A thrilling adventure into the heart of gold and diamond mining. When young Jim Richards left the army to chase a dream, he had no language skills, no money and no idea, just the kind of gold lust that has driven fortune hunters throughout history. And when he struck gold and diamonds in the remote rivers of Guyana, his problems and his success grew in equal measure.Gold Rush is a tale of adventure, disaster, and skulduggery, where vast fortunes could be m...

A woman tries to commit suicide by jumping off the top of the Stratosphere tower in Las Vegas, the tallest structure west of the Mississippi, but Lady Luck prevents her from dying. Before she took the plunge she was released from a psychiatric ward for delusions that she has murdered someone. But did she really kill someone, or is she being set up. Jim, Penny, and Buck, have finally moved to Las Vegas and are trying to start a new life when murder calls again, not making Penny very happy. ...

This book contains the bulk of the first five books of the Old Testament (the Jewish "Torah"), edited for easy reading, along with commentary. Reading this will make you more of an expert on the Torah (and the Old Testament) than most Americans. The Torah itself is clearly full of lies, nonsense and immorality, as this book makes clear.Did you know that God had many sons? [Genesis 6:1-3] Or that God said that if the Israelites continue to disobey him, he will force them to eat the ...

Jim has solved the case of the man hypnotized into committing murder and now his book publisher wants him to go on a month long book signing tour around the country. Jim's books about his adventures in crime solving are doing well in sales. Jim agrees after Penny calls her studio and gets the month off to go with him. They travel across the country and finally end up in Florida in a small town where people wait to meet Jim and Penny. While in this out of the way town, Jim finally meets his...

Hollywood has come and gone for Jim and Penny, the TV movie about the Classmate Murders has been filmed and shown on TV and their lives are back to normal now. A woman comes into Jim's office one day from a mystery writers organization requesting Jim to join them on a luxury cruise of the Pacific Ocean to give a speech about his book, movie and his adventures being a P.I. but once Jim and Penny have sailed port the fun begins. It seems mystery writers are a murderous bunch of people and so...

Someone is murdering men who abuse their wives or children. After four deaths it starts looking like a vigilante is loose in Las Vegas. Deacon is running the case as Lynn has been told she is going to Quantico to train with the FBI, leaving Deacon alone to catch the killer. He turns to Jim for his help and the two go off to track down the vigilante. Is it a local doctor, bent on revenge for helpless victims of abuse? During the case, Jim and Penny become guardians of a young girl left an o...

Authors Note: This book was first written in 2009 and I had no real editor to go through it. But in the last five years this book has gone through a number of professional editors and various Beta readers. If you find any grammatical errors, please send what you find in an email to me at [email protected] rather than pointing them out in a review. I can correct them. This book was revised and re-edited by December 2014, and if you have a copy of the book prior to t...

Who’s murdering the runway models of Las Vegas?That’s what Jim Richards and Deacon D’Angelo are tasked with finding out. One afternoon the Richard’s Investigating and Security office is flooded with beautiful runway models all seeking protection after one of their group was murdered. Jim has Buck take over the body guarding of the babes and then ends up involved with solving the murder. Buck also takes over protecting a famous pop singer from a crazy stalker but she ends up kidnappe...

Jim Richards’ daughter, Carol, comes to Jim with a problem. A friend and co-worker is missing and Carol asks Jim to find her. Along with his wife, Penny, Jim goes to the missing woman’s apartment where they run into Detective Greg Warren. Greg tells them that the girl was found dead. Jim makes it his goal to find the killer and now working with Will Trapper and Deacon DeAngelo, the three sort through clues and investigate the crime. While waiting for word from the LVPD on their investigati...

This book is a crossover between the Jim Richards Murder Novels and the Fatal Series of books, both by Bob Moats. While on vacation, Jim manages to miss the turn to Seattle and they end up in the small town of Brinnon, Washington. While camping in their van they meet Sheriff Dave Chandler and his wife Sarah. Jim’s curse strikes again, and there is a murder in the campground. But there is more when another man is kidnapped by the killer. Why was this man taken and what does it hav...

Penny receives an early morning phone call from a cousin who says her husband was murdered in Las Vegas just before the Country Music Award show that was being presented in town. The dead cousin was a country singer who's songs were climbing up the charts and Jim takes the case to find the killer. Things get complicated when Jim and Penny find that the dead cousin was supposedly married to two women and his recording company was doing some double dealing on his fame. They agree to take the...

Angelo DeMarko, former enforcer for a New York mob family and now personal friend of Jim and Penny finally got his wish, to open an Italian restaurant. Jim fronted the money and the restaurant was a reality. Open now just a month, a famed restaurant critic was going to review the restaurant and came to check it out. Later that same critic was found dead in the restaurant with his face buried in a plate of pasta. Who would want to murder the annoying man who gave everyone in the restaurant ...