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Coming Jan. 1st – Book 4 in the Emily Calby Series
Excited that The Girl Goes Home, book 4 in the multi-award-winning Emily Calby Series will be published on January 1, 2025. The Girl Goes Home is another standalone mystery-thriller in the series, titles of which have won eight indie book awards and at one time or...
Funeral Daze Named Semifinalist for 2023 Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize
My most recent novel, Funeral Daze (a standalone book 2 in the Danny Teakwell Series) was named as a semifinalist for the 2023 Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize and one of five finalists in the category of Mysteries/Thrillers. When people ask me to describe it, I call...
Funeral Daze Advances to Publishers Weekly BookLife Prize Quarterfinals
Just learned my new book, Funeral Daze, has advanced to the quarterfinals of the Publishers Weekly Booklife Prize for Mystery/Thrillers. It's a darkly humorous mystery in the realm of Carl Hiaasen and other "wacky Florida fiction" authors. Here's the judge's report...
Funeral Daze Number 1 Amazon Bestseller in Dark Comedy
Nice to see my new mystery, Funeral Daze, Book 2 in the Danny Teakwell Series, is ranked as the Number 1 Amazon Bestseller in "Humorous Dark Comedy". And good news. Still two days left to pick up a Kindle copy at only $.99, regularly $4.99. Sale ends Sept. 26, 2023...
Funeral Daze Wins Silver Medal from Readers’ Favorite
Happy to report that my new novel Funeral Daze won a Silver Medal for Humor Fiction in the Readers' Favorites 2023 book awards. Check it out on Amazon. SUMMER 2000. When down-and-out surfer and former lottery winner Danny Teakwell was framed for a grisly...
Named a Best Thriller of the Year 2020 by BestThrillers.com
Twelve-year-old Emily Calby was a good girl from a religious family in rural Georgia. She loved softball, her little sister and looking up words to get her allowance. Then two men came and murdered her family. Somehow Emily escaped. Only the killers know she survived. On the run in a fugue, she makes an unlikely ally in a ruthless former gang member who takes her in. Overwhelmed by guilt, she persuades him to train her to kill before setting out alone on a terrifying search for justice. Nothing will stop her—not cops or creeps, not even her own splintering mind. Through it all, Emily fights to hold onto hope and the girl she once knew, kept buried deep inside. A testament to the boundless limits of love, sacrifice and the will to survive, The Hiding Girl is the first book in the Emily Calby Series.