Anthologies
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Festival of Felonies
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From bizarre animal killings in HAVE YOU CONSIDERED VOODOO? to a grisly death by tomahawk in REENACTING A MURDER; follow veteran cop Sam Jenkins from his days as a young New York squad detective until his second career as a middle-aged police chief in the not-so-quiet Smoky Mountain community of Prospect, Tennessee in the series’ fifth anthology...
Read moreGraceland on Wheels Anthology
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A collection of six crime stories that take you on a trip through the more off-beat regions of law enforcement. Follow Prospect, Tennessee’s Police Chief Sam Jenkins as he meets Gypsy conmen and a beautiful fortune teller in GYPSIES, TRAMPS & THIEVES, a gun show hustler and his right-wing militia cronies in HEAVEN’S GATE and a collection of...
Read moreThe Great Smoky Mountain Bank Job
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Six novelettes where Sam Jenkins gets to show off his skills learned as a former New York detective. When your high school classmate shows up on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List, can your police career get any more interesting? As a favor to a beautiful treasury agent, Prospect, Tennessee’s police chief Sam Jenkins handles a cold case...
Read moreMurder In Knoxville
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Six novelettes where Sam Jenkins gets to show off his skills learned as a former New York detective. A LABOR DAY MURDER and A MURDER IN KNOXVILLE take the reader into the world of domestic violence with a smattering of political corruption. In BULLETS OFF-BROADWAY, the investigation leads Sam into the life of a victim who spent his leisure time...
Read moreFrom New York to the Smokies
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Five mysteries spanning more than four decades in the life of career police officer, Sam Jenkins. THE BOAT TO PRISON – set in 1963 when a teenaged Jenkins and his friends attempt to foil a plot to kill a Long Island union leader and keep Sam’s shop steward father from doing hard time. FAVORS drops readers into a New York of 1985 when Lieutenant...
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