FOOTHILLS, THE CHARLIE DOUGLAS STORY. This novel takes place in the early-days of the twentieth century. History reminds us of great inventions, ships, railroads, automobiles, aircraft. The west was being opened by muscular men up at dawn, working with teams of horses breaking sod and making fortunes. Less is said about their mates. Their women were out of bed earlier, lit the stoves, made the meals, then spent much of the day building an earthen sod hut that was home for the coming winter...

Norm Carruthers is the only Caucasian pilot for Hong Kong based East Asia Air Investments air freighters. Cagey Mr. Kee liked Norm, unlike most of his Chinese pilots Norm didn't fritter his wages away on liquor and call girls. Before long Norm was lead pilot responsible for overseeing purchase of used aircraft. In Gatwick while attending a Boeing Training Course Norm met a girl he went to school with in Richmond BC, a suburb of Vancouver. Carol wanted to see Paris, London, Edinburgh, Norm ...

Discretion Strongly Advised.A tale of parallel lives of a gutsy young bush pilot from Yellowknife in Canada's Northwest Territories and the vivacious daughter of a Russian Navy Ballistics Technician, lost at sea when his submarine K-129 mysteriously disappears near Hawaii. Both are self-confident products of single parent homes. The 1980's are an exciting new time of computers, floppy disc's and digital photography. Boris Yeltsin and Glasnot are delivering new hope in Russia, the B...

In 1956 Ted Campbell traded his almost new Chevy Bel Air in on a F-8 Big Job Ford and went trucking. Over the next half-century Ted and his trucking companies hauled logs on the Pacific West Coast, gravel, egg cartons, beer, coin-grade silver to New Jerseyt, Diapers out of Ogden Utah, Beer out of Fort Collins Colorado, Sugar from Vancouver, Salt from Alberta, Pretzels from Pennsylvania. He made dozens of trips over the Coquihalla, aka "The Highway to Hell", plowed snow up to the bumper ove...

Sue Ellison is an attractive female former police-person turned private detective. Sue's goal is to find the right guy, settle down, have children and a normal life. Solving murders keep getting in the way. Sue lived with a guy for 5 months 'til she tossed him out. She wants a man in her life but wants to be sure they are compatible before setling down. Sue knows sex is good, but foreplay and sex are better. She is asked to sell a Super B flat deck fleet for a trucking company wishing to s...

Cottage Country is the first of the Sue Ellison Mystery series Sue is a Constable with the Ontario Provincial Police stationed at Parry Sound, a community north of Toronto in Cottage Country Sue is the only female officer, the "Glass Ceiling" is obvious. For the first part of the book Sue is referred to as "her, she, the lady cop" Sue keeps meticulous records, never had a case go against her in five years but is relegated to Highway Patrol and less challenging duties. When the only daughte...

The Coquihalla Pass and the Trans Canada Highway from Hope B.C. to the Alberta border are a fifty year insult to the taxpayers of B.C. and Canada. Even worse it recklessly endangers the lives of drivers who leave their homes and families to deliver the goods we produce. Ted Campbell worked as a construction dump truck driver on the Field Hill and Rogers Pass and the Blueberry Paulson Pass during the 1950's. He became a long-haul driver and ended up with 14 over-the-road rigs carrying every...

Sue Ellison is Canada's favourite female private detective. Her goal in life is to find the right guy, settle down and raise a family. Sue live with a boy-friend for 5 months, she knows what it is to have a man in her life and in her bed. She also knows there's only one way to determine if they are compatible. Some men fail that test. Sue and her partner, retired RCMP Constable Evan Kelly are hired to look into the suspicious middle-of-the-night death of a trucking company executive. When ...

Murder Never Sleeps in Whistler is the 4th in the Sue Ellison Mystery Series. The President of an Omaha Nebraska investment firm likes the way Sue and her business partner, retired RCMP Officer Evan Kelly do things. He contracts them to sell the "non-core" assets of a truck line. Sue gets a lead in Vancouver BC. Whelan Decks ask her to hang around while they consider the offer, and give her use of their Whistler condo. Murder follows.

MURDER NEVER SLEEPS IN COTTAGE COUNTRY By Ted CampbellIt’s a warm summer day in Ontario's cottage country when Elise McArthur-Calhoun, the beautiful daughter of a multi-millionaire land developer disappears. Estranged husbands are always the first suspects and Elise’ husband Dan has motive but the record shows he might have been on an Air Canada flight to Vancouver. Elise has a history of casually hopping into the sack with any guy that tickles her fancy including a three-way with a...

The Catastrophe of Rob and Lettie is a tale of newlyweds, betrayal, competition, and revenge set against the worst environment imaginable ... the office.

Cameron Grime is a washed-up opera songster struggling to maintain a suffering career in classical music. He gets arrested for assault and thrown in a Denver jail days before premiering in the leading role of Verdi's Otello at the Denver Opera House. While in lockdown, he faces his most fantastic ghosts, worst nightmares, and a crippling addiction, hoping to make it to opening night. What starts as an evening out on the town quickly turns into a fight for Cam's very soul and the lies he ho...