HOME FIRES HAS IT ALL – MURDER, ROMANCE, INTRIGUE AND A YOUNG TOUGH AS BOOT-LEATHER HERO!
Top Texas Ranger investigator, Jake Morgan, heads home to wait out an administrative leave of absence from the Rangers, but Jake’s return to his Midwest town turns perilous when he asks probing questions about the bizarre death of his best friend, Gage Burnell. Morgan’s return home fans the embers of his first love, Pam Mitchell, whose family members are the most likely suspects in the murder of Burnell.
In the Tradition of Wyatt Storme and Cole Springer, W.L. Ripley scores again with neo-gunslinger, Jake Morgan, a young razor-sharp investigator who burns with passion and his singular moral code.
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Dispatched by the leader of a Mexican cartel, hired assassins descend on the City of Roses. They are to locate and eliminate the only surviving family member of a traitor found within the cartel organization. The target’s last hope of escaping torture and death is Portland private investigator Nate Harver and his partner Donnie Shepard. The target is in FBI custody and hiding in Portland, Oregon. The danger is compounded by a leak to the cartel from within the FBI. The assassins’ initial attempt is thwarted only by Nate’s chance intervention. As Nate and the target form a bond stronger than the horrors they face, the mayhem reaches a violent crescendo. Facing the cartel and their own personal terrors, Nate and Donnie go on a ruthless offensive. The body count rises as the suspense builds from the Pacific Northwest through the Caribbean and Venezuela, with an explosive climax in the Gulf of California.
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Payback – Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge, the second book of the Passaic River Trilogy, is the WINNER of the 2020 READER VIEWS LITERARY AWARD, FIRST PLACE Mystery/Thriller.
Payback is a drama so intense that it would be improbable anywhere but 1946 Newark. Across the country millions were dealing with the loss of loved ones, and horrible memories were being buried for the greater good. But not in Newark. Two mutilated bodies were pulled from the putrid Passaic River, and the sawed-off arm of a third man was found neatly wrapped and tied at the city dump. The three victims were members of the German-American Bund, Hitler lovers who had to pay the price for supporting a murderous madman. Someone was sending a message that only revenge could clear the mind and free the soul.
It didn’t take long for Police Lieutenant Nick Cisco and his partner, Sergeant Kevin McClosky, two veteran homicide cops [first introduced to readers in “Father Divine’s Bikes” the first book of the Trilogy], to realize they were in over their heads as they grappled with ambition, greed, racial tension, international intrigue, and a powerful church on the take. The three murders could not have come at a worse time for Cisco. His wife, Connie, had left him, and his close-knit Catholic family had disowned him because of his affair with his lover, Grace.
To add to the chaos, Cisco learned that he could have another homicide on his plate. Father Terry Nolan cornered Cisco at the city morgue and demanded his help. The senior counsel for M.L. Kraus, manufacturer of the poisonous gas Zyklon B, and his German wife were severely beating a Catholic orphan they were seeking to adopt. The Archdiocese had weighed Kraus’ huge cash contributions against a helpless girl’s plight and did nothing.
Kraus, facing a host of war crime indictments in Germany, was fighting for its massive pre-war chemical holdings in New Jersey. A federal court in Newark would soon decide Kraus’ fate. The outcome of the case would have a bearing not only on the company’s future, but Europe’s as well. Watching it all from the banks of the Passaic River was the dark specter of a murderous madman seeking further revenge.
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Like Janet Evanovich? Sue Grafton? You’ll love this humorous mystery series!
“Janet Evanovich meets aero-ag pilots.” The Kindle Book Review
A DEAD RED CADILLAC: Deeply buried and deadly secrets resurface with a drowned Cadillac
A DEAD RED HEART:What if your beating heart is the reason someone wants you dead?
A DEAD RED OLEANDER: What if quitting your boring job puts you in line for murder?
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Alone on a pier in the predawn rain, Martha Whitaker waits in vain for her mentor and long-trusted friend, Hewitt Wilcox. Fear had laced his last message. Hours later, when his empty van is hoisted from the frigid waters of Puget Sound, Martha sets off to find the truth of what happened to him–and to clear her own name. Resourceful, strong, and steeled by inner wounds, she’s joined by a crusading journalist, who believes Hewitt’s disappearance may reveal ugly secrets about a chapter of American history that some would prefer be forgotten. Together they’re drawn into a sinister world of forgery, murder, and betrayal. Martha is forced to confront her own dark past, where violence provided primal justice. In a fight for her life, she finds she’s in a fight for her soul.
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