Max Plank Mystery Series

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,...

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 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...