When Private Investigator Ed Traynor is summoned to a remote spot in the New Hampshire woods by his old friend County Sheriff Buck Buchanan, he's puzzled. Since leaving the force, Buck has never called him to a homicide scene before. But when he arrives, Ed learns that the victim is his brother, John. Though there was no love lost between them, Ed vows to find and catch the killer and get justice for his little brother.The hunt leads Ed to New England's biggest drug kingpins, the E...

When a sniper kills four people on Boston Common, Boston homicide detective Mike Houston and his partner Anne Bouchard are sent to investigate the case. Amidst the blood and terror, Houston discovers similarities, likenesses-the killer’s positioning, his choice of victims, and his code of ethics-between the crime scene and his own training as a US Marine scout and sniper. And with the staging of the scene set for prime shock value, Houston has to wonder what it is this murderer intends to ...

Algonquin legend tells of the Wendigo, an evil spirit sent to punish mankind. It can possess a person and turn them into a monstrous creature consumed by a need to eat human flesh. For John Bear the Wendigo was merely a scary story his grandfather used to tell him. That is, until a man is found dead in the deep northern woods of Maine, butchered like an animal and with his heart cut out. And the only tracks they can find are massive footprints that couldn’t possibly be human. Now, John is ...

The murder of one wannabe starlet may only be the beginning for a vicious killer.When poor little New Hampshire rich girl Mindy Hollis gets lost in Los Angeles, her big sister hires private detective Ed Traynor to find her. Traynor and Hollis’s security chief, Jack McMahon, take off for Tinseltown to track down the aspiring actress-but they discover the only part she ever got was the one that killed her.Their hunt for her killers takes them from the bowels ...

After tracking down a crazed sniper last year, homicide detective Mike Houston opted to leave Boston for the isolated mountains of Maine. He adjusted nicely to chopping his own firewood, relaxing in his log cabin, and simply enjoying the solitude of the mountains.But then his former partner, Lt. Anne Bouchard, pays him a visit and dangles the words serial killer in front of him. And suddenly he finds himself back in the game beside her-though not officially.”Desperate for ...

Conor Quinn was the son of a Boston prostitute. He grew up on the streets of South Boston in the 1950s and 60s, and his closest thing to a father figure was a local mobster. When he learns the mob plans to offer him as a fall guy, he flees. Seeking a place where they would never look for him. He enlists in the USMC and is sent to Vietnam, where he wins the Medal of Honor. He returns home believing he can start over and live a normal life. But soon learns the war came home within him.

Dylan Thomas, a former Maine State Police officer who obtained a private investigator license to support himself while attending law school, receives a phone call from his sister, Caitlin, telling him that her youngest daughter, Sandra, has gone missing.Caitlin’s husband, Oreille Dufore, is the wealthy heir to a large Maine logging and land development corporation. Dylan’s relationship with his brother-in-law has been strained at best. However, in times of crisis, Dylan knows that ...

When former Marine sniper and Boston police detective, Mike Houston, gets a call from a ghost out of his past, the threat is unmistakable: his daughter will die unless Houston finds the assassin first. Desperate, Houston turns to the only man ruthless enough to help--his brother-in-law, South Boston mobster Jimmy O'Leary.Jimmy O agrees, but only on his terms: a deadly quid pro quo. He wants Houston's skills in a gang war with the Russian mob. But, Houston swore he would never again...

Upon leaving court after his 4th divorce, Ian Connah learns that his financial manager has disappeared with his $3,000,000 retirement fund. In order to finance the quest to regain his money, Connah must return to the trade. He becomes a bodyguard for two female mob bosses, with whom he has a long history (each a rival for his affection). A million-dollar bounty has been placed on their heads, and a team of three professional assassins has taken the contract. Connah takes the women to a rem...

Dylan Thomas is unusual. A former Maine State Police officer, he decided to become a lawyer and obtained a PI license to pay his way through law school. When he receives an early-morning call from his sister, telling him that her four-year-old daughter, Sandra (aka Sandy), is missing. She believes that police are trying to prove that she and her husband, Oreille Dufore, have done something, possibly killing the child. Dylan comes to their aid. His investigation reveals that an itinerant ha...

Some investigations end when the body is found. This one begins. Aoife Walsh is commissioned to write a national crime series. It feels like the break she's been waiting for. Her first subject: Matt Gallagher, a newly wed who vanished on his honeymoon in Italy. Then Matt's body is found.What should have been a closed case turns into something darker - and into a world that doesn't welcome questions.As Aoife digs deeper, the danger turns dead...

How far would you go to save your best friends life?Standing outside of the courthouse, journalist Andrea Kellner witnesses an apparent carjacking that leaves a judge dead in the middle of downtown Chicago. The victim offers up his vehicle, but the brazen masked shooters kill him anyway and flee. While the police see this as a straightforward crime of greed, Andrea’s instincts urge her to investigate learning the nearly bankrupt judge owed a huge debt to a commerci...