Fiction: Thriller/Suspense

Because It's There, was a finalist in the mystery/suspense/thriller category of the National Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards: 1953, in a snow-swept death zone near Mount Everest, English mountaineer Allan Singleton clings to life as he strives for a first summit of Mount Chomoranga. Like George Mallory before him, he vanishes near the summit, leaving his wife to raise their three young children alone in England. The remote Himalayan peak…Read More

Something horrific happened seventy years ago in the Hargraves House, and in her dying moments Emily Hargraves realizes that she will be leaving "a terrible legacy." Following her death, her grandnephew, James Barrett, moves into the stately old house overlooking Seattle, but it's his partner, Jerry Fielding, who will inherit that legacy. Soon, Jerry begins to experience disturbing dreams and hallucinations. The two young men become convinced that the house…Read More

FBI Special Agent Severin Ash lives in a world haunted by people he's never even met -- the missing and the dead. Working out of Seattle's field office, Ash is assigned to coordinate a child abduction investigation in the small island community of Carver Isle, WA. The case at first seems to be open-and-shut, but when another child disappears on Halloween, Ash realizes it's far from over. He teams up…Read More

Neither marriage nor murder are on Magnus Torval's agenda when he and his fiance, Mariela, travel to a Cascade mountain town in Washington. But the recently retired police officer soon finds himself swept up in the rip tides of both. Mariela's spontaneous wedding plans and his own discovery of a fresh corpse make for an unholy combination that threatens to drown their happiness and jail a beloved pastor whose fellow-believers…Read More

Calla Ogden's carefully organized life as a social worker in Washington's Central Cascade Mountains begins to fall apart: a man is dead and her half-brother is a suspect. The ensuing investigation focuses on individuals at a fish hatchery operated by a local Native American tribe, and soon draws in Mayor Phil Bianchi and Greg Takarchuk, a junior police officer. As Phil and Calla grow close, the expanding implications of the…Read More