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Roger and Suzanne solve a complex murder mystery with the help of Juliet, a Champion German Shorthaired Pointer.  Roger goes undercover impersonating a wealthy a show dog owner to  investigate murders, mayhem, and miscellaneous other crimes occurring at California dog shows.  Along the way, Suzanne picks up an ominous stalker.  The backgrounds are authentic, as the author and his wife breed and show champion German Shorthaired Pointers.  One of their real dogs, Jolie, is the source of the cover photo and the model for the fictional Juliet.

As the case unfolds Roger and his friends encounter drug cartels, crooked cops, and high level corruption.  They also learn a great deal, as will the reader, about how dog shows work, how dogs are judged, and what it takes for a dog to win the coveted titles of Champion and Grand Champion.  There's also lots of inside stuff about dog training and what it's like to live with a high energy hunting dog that loves their human family.

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Do you like mysteries?  Spooky stories?  This ebook is a collection of 72 true account short stories involving miracle and near-death experiences, guardian angels, the paranormal, the unexplained, dreams, premonitions, psychic experiences, the bizarre and legends.  The stories take place in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Arkansas.  There is also a story and photographs witnessing a bizarre ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  These are interviews I conducted over a two year period from individuals of all ages.  The book also contains amazing photographs captured by various people.  Some of the stories have the names of the individual and some of the stories have only their initials.  A few requested that they remain anonymous.  The miracle and near-death experiences are intense testimonies of what they experienced before, during and after death.  There are several haunted house, ghost stories and just plain creepy tales.  Prepare to step into the world of the unknown. 

In a suspenseful thriller set in Southern California's exotic world of pointing dogs and canine hunt tests, a rifle shot rings out in the early morning stillness.  A hunter is down, and it will take all of the skills of Private Detective Roger Bowman to solve this case.  There are no clues, no suspects, and no apparent motive.  There's lots of suspense as dogs hunt for birds and humans hunt for a cold-blooded killer. Can be read as a series entry or as a stand alone novel.  Free from Kindle Unlimited.

The book's details about hunt tests are authentic and have been carefully researched. So is all of the information about dogs.  The author's wife breeds and trains German shorthaired pointers for the show ring and for hunt tests in the field.  The cover photo is of one of our own dogs, Viñia.  She is still active in the fieldand loves to sniff out and point birds at age 11.5. 

The regional locales in Southern California's Inland Empire are also authentic.  The author lives and works in Califonia.

What do a dismembered body and South American indigenous creation legends have in common?  The answer to this question is a crucial clue as Roger Bowman and Suzanne foster solve a brutal murder in Montevideo, Uruguay.  But, before they can solve this suspenseful whodunit mystery, they find themselves visiting much of the rest of Uruguay, as well as Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, in search of clues. One site they visit is Iguazu Falls (the book cover is a photo the author's wife took of the Falls), the largest waterfall in the world as measured by volume of water passing over the Falls, and the site of one of the largest hydroelectric dams in the world. 

Readers will get an introduction to several of the countries in the southern tier of South America, as well as regional foods and wines and to Montevideo, the capital city of Uruguay.  The author has lived in Montevideo and knows it well, both as a resident and as a tourist. 

The Ambivalent Corpse introduces several important recurring characters from the Roger and Suzanne South American mystery series who we'll meet again in later books of the series.  The novel may be downloaded FREE from Kindle Unlimited.

The Surreal Killer is a multi-5-star psychological mystery that seamlessly mixes the genre of whodunit thriller with the theme of travel to exotic places to introduce readers to the regional culture and history of the Incas, while a mysterious modern-day murderer proves that we reap what we sow.  This gripping novel takes us deep into the mind of a serial killer as the suspense mounts to a shocking conclusion.  The story blends murder, intrigue, and the 20th Century history of Chile with the genesis of a serial killer.  The Surreal Killer was an Indie Book of the Day award winner in 2013.  This novel is the second entry in the Roger and Suzanne South American mystery series, which has been designed so that each book is complete in its own right and the series may be read in any order.  Interestingly, Amazon also ranks The Surreal Killer highly (top 25) in the category of Nonfiction-Travel in South America-Peru, as the characters visit Lima, Cuzco, and Macchu Pichu in Peru on route to Northern Chile's Atacama Desert region. 

