Fiction

“Jack Minyard is a private eye down on his luck. He’s badly overweight and on the wrong side of sixty. He’s lost his marriage, and maybe a little of his mind, too. After narrowly escaping charges in a statewide fraud and money laundering scandal, Jack has been working private contracts and counting on the kindness of strangers (not to mention a pile of prescription drugs) to get by. In a last-ditch play to resurrect his career, Jack takes on a case that puts him on the wrong side of the tracks and in the midst of some of the roughest trade going.”

“Lambdin succeeds with high-seas action, bravado, and Lewrie’s characteristic antics, putting himself in good company with Julian Stockwin and Seth Hunter as worthy successors to the popular 18th- and 19th-century naval adventures of Forester, Kent, and Pope. … Lewrie is a delightfully randy and irreverent character, the perfect man to walk the quarterdeck of a Royal Navy frigate.”

“’An awesome crime-fighting duo…[a] fantastically appealing series.’ —Mayhem and Magic ‘Ingeniously plotted.’”

“When Chief of Detectives Shiloh Tempest is temporarily put in charge of the Knox County Sheriff’s Department, he is given a single, facetious instruction: Don’t arrest the mayor. And then the mayor’s wife is shot to death in their home, with the mayor’s own gun. A dedicated cop but never a game-player, Tempest is forced to juggle politics, police procedure, the press, and a killer gunning for him as he pursues the tricky investigation. Award-winning author and former Knox County Deputy David Hunter takes readers inside the life and mind of Chief Shiloh Tempest in this suspenseful second novel in the Shiloh Tempest series.”