial killer that is terrorizing the Eastern Seaboard. Called out of retirement once again by his former boss at the FBI, Wyatt is asked to take charge of the manhunt for a killer that is murdering high-class escorts from Maine to Florida. It’s a race against time to locate and stop him before he kills again, but at any moment the tables could turn and hunter becomes the hunted and the chase becomes deadly. Key West Gatekeeper is Wyatt and Lo-Lo at their best and the ride ...

Chino When Navy Seal and Scuba diver John Drew is wrongfully accused of murder and sent to Pelican Bay Prison, his life couldn’t get any worse. It does. Known for having the only prisoner SCUBA diving program in the world, Drew refuses to participate in the program until the heavy rains come and threaten to flood the entire valley, putting his wife and baby in mortal danger. A dive team of prisoners is assembled to make repairs to the Caustic Dam before it breeches and floods the valley. Drew volunteers to lead the team. The team has other ideas and, lead by Drew’s arch-rival Nick ...

Jarron Rourke, The Apostle, returns in another mystery/thriller titled Lockbox. One time a member of the Irish Mafia, Rourke was pardoned from prison and recruited by Federal Prosecutor Benning to become his investigator, Paired with Detective Jane Diaz, Rourke is tasked with finding the murderer of members of the Kruger family. Arthur Kruger, billionaire real estate developer, passed away at the age of 103 in a nursing home. At the reading of his will, in addition to the many millions he left family members, he bequeath his most prized possession to his five children, a locked box. A ...