Like A Kid Again

In this debut almost-cozy mystery series novel, Charlie Parker, accountant and partner in an Albuquerque private investigation firm, is visited by her old school friend, Stacy North. Stacy’s Rolex watch is missing and she begs Charlie to help locate it before her husband finds out. Things are complicated by the fact that Stacy had been seeing another man, Gary Detweiller, and he’s the one she suspects of having stolen the watch. With a little detective work, Charlie and her sidekick dog, Rusty, retrieve the missing watch and all should be well. But three days later, Detweiller is murdered. All eyes turn to Stacy as the prime suspect.

Once again, Stacy begs Charlie’s help in proving her innocence. As she begins to ask questions, Charlie learns that Detweiller’s life was not as simple as first perceived and that any number of people had grievances against him. And before she can pinpoint the killer, her own life is in danger as well.

Mel’s an R.N., and Steve’s an ex-Navy medic and physical therapist. Although they’re instantly attracted, they’ve both suffered incredible loss with the death of their significant other. When they realize that they might be the only hope for a young disabled boy to have the future he deserves, can they finally stop their sparring long enough to come up with a solution, while admitting that the attraction they’re fighting just might be love?

Gunslinger shoots unarmed father in restaurant. Farmer’s family relentlessly pursues killer. Who’ll die next?

Zeke never thought he’d get Pa killed. Realizing he caused Pa’s death tears up the eighteen year-old farmer till he’s all sick inside. But when Grandpa McNichol, a U.S. Marshal in Topeka, comes to town for the funeral, he announces that Zeke and Uncle Billy will join him in catching the gunman.

Fearing he won’t measure up to a man he hasn’t seen since he was six, Zeke still chooses to join the pursuit with Grandpa and Uncle Billy. But with a bum left leg and having never shot a six-gun, Zeke knows he’ll be nearly helpless on such a hazardous venture.

Can Zeke survive the trip and help to catch the killer, or will he fail, or even die along the way?

Western Pursuit is the engrossing first book in the Zeke Halstead, U.S. Marshal Series. If you like coming of age stories where inexperience has its penalties, perseverance is essential, capture by Indians is definitely possible, and courage is paramount, then John Alexander’s sweeping 1871 Great Plains adventure is for you.

Viv just wants work — any work. Well, not quite any work. But she’s desperate enough to accept a job offer as personal assistant to Jasper Renner — the rich and mysterious owner of the Renner Tea House — even though odd things happen whenever he’s around.

She expects to deal with rich, entitled Melbournians and a full business schedule. Instead, Viv finds herself following Jasper into a strange new world where a murderous madman has been incarcerated in a secret floor at the old Kew Asylum that may or may not exist in the human world as she knows it.

Reality is just as worryingly soft at the old tea house itself, which hides a few too many not-quite-human secrets. In one of the downstairs rooms, there’s a little girl who has been a little girl for a suspiciously long time; in the uppermost floor, there are a few windows that show a view that doesn’t exist in Melbourne. And then there are the giant cephalopod tentacles that appear from nowhere and disappear again, seemingly at will…

Now Viv isn’t sure if she’s going mad, or if the world itself has gone mad and the lunatic in Kew Asylum is the only sane person she knows.

Victor Thomas Janko, the infamous “Baby Carriage Killer” has escaped from Vanderkill Prison Hospital, where Dr. David Rothberg works as a psychiatrist. Guilt-ridden David didn’t see the escape coming, and his shame and horror only compound when Victor launches a fresh killing spree.

As both killer and hunter spiral into the twisted darkness of Janko’s psychosis, David’s determined pursuit can only lead to a climax of shocking violence.

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