Boone takes a call from a client seeking help locating a missing person. And not just any missing person. Frank Boland wants Boone to find his father, who abandoned his family on Frank's fifth birthday...

Wracked with guilt over his failure to prevent the murder of his friend's widow, Mazie Tucker, and convinced it was dangerous for anyone to become close to him, Boone leaves Albany and everyone he knows...

In 'Calling Hours,' attorney Clive Townsend, Boone's friend and source of business for the office, refers what looks like a garden variety case of insurance fraud. Burglars had raided a local warehouse,...

"The Persian Paradox" is the sequel to "Old Salts, New Navy." Don DeFreese is now the Commanding Officer of the fictional USS Mulligan, one of the Navy's newest destroyers. The ship, having miraculously...

Private investigator Carl Boone finds himself pulled into the sexual undercurrent flowing through American culture in two unrelated cases. His office is on solid footing, with Marianne Bell now working...

'Dead Close' finds Boone and Marianne Bell, who is four months along in her pregnancy, settled in their new office space outside downtown Albany. Representing the owner of a vintage clothing shop accused...

"Unaccountable" wraps up the Abby Series, and presents retired New York Police Detective Carl Boone in his own right, while introducing Marianne Bell. Together, Boone and Bell form the basis for the Boone-Bell...

"Uphill' is the final book in the Don Walker series. This story looks in on the lives of the principal characters some thirty years after the second book (Grab an Egg and Shave It). Don struggles with...

As "Disguises" opens, Boone is staying at Deborah's home while recuperating from his recent shooting. Given the extent and severity of his injuries, recovery is a slow and frustrating process for him....

It was nearly midnight on a Saturday night in early June. Boone received a call from Mazie Tucker, the wife of New York State Police Detective George Tucker, a close personal friend of Boone's.Mazie had...

A young naval officer comes to grips with his feelings about racism, and struggles to resolve the conflict between the needs of his family, and his career. Based upon real events, it is clear that race...

'Strained Mercy' opens with a more introspective Boone as he adjusts to married life with Deborah, while carrying the office by himself. Marianne works from home to care for infant Caden, recently out...

Don Walker is a human resources manager for a mid-sized IT firm in Louisville, Kentucky. He is disenchanted with his profession and his employer. Divorced, he struggles with his fractious teen-aged daughter,...

"Grab and Egg and Shave It" is the sequel to "For the Love a Pete." Don Walker, having relocated from downtown Louisville, settles into rural Oldham County, and a new position in human resources recruiting...

In 'Guardian Angel,' the sequel to 'BOONE', Boone reluctantly allows Marianne, his office assistant, to work with him on a fraud case that seems routine. Things go well, Marianne captures incriminating...

"An Uncertain Sea" is the third and final book in the Don DeFreese/USS Mulligan series. The story opens with Commander DeFreese facing a Court of Inquiry over his conduct during the ship's most recent...

"Old Salts, New Navy" is a companion piece to Frederic Burr's first novel, "Mutinies." In this story, an older Mitch Payne, along with one of his former shipmates from the USS Scarslund, joins with two...

As Lethal Prey opens, Boone is heading for Buffalo to re-establish his relationship with his long estranged son Michael, and meet his daughter-in-law and two young grandchildren. His son is, from all...