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THE GREATER OF TWO EVILS A woman kills her boyfriend, shooting him six times in the back as he walks out their front door. The woman's attorney calls her a hero. Homicide prosecutor David Brunelle calls her a murderer. The... See More
Thrillers
THE BEST-LAID PLANS LEAD TO MURDER David Brunelle, homicide prosecutor, confronts murder in a whole new, and very personal way. As he sets out to prosecute his latest homicide, a case from his past rears its deadly head... See More
Thrillers
WHEN YOU FIGHT THE SYSTEM, THE SYSTEM FIGHTS BACK Karim Jackson, college student and social justice activist, joins a protest at a newly completed private jail in downtown Tacoma, Washington. When the director of the jail... See More
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO CONVICT A KILLER? Seattle homicide prosecutor David Brunelle faces the most difficult case of his career. An innocent young girl is murdered in a heinous, unforgivable way. The only evidence against... See More
Thrillers
TO STOP A MURDERER, WOULD YOU MAKE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL? Sometimes you get lucky. And sometimes luck isn't enough. The body of a murdered woman is found hidden behind an abandoned warehouse in one of Seattle's grittier... See More
Thrillers
WHEN IS IT OKAY TO COMMIT MURDER? A man is murdered in Seattle's Pioneer Square. The killer is caught just blocks away, blood still on his hands. When it's discovered that both killer and victim belong to the same Native... See More
WHEN IS A KILLER NOT A MURDERER? Sometimes the easiest cases are the hardest. The defendant absolutely, positively murdered her own mother. She is also absolutely, positively mentally ill. Homicide prosecutor David Brunelle... See More
Thrillers
DUTY TO CLIENT > DUTY TO JUSTICE? Attorney Talon Winter confronts the darker side of criminal law, in more ways than one, when she is hired to defend the indefensible. A young man with every advantage in life is charged... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
PARANORMAL MURDER MYSTERY, SET IN THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS. American graduate student Maggie Devereaux fulfills a life-long dream when she travels to Scotland to study abroad. Her dream turns to a nightmare, however, when a... See More
Thrillers
IS IT MURDER IF YOU COULDN'T HELP YOURSELF? Hot blood. Uncontrollable impulse. Temporary insanity. Different names for the same idea: Sometimes, you just lose it. Who can honestly say they've never done something they later... See More
Thrillers
JUSTICE ISN'T ALWAYS BLACK AND WHITE Criminal defense attorney Talon Winter takes on the case of her life--and her client's. Michael Jameson is a successful, forty-something, African American husband and father. And he's... See More
Thrillers
THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL One of Seattle's most flamboyant and successful criminal defense attorneys is murdered in his office, and the case lands on the desk of homicide prosecutor David Brunelle. Brunelle isn't about to... See More
Thrillers
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LAW AND JUSTICE? Criminal defense attorney Talon Winter agrees to represent an 18-year-old man charged with a murder he didn't commit. But under the strict letter of the law, he can still... See More
CAN A PROSECUTOR DEFEND A MURDERER? Seattle homicide D.A. David Brunelle has spent his entire career prosecuting criminals. But when his girlfriend, medical examiner Kat Anderson, asks him to go to California to defend her... See More
A VACATION TO DIE FOR Dave Brunelle, Seattle homicide prosecutor, and his new girlfriend, police detective Casey Emory, fly to Berlin for a romantic getaway. But these two can't seem to get away after all. On their luxury... See More
MOTIVE, MEANS, OPPORTUNITY. THE SOLUTION TO THE CLASSIC WHODUNIT. BUT WHAT IF THE PERSON "WHO DONE IT" HAD NO MOTIVE AT ALL? The defendant has everything any person could want: fame, riches, a mansion on the shores of Lake... See More
Thrillers
HOW DO YOU CONVICT A MURDERER WITHOUT A BODY? A murder case without a dead body. Even on his best day, Assistant D.A. Dave Brunelle would have trouble winning a homicide case where the police could never find the victim's... See More
Thrillers
THERE'S NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES, BUT WHAT ABOUT MURDERERS? Seattle homicide prosecutor David Brunelle faces a prosecutorial nightmare. A drug addict-turned-police informant is found murdered, his body dumped publicly as a... See More
A RECKLESS MAN CAN HURT THOSE HE LOVES A sex club. A dead "submissive." A "dominant" in custody.Homicide D.A. Dave Brunelle barely understands the terms. How can he ever hope to understand the bondage subculture well enough... See More
Thrillers
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE WHEN EVERYONE HAS A REASON TO LIE? A young man is murdered in his apartment in a very personal and unique way. The evidence leads to an unlikely suspect, and soon everyone involved has a different... See More
Thrillers
HOW DO YOU PROVE A CASE WITHOUT WITNESSES? A man shot to death under a freeway overpass. A suspect who flees into the night. And a witness no one can find. Homicide D.A. David Brunelle must figure out the connection between... See More
Mystery
In SCOTTISH RITE, American graduate student Maggie Devereaux discovered a lost Celtic book of Dark Magic. In BLOOD RITE, Maggie unravelled a prophesy that foretold the eventual loss of all White Magic. Now, in LAST RITE... See More
Mystery
The heir to the Clan MacLeod has been kidnapped. The police think it's for ransom, but Maggie Devereaux knows better. She'll have to tap into her dark magic again to save the baby, damn the consequences. Except that... See More
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY IN SPACE. The colonists of the first space station on Mars have vanished. Captain John Stanton leads a second team to the Red Planet, unsure what he'll find. Originally assigned merely to relieve the... See More
Literature & Fiction
PARANORMAL ADVENTURE. 14-year-old Jeni Tanaka just wants to belong. To something. To anything. But right when she's about to join the cool girls' clique, she suffers an embarrassing seizure--brought on by an ancient Japanese... See More
Children's eBooks
Professor Barrister thinks he's discovered a new dinosaur species, but third grade dino-experts Nate and Emily aren't so sure. They think his new fossil just looks like an enormous Eoraptor, one of the first dinosaurs ever... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
SHORT STORY. Assistant D.A. David Brunelle has a problem: a woman and her child have been murdered, a killer is in custody, but something doesn't add up. Namely, the bullets. Either the cops botched the crime scene, or... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT Criminal defense attorney Talon Winter holds a man's life in her hands. Ezekiel Frazier is just another small time drug user, until he gets pulled over in someone else's car with a gun under the... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
SHORT STORY, set several years after PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE. A woman is brutally murdered, and it's district attorney Dave Brunelle's job to put the killer away. The defendant fled barefoot, abandoning her shoes in the... See More
Set between the events of SCOTTISH RITE and BLOOD RITE, this light-hearted short story features Maggie Devereaux solving the mystery of the missing puffins of Cragmore, Scotland. See More