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The Nice Guy (a Bat Garrett mystery)

Dallas PI Bat Garrett has no idea just how out of his league he is.

Bat Garrett has spent two years photographing cheating spouses and waiting for a case that matters. Then a secretive government agency sends the young Dallas private eye across the Southwest with reluctant operative Jody Anderson – legally married for cover and unsure whether they can trust each other.

Routine surveillance turns into an explosion, gunfire, missing records, and equipment that fails at suspiciously useful moments. The official reports never match what Bat and Jody witnessed.

Bat wanted to become an agent. To get them both home, he must remain an investigator – and determine whether their target is really the greatest danger in the operation.

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To read more about Bat (and Jody), be sure and pick up the next book in the series “The Return of the Nice Guy“!

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the Return of the Nice Guy

The archeologist may have uncovered a thousand year old mystery someone would rather stay secret.

Book 2 of the Bat Garrett mysteries

Angela Carroll knows who murdered her husband. Texas found him, tried him, convicted him, and put him in prison.

She would still like to know why.

The official motive is robbery. The convicted man claims innocence. Conrad’s former colleagues offer several incompatible versions of the man he was. Bat Garrett accepts the case because unanswered questions rarely improve with age.

Journals with missing pages and a valueless baseball-card album point Bat and Jody toward an old dispute – and records that vanish as soon as they become useful. The courts have finished with the murder. Somebody else has not.

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Make sure you read the prequel to this book, “The Nice Guy” and book 3 in the series, “Up to Bat“!

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After Time Ends

Available Now on Kindle, paperback, hardback and many other formats! (Including Apple, Smashwords, Everand, Tolino, Gardeners, Vivlio, BorrowBox, Fable, Nook, Bookshop, CloudLibrary, Overdrive, Hoopla and Kobo!)

Gabriel’s trumpet has sounded.

In a flash, the wicked have been swept away and only the saved are left. All aches and pains and worries are gone, but this isn’t what those left were expecting. It’s not what they had been taught.

One by one, the saved are finding themselves drawn together; in praise, in worship, in Scripture. The children aren’t children and the elderly are no longer old. There is no more sorrow and no more death.

What comes next?

And where is the Lord?

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Available Now on Kindle, paperback, hardback! Also available on Smashwords and Nook, Kobo & more!

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Up to Bat

Franklin Gaston is one prolific guy and I think it's bigamy to admit it,

a Bat Garrett mystery – book 3

Franklin Gaston has one daughter, a dead wife, a dead brother, and no known enemy. After he is murdered, every part of that family history begins to break apart.

Telephone records reveal another household in Colorado. A bank key hidden beneath a carpet opens a box under an alias. Inside are photographs connecting people who were never supposed to know one another.

Gaston’s daughter wants the truth. Bat Garrett and attorney Heather Dawson follow the pictures through divided families, old loyalties, and a secret somebody has spent years trying to recover. The killer is only one part of the mystery Gaston left behind.

It’s the biggest case Bat’s ever had, but it may cost him more than he’s ever had to give.

Available on Kindle and paperback.
Make sure you read the whole Bat Garrett (& Jody) saga, beginning with “The Nice Guy“, followed by “The Return of the Nice Guy“, then this book, then concluded (this arc, anyway) in “Last at Bat”
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Last at Bat

The girl in the shop once was dead but now it seems she's not.

a Bat Garrett mystery – book 4

The woman behind the counter looks exactly like Jody Anderson, down to the scars Bat Garrett watched her acquire.

That should be impossible. Bat saw Jody die. The Houston saleswoman insists she is Janet Alexander, and the records support her – for a while.

Her transcript has no matching yearbook photograph. News archives contain incompatible deaths and returns. A family album appears to have been altered. Then Janet remembers something only Jody could know.

As one life becomes credible, the other looks carefully manufactured. Bat must discover who assembled Janet’s history, how they made it hold together, and why they still need her to believe it.

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To read more about Bat Garrett, be sure and check out “The Nice Guy“, “The Return of the Nice Guy” and “Up to Bat“. All available on Kindle & in paperback! And, if you want to read this story from Jody’s perspective (as well as find out what happened next), be sure and read “Cheerleader, Gymnast, Flautist, Spy“!

