When his aunt is murdered, NATO Rapid Response officer Captain Charles Ellandun finds she's left him a literal locked-room puzzle. Granted, Aunt Edith is the one who taught him to pick locks. But what he finds in her garret hauls their family's past into the present and knocks his war-damaged brain even further askew. Now more people than usual are trying to kill him and unless he wants to be the next one dead, he must figure out why she is-fast. But the hunt for her killer takes him and his team members to places he'd rather not visit-to the art gallery where she died, the police station...

So you're writing a contemporary or historical mystery, or a romantic suspense thriller, or an urban fantasy, and your hero's packing but you don't know beans about guns. And your heroine's a ballistics technician in the city's Anti-Lycan Policing Organization (ALPO) and she's going to make the positive ballistics identification on the silver bullet that took down the head of the Wolverine gang, but you've got the same problem there. And you don't want to depend on CSI Paranormal, because you don't trust them to get the details right, much less real. Tremble no more, because this primer's for...

Winner of the 2013 Chaucer Award for Historical Fiction (category: World Wars) August 1940 He wasn't supposed to be on the plane. Now Major Faust is a prisoner of the English and he must escape before they break him. But every time he gets away, another woman is raped and murdered. The English need someone to hang. He's the hot suspect. He's got to catch the killer, even though he's helping the enemy. It's collaboration, almost treason. It's making a Deal with the Devil.

War dogs don't retire just because they're home. Captain Kelly Bonham, a NATO electronics officer and combat zone veteran, adopts a war dog, but when Pojo arrives he's not at all what she expected. This German Shepherd isn't interested in rolling over for a tummy rub; he's a working dog, a retired bomb sniffer who saw his handler cut in half by an anti-personnel mine in Afghanistan. That's serious trauma, and Bonnie wonders if his canine brain is still fully functional. Now she's shaking down a relationship with a dog that's got more teeth than the law allows, a dog whose behavior is puzzling...