Chig Ashe Thrillers

There are three essential motives for murder: power, money, and love gone wrong. The disappearance of Georgia Murphy combines all three. Her case has been cold for two years, and powerful locals want to keep it that way. They can’t afford a scandal in the rural town, not when new industrial development is set to line their pockets. As former detective “Chig” Ashe soon discovers, probing into Georgia’s case will destroy any hope of a peaceful retirement in his hometown.

When the body of a man in an expensive suit washes ashore, the quiet town of Seacord begins to unravel. For nearly a century, its political and business elite have hidden behind a wall of secrecy—but this murder threatens to tear it all open. Retired detective “Chig” Ashe is pulled back into the game, drawn into a dangerous web of power, greed, and deception. As he hunts for the link between the lakefront homicide, the sudden disappearance of a children’s shelter caretaker, and a shadowy society that will kill to protect its own, Ashe finds himself targeted by a relentless assassin.

Ashe swore he'd put Arthur North in the ground—or die trying. Now the retired criminal investigator is heading back to the city he left behind, trading the quiet of his hometown for the abandoned factories, dark alleys, and unfinished business with a man who should already be dead.