THE CHICKEN HUNT is Jim Scott Book #43. In it Army Sergeant Major Kenneth (Ken) Novak, is due to retire later in the day, has found a house to buy in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, and goes into a bank there to open a new checking account.That day, and the next, cram quite a bit into the life of Ken. He gets the account open, and a date with the lady who opens it, gets his discharge, and is called back to active duty in the Army. Also, on the date he manages to stop a man from shootin...

ANGIE DOES HAWAII is Jim Scott Book #39. This novel is a humorous Romance novel (with a WWII mystery tossed in). Angie Breite, the wife of Navy Captain Vic Breite, informs him she has purchased, with his approval and signature on the contract, a four and half acres piece of property, for $50,000.00. Due to the land prices in Hawaii, the price was way below what it should have been. The rub was there was a building, called a mansion or a castle, by Angie, which was in total disrepair. They ...

THE NAKED PLUMBER is Jim Scott Book #37. This is another cozy mystery. In it, Detective Ward Newman of the Troy Police department is assigned a case where a headless body is found. After finding the head, and determining it had been cut off with a sharp instrument, after death, the search is on for the killer. After doing some investigating, it is soon determined there are a number of possible suspects, including the local prosecuting attorney, but reasonable alibis start to pile up. One p...

JSB #40 – X GROUP, is an action packed thriller starting off with recently forced to retire CIA agent Larry White seeing two men trying to abduct a small, 5'5" woman, named Joan Dodge. While she fights back with some degree of success, Larry goes to lend her a hand. Between them, they disarm the two men, and scare off the driver of the van the men had come out of. Larry soon finds out Joan has just been fired by Homeland Security, and in short order they discover they are both unemployed f...

Short Stack With Bacon is a cozy mystery, featuring Betty Cain who comes home after getting a medical discharge from the Army from wounds suffered in Afghanistan while she is attached to a supply battalion. Arriving home, she immediately goes to work in the café owned by her grandparents, and Ward Newman comes in. They went to school together, with Betty being one class in front of Ward. Both were aware of the other back then, but nothing ever came of their mutual interest…since n...

GENE'S LONG TREK is Jim Scott book #42. In it, recently retired Army Special Forces Sergeant Major Gene Foreman bought a house needing substantial rehabilitation. His idea was to flip the house after he did all the rehab work needed on the house, mostly by himself. When he had in his mind that the house about 80% finished, he is worn out, and decides to stop for a while. He had been thinking about looking up an old friend from the Army, one who had, in Gene's words, taught him how to be so...

A Sailor's Christmas, Jim Scott Books #36, sees Navy Lieutenant Victor (Vic) Breite, and his adopted 13 year old daughter, Patty, arrive at the Dardenne Prairie, Missouri home of his recently deceased parents. His mission is to handle the estate of this parents with their attorney, Michelle Becker. A neighbor of his parents, Angela Marian, comes home from work at the same time they arrive. Angie is a single mother, who had raised her 21 year old son, and enjoying being alone, now that he w...

A MILITARY CHRISTMAS, Jim Scott Books #38, is a romance novel, with two romances going on. It has a good deal of humor, and some action, including an F-22 flameout and emergency landing in a small Missouri town. The first romance, in that same small town, has all kinds of problems. A Marine, who has a bionic leg, and bionic eye as a result of wounds received in action, is due for a Medical Discharge from the Corps. But, he is home for the days leading up to Christmas, as he is to be discha...

DINGUS MONROE is Jim Scot Book #41. In this book, Dingus is now employed by X Group, and is tasked with tracking down a rouge senator, who has been selling government secrets to the Chinese for years, and has also profited from pushing bills in Congress favoring various companies, at a great reward for him. He also pilfered his own various campaign funds of a great amount of money.He has a well-designed escape plan, which he puts to use when he discovers someone has found out his m...

Three characters introduced in Monster's Palace—Clyde Feegle, Josephine (Jo) Kelly, and Mitch Melosi—return in this book, Escape From Mexico, Jim Scot Books #27. Clyde becomes a partner in Bob Becker and Bill Hedden's detective/protection agency. He and Jo move into a new home, constructed for them on Bob's estate.The three partners get into a shootout with members of a drug cartel, intent on killing a St. Charles, Missouri judge. The cartel then adds the three men to their hit lis...

Horace Goes Home is the second Bader trilogy book, and 20th Jim Scott book, though Jim again only gets a mention or so, but Hector Garcia gets a good deal more involved. In this book, Elmer and friends deal with a case involving six murders committed by members of a Los Angeles organized crime organization. The crime boss decides to eliminate Elmer along the way. During the course of the case, a wino is found who witnessed five of the murders, and an old friend from the Janitors and Asps l...

BETTY CAIN'S CANE, Jim Scott Book #35, is another cozy mystery featuring Betty Cain and Ward Newman as well as Jim Scott, and friends. A rich man's wife seemingly has been kidnapped, only to find out she has in fact been murdered. The non-grieving husband is soon paced right at the top of the suspects list, with his sister soon to follow. During the course of the investigation Ward, now the lead detective for the Troy, Missouri Police Department, as much as he dislikes the husband, comes t...