John Willingham comes home from the war and marries his high school sweetheart, Holly. The love of his life. However, his mother Clara is jealous of Holly and forces her out of his life. To get away from Clara’s fiery attitude, John gets cozy with former prostitute, Josie Cramer. When Clara finds out about her […]

Just before Jeff Timberlake’s mother dies, she hands him an envelope and instructs him to deliver it to an old friend in the town of Marlow, Missouri. This suits him fine because Marlow is on the way to St. Louis where he’s going to apply for a newsman job at a radio station. When he […]

Available on Amazon: The Assassan’s Trail | Available at B & N: The Assassan’s Trail Homicide Detective Ryan Clark has a problem. A prominent businessman has been assassinated by a drive-by shooting. Two weeks earlier another man, in the same industry, was shot and killed. He suspects the assassinations are related and calls an old friend […]

Amazon: Bitch | B & N: Bitch World War II is almost over, but crime never rests and Max Black is back in action! Max is called, by his friend and chief of police detectives Pat, to an alley where a former client has been brutally murdered. It’s clear the crime was committed by a […]

In the lobby of a prestigious Wall Street investment firm, one man is dead and another seriously injured. The man accused of the crime now a fugitive. When the Director of the FBI personally orders Special Agent Sean Kruger to New York City to find the fugitive, Kruger questions the reason. Told to shut up […]

To some it might seem like a very quiet, easy going southwest Missouri town but Max Black knows better. Max is hired by two brothers to find their missing sister Becky Gates but the missing sister turns out to be more, much more, that more turning a simple trace into an unsavory business that will […]

By Ike Keene: It is the 1950’s with one war over and another beginning. Max Black’s friend Cary ends up dead, shot execution style, which puts Max on the trail of his killer. Max searches Cary’s apartment for a clue before his friend Pat arrives and finds a map drawn on a tomato sauce label. […]