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A beautiful woman’s puzzling suicide.

A rock star’s boundless grief.

Can Max Plank solve the mystery before his own secret history with the dead woman and the rock star comes back to haunt them all.

When the biggest rock star in the world comes to Acapella Blues to plead for Max Plank’s help in getting to the bottom of his lover’s sudden...

A missing big sister. A little girl all alone. Time is running out.

Can Max Plank, San Francisco’s P.I. extraordinaire, untangle the mystery before all is lost?

When twelve-year-old Frankie steps onto his boat, Max has no idea that this cute, skateboarding time bomb will lead him into a mystery with a tangled web of secrets and lies involving...

Max Plank is trying to adjust to his new role as a co-parent to a twelve-year-old girl when the matriarch of one of San Francisco’s most prominent families steps onto his boat. He normally steers clear of cases involving family affairs, but the old woman is desperate to prevent a femme fatale from taking advantage of her young son and a large...

He knew better than to get involved with his archrival, the city’s most notorious crime lord. But when he does, he finds himself on the run, both suspect and prey, and fighting for his life.

Max Plank, San Francisco’s P.I. Extraordinaire, just wants to take his girlfriend to Hawaii and find out what’s bothering her lately because he’s afraid it...

A wildly charismatic cult leader.

An enraptured young woman.

A series of mysterious deaths.

When one of Max Plank’s oldest friends comes to him desperate for help after Jen, his daughter, disappears, neither of them realizes the dark turn the young woman’s life has taken after her meeting with a charmingly seductive sociopath.

But after traveling to...

A Murdered Kabuki Actress.

A Kidnapping and Blackmail Scheme.

A trail of planted evidence.

When Max Plank’s friend, a Kabuki actress, is found strangled to death in her apartment, he starts to investigate but soon is confronted by the disturbing fact that all the evidence points directly to one suspect: Max Plank himself!

At almost the same time,...

Jack Waters is a successful writer and an alcoholic struggling to stay on the wagon and desperately trying to keep his family together. He meets a fan, an attractive woman, in a coffee shop and she plies him with compliments and a Mickey. The next morning he wakes up at a seedy motel naked, reeking of alcohol, alone, and confused. Blackmail...

A screaming comes across the night, heralding an angel of death.

Sam Ravello, a hard-drinking rock n’roll survivor, stumbles into a nightmare when he attempts to help a poor Romanian woman and her little boy.

Soon he is entangled with a crime syndicate and mired neck-deep in a murky pool of corruption, blackmail, and the international sex trade....

A Big Box Set including the first four novels in the Max Plank mystery series plus three standalone thrillers!

The Max Plank Mysteries

Stray Cat Blues: A missing big sister. A little girl all alone. Time is running out. Can Max Plank, San Francisco’s P.I. extraordinaire, untangle the mystery before all is lost?

The Ties That Bind: A wealthy San...

The first three mystery thrillers in the Max Plank series!

Stray Cat Blues: A missing big sister. A little girl all alone. Time is running out. Can Max Plank, San Francisco’s P.I. extraordinaire, untangle the mystery before all is lost?

The Ties That Bind: A wealthy San Francisco socialite with a mean streak. A torch singer enmeshed in a sordid...

Have you ever had a blind date from hell?

What would you do if someone blackmailed you with a lie that will ruin your life and marriage but that the blackmailer can prove beyond a reasonable doubt?

How far would you go to save the life of an innocent?

These questions and more are explored in these three suspense thrillers. You’ll be turning pages...

Jet, kidnapped and stripped of her memories, is imprisoned on an island Fortress forgotten by time. She’s being used as a human guinea pig in a series of diabolical experiments by a man who’s a worthy heir to the Nazi Angel of Death, Joseph Mengele.

From San Francisco to Cape Cod these three mystery thrillers will keep you turning pages way past midnight.

Between A Smile and a Tear
A blackmailing stripper. A self-help preaching hit man. A gangster with a penchant for leeches. The streets of San Francisco have never been so twisty as Jack Waters struggles with powerful and mysterious forces...

A sunlit noir about Bees, Betrayal, Blackmail, Sex, and Murder.

Father will be here soon.

I am prepared now, at last.

My mind is quiet now, finally.

Elizabeth Jane Berg, a refugee from her own childhood, is a beekeeper leading a quiet life on Cape Cod. She’s tormented by painful memories and suppressed anger.

When she meets Monica, a mysterious...

What motivates a sociopath? Elaine Burnett must find out or die.

Frustrated with her lover’s inability to commit to marriage and a child, Elaine responds to a personal ad placed by the dangerously unbalanced Walker Thomas Trumbo, a self-styled philosopher with a hellish notion about family values.

Elaine’s one innocent act sets off a cascade of...