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It was a clash of race, privilege, and circumstance when Alan Robertson first signed up through a church program to visit Cecil Johnson on Death Row, to offer friendship and compassion. Alan's wife Suzanne had no intention of being involved, but slowly, through phone calls and letters, she began to empathize and understand him. That Cecil and Suzanne eventually became such close friends—a white middle-class woman and a Black man who grew up devoid of advantage—is a testament to perseverance, forgiveness, and love, but also to the notion that differences don't have to be barriers.

Willie Walker was a famous saxophonist in the Jazz world. He had played all around the world. But now he was retiring to Key West to open up a Jazz Club at the End of the Road. But people around him start dying, and pretty soon Willie gets the idea that somebody doesn’t want his club to open. His granddaughter Ruby is getting the same idea and hires Marlow to find out who is out to kill her grandfather and why. Willie has secrets he plans on taking to the grave. Secrets he promised never to reveal. But in order to keep Willie alive, Marlow has to uncover those secrets or they both might end up singing the Midnight Blues.

When a dead US Intelligence agent washes up on Nassau, it gets the authorities' attention. Especially since he was reported killed 10 years before in Europe. The Caribe team is tasked to look into this mystery, which is personal for Nick Storm since he was the man's backstop in Croatia. But on arriving in Nassau, they discover that the twice dead agent is only the tip of the iceberg as they race to stop S.H.A.D.E. from selling a stolen nuclear device to ISIS!

Detective Rick Marlow is at it again, solving crimes in Key West, getting his act together. He had cut down to five cigarettes a day and only occasionally anything stronger than beer to drink. He was running nearly half a mile now, a long way from where he had been before he got shot. So when he gets a new case, he's not prepared for the violence that's sure to follow.

Hot on the trail of the outlaw Bad Bart Sterkin, Jericho Walls has chased the villain over half of Texas; now Sterkin has killed Dick York and kidnapped his daughter, Laura Belle. With the aid of Leroy Cord, York's Foreman, Walls chases Sterkin across the Red River into the Indian Territories of Oklahoma and back into Texas...

He awakened in a burnt out wagon train below the Rockies with no memory of who he was. There was nothing to tell him either. So he took the name that Texans called unbranded cattle and made his way into the mountains to try and carve out a new life for himself in the wild west. However the man calling himself Maverick has enemies on his back trail anxious to put a bullet in his back and the only thing keeping him alive is courage and a deadly hand with a gun.

When Hannibal Tucker Rides into Wolf Creek he is not looking for trouble - but it seeks him out anyway. Soon he finds himself caught up in a range war not of his choosing until he ties in by becoming half owner of the ranch caught in the middle. Now, with trouble on both sides, Tucker calls in his old pals from the Lazy T - and then things explode in Wolf Creek Pass!

While in the Everglades promoting both a fishing tournament and a concert to save the Everglades, country music icon Wally Norwood finds a dead body and a metric ton of pot and is immediately arrested for possession. Wally hires ex-DEA agent turned private investigator Sam Decker to clear his name and find out who framed him. As Decker begins to weed his way through the case, he begins to understand that there are a lot of suspects, including the very sheriff's department that made the initial arrest.

When her baby sister shows up on Scorpion Cay, Police Chief Monica Sinclair is initially pleased. Until she finds out that her sister is on the run from a drug deal gone bad in Columbia. Monica knows she needs unofficial help if she wants to keep her little sister alive and out of jail. Monica does the only thing she can and enlists the help of her former lover, Ex-DEA agent turned Private Investigator Sam Decker to help her sister out of her deadly fix.

When a boat explodes in the Scorpion Cay Marina with one of Sam Decker's oldest friends on board, Police Chief Monica Sinclair knows that there is no way she will be able to keep the former DEA agent turned Private Investigator out of the case. When evidence turns up incriminating the man in a drug case, Sam Decker smells a rat. Then when the widow arrives on the island and more dead bodies start turning up, Decker knows that someone is turning up the heat!

Set in Key West, this new mystery series promises a can't-put-down story of murder, mayhem, and duplicity. Rick Marlow is a broken former NYPD cop who had been shot by his partner during the discovery of a dead body in an alley. Half-dead and barely recovered Marlow moves south to Key West, figuring the end of the road might mean a new beginning. Then, hired to find a missing heiress by a Key West attorney, Marlow suddenly has purpose once more. The case takes him from Key West to Miami, where big bucks, blackmail and Cuban Intelligence agents all cross his path.

When Attorney Russell Cosgrove is murdered on his patio, most are willing to chalk it up to an unhappy client with a grudge, or a jealous girlfriend. Not Sam Decker, however. He and Cosgrove had been old friends, going back to Decker’s days as an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration. When State cops come in and try to take over the investigation, Decker wants to know why. He has no idea that finding the answers could get him killed!

In the middle of the South Seas is the island of Motugra, so named by the natives. It has the only deep water port in this island chain. On Motugra you'll find The Hanging Monkey, an inn and bar owned and operated by Irish ex-patriot Corky O'Brien. Here gather some of the most colorful rogues, scalawags, and pirates ever to ply the trade routes of the Pacific during the late 1930s.