Albert Canady, his sister Pepper, and his friend, Airlia Moss, a witch, investigate a strange calling from a reopened school building that had sat empty for many years. Ghostly appearances and fantastic indoor storms set the stage for the youngsters quest for the truth of a long-ago tragedy that cost lives and gave rise to restless spirits. Trapped inside the building, with darkness encasing them, Albert, Pepper, and The Witch are forced to face their fears and fight back against unseen, p...

Ramon Sanchez and his girlfriend, K.C. Roth, find adventure and danger as they try to rescue K.C.'s friend from an overextended deep-water dive into a ship's graveyard. Legend has it that the sunken vessels are protected by a "ghost shark." Ramon and K.C. already had discovered a large shark in the area. A further danger is the fact that the diving companions are criminals seeking a treasure in illicit drugs in the same location. As they descend into dark, risk-laden waters, the kids face ...

A torrential storm knocks out communications and power stranding travelers, including Nick Cotton, in a tourist convenience store near the Oglala Sioux reservation. Inside the store a murder was committed and a tribal cop enlists Nicks aid in the investigation.

In 1990 two retired Marines, Colonel Paul Duckworth and Sergeant Major Seth Thompson, are called upon to investigate an apparent friendly fire shooting that occurred 22 years earlier on a Viet Nam battlefield. Following a trail of sworn but questionable testimony, their inquiry will either convict or exonerate the accused Marine of deliberate murder.

When retired army colonel Tom Morgan returns to his hometown for his 45th high school class reunion, he is handed a long-misplaced letter from his former lover that intimates something bad may happen to her. She had died, in a somewhat suspicious circumstance, the same day she had written the letter. At the same time, taking place in the community was the kidnapping and ransom demand for a little girl, who later is discovered dead. Morgan embarks on his own investigation into the coinciden...

Prostitution-- Murder-- Extortion-- threaten to scandalize a large Midwestern high school, Sylvester Overton Barton (known as S.O.B.H.S.) unless school security chief Nick Cotton, partnered with a friend of shady background, discovers answers that can save lives and reputations.

Caryn Castle, a small town police officer in the Midwest, kills a man in self-defense while on duty, a traumatic event that shakes her confidence. At the same time, in Florida, an ex-husband, Jimmy Castle, is involved with a mob hit man in a rip-off of drug money. Double-crossed, Jimmy manages to swipe the loot but makes the mistake of heading back to his hometown. He is pursued by the initial hit man, the Pray-er, and another gunman, Luis Santana, who was in on the heist.A cat-and...

In Las Vegas the 1940's saw mob influence in the growth of casino gambling, betting wires, prostitution and drugs. Private eye Jack Beech gets involved in two cases: one a search for a missing girl, and the other a search for missing diamonds stolen from Virginia Hill, Bugsy Siegel's girlfriend. Jack's life is in peril as he discovers a link between the two cases involving murder, treachery, corrupt cops and double crosses.

An unpublished story by American author Ernest Hemingway surfaces in the hands of a high school teacher. When the manuscript is stolen and the teacher is murdered, school security chief Nick Cotton investigates the lies and deceits connected to the theft. This leads Nick and his friends into a series of double crosses and murders.

Blackmail and murder lead Nick Cotton and his friend, Roscoe Buckmiller, to investigate a bogus church camp with armed guards. They discover the camp is supported by an East coast crime boss for the purpose of training and selling troubled young girls into prostitution. The test for Nick and Roscoe is finding a way to shut down the camp without harming innocent people.

A CUT ABOVE is a hard-hitting, humorous crime novel mixing quirky characters, a twenty year-old murder case, and a search for a buried treasure. School security chief Nick Cotton reluctantly agrees to seek a friend's missing son. His quest takes him from mid-America to Florida where he becomes involved in a plot by a ruthless con man. Dodging threats and bullets, Nick is led on a chase into the Everglades in a desperate attempt to save innocent lives in the surprising and tough climax.

An independent movie company is beset by conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder from within when a crew of inept lawbreakers try to rip off a wealthy, though shady, businessman. One humorous situation follows another as a short, half-Chinese clown and two of the businessman's associates posing as "stunt men" try to protect the aging lead actress from herself and kidnappers. While this bumbling movie is being filmed, the clown and stuntmen find themselves working at cross purposes leading up to...