Best friends solve a murder in the summer of 1966 in rural America.The summer was supposed to be about ball games, bike rides, and afternoons in the sun. For best friends Max Scanlan and Charlie Scerbiak, life in their small Minnesota town is safe and simple, yet full of adventure.But when a suspicious death shocks the community, everything changes. While the police and townspeople are certain they know who’s guilty, Max and Charlie begin to doubt the story everyone else ac...

At the crossroads of imagination and reality, everything is possible.Told from the viewpoint of 'The Kid', HALLOWED GROUND is the story of kids playing the game of baseball, while learning the rules of life at the same time.As friendships form, interactions with adults and the ball diamond itself open their minds, as the boys pass through a phase of life that is given to us all but once.A story that will make you laugh, cry and remember the purity of life, the secon...

For centuries, whispers have persisted about an unknown gospel that would transform faith, undo centuries of doctrine and threaten the very foundations of religious empires.Hidden by the world’s most powerful institutions, the truth has remained buried… until now. When Pope Peter II dispatches the sacred writings to a secluded American monastery for translation, their impending revelation sparks a bloodbath, and the documents vanish.Soon, a dangerous trail of clues emerges,...

When the Abbot of Saint Anselm Monastery is found murdered, Vatican investigators Dylan Taggert and Nia Grayson are drawn into a hunt for the truth.But this is no ordinary case, and what begins as a homicide investigation soon spirals into a centuries-old conspiracy. As Dylan and Nia dig deeper, they uncover revelations buried since the Resurrection.Hidden beneath layers of tradition and secrecy in the Vatican lies a concealed truth: the long-suppressed influence of women w...

Quinn McCracken—ex-cop, ex-con, and unlicensed private investigator—is a man fueled by regret and just enough grit to keep going. He's not looking for redemption, until Diana Prinzes walks through his door, young, ambitious, and carrying a P.I. license he no longer qualifies for.Their uneasy partnership is tested fast when a hand-off on Pier 31 goes wrong. A simple job spirals into a storm of corruption and dead bodies, one of whom has ties that reach disturbingly close to home.

The ritual killing of a young Apache girl on a reservation in rural Arizona takes the listener through many complex layers of relationships between Apache and Anglo cultures. The myth and spiritual fabric of the Apache community pulls Zeb Hanks, a small town sheriff, through a personal journey, making the murder not just a crime to solve but a cathartic passage.The dead never leave us but they do whisper ghost stories that bring the past back to life. Jake Dablo is a drunken, washe...

Who owns what is traditionally considered sacred? Can the Catholic Church legally conspire with the federal government to steal the most sacrosanct of Native American holy places? Holes in the Sky, the second in the series Zeb Hanks: Small Town Sheriff with Big Time Troubles, explores these questions in a clash of cultures mixed with mysterious deaths.In the middle of the night a priest sits in a rocking chair on a dip in the highway at the foot of Mount Graham. His fate i...

With his heart blown to bits by a staggering loss, Sheriff Zeb Hanks falls into an abyss of drunkenness, hatred, and rage. With the help of Deputy Kate Steele, former Sheriff Jake Dablo, Medicine Man Jimmy Song Bird, and close friend Josh Diamond, Zeb pulls himself back from the edge and turns his rage on the cause of his torment, a Mexican drug and human trafficking cartel. On his quest for revenge, Zeb grapples with how far he must go to exact justice and whether the end justifies the me...

Looking for a great new mystery series? You've come to the right place. Three western writers begin their journeys with tales of wide-open skies, death in the dust, Native American mysticism, greed, lust, friendship, and honor. Law enforcement agents and Native American players partner and sometimes clash on the unpredictable path toward truth and justice.R. Lawson Gamble - The Dark Road - Zack Tolliver is a newly minted FBI agent assigned to the Four Corners Indian Affairs FBI lia...

Sheriff Zeb Hanks has his hands full when sociopath Jimmie Joe Walker, recently released from an Arizona state prison, masterminds a devious plan to make himself filthy rich. His plan involves Ángel Gómez, a down-on-his-luck half Mescalero Apache/half Mexican. Ángel's alcoholism and far-fetched dreams make him an unwitting dupe in Jimmie Joe's plans, which end up endangering Ángel's own life as well as the lives of those he loves.Set in and around the mining towns of Safford and Mo...

Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), obra de Mark Twain, considerado el Dickens norteamericano, representa una de las primeras grandes novelas estadounidenses. También fue una de las primeras novelas escritas en inglés vernáculo estadounidense: particularmente, el hablado por el narrador y protagonista principal de la historia, Huckleberry «Huck» Finn, quien es el mejor amigo de Tom Sawyer (protagonista de otra obra del mismo autor, conocida ...