An immense asteroid struck the Earth one fine spring day without the amount of advance warning the experts had planned for and expected. If it had, countless millions of lives could have been saved. Or maybe not. Was the asteroid a planet killer? On this the experts disagreed. The only clear thing was that the Earth faced a cataclysm of a degree unknown since the dinosaurs shared a similar fate. But those behemoths and strange winged creatures were entirely unprepared to deal with the afte...

The long-awaited sequel to 2015's Dark Fire: Yesterday's Tears, finds billionaire tech genius Edan Duff and his wife, Jane Garrison, the ex-military pilot and master combatant better known as Sim, repatriated to the United States and back in their cliff side California home. Their return followed a years-long self-imposed exile in Barbados to avoid imprisonment or worse by the ruthless former U.S. President, whose wrath they incurred after permanently disabling the time travel device Edan ...

Have you ever felt unheard by your physician? In his new book, Dr. Benson Evans provides a shrewd and critical analysis of the failings of the American healthcare system as it relates to patient care.At only 24 years old, Dr. Benson Evans had his first brush with a misdiagnosis. Fatigued, gaining weight, and mounting depression loomed over his head, but the four different physicians he saw over 18 months couldn't decide what was wrong - and their "solutions" never actually solved h...

Body of Work, the 11th entry in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series by author David M Benson, opens with the gruesome murder of a wealthy art collector at his waterfront mansion in Miami Beach. Carina, recently out of a brief retirement, had joined the Florida Department of Law Enforcement--the state's FBI--and now headed up the region's Investigations and Forensic Science unit. The nature of the killing prompted Miami Beach PD to request that she join the investigation. Her first ...

The Six Wives of Jenny the 8th centers on rich and beautiful Jennifer York's journey of self discovery, Hollywood success and the six women who infiltrate and infuse her heart. It is a tale of love, lust, jealousy, condemnation and retribution that is both a modern update of King Henry the 8th's marital sagas and a timeless portrait of one woman's personal struggles to navigate her world. The six women's varying stays in Jenny's life are marked by unforeseen twists and turns, and move, ove...

Death on the Vine, the 10th book in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series, opens as five college-age men from well-to-do suburban Atlanta families attend a demonstration in Fort Lauderdale in June 2020. But as night falls, the formerly peaceful push for equal rights morphs into a riot and, during the melee, one of the young men produces a gun and shoots a plain clothed police officer, who dies in the street. Carina Quintana, Chief of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, witnesses t...

The unsolved murder of a reclusive Brooklyn woman whose badly beaten body was discovered in a windswept corner of Prospect Park…. A killer whose unique affliction calls up a blinding, crimson rage impossible to control….Enter a Manhattan surgeon named Damon Fox, who walked away from medicine in his prime for the very different life of private detecting in South Florida, leaving a hospital's worth of baffled former colleagues in his wake. One of them is the dead woman's sister, who ...

Havana Homicide is the latest in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series by Kirkus Award winning author David M Benson. Something as prosaic as a police chiefs convention brings Carina to Havana but she's got way stronger Cuban connections than that. Her grandparents emigrated from Cuba just before Castro's revolution, bringing Carina's Cuban-born father to the the United States. And her family history, particularly that of her tough guy grandfather, who ran a casino in Havana for the ...

The ninth installment in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series, Three Strikes and You're Dead pits the tough and beautiful Fort Lauderdale police chief against the worst sort of serial killer imaginable. A profiler's nightmare, this cleverly disguised, merciless merchant of death travels the country picking his victims at random and inflicting mortal damage of the most heinous sort. And to Carina's dismay, the killer changes up his MO as often as most people change their lunch orders...

The latest Carina Quintana Mystery, from Kirkus Award winning author David Benson, has Carina facing her first homicide as Assistant Chief of the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida PD.When the body of a young woman washes up on the beach in front of a local luxury hotel, a little digging sets Carina on the trail of Rayce de Marco, an infant terrible of the high fashion world with mob ties and a penchant for private jets and the super-heated late night club scene of South Beach.The dea...

Money Side Up is the seventh in the award-winning Carina Quintana Mysteries series. Money Side Up opens as Carina and a cadre of Florida law enforcement officers find themselves in a deadly firefight with an outlaw biker gang trying to complete a major drug deal. In the aftermath, Carina is faced with the striking but even more deadly Regina Roy, twin sister of the gang's local leader, who was killed in the melee. Regina is now out of the shadow of her brother and free of his tyrannous con...

Detective Carina Quintana's latest challenge takes on an unwelcome personal flavor in the harrowing Dead On a Rival. When the apparent accidental fall of a handsome Brazilian tycoon from a luxury cruise ship in the Caribbean interrupts Carina's holiday with the edgy Alice, Carina is not the only one to wonder if murder might not be a more accurate description for what happened in this particular case of man overboard. Enlisted to investigate by the ship's captain and security officer, it i...