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Join Detective Joe Ezell in 1940s Los Angeles as he solves three murder mysteries with a woman of mysterious identity, a VA Nurse and an aspiring actress.
BOOK 1: Murder Me Twice - Joe Ezell, GI turned gumshoe, pays the bills by catching philandering husbands for rich dames wanting a divorce. When Faye Marten darkens his door, she doesn't quite fit the bill, but she is willing to pay. A few hours later, Hal Marten, the man Faye hired him to dog,...
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VA Nurse Found Dead, Murderer At Large in Stairway to Murder by P.J. Conn. Los Angeles, California, Summer, 1947World War II G.I. turned gumshoe, Joe Ezell is hunting a murderer. A Los Angeles VA hospital nurse has been found dead, and RN Mary McBride, the love of Joe's life, is next. Has the Black Dahlia killer struck again or was it one of the VA hospital doctors trying to keep a malpractice case under wraps? There are too many suspects, too few...
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Famed Cellist Dies Fashionably in Murder on Stilettos by P. J. Conn-- Los Angeles, 1947 –-Constance Remson, a wealthy young society woman, hires Joe Ezell to follow the man she is dating, Matteo de Milano--a famed cellist known for his brief but torrid affairs. Joe finds the amorous musician dead, the victim of a savage assault with a stiletto heel. Now, Constance wants Joe to solve the mystery surrounding her former lover's death. But, with a long...
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Up and Coming Starlet Gets ICED in, Murder on Ice by P.J. Conn. Los Angeles, California, 1947When aspiring actress Cookie Crumble is found dead in a refrigerator in a vacant apartment, the police immediately suspect the landlord's son whose father hires gumshoe PI Joe Ezell to find the true killer. With a long list of suspects from ardent fans, to jealous lovers, to the mobster who Cookie rebuffed, Joe goes undercover as an actor. Did Cookie's dreams...
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Insurance Executive Implicated in Murder of Mysterious Woman in Murder Me Twice by P.J. Conn. Los Angeles, California, 1947Joe Ezell, GI turned gumshoe, pays the bills by catching philandering husbands for rich dames wanting a divorce. Then Faye Marten darkens his door. She doesn't quite fit the bill, but she is willing to pay. A few hours later, Hal Marten, the man Faye hired him to dog, arrives asking for help. The cops believe Hal murdered his...
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Present Day - Long Island, New York and New York City
When syndicated romance columnist John Hunter is found dead from an apparent overdose, the townspeople of the sleepy Long Island hamlet of Eastpoint accept the outsider's death in stride. But, when Police Chief Hank Reed discovers a secret room filled with lewd paintings featuring local married women, panic erupts.
Faced with a town full of suspects, Hank investigates a crime that no one wants...
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A Psychologist Reaches Out to Private Investigator, Hank Reed, to Find a Missing Woman in The Edge of Murder, a Crime Thriller by Fred Lichtenberg
--Present Day – Long Island and Ft. Lauderdale--
Former Detective, Hank Reed, tackles his first case as a Private Investigator when a woman goes missing in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Believed emotionally fragile, Elizabeth was last seen in the apartment of Psychologist, Dr. Nick Ross, after a night of passionate...
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Greed, Betrayal and Murder Stain an Ivied Mansion Community Along Newport, Rhode Island's Rugged Shores in Murder on the Rocks, a Crime Mystery by Fred Lichtenberg
--Present Day – Paris, Rhode Island and New York City--
While returning to New York from Paris, Det. Hank Reed is approached by a Parisian woman, Patrice Dubois, fearful her American fiancé, Luke Dupont, an investigative reporter, is in danger. Intrigued by the beautiful woman and...
9) Dropped Dead
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Bodies are dropping in on newly-minted private detective Jett Jorgensen in Dropped Dead, a murder mystery from S.L. Menear.
-Banyan Isle, Florida, Present Day-
Having just opened her new Valkyrie Private Detective Agency, Jett Jorgensen is eager for new clients but doesn't anticipate the bodies being dropped on her estate-dead men with their feet in concrete buckets.
While possessing a dark secret that could kill everyone around her, Mona Wang...
10) Dead Ends
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Mystery and Murder Collide in an Unforgettable Soiree of Suspense in Dead Ends, a Murder Mystery from S.L. Menear
- Palm Beach County, Present Day -
When a renowned British MP is found murdered, Jettine Jorgensen finds herself at the heart of another chilling mystery. Just two months following the harrowing body-drop murders, Jett hosts a ten-day Mystery Fest at her illustrious Valhalla Castle, bringing together the crème de la crème of mystery...
