Red City Review awarded "Chinese Puzzle" First Prize in its Mystery/Thriller category."As the first novel in a trilogy, T.M. Raymond's Chinese Puzzle is full of action, mystery, facts, and lies.T.M. Raymond has created a story that is captivating and thorough, keeping readers interested throughout the novel and projecting interest onto the coming two sequels. Each of the characters in the novel have a distinct background that is explained within the novel, creating motivatio...

Detective Zephyr Davies has worries about his romance with lovely Eurasian Monica Marshall. Smart, charmingly eccentric, and sexy as hell, the one woman who finally won his heart, also seems capable of cutting it out of his chest cavity, chopping it up, sautéing it with onions and mushrooms, and serving it with a radiant smile on her face. How can someone so lovely be so deadly? In this sequel to Chinese Puzzle the mystery begins with a man disappearing from an elaborately sealed shipboard...

In the depression ravaged America of nineteen-thirty, five men are found dead in a crowded speakeasy, sitting serenely and unmarked in their chairs. The scene is nearly pastoral, yet those present are so severely traumatized that even a sadistic gangster is sobbing and unwilling to discuss what happened. A diverse, dysfunctional trio of detectives investigates, battling racism and themselves as they discover a crime that is grandiose and terrible in its conception.

The reading of the will, a storm swept island cut off from the outside world, and a band of greedy heirs menaced by a disfigured maniac - it's been done many times before, but never like this - with logic, humor and realism. In this fourth book from the No Sin Mystery series, it's 1931 and Zephyr Davies and his eccentric associates must survive a night in a maze-like mansion by outwitting a series of devilish traps and puzzles while fending off a killer who may or may not be human.

Abandoned to freeze to death in a winter forest by his father because of his homosexuality, Jonathan desperately struggles to survive, until he accidentally stumbles upon Dan, who owns a cabin in the woods.Dan has been fighting his own demons since the death of his lover Sean. Having retreated from big city life, he is content to live in solitude, but he never counted on meeting Jonathan.Given the dire circumstances, Dan must set his own needs aside to help Jonathan reclaim...

The Ghost Wars is a literary science fiction work focused on identity, diversity and the spiritual underpinnings of the nature of good and evil. Set in Vancouver, Canada; our protagonist RCN Captain Billington sees the world from a higher vantage point of a world in which money is no longer man’s ruler, where the health of the planet and the body politic trump all. Alternating between three interconnecting lives, Jason Bowen, Cole Billington and Cecil Smith each have their own individual e...

(Second Edition) Dale Parish is confronted by a ghost when his ex-bestfriend shows up on his doorstep after four years. The reunion is bittersweet because while Dale is happy to see his friend again he is once again haunted by the memories of their last encounter. Can he accept an honest apology and move on or will he allow bad blood to keep him from moving on?

Five stories of gay love, from young lovers to fantasy spanning time and space. Hot reads from the pen of Harold C. Jones.

Natalie Dvorak Mysteries #3When a Sasquatch researcher turns up dead in a state park, one of his colleagues blames the legendary monster for the killing. Detective-Sergeant Natalie Dvorak of the Vermont State Police isn't buying it but her investigation doesn't turn up any obvious human suspects. An important witness goes missing and new signs of the Sasquatch appear even as the wife of Natalie's boyfriend complicates the detective's personal life. Natalie joins with the remaining ...

Join Aiden and Finn as they fall in love and share with us snippets of their journey. From their unorthodox meeting, to falling in love, becoming a family and their happy ever after.

Tom Langley Sharpe III is a teenager who probably has it all. He is an only child in a wealthy family that owns a ranch that trains race horses. When he was still a teenager, he discovered that he had a thing for other men, at one point even making a hit on Valerie, a man of French decent who worked for them. Valerie works as an all rounder, valet, chauffeur, right hand man for the family, and especially for Thomas Langley Sharpe III, Tom's father. Valerie is very close to the family and k...

When psychic (and hubcap retailer) Wanda Alewine pays a late-night visit to Myrtle Clover, she urges the octogenarian sleuth to head straight to Greener Pastures Retirement Home. But Wanda doesn't want Myrtle to consider the Home's dubious amenities--she wants Myrtle to prevent a murder seen in a vision.Reluctant Myrtle investigates with sidekick Miles, who seems a lot more interested in Greener Pastures than she is. As the duo digs, they uncover more than just Sudoku and Scrabble—...