In this prequel novelette to the novel Elegy in Scarlet, crime consultant Scott Drayco and “the world’s most diminutive defense attorney” Benny Baskin find themselves on the Eastern Shore of Virginia fighting for the innocence of Baskin's client, who's jailed for the murder of his business partner. Against the backdrop of the Wallops Island rocket launch facility, Drayco soon discovers that the motive for the man's murder might just be out of this world.The Scott Drayco my...

How would you solve your own kidnapping? And what if the reason behind it was even stranger than you could ever imagine?When detective Scott Drayco is abducted and given a mysterious puzzle to solve, his predicament is bizarre enough. But after he's released and one of his kidnappers is killed—a man who allegedly died five years ago—what began as a puzzling situation turns into an even stranger quest.Meanwhile, Drayco's father, Brock, has a new girlfriend w...

Scott Drayco is back in the second omnibus edition of the award-winning mystery series.Read books 4-6 in the Scott Drayco mystery series that Library Journal called “worth putting on your reading list." Finalists for the Shamus, Silver Falchion, Daphne, Library Journal Indie Best Mystery, and Foreword Book Reviews awards, with over 1,000 five-star reviews! The box set includes three complete novels in the engrossing mystery series readers describe as “not a stereot...

What's a cop to do when his best friend is accused of murder?Vermont Detective Adam Dutton has to make one of the hardest arrests of his life—his friend and godfather, Harlan Wilford, who stands accused of murder. Meanwhile, slightly reformed con woman Beverly LaBorde has returned to Ironwood Junction to take her first tentative steps toward a more normal life and maybe romance with a certain handsome detective.Neither Adam nor Beverly believe for ...

Justice is never clean, and in this town, not even Christmas is innocent.When the owner of ThinkaToy is found dead weeks before Christmas, the holiday spirit shatters. The evidence points to “The Singing Santa,” a beloved performer who's the prime suspect—but nothing about the murder adds up.What starts as a bizarre holiday homicide quickly unravels into something darker—corporate secrets, hidden grudges, and a trail of money and lies buried beneath the tin...

Some secrets of the dead can torture the living.Scott Drayco thought he'd seen it all after his years in the FBI and as a private crime consultant. But nothing prepared him for the bombshell hidden within the walls of a historic Victorian mansion being used as a movie set. Although some of the movie's cast and crew believe the production is cursed, Drayco suspects life is imitating art in a most gruesome way.After a decades-old murder is exposed, Drayco is ...

Some secrets refuse to stay buried...When Scott Drayco's ex-girlfriend begs him to prove her rich fiance, Harry Dickerman, is innocent of murder, Drayco's torn; he's suspicious of Harry's motives for wanting to marry a much younger woman, but on the other hand, the man seems to be a paragon of virtue. The police think it's an open-and-shut case — the victim was Harry's ex-wife, killed in Harry's home with his own letter opener, and only Harry's prints were...

Heart Tugging Mystery & Thrilling SuspenseScott Drayco isn’t a typical detective: a former concert pianist, he turned to law enforcement after a violent attack put an end to his music career. His unusual background, eidetic memory, and chromesthesia—a form of synesthesia where he "sees" all sounds as colors, shapes, and textures—give him unique insights into twisty cases others don't want to touch.Finalist for the Shamus, Silver Falchion, Daphne, and Fo...

A mysterious music puzzle. A murdered co-ed. Sinister secrets.Three years ago, Scott Drayco left the FBI after an incident involving his partner, Mark “Sarg” Sargosian. Now a freelance crime consultant, Drayco often helps law enforcement on cases, but he never imagined his estranged former partner would turn up on his doorstep, pleading for Drayco’s help. A student at an elite Washington, D.C. private college has been murdered, and the victim’s friend—Sarg...

When a series of arsons target Vermont antiques stores, Detective Adam Dutton and con woman Beverly Laborde worry the shop owned by a friend of theirs, Harlan Wilford, might be next. But when a body is found inside one of the burned buildings, the stakes take an even deeper and darker turn.Adam and Beverly thought they'd seen the last of a crime syndicate operating under the Northern Antiquities League in the state and could finally put those dark memories behind them. But are the ...

From Derringer Award winner BV Lawson come five tales featuring Scott Drayco, a man who had everything going for him: handsome, brilliant, and a talented classical pianist in the prime of his youth. After violence scarred him physically and emotionally, he turned to an FBI career before becoming a crime consultant, taking on cases other people often don't want to touch.In HEAR NO EVIL, first published in Poison + Murder = Satisfaction, pianist Adina Dyson asks to meet Scott Drayco ...

From Derringer Award winner BV Lawson come three tales featuring Scott Drayco, a man who had everything going for him: handsome, brilliant, a talented classical pianist in the prime of his youth. After violence scarred him physically and emotionally, he turned to an FBI career for ten years and now freelances as a crime consultant, taking on cases other people often don't want to touch.In THE TRADITION THIEF, first published in "Rope and Wire," Drayco teams up with a Native America...