Jake Talbot's a British cop, living in Surrey, UK. He moved out of London after his parents died at Christmas and his sister became mentally unwell. Talbot hates Christmas. It's Christmas. He takes on an easy case, som erich bloke upset because a young man wants to visit his grandmother in her residential care home. All young Frankie wants to do is visit Lilly, and Talbot can't see the harm in that - until Frankie starts to explain that he's been visiting Lilly in the past, when she was young, and beautiful. Surely he doesn't have a time machine? Impossible. The more Talbot digs, the more pressure comes from every quarter, including the Ministry of Defence, who have a keen interest in Frankie's activities. Is Frankie mad, or a genius? He's certainly unusual. Talbot's convinced that Frankie's simply naive, until someone shouts murder, and those who would keep the truth secret have Talbot running for his life. Will Frankie get to visit Lilly, the woman he loves? Or will the secrets of the past be buried forever?

If you are a mystery lover, then you will be captivated by this third book of The Unusual, Unknown & Unexplained mystery series.  This book contains miracle and near-death experiences, unexplained mysteries and the unusual.  Do you believe that someone can be sent from heaven to help a loved one in crisis here on earth?  Take a tour through an old abandoned haunted insane asylum in north Texas.  See more photographs of images captured that are possibly from the spirit world taken by various individuals.  You will be amazed by the images caught on camera at one of the most haunted locations in the United States.  It is a haunted plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana.  Haunted houses, a ghost farm, ghost stories, and haunted woods, are just a few of the true account short stories contained in this book that you will find even stranger than fiction.  Do you dare to step back into the world of the unknown?  The Unusual, Unknown & Unexplained III is also available as an

An apparent accidental attack by a bear kills two tourists in Alaska's Denali National Park, a huge natural wilderness in Alaka's heartland with only one well guarded entrance and exit.  The novel, written by an author who has clearly been there, combines all of the elements of the classic locked room mystery in a six million acre room.  The plot is full of twists and turns.  Conspiracies abound and the truth is much more complicated than it appears to be.  This is Roger and Suzanne's most difficult case to date, with no clues, no suspects, and little or no help available from the local police. All they have to work with is their own gut feeling that all is not what it seems to be and some help from their friends.  This tough and gritty suspenseful psychological thriller contains some scenes of violence, but is a suitable read for young adults and for readers who prefer their mystery books with clean language and no graphic sex.

This novel can be read as a series entry or on its own.  The story is complete without reference to earlier books in the series.

After the zombie apocalypse, a group of survivors are trying to get a 10 year old girl. who is immune to the virus that is bringing the dead back to life to kill and eat the living, to a place where she can be studied and a cure found.
it follows the survivors as they finally reach land and see how bad the devastation really is. In a land now populated by the dead, entire cities have been destroyed by fire and looting.
Running across another group of survivors, they agree to take them along as they make there way across a land full of the walking dead.

At twenty-five, Raye Dawkins, a bespoke dressmaker is chronically lonely and looking for true love, until one day she spots Eric Mandini, a gorgeous international businessman living right under her nose... directly across the corridor. After becoming obsessed with him, by chance they meet in the underground car park of their condominium complex. Shortly after, she becomes his lover, his domestic goddess, his babysitter. As time moves on, a year and a half and, blissfully happy, she expects their relationship to move the next level: an engagement... marriage. However, after their St Valentine's date, Eric dumps her by a terse email and vanishes off the face of the Earth. Shocked, heartbroken, devastated, Raye is just mortified by his callous rejection. When she realizes there is no hope of a reconciliation, she resorts to revenge by planning the kidnap of his son to make him feel the cutting pain he had caused her. She writes a ransom note and requests the assistance of the janitor, JP, a petty criminal and ex-con. On the day of the ransom pick-up, her local park, she lures her best friend, Sacrine Thompson, a cocktail waitress/party animal living at the corner apartment to go along. But things do not go according to plan, leaving her in a great deal of trouble with the law.