Harvey Stanbrough - Libros y biografía

During a weekly trip to the post office to check for mail, homeless combat veteran Ray Acuna gets a great deal more than he bargained for. One moment, he has a satisfactory, if less than ideal, life and...

In this rollicking, gat-filled collection of eleven short stories, you get to see both sides: The mobsters and the cops. The perps and the victims. The guilty, the innocent and the merely complicit.These...

The Battle of Tres Caballos is Book 18 in the overall Wes Crowley Saga. The titles are arranged chronologically as one long saga, but each also is a stand-alone novel.* * *Is Wes finally settled in his...

Leaving Amarillo is Book 14 in the overall Wes Crowley saga.Although the titles are arranged chronologically, each also is a stand-alone novel.* * *Wes Crowley and Otis "Mac" McFadden are lifelong friends....

Longing for Mexico is Book 15 in the overall Wes Crowley saga.Although the titles are arranged chronologically, each also is a stand-alone novel.* * *Longing for Mexico opens with problems.Has a long-time...

Nick Spalding and Mary Jo McWherter partnered up in Book 1. Things are great when hell is all around, but sometimes you have to go in search of it.Now in Book 2, they've traveled to a different country,...

What deep personal fantasy can sustain an unrequited love for forty years?How can a jilted lover watch and learn and plot and plan, yet miss the most valuable lesson of all?Come along on this tension-filled...

The Right Cut is Book 20 in the overall Wes Crowley saga. Although the series is one long saga, each book also stands alone.Lured by the promise of gold and adventure, a group of bad guys, out-of-luck...

Salvatore "Little Sally" Picarilli is having a rough day. On one front, his wife is being demanding. On the other, his boss is loading him up with extra, less than usual tasks. What gives? 

In one possible future there is a game show called The Suicide Watch. With teen suicide rates soaring so high even the government can no longer sugar-coat them, that same government teams up with their...

This is Book 3 of the Stern Talbot PI series, but you can read them in any order.Long before he went into private practice as a P.I., Stern Talbot was a detective for the LAPD.Some cases are better than...

This is Book 2 of the Stern Talbot PI Series, but you can read them in any order.Long before he went into private practice as a P.I., Stern Talbot was a detective for the LAPD.Some cases are better than...

This is a literary, very short story. It is set during the Spanish Civil War timeframe and involves a Spanish mercenary soldier operating in northeast France. He meets a French girl in a small town and...

These tales range from the merely odd to the fantastic, from the tragic to the magical.In one story you'll accompany a Cajun on a single-minded mission into the backwoods of Louisiana on a deep, humid...

In the first of these five stories, "Needful Things," a woman is drawn to a shop that looks like an antique store. She's looking for furnishings for her home in the French Quarter, where, it turns out,...

This is a novel, but only in the most basic sense. Actually it's a novel wrapped around eleven separate short stories. Or maybe it's a short story collection enclosed in a novel.The novel itself consists...

Johnny's about to get luckier than he's ever gotten. And with the new girl in school, a leggy wonder who sends his imagination to places it's never been. When he finally gets her alone, she's even more...

C'mon, everyone knows the old non-joke about Pete and his buddy, right? Still, seems like there's always one more young'un wantin' to put an old timer to shame. Only it doesn't always happen just that...

An alien invasion. Freedom fighters caught and held in a rainy, drizzly prison. To wait. But for what?

What are the consequences of a fight gone wrong? As you're queued up in line waiting for your pay, you have time to consider that. The other guy's still lying on the floor.Nobody seems to notice. Even...

Johnny Trimble rides his cayuse into a western town, on a mission to replace the sheriff. The sheriff isn't all that he seems. But then, neither is Johnny. 

What happens when two writers head out for a camping trip in the Gila River Lower Box wilderness? Well, they have to eat. But neither of them eats alone. Each has a full array of characters from which...

H. Clement Moore is a highly successful businessman who pays a price for his success when his wife admits having an affair. After some thought, he adjusts his priorities. He's on his way home early for...

When a hit man is recalled from Chicago to meet with a high-ranking politician, his new client, he suspects nothing. But should he? Maybe he should have considered her record. 

Dexter Murfee Nettleson is an odd chap, always happy, always sunny and bright. He's the sort to shop for smiles, grins, giggles and belly laughs, all so he can give them away. 

He wanted to take a very special "directed immersion" deep into Mexico for his senior trip. But he got considerably more than he bargained for. Come along and see what you think. 

Detective Distraeli Jones is alone in the lobby of a swank hotel. Sitting on the floor. Leaning back against the wall.Behind him is a blood smear.He has to get out. 

There's the way things are depicted in the movies, and then there are the way things happen in real life.When it's a matter of life or death on both sides, opt for the one that best suits.

This is a collection of ten intense short stories.In "Jumper," a professional writer and conference speaker meets a wannabebutneverwill, and this one apparently is one over his limit. Maybe.In "Theorem,"...

How important is finishing what you start? Important enough to risk your life?