There's bad news in Sinful. Gertie has a new gentleman friend and Ida Belle doesn't like him. That's not the only bad news. The skeletal remains of a young woman are discovered in the hollow of a two-hundred-year-old elm tree. When the state investigation stalls, Swamp Team 3 jumps into action. There's no shortage of seedy suspects but solving the case proves challenging. As Fortune draws close to the truth, certain interested parties lash out, putting the lives of our three heroes in peri...

Gertie decides to face an old nemesis at the Annual Alligator Festival Triathlon competition. Fortune and Ida Belle tag along for support. When they arrive, they stumble on an unsolved murder that took place at the festival two years earlier. When Fortune meets a shady character with an agenda and a motive for murder, the Swamp Team 3 jumps into action. They receive help from a colorful local P.I. with sharp wits, unsuspected talents and a taste for nice things. As they dig deeper into the...

When Fortune, Ida Belle and Gertie stumble on a suspicious 'gold digger' in a roadside diner, the gossip flies faster than Gertie on a scooter—and that's before the body drops.Fortune Redding, known to the locals in Sinful as Sandy Sue Morrow, former beauty queen and new local librarian, was just trying to keep her cover intact, have the occasional serving of banana pudding, and avoid arrest. But when Georgia Fame waltzes into their neck of the woods with a suitcas...

CHECK OUT THE VERY FIRST MISS FORTUNE RELEASED BY STEPHEN JOHN, EXPANDED AND REIMAGINED, FORTUNE AND FAME - 2025Gertie's arch-rival enters a contest at Kookies Comedy Club, planning to use the prize money to coerce the school board into renaming the high school theater to The Celia Arceneaux Theater. Gertie enters the contest hoping to foil the plan. As it turns out, comedy is not the only thing happening at Kookies. A well-known local celebrity has been murdered a...

She was sent to disappear. Sinful had other plans.The year is 2013. The place is Sinful.Fortune Redding was supposed to be lying low.Instead, the CIA's most effective field operative is stuck in Sinful, Louisiana, pretending to be a mild-mannered librarian with a fake past, a borrowed name, and entirely too many opinions about humidity, alligators, and the agency's idea of a good hiding place.Then a late-night jog puts her in front of a burn...

What is music?Modern society has come to view music largely as entertainment and commodity. In response, We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity provides the reader with a holistic starting point. Music has unlimited potential to transform and enlighten, and is only impeded when bound by materialism, physicalism, and reductionism. We Are Music is an attempt to bring music back to the core of humanity as an agent of positive empowerment, self-actualization, and beyond.

It's Zany, Explosive, Funny, Felony-adjacent. Fast-Paced, Chaotic, Hilarious, Suspenseful, Wild, Twisty, Outrageous. Glitter covered.It's Sinful on the 4th of July.A throwback to the early days of Miss Fortune, Red, White, and Boom takes place one year after the events of Soldier of Fortune—and Fortune Redding has one simple goal for Sinful's Fourth of July celebration: no explosions, no bodies, no felony-level chaos, and absolutely no reason for C...

The SWAMP TEAM THREE is back for another exciting holiday adventure. This time, Fortune Redding is on the trail of a stolen treasure—a priceless Wigström egg. With the ever-sarcastic Ida Belle and the wild, unpredictable Gertie by her side, Fortune must navigate a web of secrets and lies to crack the case. Between Gertie's outlandish schemes and Ida Belle's dry wit, the investigation is filled with non-stop action, hilarit...

NEWEST RELEASES: FAME AND FORTUNE - 2025THE ICE QUEEN'S GAMBITAVAILABLE NOW!In the small, quirky town of Sinful, a senior ladies' softball game sparks off more than just a friendly competition. It sets into motion a series of events that pull the SWAMP TEAM 3 into a mystery where the clues are as abundant as gossip, but hard evidence?Casey Lawrence, new to town, is still reeling from the loss of her husband i...

A MISS FORTUNE Christmas story with chaos, Moon Pies, case law, and questionable glitter decisions.Hi. I'm Fortune Redding—ex-CIA, current small-town trouble magnet, and the only person you'll ever meet who can weaponize a cookie exchange.Here's the situation: a wandering troubadour with a red fedora wanders into The Pines and wakes up a forgotten chapel with music so pretty even curmudgeons say "amen." Enter one televangelist wannabe who wants to bulldoze said cha...

It's a stinky situation in Sinful. A box of rotten fish is placed under Celia's car and a highly illegal device explodes, totaling the car. Gertie was seen in the area but says she didn't do it, but only Fortune and Ida Belle believe her and there are no other suspects. The Swamp Team Three has to solve the crime in forty-eight hours before Gertie is arrested and faces a five-year prison sentence.Also, check out Stephen John's latest books, Night Music.

NEWEST RELEASES: FAME AND FORTUNE - 2025THE ICE QUEEN'S GAMBITAVAILABLE NOW!When a wealthy widow suddenly passes away from a heart attack, Fortune senses foul play. The Swamp Team 3 springs into action. However, before they can identify the murderer, they must first prove that the victim's death was not a result of natural causes. Along the way, Fortune, Ida Bell, and Gertie encounter numerous obstacles until an une...