about the author

It was a routine case of blackmail of a young Hollywood starlet. Jax Manetti had solved many of these types of cases as a senior detective with the L.A.P.D. and in his private investigations practice. Such crimes are not unusual with the famous and almost famous in La La Land where your public persona is your meal ticket. As an investigator paid by the hour, you need to solve the case and send a final invoice. Let it go. Move on. But when curiosity leads you to being the only suspect in a double murder, letting go means life in prison. But fighting crooked cops and powerful people of wealth may mean losing your life. Jax Manetti will soon find himself deep in a cesspool of corruption that will change his life. Forever.

 Living through the turbulent 1960s and 1970s was challenging enough for young men of draft age, women, and minorities, but for Matthew Holloway, the omnipresent guilt from one tragic night would change his life forever. With his dream of becoming a celebrated novelist, his semi-autobiographical stories become a cathartic search for redemption. From a small Oklahoma town to the events that shaped the two most consequential decades of the twentieth century, Matthew becomes an active spectator to student riots, the Vietnam War, the Los Angeles drug culture, the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the Woodstock festival, assassinations, and political scandal, as he seeks emotional release from the dark secret he carries. 

Marvin Hawkins finally found success with his novel, Diary of a Hitman, when it climbed near the top of the New York Times bestseller list. But after receiving a one hundred-thousand-dollar retainer from his publisher for his next novel, he learns that writer's block is not a myth. In desperation, he plagiarizes a manuscript written by a former student in the creative writing class he teaches in Danbury, Connecticut. When confronted by the true author after the new novel's critical acclaim, the former student is mysteriously murdered. Marvin now finds himself the protagonist in his own real-life drama, but this one has deadly consequences.

Senior Detective David McCullough has spent twenty-five years pursuing murderers, rapists, and the most craven elements of society. But he has seen too many violent criminals escape justice for their crimes through incompetent prosecution, plea bargaining, legal technicalities, biased jurors, and other flaws in the judicial system. Incensed at the failings of the justice system and learning that other police officers throughout Oklahoma feel the same way, David creates The Oklahoma Justice League for a select group of law officers to administer their own brand of justice. But when League justice becomes vigilante justice, David feels he must extricate himself from the creation of his own making, putting himself and his family on a deadly path.

Trying to begin a new life is often like escaping a tar pit. The past sticks to you. Michael Turner's dream of a new life after leaving a Chicago-based drug syndicate where he was the primary enforcer, becomes a nightmare. He quickly learns there are no safe exits from his past, not even in his boyhood home in rural Oklahoma to which he has returned to start his new life. He has one more job to do for the syndicate as part of his "retirement" agreement with his boss, but when the town's chief of police, who is also the ex-husband of his new love interest, begins investigating his past, his hitman ethics of only killing "bad" people are put to the test. And those ethics may cost him his life and the life of his girlfriend and her daughter. With the syndicate and law enforcement closing in, he has to make the ultimate choice.