In this intelligent and darkly funny mystery set in 1958 San Francisco, a private eye endures surrealistic dreams of a friend’s suicide and discovers he disappeared weeks before the dreams began. His investigation sends him spiraling down an unrelenting road to face the shocking reality of his friend’s fate and the final desperation of his own. Free on Kindle.

Deck the halls and the shots rang out.

The attempt to get Stacie in the holiday spirit falls flat when someone shoots Santa’s elf. As Stacie and friends help the elf and deal with the potential witnesses, a man in an old wool coat stands out. Ignoring police demands, he disappears into the crowd. When the elf recovers and Santa is killed, the initial motives go up in smoke, only the suspicious man from the mall keeps showing up. With upheaval in her relationship and a killer on the loose, Stacie embraces her ‘bah humbug’ perspective to the holidays.

A cozy holiday mystery with Stacie and her friends to get you in the holiday spirit. $0.99 on Kindle.

Inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s account of a Soviet labor camp revolt in Gulag Archipelago, FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS portrays political prisoners and security officials at a corrective labor camp in Kamas, Utah, where inmates seize control in 2024. FORTY DAYS AT KAMAS offers a stirring portrait of a man determined to survive under the bleakest of conditions and against formidable odds while raising fundamental questions about the future of American society. Free on Kindle.

Of poor eyesight and confined to a wheelchair after a road accident, a successful author is alone in her house. She begins to hear strange noises, but is relieved when a care assistant arrives. However, her problems are only just beginning as she is left to the mercy of someone with a grudge to bear. The question for Belle is who, and why? Free on Kindle.

When the charming Tammy Worthington takes her wealthy husband and step-daughter on a holiday weekend in the Colorado mountains, she has purely sinister intentions. Her husband is killed in a tragic auto accident, just as she had planned…and now her pending fortune awaits her.

Or does it? With no body to be found in the wreckage, he just becomes a missing person, and Tammy is seemingly trapped inside the cabin with someone stalking her from outside. Could he possibly have known what she was up to and planned his revenge?

What ensues is a deadly game of cat and mouse. A sick and psychotic woman driven by her soulless greed quickly turns from the hunter to the prey. The scenes include deadly traps and medieval torture devices, hidden doors and rooms, and an underground labyrinth of torture chambers that are not for the feint of heart.

This is a psychological thriller so devious that it is set up to fool the State police investigation. But this is much more than just a clever murder mystery. This deadly game of deception will keep you guessing until the final scene delivers a real shock that you won’t soon forget. Free on Kindle.

Shakti Morgan, an inner-city arson investigator from Detroit, is a fish out of water in Portland, Oregon’s granola-and-compost culture. When a beloved new age book store burns to the ground and kills its owner, the local fire marshal gambles on her reputation and teams her up with an athletic police detective who is immediately attracted to the 6’4” adrenaline junkie from Motown. Together, they sift through ashes and motives to find the surprising killer, exploring a tapestry of characters as diverse as Portland itself. $0.99 on Kindle.

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” –Dick the Butcher, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2. Ron Rellick agrees. Simple and sweet. We all know how lots of people hate lawyers, especially if they have ever been sued. Dr. Ron Rellick loses everything, including his sanity, to a malpractice claim and goes homicidal. Free on Kindle.

A young delusional serial killer decides to rid the world of a certain type of woman. Free on Kindle.

ROOT AND BRANCH is a realistic thriller set in a near-future America where an Islamist-inspired intifada triggers emergency security measures that go terribly wrong.

Roger Zorn, owner of a French private security company, is delighted at having won a lucrative contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of the government’s new program of emergency security measures. The measures are launched when the U.S. military response to sneak attacks by Iran and Pakistan on America’s electrical grid provokes a wave of Jihadist-inspired violence across the U.S.A.

Zorn’s work for DHS requires him to apply his company’s Triage risk assessment technology to evaluate terrorist suspects captured in the U.S. and sort out the jihadists from nonviolent Muslim residents. But when Zorn’s inquiries lead him to discover that DHS and its lead contractor have been manipulating Triage scores to deport massive numbers of Muslims and is ‘disappearing’ the most violent ones, Zorn faces a choice.

Will he say nothing and sell his company to DHS’s prime contractor before scandal breaks, or will Zorn step up to expose the abuses and risk bringing the full wrath of America’s national security establishment down on his head? $1.99 on Kindle.

A murder investigation uncovers sordid secrets and haunting mistakes

The Darkwater Inn stands tall and proud in the French Quarter, the hub of New Orleans. Bourbon Street is bustling, and general manager Adelaide Fountaine has her hands full with a hotel at capacity. But she is shocked when a body is found: a hotel guest stabbed with a kitchen knife.

Detective Beau Savoie, Adelaide’s childhood friend, is on the case. As Beau digs into the victim’s past, he unearths a shocking connection between Adelaide and the murdered guest. Beau is hurt that his friend–the woman he’s quietly loved for years–kept the truth from him. To make matters worse, the stress of the investigation has sent Adelaide right into the comforting arms of her coworker Dimitri. But Beau can’t press Adelaide too hard…because he’s keeping secrets of his own.

Can Adelaide and Beau afford to hide from the truth with a killer on the loose? $0.99 on Kindle.

Chicago runs in Jules Landau’s veins. So does the blood of crooks. Now Jules is going legit as a private eye, stalking bail jumpers and cheating spouses—until he gets his first big case. Unfortunately, the client is his ex-con father, and the job is finding the killer of a man whom Jules loved like family. Free on Kindle.