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Cheerleader, Gymnast, Flautist, Spy

A flute, a gun, and a missing year

a Bat Garrett mystery – book 5

Before Jody Anderson became Bat Garrett’s reluctant partner, she had already rebuilt her future more than once.

Injury ended her Olympic gymnastics dream. Flute, cheerleading, and hard work carried her through college, where she found a calling in speech therapy – and enough debt to make a government recruiter’s offer difficult to ignore.

The Home Agency turns training into dangerous fieldwork, then pairs Jody with a joking Dallas private eye who appears dangerously unqualified.

Told in Jody’s own voice, this is the story behind the partnership: the ambitions that shaped her, the missions that tested her, and the choices through which she claims a life of her own.

Now available on Kindle and paperback! Now available on AUDIO!!

To read this story from Bat’s perspective, be sure and purchase “The Nice Guy“, “The Return of the Nice Guy“, “Up to Bat” and “Last at Bat“!

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What the readers are saying …

“I read it and I loved it! Jody feels like someone I really met. Looking forward to more adventures with her and Bat.” ~KD, LA

“I like that you have given Jody her own novel. A very interesting character and I enjoy the relationship with Bat.” ~MM, TX

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Death Among Friends

A funeral for a friend or a murder victim?

a Bat Garrett mystery – book 6

Bat Garrett goes to Dumas to bury an old friend. The friend’s parents would like a private investigation while he is there.

Mike Donelly died after eating peanuts. Since Mike had a severe allergy, the official explanation is simple. It becomes harder to accept when his emergency injector is missing, his phone appears recently scrubbed, and the fatal food had a remarkably limited route into his apartment.

Bat knew nearly everyone involved as teenagers. Jody married Bat, not his memories, and she notices the assumptions nostalgia protects. Together they ask who understood Mike well enough to make murder look like carelessness.

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Toltec Mountain

The Mind Games have come to town, but is someone stalking the competitors?

the Bat Garrett Mysteries – book 7

At the Toltec Mind-Games, competitors race down a mountain and face off across chessboards. Then a snowboard snaps – and someone wants to know whether it were sabotaged.

Bat Garrett’s equipment checks and video review point toward an accident, but a strange note keeps the inquiry open. With Bat’s identity already public, Jody goes undercover among the competitors and groupies.

Then the injured athlete is found dead.

The broken board, private feuds, and carefully managed public personas now carry new weight. Bat and Jody must determine which secrets belong to a crime before rumor and publicity supply a more convenient answer.

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Ghosts of Families Past

The dead are stalking Jody.

a Bat Garrett mystery – book 8

Bat Garrett becomes a mail carrier because regular pay and maternity insurance are useful when one’s wife is expecting a baby.

Then a trading post explodes as he arrives to deliver its mail.

Jody recognizes the presumed victims as the people who once kidnapped her, replaced her identity, and disappeared. Bat wants proof they died in the fire. Jody initially wants distance from the subject.

The trail gives neither of them what they want: a stolen car, an empty house, erased records, bodies without reliable identities, and a locket belonging to somebody’s family. Whatever happened at the trading post, Jody’s past has reached Flagstaff.

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The Final Book in the “Martyr’s Fire” Series!

The finale is finally here!

You can order the finale to the Martyr’s Fire series in paperback or for Kindle! And be sure and go back and read the other books in the Martyr’s Fire series: Noiné’s Child, Noiné’s Prayer and Noiné’s Eyes! See the whole series here! Order many copies for yourself and give the extras to your friends!

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6471 A.D.
They said they would never forget. A millennia ago, mankind set aside all boundaries of religion, geography and tribal allegiances to fight the greatest battle in the history of the world.
That battle is now the stuff of legend. People rarely talk about it anymore, and those few who do doubt that it really happened. The old walls are back up, and the old animosities.
In the mountains, Adam Forest is growing to manhood while dreaming of only one thing: flight.
On the plains, Noen is growing up with dreams of a world outside her little community, where the old legends still hold sway and people can believe in the ancient God without fear.
But between the plains and the mountains an ancient evil has been revived. Even if it can be beaten back, is it too late, for the cultures on the mountains and the plains are collapsing. Is there any hope left?
Who knows? Who still remembers?