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When I receive a call from a mysterious woman seeking my help to escape her abusive husband, I can’t refuse, even though I’m supposed to meet my future in-laws in twenty-four hours.

Like my hero, Humphrey Bogart, I am a sucker for a damsel in distress, but the woman disappears before I can whisk her to safety, and I feel compelled to find her. As I dig deeper into her identity, I discover her husband, a high-profile attorney, has secrets that could destroy his political aspirations.

I’m urgently piecing together clues that may lead not only to my missing client, but to perilous situations I never expected.

It’s a harrowing race against time to find the kidnappers … I just hope I’m not too late.

“I think my father might have killed my mother.”

With this one sentence, Gina Smith immediately draws me into a case.

Questioning her past and yearning to find the mother she’s never met, Gina hires me to find answers. With the help of my wife Willie, my best friend Cal, and the always amusing Goofball Brothers, my search for Gina’s mother leads me to a rural Colorado town and a puzzling mystery that involves a decades-old kidnapping and an unsolved murder. To complicate matters, the powerful mayor and a charming pastor stand in my way.

I’m the stranger in this small town, and if I’m not careful, the murderer’s focus could turn to me.

My latest case is a nightmare.

When Brenda Evans asks me to deliver a message to her estranged daughter, Sally, I think this will be the simplest case I’ve solved. Unfortunately, Sally moved without leaving a forwarding address.

When I find her, she is the prime suspect in a murder. Sally claims she’s innocent, and Brenda wants me to prove it. My investigation leads me through the seedy side of Denver, involving ex-cons, a masked social media personality, and back to Sally.

This case is anything but easy, and one thing is certain: danger lurks at every turn.

Denver private investigator Reed Ferguson and his wife, Willie, find a bag full of money in a city park, and it should be as simple as taking it to the police.

But nothing is simple for Reed. Before he and Willie can turn it in, the money is stolen, a mysterious woman with a link to the cash asks for Reed’s help, and her boss threatens to harm Willie unless Reed returns the money. This leads Reed into another intriguing investigation involving a high-end escort service, a powerful attorney, a lonely businessman, and a murdered call girl.

Can Reed find the money – and the murderer – before Willie becomes the next victim?

A mysterious envelope accidentally dropped on a light-rail train.

Denver private investigator Reed Ferguson’s off-duty ride on a Denver light-rail train turns deadly when he retrieves an envelope accidentally dropped by one of the commuters, a young college student. The envelope contains a picture of a body, but who is it? And isn’t that blood near the person’s head?

Reed’s curiosity gets the best of him, and he feels compelled to find the student, who tells a bizarre story of a stranger hiring him to pass the envelope to a woman on the train. The student doesn’t know who she is, or what was in the envelope. And now the stranger is after him. As Reed searches for the stranger on the train, he soon discovers the identity of the body in the picture, and a number of suspects who have good reason to want him dead.

To make matters worse, the stranger has his sights on Reed …

For the first time in his career, Denver private investigator Reed Ferguson is reluctant to take a case.

Michelle Mowery, scheduler at Mowery Transportation, a family-owned-and-run trucking company, wants Reed to find what is haunting her brother, Dennis, who’d been fired from the company for drug abuse. At first, Dennis is reluctant to accept Reed’s help, but when Dennis admits to Reed that he’d been skimming the company books, and that someone knew about the skimming and had blackmailed him, Reed is intrigued and decides to take the case. The only problem is the blackmail occurred over a year ago, and everyone Reed interviews seems to be a suspect, from Dennis’s family members to his former co-workers, and even his old friend. Each clue reveals one sinister motive after another, and someone is desperate not to be discovered.

To make matters worse, a personal crisis for Reed looms at home.