Mysteries

Prequels to B.D. Lawrence mystery novels

Partners in Crime: A Jake Sledge Mystery
One way out of a lawsuit is by murder.

The new client of Sledge Hammer Detective Agency was being sued by a drunk that hit his car. That is until the drunk was murdered. With the client’s handgun. Sledge and Bobo muck through River City in an attempt to exonerate their client of murder.

Blood on the Cat
A Marble Hill Mystery

A brutal murder rocks Marble Hill. Chief Petrosky untangles a web of lies to find the killer. With a mysterious bloodstained cat as his primary clue, Tom delves deep into a couple’s dark secrets.

Phillip Angelo Mysteries

Road to Matagalpa
Phillip Angelo Origin Story

In the mountains above San Ramon, Nicaragua, Phillip Angelo’s life takes a drastic and unanticipated turn. He meets someone who has been pursuing him for most of his life.

Lost Children
Modern day apostle. Private Investigator. Specializes in finding lost people.

Phillip Angelo is directed to three lost children. Guided by the Spirit, he must take them back to their mother. Can God forgive a mother for abandoning her children?

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Sitting on a Park Bench
A Phillip Angelo Mystery

Private Detective Phillip Angelo, finder of lost people, is broadsided with a strong feeling of evil as he watches a man on a park bench who is watching little children.

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To Die is Gain
A Phillip Angelo Mystery

Phillip Angelo falls asleep in his apartment and wakes up in a small home in the Yunnan province, China. Along with his partner Michael Frasure, Phillip must find someone who is lost and who may be the key to stopping the killings and disappearances.

Stand Alone Mysteries

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Nothing But the Best
A Cisco the Cat Mystery

Cisco the cat finds a dead body in the school he lives in. Along with the help from the school janitor, the provider of Cisco’s tuna, he investigates the death.

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Double Jeopardy
A Jake Sledge Mystery

She comes to Jake Sledge for help with her sister. But when Jake agrees to help, he runs into double trouble. 

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Attics
Who is that hiding in the attic?

A patient goes missing from the St. Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center. A psychiatrist and his wife are murdered. Detective Michael Ray must solve the murder and find the escaped patient, while battling demons of his own housed inside the facility.

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Life Debt
Someone is killing poachers in Rathambhore Tiger Reserve

Safari host Jeffrey Wilson is concerned about his clientele, especially the ones who pay him under the table to hunt in the reserve. He enlists Shekhar Singh, an Indian Forest Service officer, to help stop the killer. For the scheme to work, Shekhar will have to renege on his life debt and he’s not sure he can do that.

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Trapped
Interviews of a killer and a detective

A story that is all dialog. Two people being interviewed. One is a murderer and one is the detective who caught him. The questions being asked are not printed, only the responses.

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Buried Feelings
A mystery with alternative endings.

Dennis Tipton is sleeping soundly when he wakes to pounding at his door. When he answers he comes face to face with the cutest cop he’d ever seen. His Airedale, was barking incessantly and a neighbor had complained. This brings Dennis and Suzanne together. Behind their relationship, is a buried secret as to why the dog was barking.