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Crime Boss Gunned Down, Chuck McCrary Accused of Murder in Double Fake, Double Murder, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
When an organized crime boss is gunned down in the street, the police finger one of their own homicide detectives, Jorge Castellano, whose wife was threatened. Desperate, Castellano hires his best friend, Mexican-American private investigator Carlos "Chuck" McCrary, to find out who framed him.
A disgraced former police...
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Ex-Special Forces Operative, Ex-Cop, and Newly Minted Private Investigator Carlos McCrary, Tackles Assasins, Organized Crime and Damsels in Distress-Three Full-Length Murder Mystery Thriller Novels in One
Book 1:Six Murders Too Many
It looks like a simple paternity case, but nothing is simple when 400 million dollars is at stake. Things quickly spiral out of control when a paid assassin and a cast of disreputable characters enter the scene to make...
13) Debt of Honor
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When a buddy saves your life, you owe him a debt-especially if he's dead.
When a headless corpse bearing a familiar tattoo washes onto a sunny South Florida beach, paradise turns to hell for Private Investigator Carlos McCrary. The mutilated body belongs to a man who saved McCrary's life a decade prior and half-a-world away-a debt of honor he intends to repay.
While the police search for the killer, McCrary sets out to do what only he can do…enact...
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A Missing Person, a Decade of Secrets Unveiled, and a Race Against Time in Four Years Gone, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
Carlos "Chuck" McCrary's sunny morning in his South Florida beachside condo turns stormy when Crazy Aunt Carrie calls. Her daughter Emily-Chuck's cousin-appeared last night in a vision. "Mom, I'm here. Come find me. I need you." Haunted by his failure to find his missing cousin four years earlier, Chuck revisits...
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Inside the Gangs and Outside the Law in McCrary's Justice, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
When a Nebraska farmer's daughter is trafficked by a South Florida sex slave ring, her cryptic texts point to a foreign diplomat. The police-their hands tied by diplomatic immunity-direct the distraught father to Carlos McCrary, PI, for the kind of justice only McCrary can deliver.
McCrary soon uncovers a network of sexual slavery and drug trafficking...
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Murder is on Stage in Yesterday's Trouble, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
When NBA superstar Marvelous LeMarvis Jones bankrolls the first concert for his fiancee, Cleo, an unbalanced cyberstalker takes issue with the prominent couple's interracial relationship.
Cleo dismisses the threats, but LeMarvis hires Private Investigator Carlos McCrary to provide security for Cleo's Summer Fun Concert Tour.
The situation turns deadly when a...
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Old Friends and Old Secrets Collide in Day of the Tiger, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
Retired NFL player Tank Tyler is an influential, wealthy financial advisor-a Tiger by anyone's definition. Tank's old college teammate, Al Rice, is drowning in drugs and debt-a miserable failure. Old loyalties and old secrets run deep, and Tank keeps bailing out his no-account friend.
Al Rice is targeted by Monster Moffett, a loan shark who crushes...
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When A Billionaire's Fortune is Up for Grabs, a Murderous Schemer is Willing to Kill in Six Murders Too Many, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
Ex-special forces operative, ex-cop, and newly forged private investigator, Carlos McCrary, lands a client whose uber-wealthy father has died. It seems Daddy had a sweet young wife, who recently gave birth to a child she claims is heir to half the family fortune.
It looks like a simple paternity...
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The Fix is In as a Woman's Life Hangs in Jeopardy in Quarterback Trap, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
Graciela Perez, gorgeous fiancée of quarterback Bob Martinez, disappears one week before the Super Bowl. Martinez hires Carlos McCrary to find her but won't let McCrary involve the police.
McCrary soon discovers Graciela was kidnapped by a mob boss and suspects a connection to a recent 100-million-dollar wager made on the game.
As...
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Radical Environmentalist Turns Murderer in Dangerous Friends, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas Gorham
Michelle Babcock expected free tutoring in college chemistry when she slept with James Ponder, a graduate student obsessed with global warming protests. Ponder duped her into helping with an environmental terrorist attack and murdered two people in the name of saving the planet. Now Michelle faces a lifetime in prison unless Private Investigator...
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