An interim newspaper job turns into a career that leads Jonas Lundgren from the Detroit race riots to the Six Day War, and writing under the byline of Jonas Blake, he wins a Pulitzer. The celebration ends when Blake wakes in jail with no memory how he got there. It becomes painfully clear that Jonas must find a different way to live or he will surely die.

When Cowboy McKee drops in to visit his platoon sergeant from Special Forces in Vietnam, he learns his friend is dead. The circumstances are suspicious and when McKee learns his friend was involved with Foxfire, he knows trouble is not far off. Yet in becoming involved, Sam McKee not only makes himself a target, but also sets off a vicious attack on his family ranch.

When an old friend calls in a favor, Jazz Phillips, former head of the Arkansas CID, agrees to help catch a cat thief. Known for breaking tough cases as a consultant to the FBI, Jazz doesn't take the case too seriously. Then a personal journal recovered from the thief outlines the most unusual series of murders Jazz has ever seen.

Jazz Phillips is one of the top serial murder investigators in the nation. Yet, when he agrees to teach a seminar for the Ft. Worth police, he has no idea he will be thrown onto a trail of death leading from California to New Hampshire. At first, the murder of an Episcopal bishop looks like a simple homicide. Nor is there lack of motive. Controversy marked the bishop's career and the investigation quickly leads to the dark side of the man. Yet, within minutes at the crime scene Jazz knows the case is not simple. A very intelligent psychopath is at work. However, some of the evidence suggests...

When a famous black musician is shot down at his eightieth birthday celebration in a small settlement in rural Arkansas, no one can imagine why. To solve the case, the sheriff calls in Jazz Phillips, renowned former head of the Arkansas CID. Jazz quickly discovers a dark side of Smiley Jones that yields a wide field of suspects.

A Jazz Phillips Mystery. Who is the Queen of Spades? Is it a woman or a man? And why does this stalker kill? The evidence makes no sense. The victims are slain first and then mutilated, and the way it is done varies. The only tie is a calling card, the queen of spades. Then DNA evidence turns up a startling result. The latest victim of the Queen is also a serial killer tied to at least five brutal murders. When a mysterious package arrives pointing to several more serial killers, all dead, Jazz Phillips realizes he is dealing with a killer who knows more than the police. Yet, how does the...

Two young men. One is Lakota. The other is not. The place is South Dakota. The time is the troubled Sixties and the Seventies. The issues seem clear and the battle lines are drawn. At stake is the sovereignty of the Sioux nations and that of the Union. A hundred years earlier these same issues touched off a civil war that tore the nation asunder. The question is if this will happen again.

Even so, life goes on beyond the conflict. People marry and children are born. These go to school and play their sports. After graduation many of the boys enter military service. Others go to...