James Ford Mysteries

Patricia Barker left Massachusetts and the job she loved working in obstetrics to escape the man who was stalking her. She accepts a nursing job in the Bentonville Dialysis Center but has no idea how much skill it will require, let alone how dangerous it could be for the patients if she makes a mistake. Brittany Combs, the clinic's Head Nurse, doesn’t know that the man who was stalking Pat has now decided she is a more appropriate love interest. Her life becomes a tangled and dangerous web as he draws her into his world by threatening her vulnerable patients. 

Margaret Krane does facial reproductions for the police department. Her skills turning bare skulls into recognizable humans helps identify felons and their victims. Her life hangs in the balance when she is kidnapped and the police desperately try to find where she's been taken. James Ford and his wife, Lacey, help people after the police declare their cases closed or unsolvable. Jim’s uncanny skills prove successful more often than not. Together they make an excellent team, but can they help save their friend Margaret before it's too late?

Two story lines converge in this James Ford mystery. Follow the lives of the Schmitt family through their trials in war torn 1938 Germany. One of James Ford's most difficult cases involves a theft that happened 80 years ago during World War II. Finding evidence for such a cold case is daunting and requires all of his detective skills along with Lacey's computer magic to crack the case. Traveling to Germany to find answers puts Lacey's life in danger.