Geared for the reluctant reader, each book in the Rez series is a fast paced page turner. I waste as little language as possible and have specific length goals before my fingers even touch the key board. To that end, my books focus on key interests or topics and float right around the 300 page mark - or less. Some of those topics include firearms and associated tactics, vigilante justice and street crime, and are injected with cool cars, mystery, violence and action.In Resolution, R...

Retired detective Jim Nash is headed for a much-needed vacation with the two favorite women in his life. When he pulls off the highway into a rest stop, his girlfriend disappears without leaving a trace. Left to his own devices when the local PD refuses to let him file a missing person report, Nash and Zelda pull out all the stops in their attempt to find the missing woman all on their own.

After the shooting of her partner, Pat Canella takes her leave but things on the journey don't go well and she ends up stranded in the desert with a bus load of passengers, can she rescue them?

Leaving Fantasy Land is a crime thriller with heart.Entering his early forties, Tram Taylor finds himself at a crossroads in his humdrum, boring life. His dream of being a cop died on the vine years ago. His marriage is slowly unraveling one tattered thread at a time. And his comic book store, Fantasy Land, is a brick and mortar testament to a life of failed dreams. However, all of that changes when a mysterious dead body suddenly turns up in the dumpster behind his store the day a...

A crime thriller starring two FBI agents up against the mob: "This series dazzles with fast, intricate plotting, terrific characters, and humor" ( Publishers Weekly).Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons were once odd-couple partners in crimesolving. But Gibbons has gone into retirement—and Tozzi has just gone renegade.After hot-headed Tozzi leaves a trail of bodies in his wake, Gibbons heads back to work to stop him. Instead, the two of them team up—and...

"Dennis' staccato prose keeps the pages turning." -- Jonathan Woods, author of BAD JUJU & Other Tales Of Mayhem And MadnessJack Barnett has had it with the private eye business. They took his license away in LA, and fearing criminal prosecution, he split town in the middle of the night for Las Vegas, where anyone can become anonymous.He swears off the business, but his money runs low and when a man offers him $5000 to find his missing daughter, he agrees. He soon wishes he ...

Long hours, short sleep, and fast cash. It's a young man's game and he plays it well. But even the best laid plans of man depend in part upon luck. He's been lucky so far, but will it hold?

A retired cop and his son, and daughter-in-law, moonlight, in their own detective agency. Tucker, the father, digs up the cases, while his son, Junior, works at the crime lab and his daughter-in-law works as an assistant DA. This case is about smuggling drugs from India in the form of tennis shoe soles

To the hard-boiled story of violence and death, J.C. Simmons has brought substance and depth of characterization. It is often said that he follows in the tradition of Kenneth Millar and John D. MacDonald, but Simmons has actually broken new ground. His novels have a social range and moral dimension that, in combination with a striking prose style and first person narrative drive, provide the reader with a rewarding experience.In this new and moving novel, Jay Leicester (pronounced "Lester"...

The Temporary Killer, the first of a series likened to Scooby-Doo or Goosebumps for adults, is a horror/mystery with a humourous edge. Why would someone shoot struggling horror writer Ed Sherman with a gun that belongs in a RoadRunner cartoon? Why is Ed now having falling hallucinations in enclosed rooms so badly that he has to use the bathroom with the door open? What connection is there between the three businessmen who were also shot and are now experiencing different daymares: eating s...

From former Lonely Planet author J.M. Porup comes this gritty South American noir...Rats ate his baby daughter while he partied in a disco. Now Horace "Horse" Mann is a drugged-out expat teaching English to criminals in Lima, Peru. Oh, and doing the odd favor for the CIA.When his Agency contact, Pitt Watters, goes missing, Horse's desperate efforts to find his only friend lead him to a Buddhist ashram on the shores of Lake Titicaca. There Horse uncovers his friend's involve...

Scandal on Nob HillThe first in a series of Sterling Quinn, detective extraordinare novellas (approx 42 pages).Sterling Quinn, the uncompromising police officer turned private detective, always found his way into the mind of the weak, determining their thoughts and deeds before they could react.His was a mind that was consistently precise and determined, yet at times imbalanced to the point of recklessness. He observed the world with a machine-like qu...