Pete Thorsen is looking forward to a quiet vacation at Clear Lake. That changes when he meets Cara Lane and she turns up dead the following day in mysterious circumstances. Eyed as a suspect, bad things start to happen when he pokes around in self-defense. He's hassled in a bar and told to mind his own business, then is put under siege in his law firm when an anonymous tip comes in to his archrival. To cap it off, Pete is run off the road one night and left for dead. All alone, and with th...

A RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE OR MURDER? When Pete s friend is shot and killed while jet skiing, a firestorm of suspicion and tension roils the quiet lake community. It s personal for Pete, too, because his teenage daughter was only ten feet away when it happened. Then Pete discovers that the dead man not only had been leading a double life, but he d also been forging his signature on documents. All bets are off as Pete s forced to investigate on his own. In the days that follo...

Early April isn't the season for vandals, so when someone throws a bag of red fluid against Pete Thorsen's door in the middle of the night, he wonders what s going on. Then he sees the threatening note. A few nights later, his security alarm is triggered and he finds another note. Now Pete's antennae are on full alert and he's unnerved by the thought that someone has been lurking outside his home. The terrifying incidents continue, and as Pete searches for answers in his past, he clashes w...

What do you do when a former lover turns up dead...and you discover everything she told you was a lie? That question burns in Pete Thorsen's mind and as he searches for an answer, he finds himself caught up in a much wider deadly game. The twists and turns in Deceit will keep you nailed to your seat.

The brutal murder of a prominent real estate developer stuns the ake community and sets faction against faction. PeteThorsen stays out of it; he's still nursing emotional woulds from a case a year earlier. Then the victim'swidow asks him to help sort out her late husband;s financial affairs. He reluctantly agrees, believing the strict groundrules he's set will keep him out of the fray. But in a shadowy world of dirty money, sinister motives and festering grudges, nothing is certain. Bad th...

BENEATH THE FLAMBOYANCE . . . When an army buddy Pete Thorsen has barely seen in thirty years appears on his doorstep without notice, Pete s surprised, but chalks it up to his onetime friend s eccentric personality. Then he begins to notice things. Puzzled, Pete asks a detective he knows to check him out. The report: The man staying at his house is wanted for murder. Pete s stunned, but the man disappears before he can confront him. After the state police pick him up, the only way Pete can...

An accident . . . or murder? A prominent writer is fatally shot during a commemorative mock battle at which live ammunition was prohibited. Pete Thorsen gets dragged into the ensuing investigation when a close friend prevails upon him to represent one of the murder suspects. Trouble soon erupts on all fronts. Pete butts heads with his old nemesis, Sheriff Franklin Richter; the evidence against his client mounts daily; and his love interest turns on him whe...

Meet the West Texas Watchmen. "A smashing beginning! . . . The Sheriff is tightly plotted; the action is breathtaking and the characters captivating." — Fresh FictionSheriff Pete Morrison knows the secret in his past could destroy his father. Yet instead of resigning his job and exposing the lie, he finds himself protecting Andrea Allen—a beautiful astronomer who witnessed a gun-smuggling operation and a college student's abduction. Determined to b...

The second in the series consists of three novellas and one novel. All four stories are unique with Super Sleuth detective Stacy Foreham at the forefront of the homicide investigation.Murder at the Lighthouse involves a mysterious death by suffocation of a potato; Murder in the Pasture has a dairy farmer discovering a dead body executed mob style. The body is full of undigested cranberries complicating the motive; Murder in the Cranberry Bogs surprises two farmers of young models sh...

Hap and Leonard is now a Sundance TV series starring James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams.Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, the kings of East Texas mischief and mayhem, return in this full-throttle thriller to face off with the Dixie Mafia.When Leonard is asked to rescue a teenage girl from a lowly drug dealer, he gladly agrees and invites Hap along for the ride. Everything goes according to plan, until they find out the dealer is a member of the...

A bored, disgraced ex senator decides to clear his name by writing an autobiography. His fellow cronies take issue with his publication. Is it murder or suicide? Marshall Stacy Foreham has to sort through the political tangles to discover the truth. Secondly, we have a murder of a university professor who has received tenure under questionable circumstances. The suspects are many including his live-in partner. The third story is a short novel involving a psychopathic murderer who has his o...