This book contains 12 original short stories that represent a number of subgenres within the broad field of crime and mystery fiction.  From the humorous and explicitly comic to the dark and brooding,...

Following the Jack Grant and Tom Deaton series, No Exit features a new series protagonist: FBI Special Agent Gwen Harrison.  Introduced in Poison Touch, Gwen is a native American, descended from distinguished...

Terry Rader is cleaning his rental port-o-lets in MacArthur Park when he finds a young woman, her blue hospital scrubs covered with thick, dried blood.  Her name is Denise White.  She is a nurse practitioner,...

The third Tom Deaton novel is dark and pulpy, with a full-tilt plot, the complete ensemble of previous series characters and a memorable antagonist who is the stuff of nightmares.            Earlon "Snack"...

We are in the California desert above Lake Elsinore; the remains of Terry Randall and his wife Susan are lying in the dust and grit.  Susan's right hand is missing.  The initial verdict is that Terry...

Using their frequent flier miles Marcy and Jim Morgan have left the icy shores of Lake Erie for the cloudless skies and warm sand of Laguna Beach.  The bright sun and gentle wind are suddenly displaced...

Dr. Leonard Barnes, a prominent Irvine surgeon, is the part-time medical examiner for the Laguna Beach PD.  A gentle but formal man, his naked, comatose body is found beside the freeway near San Juan...

FBI special agent Gwen Harrison is resting in an unidentified rehab facility after being shot by two assassins. Immobilized, she suggests that the Bureau permit Special Agent Karen Wilken to join her...