Fault Line
Newly minted 25-year-old lawyer Bob Abramson joins the DA’s office in San Diego and soon finds himself leading an investigation into the politically charged murder of the mayor’s husband, a powerful, wealthy developer with far too many secrets for his wife’s political ambitions.
Ice in the Guise of Fire
Early in the morning, Lieutenant Lauren Riley is sent to investigate a murder in a notorious, wealthy and politically charged resort in the Sierra Nevada. This will be an interagency investigation involving both Plumas and Butte Counties. From the beginning, it will be complicated, but the tangles do not fully reveal themselves until the investigation is underway, and they keep on coming. The Lieutenant was born in Moluku Lake. She is the daughter of one of the tribal council members. The tribe is poised to open a casino in the resort – in direct competition with the current hub of all that happens in Moluku Lake – the Eagle Nest Empire
KGB Banker
Russians on one side and Ukrainians on the other. Russians are running billions of dollars through a secretive bank in Latvia to corrupt the West! Inspired by my true whistleblowing story. Much gratitude to my brilliant co-author William Burton McCormick.
Murder at the Olympiad
An American tourist is murdered in a Mexican gay sauna, and Amanda Pennyworth, the American consul to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, risks her career and her life to find the culprit. Amanda Pennyworth works with a junio officer of the Tourist Police in search of suspects in the secretive underworld of this beautiful resort. When a young Mexican boy is arrested on flimsy evidence, Amanda is convinced it is a terrible mistake. But no one is willing to list to her: not the arrogant chief of police; not the boy’s parents who seem to blame her for the murder; and not the cynical American Ambassador who only wants to avoid an international incident. It’s up to her. And when she finally identifies the killer, she also discovers some very unpleasant truths about the Foreign Service in which she serves.
Seal of Secrets: A Driftwood Mystery
Hell hath no fury like a mother whose daughter has been kidnapped by a sexual predator. Chloe Denhurst lives in the quaint coastal town of Driftwood, Oregon. Recovering from a hurtful divorce, she finally allows herself to have feelings for another man. Suddenly, her life is turned upside down by a stranger who attacks her on the street and snatches her adolescent daughter Kaitlynn. She enlists the aid of Native American policeman Charley Whitehorse, but the wheels of justice turn too slowly. Chloe realizes she must use her own courage and wits to track down the marauder and rescue her daughter, but as she does so, she discovers that the new man in her life shares a terrible secret with the kidnapper. Seal of Secrets is a heart-pounding thriller described by one reader as “relentless in its suspense,” and another as having “more twists than a corkscrew about to open a bottle of fine wine.”
Whiskers in Trouble
Olivia Swann has returned to her hometown after college and realized her dream of opening an animal hospital – the Whiskers and Tails Vet and Boarding Hospital. When she hires a friend at her college reunion to join as partner at the hospital, things take a dangerous turn as suspicions of stolen cats begin to emerge. More than just her business is threatened when her new partner begins to ask questions about the wealthiest and most well-known family in the county. Are cats really being stolen from their owners and sold to other owners for a high profit? Olivia has a mystery on her hands while she deals with her loveable parents and a smitten love interest she doesn’t quite know how to handle. With the help of her friends–her two cats, Fiona and Wilson, an old Beagle named Barnabus and his owner Tom Barnaby–Olivia must try to solve a mystery that hits a little too close to home. Olivia is a reluctant heroine in this whodunnit as she is determined to find her friend’s killer no matter the cost. How will she juggle work, crime solving and an admirer all at one time? Find out in this fun and fast-paced mystery from Laura Ball.