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Police Detective John Bekker had it all: a beautiful wife, a five-year old daughter, and a job he loved. Assigned to a special task force investigating organized crime, Bekker got a little too close to mob boss Eddie Crist. As a message to back off, Bekker's home was invaded and his daughter witnessed the brutal murder of her mother. A decade later, Bekker is a drunk, living in a run-down trailer on the beach.

Book three, The Case of Duffy’s Revenge, picks up where book two leaves off, with the murder of James Duffy’s future wife in the town of Miles City, Montana. The Agency is naturally outraged and Agency Director Charles Porter sends James Duffy, Jack Cavill, and Joseph Goodluck to Miles City to investigate. Porter and his personal assistant, Miss Potts, also make the trip. In Miles City they meet with Sheriff Bates, who provides details of what happened. During the Miles City founding day celebration, Duffy’s future wife, Sylvia Trent, attended the dance with a family friend. Sometime ...

On the night of the full moon in Wyoming Territory, somebody dies a horrible and ghastly death by being scalped. For months, the territory is held by the grip of fear and Governor Hale turns to Charles Porter, founder of the Illinois Detective Agency, for help. Porter's two top agents, James Duffy and Jack Cavill, are on holiday with their lady friends, so Porter assigns Joe Charles and Tom Adcock and scout/tracker Joseph Goodluck, a Mexican Comanche, to the assignment. Charles, Adcock, and Goodluck report to Governor Hale in Wyoming Territory. The most recent full-moon killing took place ...

Before he can retire to work his Montana ranch full-time, he has one more important task to perform. A junior marshal who Tillman appointed in Laramie, Wyoming, a few years earlier has taken a wrong path and Tillman must remove him from office. Tillman leaves his two grown sons and his sister, Alice, on the ranch and sets out for Wyoming by railroad. Along the way, Tillman makes a few detours and stops to visit old friends and colleagues. As he travels south to Laramie, Tillman relives his life in flashbacks. From the Big Woods of Wisconsin, where he was born and met his wife, Tillman's ...

After the Invasion at Normandy Beach in June of 1944, Allied intelligence reports indicated a desperate push by the German Army to turn the tide of the war. Reports of a new chemical weapon developed by German scientists could be unleashed if not stopped. Special Forces 1st Sergeant John Ray and his squad of twelve are selected to perform a reconnaissance mission across the French countryside to seek out locations where the German Army may be hiding their new chemical weapon. As Ray and his squad advance closer to the German front they encounter an explosion in the distance and suddenly a ...

The exploits of an inept and hard luck band of New York City criminals. Led by master thief Lee Gavin and his trusty sidekick Ian Nelson, the group sets out to steal the set of nine 1894S dimes, the most valuable dimes in the world worth fifteen million dollars. With Murphy’s Law in full effect, one catastrophe after another befalls the group as the dimes always seem just inches from their grasp, providing close encounters and side splitting laughs along the way.

Tales of the West: A Western Anthology is a collection of six western short storied filled with action and adventure, including Little Dodge, The Bounty Hunter, The Driver, The Stable Boy, The Orphan and The Road to Laramie.

The zombie apocalypse comes to the old west when in 1879, a US Marshal travels from Wyoming to Montana to search for a missing federal agent. The Marshal and his posse get far more than they bargained for when instead of finding the missing agent they find they countryside filled with mysterious blood thirsty ghoul’s hell bent on feasting on live human flesh. There is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide and it’s all out war between the living and the dead.

It’s 1887 and The Illinois Detective Agency now has a new branch in San Francisco to support the existing office in Springfield, Illinois. A gruesome string of murders gives the Justice Department cause to contact The Illinois Detective Agency. Five men, seemingly unrelated have been found murdered with a Bowie Knife in their chest and the Justice Department doesn’t know what to make of it. Two additional men in Canada were found murdered in the same fashion. The entire agency, plus a disheveled, funny, little detective from Scotland Yard named Alfie Birdwhistle goes to work on the case...

When Bekker's old friend and state prosecutor Carly Simms wakes up next to a murdered young man in a motel room after a night of drinking, she doesn't remember a thing, especially stabbing the young man in the heart. Although all the evidence points to her guilt, Simms hires Bekker to prove her innocence. Bekker soon finds himself ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

When counterfeit money is reported in large amounts from thirteen towns and cities across the country and the U.S. Secret Service is at a loss as to its origin, President Cleveland turns to The Illinois Detective Agency for help. Old friends with Charles Porter, founded of the Illinois Detective Agency, Cleveland brings James Duffy and Jack Cavill, principal owners of the agency to Washington DC, where they accept the assignment. Duffy, Cavill and the rest of the agency members, Miss Potts, Quill, Harvey, Joseph Goodluck and Lester Holt start the investigation by visiting the thirteen ...

Imagine waking up in a hospital on a small tourist island off the coast of Southern Maine. You have no knowledge of the boating accident that claimed two lives and almost your own. In fact you remember nothing at all. You have full-blown amnesia.

Claire Evergreen, Sheriff of small, Long Island beach community Smokey Point, returns in an all new mystery/thriller. After the summer ends and Smoky Point enters the fall season, hunters discover a dead body in the Smoky Point woods reserve when coyotes dig up an arm. Claire has the site excavated and is shocked to discover the naked body of a very old man. Claire brings in the FBI and State police to help identify the old man. Who turns out to be the older brother of Jewish Mafia leader, Abby Kleinfeld, a resident of Long Island. Kleinfeld identifies the body as being his older brother, ...

After the murder of Illinois Detective Agency founder Charles Porter by a mysterious criminal named King Valdez, the team comes together with just one thought on its mind, find Valdez and bring him to justice. King Valdez is kidnapping children and selling them into slavery around the world. His operation is large and well organized and well financed. James Duffy assumes control of the agency and works closely with the Justice Department to find Valdez. Agents Jack Cavill, Joseph Goodluck, Quill, Harvey, Holt and newcomer Mr. Sato round out the team. A countrywide investigation uncovers ...

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.

Beyond The Big Woods continues the saga of the Boyd family from the years 1874 through 1877. As the country grows, so does the Boyd family as they face new challenges with each passing year.

Former US Marine, sometimes private investigator, oftentimes hit man for hire, Kellerman is as hard core as they come. Peppered into his life, Kellerman’s closest friend from the Corps and sometimes backup man is gay, his business associate is a Cuban mobster in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen and his girlfriend is a cop. When the three college boys who raped and left a young girl for dead are found innocent on a technicality, the girl’s father comes to Kellerman for justice. He gets it, Kellerman style. From first page to last, Kellerman’s seedy world in Hell’s Kitchen will leave you...

Two Hawks, a once proud Comanche warrior defeated in battle is now living a quiet life of desperation on the reservation at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Beneath his calm, collected demeanor beats the heart of a warrior and he dreams and longs for the days when he was young and free to roam and live in his native land. When his wife Yellow Sky becomes ill and dies of cancer, Two Hawks takes it upon himself to leave the reservation and go out on his own. Filled with hate and anger for the white man and especially the settles that pushed him off his land, he rides to the Llano in northern Texas, 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. ...

Cillian Goodknight is a man blessed with many talents. A Yale and Harvard graduate with a degree in law, he has intellect and education. One of five children to inherit the Goodknight Oil Company, he is blessed with wealth. He has charm and a flair for words and wit. He seemingly has it all, except for one major flaw. What Goodknight doesn’t have is height. He stands just four-foot-four-inches tall, well below the minimum height for military service when World War Two broke out. However, his education qualified him for Army Intelligence and he spent the war years in Europe, gathering ...