In a Huey gunship squadron in Vietnam, First Lieutenant Ross Teemer, an overly conscientious firstborn, has a mentor suddenly transferred, a good friend go over the edge, and his best friend go missing in action. Major “Bull” Angus couldn’t care less about Teemer’s problems. He’ll squash anyone to keep his Lieutenants in line and his secret agenda on course—even if he has to kiss up to the Green Berets, steal secret messages from the squadron files, and subvert the squadron’s secret CIA mission. Teemer, still burdened by his childhood experiences with an enemy within, finally puts the pieces of the mystery together. Now he must decide to listen to his friends and forget about it or intervene in the Major’s vindictive attempt to win the unwinnable—a desperate move that could turn the Vietnam War into WWIII. Teemer’s decision creates problems he never imagined and forces an action that makes aviation history.
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Cobra pilot Ross Teemer has killed for the CIA. Now he never wants to kill again. Love found on a beach will do that to a young man, even a Marine. But the father who haunts him, the CIA who needs him, and the Marine Corps who owns him, want on one more mission. Soviet pilot, Colonel Ivan Petrov, former advisor to the North Vietnamese, has left Soviet control to run his own operation out of Laos, and he knows why the CIA wants one more mission. Americans are so soft, so gullible. Sometimes a man must do what he's never wanted to do, and be what he's never wanted to be. Even if he's been betrayed, and even if he's on a one-way mission.
Book One, Fall: The Trick-or-Treat Corpse
A wandering, well-dressed corpse kicks off a crime-solving career for young Nathan Hawke.
In 1955, in the little town of Southern Pines, North Carolina, Superman, the detective dog, leads young Nathan “Nate” Hawke, a known liar and prankster, to a body in the woods. When Nate reports it, it disappears before the police believe him. After his granddaddy reminds him of his reputation, Nate says, “Well, yes, sir, that was fun at the time, but that was months ago; I’ve matured since then.” Nate must now recruit his friends, Mary Elizabeth and Charlie, and hunt for the missing corpse to prove that his lying, prankster days are behind him. But, ever the budding detective, Nate goes one step further and leads himself and his mom face to face with a killer.
Book Two, Winter: The Christmas Tree Corpse
Things left under a Christmas Tree aren’t always gifts. Or from Santa.
In 1955, in the little town of Southern Pines, North Carolina, when Nathan “Nate” Hawke’s search for the perfect Christmas tree leads to a murder, Detective Lewis, Nate, Superman, the detective dog, and Nate’s spunky mom suspect a tobacco-spitting Goliath, a jilted lover, and an abusive entrepreneur. Each has a motive and the means, but which had the opportunity? And who would kill a guy that befriended everyone? Also, what’s going on between Mom and Detective Lewis, and which “Mr. Wrong” has Becky fallen in love with this time? When Nate realizes the meaning of the clue the victim left behind and confronts his suspect, it takes a bully, a warrior, and perfect timing to keep him from being the next victim.
Book Three, Spring: The Barin Field Murder
The murder of a Naval Aviation Cadet threatens to capsize “The Cradle of Naval Aviation.”
In 1956, when a naval aviation cadet mysteriously dies in the cockpit of his T-28 trainer, Detective Dan Lewis goes to Pensacola, Florida, to help his old-school lawyer buddy overcome the Navy’s cover-up. Meanwhile, back home in North Carolina, a mysterious figure roams the county at night, people are hospitalized, and one is murdered. Nate and his spunky mom, with Dan’s telephone guidance, track down and confront the killer. Back in Pensacola, when Dan refuses to accept the Navy’s accident report, he could be the next “accident” victim.
Book Four, Summer: The Gulf Shores Murder
A gripping whodunit that will leave you suspicious of every unpopulated beach you ever walk or jog.
In 1956, A bonding vacation to Gulf Shores, Alabama, for fourteen-year-old Nathan “Nate” Hawke, his older sister, Becky, their mother, and their new stepfather, Detective Dan Lewis, gets messy early. Not only is the rebellious Becky giving Dan a hard time, but on the first morning at their beach cottage, a sunrise jog leads Nate and Superman to the body of a bikini-clad blonde teenage girl. Is this the work of the serial killer they heard about on the radio? Because Gulf Shores had no police force in 1956, a clueless rookie officer from Foley, Alabama, must handle the case. The victim’s younger sister, Vicki, who knows the Foley officer, arrives at the cottage on horseback and begs Nate and Detective Lewis to help. After a second murder, can Nate and Superman survive a nighttime car chase with unlicensed Becky at the wheel, a watery wreck, and a knife fight with the killer? And what does Vicki have planned for Nate if he does survive?
MURDER at Hotel Magnolia, a Judge Rex and Tally Historical Cozy Mystery
A poorly timed murder, a missing treasure, and a riddle in an old diary bring a cast of quirky characters to a quaint southern town's historic hotel.
In 1968, on a quiet road just outside peaceful little Foley, Alabama, a murdered woman is found in the back of a side-swiped, wrecked Jaguar, and the driver has disappeared. The prime suspect is the woman’s ex-husband and former judge, “Rex” Rexford—now disbarred thanks to his ex-wife, her wealthy father, and paid witnesses. Rex has recently returned to Foley as a P.I. searching for a missing, priceless work of art. To be the first to solve the riddle left in an Army officer’s diary and recover the art—and save his best friend’s P.I. business—Rex must first clear himself of murder. He has three days to do both. Complicating matters for Rex are a sheriff with a grudge, a jealous fire chief, two clueless hippies from San Francisco, five Benedictine Monks from Illinois who may not all be monks, and his unexpected interest in a sexy young widow coroner. Rex’s quest goes horribly wrong when his flirtatious, greedy ex-wife shows up in his room at the Hotel Magnolia with lust in her eyes and malice in her heart. Rex isn’t the only one left bleeding.
