A grieving father goes missing following the gruesome death of his three-year-old daughter in an accident directly attributable to his own negligence. For reasons both personal and professional, private investigator Adam Fraley takes on the task of tracking down the father at the request of the dead child’s older sibling. In a case fraught with intrigue, danger, and the overhanging threat of family disintegration. Fraley’s search ultimately takes him to remote regions of Haiti where he dis...

During the course of his search for a man living off the grid in a remote stretch of the Sierra Nevada foothills, private investigator Adam Fraley suddenly finds himself the target of a deranged sniper who is determined to take him out. Behind the attempted execution is a mysterious mastermind who fears Fraley’s probing will uncover a link between the missing man he is in search of and a lucrative underground drug-trafficking scheme. Coming to the aid of Fraley in his hour of need is an un...

What begins as a simple lost love case for private investigator Adam Fraley quickly escalates into something of far greater magnitude during the course of his investigation. Not only is it a potential felony he stumbles across but one of the rarest in the catalog of crimes, all due to a critical piece of information having been withheld by his client, a terminally ill World War II vet. The job eventually takes Fraley to remote stretches of Florida’s Withlacoochee River and events that occu...

Following a tip from a prospective client, young private investigator Adam Fraley is soon on the trail of a killer cop, a top sheriff's detective who is about to get away his wife's murder.The winding trail eventually leads Fraley half way around the world to remote stretches of Siberia in an effort to build his case.In time, the dueling detectives find themselves operating behind enemy lines, targeting respectively the two women at the center of their lives. In the end, what...

The lives of an enchanting young girl and a determined detective become forever bound following an unconscionable Christmas Eve crime.It’s Christmas Eve and private investigator Adam Fraley has lost his way while traveling a remote rural road in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies during a heavy snowstorm.At a loss as to where to turn next, he happens upon an isolated cabin in the woods where he stops to seek directions. There to greet him is the dwelling’s lone inhabitan...

Six Critical Essays on Film is a clear, succinct guide to studying and understanding feature films as both a medium of communication and artistic expression. Intended for college and adult school students, this book offers a short - but diverse - selection of quality films from the 1920s through 1970s for review and application. The text provides active, workable solutions to break films down into their component parts, evaluate elements that work well, and identify those that miss their m...

Private investigator Adam Fraley and his colleague, Tamra Fugit, the woman to whom he is engaged, travel vastly different paths, as they take on two seemingly unrelated missing person cases. The trails take them through idyllic lands darkened by underworld intrigue, twisted relationships. carnal temptation, physical danger, and personal tragedy. Such are the legal ramifications they confront during their crossing of both state and international boundaries, that the FBI is eventually drawn ...

AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIMEUndercover and on the hunt for a dangerous gang, Roman DeWinter checks into Charity Ford's inn with just the clothes on his back and a loaded .38 revolver. It's just another assignment for Roman - simple, uncomplicated. But the federal agent has never know the comfort and warmth of home - and he soon finds himself under the spell of Charity, his beautiful and intriguing innkeeper. The only problem is, Roman has come looking for a criminal maste...

'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGee' LEE CHILDTravis McGee isn't your typical knight in shining armour. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: He'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.Travis McGee isn't particularly strapped for cash, but how can anyone say no to Cathy, a sweet girl who's been tortured repeate...

In this Christmas romance novella, a struggling veterinarian isn’t about to let a wealthy man steal her home . . . but he might steal her heart.Some people think owning buckets of money gives them the right of way. Well, if cosmetic king Peter King thinks he’s going to buy struggling veterinarian Andi Evans’s family property out from under her, he's got another thing coming. This Christmas, Andi is not in a giving mood . . . but is she ready to receive something he...

The Travis McGee series by John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - is one for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly and John Grisham not to miss. Skilfully tense and simultaneously laid-back with a real sense of time, place and character, this is a gripping read you won't be able to put down.'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGee' - ...

An electrifying story of vengeance and the sins of a nightmarish past featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.The sky above Puget Sound blazes orange, as a burning fishing boat fills the air with acrid smoke . . . and the sickening odor of charred flesh. The terrible death of a Seattle fisherman has raised more questions than answers, opening a Pandora’s Box of evil that was kept tightly closed for more than half a century. Now a dark cloud is descending over the...