Life is filled with harrowing and outrageous experiences. In mine I survived drowning twice, pulled from under a speeding dump truck, and stood face-to-face with a bear all before age of six.  My teens...

  It is New Year's Eve in nineteen sixty-nine and Southern California's normally placid climate is experiencing a bitter winter cold snap. It is certainly not the weather for murder.  The strange unknown...

  A steamy hot August in San Diego, California. The rotting body of an immigration attorney, Diego Ortiz found with a Mexican stiletto protruding from his chest.   Disgraced Jake Smith is back from Arkansas...

  The North County flower fields are a full rainbow of colors, set majestically on the hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The only factor spoiling the perfect postcard setting was the murder of Charles...

Private investigator Jake Smith is sometimes a hero, sometimes vigilante, but always a thorn in the cops' side. His nemesis, Detective Max Marsh, Marshmallow, as Smith refers to him, is bent on driving...

Myth or Truth A young girl goes missing in the wee hours of the morning after a night of trick or treating. If the urban legend believed, Angel Snatcher struck anew, this time using San Diego as his stalking...

  Jake Smith is back. After his firing from the San Diego Police Department as a seasoned detective, he is starting his lifeover at the bottom in the Fayetteville, Arkansas force.  As a rookie patrol...

   Chicago's NorMine Corporation sends chief engineer Jackson Neuman to the gold-rich Yukon, where dreams of riches are made or lost. It is the summer of nineteen-sixty, and teenagers, Derrek and Sean,...

It's complicated—not your typical underdog becomes hero storyDenver police's male-dominated homicide boy's club refused acceptance to Albuquerque transplant Skylar Kayne. Despite her tedious efforts—mistakes...