Books

This is a collection of must-read novellas. All inspired by actual events and fictionalized. Included are the Darkening Skies, the mystery surrounding the Hindenburg disaster. Stolen Sisters is the story of a native woman in Alaska who goes missing. Her older brother, an Anchorage police officer, comes to the rescue. In Killing in the Name I detail the plight of the Walker family gunned down in Hickman, Missouri. In Manzanar, an inexperienced LAPD detective is hunting for a missing doctor in a Japanese internment camp. Lastly, in the Twentieth Man, a disgraced FBI agent is drawn back into the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil.

Benjamin Ross becomes the chief suspect in a hit-and-run murder. While acting as a nursemaid for his friend Detective Rizzo, he races to clear his name and find the real killer. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Mona Roane, leaves her position with the NYPD to take on a new role as an Assistant Police Chief in a small town. She discovers that bad guys in small towns are just as evil as those in big cities.

“How did it feel to put a bullet in my brain?”
Detective Rizzo couldn’t believe his eyes. It was a note from a dead man. It had the same color of ink and the same handwriting as the others. His mind took him back a few months and replayed the sound of his bullet exploding into the back of the killer’s head.

It was someone’s idea of an elaborate prank. That was his conclusion until he found the body.

Detective Rizzo teams up with Benjamin Ross to solve the mystery. Don’t miss the suspense, the humor, and the intrigue in the second book of the Benjamin Ross trilogy.

When Biloxi’s fourth otherwise healthy resident dies of sudden cardiac failure,  Harry Bahls from the Herald

questions whether a Grim Reaper might be vacationing on the Gulf Coast. He concludes the deaths are a wake-up

call about moral decay from drugs, drinking, and gambling.

Gabriel Ross could accept a couple of deaths – a third might be a coincidence…but four?

It was a day hotter than the hinges of hell. A squadron of pelicans looked down in judgment

and started squawking as I approached the blue Caprice in the deserted parking lot.

I hadn’t planned on being a detective. They don’t teach you anything about guns,

dead bodies, or cheating spouses in accounting class. As I noticed the bullet-riddled trunk,

I figured I had better get up to speed fast.

Joe Hamilton returns with a blistering thriller
featuring private detective Gabriel Ross. In his
#1 book, Right Place, Wrong Time Hamilton
introduced readers to the Eye on You Detective
Agency. Fast forwarding through nine more
novels, we learn about the detective’s most
baffling case yet.

Set in the Deep South in 1986, Dust in the Wind
opens with Gabriel Ross meeting with a young
man claiming his girlfriend of three weeks had
disappeared. As proof, he hands Gabriel a Dear
John letter.

“It had all the components – the difficulty of the
decision – ‘the it’s not you, it’s me’ shit and the
business about how he would make some other
girl happy one day. I was not in the business of
helping stalkers find their ex-girlfriends.”

Reluctantly Gabriel decides to spend a couple
of days to help the kid. As Gabriel digs deeper
into the case, he learns that all is not as it
seems.

When someone is murdered, the cops investigate the spouse first.

That should tell you everything you need to know about marriage.

He’d been missing for six weeks when Glenna Sparrow flew into my office

I couldn’t really say no – finding missing people is what I do.

Have you ever mistaken another suitcase for yours on the luggage carousel?

What if you did, and saw something you weren’t supposed to see?

This is the backdrop of an exciting new thriller featuring Rachel Henderson,

a fledgling detective and office manager for the Eye on You Detective Agency

. As Rachel searches for the rightful owner, she is drawn into a murder mystery

and a plot to start a race war.

It has been 15 months since Charles Bouvier, AKA the Mardi Gras killer, was believed to have
drowned in the Gulf of Mexico. He was suspected of having been responsible for the
disappearance of a number of teenage girls. Now the only surviving victim, Jessica Grant is
receiving postcards saying he will be seeing her soon.

When she comes out of hiding to warn police, her cries for help are dismissed by a Sheriff who
sees her as an attention seeker. Desperate, she turns to the man who almost captured the killer the
first time.

The problem is that Gabriel Ross, disappeared while on a case in New Orleans. The Irish Bayou
in Louisiana is the setting for a race against time to find Gabriel and stop the killer.

“Kill you?” repeated Gabriel, looking quizzically at Friesen.

“I believe the going rate for rubbing someone out is $5 grand. I’m prepared to write you a check for twice that amount,” Friesen said, taking a sip of his coffee.

“You’re serious? You expect me to murder you?”

Friesen nodded.

“This is nuts,” Gabriel got up from his chair. “I think you should leave.”

“Don’t you want to hear why? I think you might change your mind.” Gabriel made a show of looking at his Casio before shaking his head and sitting down. He reluctantly nodded for Friesen to continue. So begins a roller coaster ride involving crazed killers, civic corruption and the Russian Mafia.

“Ty Cobb, Pocahontas, Black Panthers, and Jews with poker chips.
I couldn’t make this shit up if I tried.” Willis leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

“Are you sure about all of this, O’Shea?”

A race war looms on the horizon. The clock is ticking as Detective Gabriel Ross

and his team works frantically to stop a killer, who is always three steps ahead of them.

Gabriel Ross and his team are faced with their toughest case yet. While helping his partner Ben O’Shea, solve the murder of a black man, Gabriel delves into a political morass of corruption and blackmail surrounding a Congressman from the great State of Mississippi.

“So let me get this straight… you want me to find a man who disappeared fourteen years ago during a hurricane? A case Biloxi’s finest gave up on over a decade ago.”

This is the backdrop for Gabriel Ross’ most difficult case yet. He sets out to solve the unsolvable, while a murderer is out for revenge!