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It’s 1882 and once again Oliver Redcastle is about to dive into mayhem. He’s no stranger to bloodshed. Memories of the men he has killed, first as a Pinkerton Detective, then as a Union Army sharpshooter haunt his days -- and his nights. He dreams of putting his past behind him and, upon learning that he has unexpectedly inherited a house in...

Ex-Pinkerton and ex Union sharpshooter Oliver Redcastle is hired to find a kidnapped boy. His search takes him to the mean streets of Baltimore in 1884 and the dangerous harbor where many unwary immigrants are sacrificed in the “Oyster Wars.” To save a child Oliver must confront grave-robbers, mediums, unscrupulous physicians, a mad scientist...

PASSIONATE LOVERS AND DEADLY ENEMIES. It’s a scorching July in the summer of 1884. William Pinkerton has sent Oliver Redcastle to the Midwestern island paradise of Put-in-Bay. The assignment seems simple: capture a tight-rope-walking train robber. But two beautiful women, a dangerous cult, and reminders of Oliver’s Civil War past complicate the...

1885 FLORIDA: WILD PIGS AND WILDER PEOPLE! Winner of the Silver Palm for the Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Award, Trouble in Tampa is a thrilling look at the Wild South of Florida in 1885. An easy assignment for sharpshooter and ex-Pinkerton investigator, Oliver Redcastle, turns deadly.
A wealthy Baltimore art collector sends an...

THEY WERE DEADLY BEAUTIFUL. 1886 New Mexico and troubles swarm. Sharpshooter and ex-Pinkerton detective, Oliver Redcastle, opts for the quiet life. Hoping to leave his violent past behind and provide his asthmatic young daughter a healthy environment, he settles on a sheep ranch with a mountain view.

As capricious as she is gorgeous, Marietta...

Dearth on the High Seas! It’s 1888 and Oliver Redcastle’s teenaage daughter, Chloe, goes missing.

Kidnapped by an unscrupulous orchid-hunter, she disappears into Florida’s vast watery wilderness, the Everglades.

To find her the ex-Pinkerton detective crosses an ocean, battles an assassin, defies murderous train robbers, and confronts...

Oliver Redcastle Takes on London Intrigue. His on-again, off-again lover, Marietta, faces a murder charge and, possibly, the hangman. To save his daughter’s fickle mother, Oliver, reluctantly, crosses the Atlantic. Little does he know that to rescue her he’ll have to deal with a ruthless spymaster, professional assassins, and a murky welter of...

Oliver comes home to murder. An arch enemy hunts him, his friends, and those he loves. Multiple Murders, a scheme to steal an enormous chunk of western land, and problems at home beset Oliver Redcastle. To protect his family and survive his foes he must untangle a web of malice and deceit. Discover Oliver Redcastle Mysteries.

A murdered warrior, a threatened inheritance, and more than one beautiful woman in trouble--once again Oliver Redcastle plunges into chaos.
When an enormous painted canvas depicting a crucial Civil War battle gets stolen and repainted to misrepresent the event, Hannah Kinchman, a female colleague of Oliver’s, investigates. She calls on him to...

Step into a world brimming with grandeur, mystery, and danger as intrepid detective, Oliver Redcastle, takes center stage in a captivating Gilded Age tale. Rebel Hoard weaves an intricate web of post-Civil War intrigue, unleashing a whirlwind of suspense and adventure that will leave readers spellbound from the very first page.

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Oliver Redcastle’s enemies are out for blood. Appease them, foil them, or do a disappearing act?
Before he can find a way to elude his lethal adversaries, he must save his daughter from a merciless scam artist, and see her through a crisis.
There’s more! Can he outshoot a persistent Civil War opponent, ferret out the cause of a brutal accident,...

Finding a cheap apartment in this city can be murder. Dyslexic decorator, Toni Credella, accidentally shot her abusive cop husband. Broke and wracked with guilt, she needs new digs. When she finds a place in a great neighborhood that’s a steal, she grabs it. Just one catch. A young woman had been murdered there only three months earlier.

Before...

WHAT FATAL SECRETS ARE BURIED IN BALTIMORE? When Toni Credella teams up with a tough private investigator in hopes of getting her own PI license, she finds herself investigating one crime too many.
What’s the connection between the murder of a homeless woman and a young girl who met a mysterious death decades earlier? Why has that forgotten girl...

Mystery/Suspense: Toni wants a decent home of her own. Instead, she gets “Metal Men,” a drive-by shooting, a puzzling death by fire, a mysterious faucet, two hunky men vying for her favor and more flack from her family. Is Toni up to the challenge? You needed to ask?

TONI CREDELLA TAKES ON MURDER. Since the tragic day when she shot her abusive cop husband in self-defense, dyslexic Toni Credella has been barely scratching out a living. To make ends meet Toni plays bodyguard to a beautiful opera singer with underworld connections and a violent boyfriend.
When that boyfriend threatens Toni, she knows she’s in...

Sally Dunphy has had a rough eighteen months. Then she hears her ex-fiance has taken a dive off a bridge. Convinced that Joe, who had everything going for him, would never kill himself over her, as his note implied, Sally demands some answers. She teams up with rugged rugged Duke Spikowski, an old friend who’s also a police detective, to...

It’s 1942. Nazis have taken Paris prisoner. Beautiful Ariane Chancel, along with many of the city’s other inhabitants, is desperate to break out. But some Parisians prefer revenge to escape.
Along with the Nazis who patrol the streets like sharks, Paris teems with ruthless thieves and murderers. Some are collaborators who aid and abet the city’s...

A driven scientist, a pitiless Voodoo priest, and a woman confounding time, lock in a deadly duel of deceit and betrayal. Beautiful antiques dealer, Ariane Bragonier, is a woman with a secret. She lives for two things: love...and revenge. And Ariane has lived a long time—three hundred years and counting.

In search of justice for her brutally...

A FLEDGLING GODDESS MUST STEAL BACK HER POWER FROM A RUTHLESS KING. During her first testing at the sacred pool of her ancestors, Reawen learns she must steal back the green stone that confirms her mystical power. The stone was stolen from her mother by Brone, the country’s king.

Cheated of her birthright as Domis of the Peninsula’s Waters,...

In this captivating fantasy book for middle-grade children, Clare and Johnny are unhappy in their new neighborhood. They embark on a year-long fairy-tale adventure.
On nights of the full moon, they shrink in size and sail down the creek in the backyard of their new home in a toy sailboat. Their mission is to recover the links of a magical chain.
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