Just in time for St. Patrick’s DayA LEPRECHAUN’S LAMENT
A new full-length Sam Jenkins mystery A stipulation of the Patriot Act gave Chief Sam Jenkins an easy job; investigate all the civilians working for the Prospect Police Department. But what looked like a routine chore to the gritty ex-New York detective, turned into a nightmare. Preliminary inquiries reveal a middle-aged employee didn’t exist prior to 1975.Murray McGuire spent the second half of his life repairing office equipment for the small city of Prospect, Tennessee, but the police can’t find a trace of the first half.After uncovering nothing but dead ends during the background investigation and frustrations running at flood level, Jenkins finds his subject lying face down in a Smoky Mountain creek bed—murdered assassination-style.By calling in favors from old friends and new acquaintances, the chief enlists help from a local FBI agent, a deputy director of the CIA, British intelligence services, and the Irish Garda to learn the man’s real identity and uncover the trail of an international killer seeking revenge in the Great Smoky Mountains.Available now in hardcover. Ebooks coming soon.Amazon: amzn.to/yvRmCBBarnes and Noble: bit.ly/xCvH4OBooks-A-Million: bit.ly/AnIvot
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I’ve always wanted to say, “Due to popular demand . . .” in conjunction with something I wrote. Okay, now I can. Thanks to a bunch of dinosaurs like me who don’t own eReaders, Iconic Publishing is producing two hardcover anthologies of the Sam Jenkins mystery novelettes previously available only as audio books or eBooks. Each will feature five novelettes of approximately 10,000 words each.A MURDER IN KNOXVILLE and Other Smoky Mountain Mysteries . . . contains:A LABOR DAY MURDERBY THE HORNS OF A COWSERPENTS & SCOUNDRELSMURDER IN A WISH-BOOK HOUSEand A MURDER IN KNOXVILLE
REENACTING A MURDER and More Smoky Mountain Mysteries . . . contains:BULLETS OFF-BROADWAYACRAP METAL & MURDERV IS FOR . . . VITAMIN?REENACTING A MURDERand the previously unpublishedA FIRE AND OLD ICE
Available from: http://amazon.com/author/waynezurl and http://barnesandnoble.com/s/wayne-zurl
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Coming Soon From ICONIC PUBLICATIONS************************************************************************************************************************HEROES & LOVERS A full-length Sam Jenkins mystery to be published in hardcover
Sam Jenkins might say, “Falling in love is like catching a cold. It’s infectious and involuntary. Just don’t sneeze on any innocent people.” But Sam’s common sense philosophy is not something he always follows.Becoming infatuated with a married policeman and getting kidnapped never made TV reporter Rachel Williamson’s list of things to do before Christmas. But helping her friend, Sam Jenkins, the ex-New York detective and now police chief in Prospect, Tennessee, with a fraud investigation would get her an exclusive story. It all sounded exciting and made her station manager happy. Then her abduction by a mentally disturbed fan, ruined several days of her life.When Jenkins learns Rachel has gone missing, he cancels holiday leaves, mobilizes the personnel at Prospect PD, and enlists his friends from the FBI to help find her.During the early stages of the investigation, Sam develops several promising leads, but as they begin to fizzle, his prime suspect drops off the planet and all the resources of the FBI aren’t helping.With an abundance of luck and after some old-fashioned pressure on an informant produces an important clue, the chief leads a team deep into the Smoky Mountains to rescue his friend. But after Rachel is once again safe at home, he finds their problems are far from over. |
Coming Soon From MIND WINGS AUDIOTHE BUTLERS DID ITThings started out innocently enough. Sam Jenkins and Bettye Lambert used a little police department time to go Christmas shopping. When three gunmen robbed the Prospect Citizen’s Bank and Trust across the street from where they sat in a parked car, Sam killed one bandit and wounded another, but the third got away.Teamed with FBI Special Agent Ralph Oliveri, Jenkins pursues leads that take them from middle Tennessee to the coal country of southeast Kentucky where two local detectives help corner the escaped felon and a pair of colorful accomplices.HURRICANE BLOW UPHurricane Irene caused thousands of coastal residents to flee inland and escape the storm’s carnage. Two of them ended up in the Smoky Mountain tourist town of Prospect, Tennessee. And then their car blew up. The bomb expert said they were the target of an assassin. One of the intended victims was a former New York Detective who had sent dozens of Russian mobsters to prison. But he also stole the wife of an NYPD bomb technician who just happens to have retired to Prospect. Chief Sam Jenkins enlists all his usual assistants to lay a trap and solve the attempted murder. THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN BANK JOBSam Jenkins’ law enforcement colleagues know he’s quick to ask a professional favor. But when a beautiful Treasury agent asks for his assistance, he balks.Special Agent Lucy Frobisher wants Sam to re-open a forty-three year old investigation and find her father’s killers.Reluctantly, the ex-New York detective turned Tennessee police chief delves into the robbery-homicide and finds himself back in the 1960’s, chasing down a group of anti-government anarchists who robbed banks to finance their violent revolutioGYPSIES, TRAMPS & THIEVESGypsy con artists roll through Prospect, Tennessee and inveigle an expensive boat and trailer from Chief Sam Jenkins’ friend. Three days later, one of the thieves is found beaten to death in the boatyard where the crime occurred.Did Horace Colwell or his brother Dwight, owners of Prospect Marine, take the law into their own hands?There weren’t many Gypsies in Tennessee to begin with, and when they all disappeared, Sam had no witnesses and no one to question.With the help of a beautiful but shady fortune teller, Jenkins solves the larceny, uncovers a large scale identity theft ring, and finds the killer. |
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Chief Sam Jenkins
Like the author, Sam Jenkins grew up in New York and worked for a large Long Island police department for twenty years.
In 2006 the retired detective lieutenant took the job of chief at Prospect PD, a small department in a little city tucked into the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Sam brings his unique style of law enforcement to the citizens of East Tennessee in these novels and stories.
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