Private Investigator, Mike Tine, finds himself empty-handed, beaten and unable to return to his home, a small apartment above his most trusted friend’s restaurant, Mitchy’s. As he searches for the girl a mysterious client has hired him to find, and then the client himself, he finds his friends turning into dangerous enemies he cannot avoid. Someone is watching his every move and that someone today is you.
In A WICKED GAME of TRUST (a 4-book series), you'll be taken into the underworld of the super powers with Jenny Peteskow. You'll meet people who control the happenings you see on the news from around the globe, and catch a glimpse of where leaders and operatives go when they wish to, or need to, hide from each other. You'll discover how a commercial jet liner can crash yet remain completely intact, everyone surviving except the two people a man wants captured and delivered to him. You'll learn what it feels like to fight, yet lose your freedom and completely disappear.
A cunning man with a vivid imagination and the money to bring reality to other people's fantasies, Theodore Duncan finds himself in a position to gain an unlikely ally in his efforts to locate a woman presumed dead for over a year, or discover who has taken her place. The woman he seeks, Anna Peteskow, is the one remaining of three power figures in the underworld of the world, enjoying the freedom to influence governments around the globe and eliminate those who oppose her without ever hitting a headline, if you don't count her understated obituary in an Ohio newspaper. The ally he discovers has all the power the rest of his people lack; she is Anna's youngest daughter. If Duncan can discover Anna Peteskow alive, Jennifer Peteskow can attest to Anna's absence from her family home at critical moments of world events, and if she will do that, others can attest to where Anna really was and with whom. But can Duncan trust this young woman who may be taking over Anna's operations, could be issuing orders to her operatives as artfully and secretly as her mother once did? Does Jenny, Anna Peteskow's youngest daughter, know what sinister things her mother has done while maintaining the unflappable appearance of a doting homemaker? Is Jenny Duncan's enemy, or a hapless fool caught up in a vengeful plot devised by her mother to get to him?
Cover to Cover Mysteries
A San Antonio Police Chief with a wicked past few know about and no one can resolve assembles and operates a gun-running, murderous crime ring from the top law enforcement seat in the city. What he says goes. Who he orders dead, killed. His crimes and those of his team are so quickly and cleverly concealed, his reputation seems unimpeachable.
How can he fail after years of untouched success? Who can figure out the system he's perfected to hide his crimes? Who can take him down?
Officer Bryan Smith, an officer in the department with only five years of police work to his credit notices a small change in one of his reports; a change he did not make; and worries that a fellow officer is trying to sabotage his career. The more evidence he sees mounting that someone is after his next promotion, the harder he pushes for answers and support from above him. And when the answers start coming, rapid-fire, from an unexpected ally, he's unprepared for the fallout.
When the big guy goes down, his family and people in the highest ranks of the department go down with him in a flurry of arrests.
Can a greatly diminished Police Department filled with inexperienced new faces and a hopeful new Chief cope with the devastating consequences of pissing off a man who has a city full of friends ready to move, on his instructions, against them? That’s what Mrs. Vanderbilt prays she can help them do, but the man who once had power and far-reaching influence is wreaking havoc on the city, taking his revenge for the destruction of his gun running empire and the humiliation of losing his prestigious position as Chief of Police in San Antonio, Texas.
Too confident that the worst of the former Chief’s people have been identified and rooted out of the once great department, the city police move forward, none suspecting the conspiracy to destroy them from the inside out and outside in.
UNDERFOOT AND UNNOTICED, corrupted officers of the San Antonio Police Department elude newly promoted detective, Brian Smith, and the interim Chief, Mrs. Vanderbilt, until a jailed officer breaks free. In a botched prisoner transfer, former Detective, Amanda Cromwell finds herself suddenly freed from a secret prison beneath the floors of the city jail after many long months Emaciated, deranged and terrified, she tries to get to Brian for help but is intercepted by Chief Vanderbilt before she can reach him. And when Brian sees her, despite her terrible condition, he is outraged that she has escaped. How can she convince them to save those she's left behind in the horrific secret cells when they are basking in the glory and reveling in the spotlight for rooting out all the corrupt officers in the department and jailing their leader - her?
Old Bill, Farmersville’s postmaster, losses his wife in a terrible fire everyone knows the Fenton’s started. Left to raise his daughters alone, he struggles to keep them on the straight and narrow as they come of age. Cindy Lou, the youngest, finds herself torn between two men: Cory, a very successful, much older, friend of her father’s and Jimmy Fenton, the son of her mother’s killers - the town outcast. While her father’s eyes and attention are focused on Cindy Lou, Esther, her older sister, takes comfort in the arms of another young man whose commitment to her is fickle and fleeting. What’s a girl to do with the best catch in town is ready and willing to marry her? How can she resist the advances of the town outcast when the very sight of him makes her and her father tremble - for very different reasons? Will Cory, the owner of the general store, win her love or will she risk everything to be with a boy whose reputation could destroy her own? Coming of age in Farmersville proves more challenging than Cindy Lou could ever have dreamed, when an innocent crush turns her tight-knit community upside down. Nothing is simple and everything has its price.
Old Bill’s family suffers more tragedy and Cindy Lou learns harsh realities about the choice she’s made between her two suitors. The decision made, she moves into a new life head-long and head-strong, but without some of the most important people in her life by her side.
The man she’s chosen is changing - and not for the better - while the one she rejected makes her regret her decision more and more each day.
As others try to help Old Bill’s family cope with many terrible changes, the townspeople and those they’ve long rejected must come to terms with one another. Will the choices Cindy Lou and her sisters made stand, or will time and the revelations of long-held secrets cause their new lives to crumble?
A carefully planned robbery at the Royal Sloop Shipping Company leaves two men dead and two employees under a cloud of suspicion. The investigating police detective knows who she suspects, but her history and reputation in the department stand between her and the criminals she knows she can bring to justice. A police lieutenant, a prosecutor, and a defense attorney become unlikely co-conspirators, each promoting their own agendas and careers, to protect the guilty.
Nearly losing his life when his best friend's house explodes, Peter Shaw is tormented by his need to find out who is behind not just his near-death experience, but a series of violent crimes that threatens those closest to him: his wife, his best friend, and his best friend's only child.
Despite his best efforts, the one person who can help him most side-steps his every attempt to solve the crimes she seems to know too much about.
As those around him fall victim, 'Pete' and his former partner, and best friend, retired Detective Jim Swartz, drive unswervingly toward the discovery of the menace that threatens their city and everything they hold dear.