Set in the beautiful Sanibel-Captiva area in Southwest Florida, Turtle Point will captivate the mystery/suspense reader who craves differences in characters, plot, and story resolution. Living in a paradise of white sand beaches and warm tropical waters, Benny is enjoying his senior year in college when a beautiful coed turns his world upside-down. Her dedication to ecology and saving sea turtles becomes his. They encounter poachers. Benny finds his new love being buried by the two criminals. Benny kills and buries them in island sands. The threat of having his crime discovered fades during the next thirty years, but suddenly is forcefully revived by two mysterious “treasure” hunting men who threaten to penetrate all the defenses he’s erected to protect his secret. As they snoop and get close to exposing him, Benny becomes frantic and seeks help from a friend. A friend refers Benny to this lawyer/private investigator who specializes in tough cases. A retired Marine Intelligence Officer, Harper Sturgis takes no prisoners. Benny finds “she” is as tough as any “he” he’s ever met. Harper takes the case and exhumes secrets and surprises that Benny isn’t even aware. Is Harper able to save Benny from spending the rest of his life in jail? Read and find out.

Turtle Point: Featuring Harper Sturgis In The Iron Lady Mystery/Suspense Series

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Havlin, DL

Mystery

Palm Pen Press

THE HANGIN OAKA Ghost StoryImagine being skeptical of the existence of ghosts, only to find they are real and that by accident you’ve carried two unwanted spirits home.In The Hangin’ Oak, a happy prosperous couple finds their lives and futures upended under the influence of two apparitions thrust forward in time 145 years. Forced to cope with the reality posed by each other; the fortunes of humans and specters lead them to forge a relationship to help solve both their problems. In this character driven novel, set in the modern South, moments of humor and heart mixed with drama and suspense will urge the reader to re-examine the question, “Are there such things as ghosts?”WINNER!The Hangin’ OakWon the Florida Writers AssociationRoyal Palm AwardFor Best Literary Fiction Manuscript, 2004What people say about The Hangin’ Oak:Linda Solinger Matlacha Menagerie The Hangin’ Oak is a book that will fill you with every emotion one can have, and leave you with a smile and thoughts about life. Great way to escape! Robert W. Fulton, PhD, Author of “But…You Know What I Mean” says: “Havlin takes his reader to a place he knows well, the swamp and scrub of Florida. Too narrowly defined as a “ghost story”, The Hangin’ Oak combines early Florida history with the natural mystery that is still the “old Florida” many of us remember and still visit.Elizabeth Spann Craig, author of “A Dyeing Shame: Death at the Beauty Bar” says: “The Hangin’ Oak is a gritty, modern day ghost story that will make you believe. Havlin’s suspenseful plot, insightful heart felt observations on relationships, and infectious sense of humor combine for a compelling read that will keep you turning the pages.”

The Hangin' Oak: A Ghost Story

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

A Christmas Story Collection

A Place No One Should Go is a gripping tale set in Florida's wilds. The book weaves historical information in this suspenseful story highlighting one of today's most timely topics, modern man's between morality and sexual infidelity. Canoeing into the Florida wilderness is a near weekend ritual for the ambivalence Callison family. Even the youngest of their three children at five years old knows how to safely navigate the dangers of the wild. But what happens when the wilderness they are required to traverse is contained within a man's soul? Ben Callison and his family's latest camping trip takes a strange and sinister twist when they meet a mysterious Indian where they elect to pitch their tent. The Seminole warns Ben he's camped in a place that evil calls home. Is the terror that lurks there a resident of the mound Ben's camped on or does it reside within him? Ben must find out if the shapeless dread he faces is from within or without, and if he makes it out alive, does anyone ever really return from A Place No One Should Go?

A PLACE NO ONE SHOULD GO: Keana-eno-pa-watchee

OUT OF ITALY: Featuring Harper Sturgis, The Iron Lady Mystery/Suspense Series (Turtle Point)

Random events and coincidence fashion this story that sits on a knife's edge between historical fact and historical fiction. The novels subject: the development of a machine that saved thousands of Marines in WW II and the men who were responsible. Real lives of the historical protagonists and the events that shaped them, provide a study in leadership, and what power conviction and purpose provide for those who possess them. 	A Marine who participated in the Tarawa landing returns to that beach sixty years after the event forged him into the man he became. He realizes he survived because of the machine that got him to the beach and the men who saw that it was available for him to use. His emotions make him ask if the ordeal he and his friends suffered was in vain. He wonders about both.	The story shifts to WW I and to the early battle experience of protagonist Holland Smith, the man destined to command the Marines in their conquest of the Pacific Islands in WW II. He sees the horrors and futility of frontal attack and vows to spare troops he commands if he can.	Another kind of war, man's battle with nature, becomes the catalyst another man's quest. The killer hurricane of 1928 takes 2000 lives as it devastates the southern shore of Okeechobee. John Roebling, son of the Brooklyn Bridge's builder, uses the event to inspire his son Donald, our second protagonist, to develop a hurricane rescue machine and inject purpose into Don's life.	While Don labors developing a rescue vehicle, Smith, whose nickname is "Howlin' Mad," becomes part of the effort planning for a war with Japan that military planners are sure will occur. It becomes apparent that amphibious landings, the most lethal form of frontal assault will be unavoidable. Smith struggles to develop tactics and methods to spare as many Marines as possible from the slaughter he knows they'll eventually face.

Blue Water Red Blood

Palmpen Press

“Wild child” Chessie Partin has had enough of being branded a woman who never finishes what she starts, so when she stumbles on murder evidence implicating the local “bait man”, her tormentor, she sets her jaw and enlists the help of her suspended policeman brother, Reading, to catch the man she’s sure is a killer, but there’s not enough proof. She strikes out on her own to gather more facts to convict bait man, Rooster Cocker, and to prove he is the despicable villain she believes him to be. Chessie finds she’s only partly right when she uncovers an international sinister enterprise cloaked in mystery and disguised as a top-secret research site. 

The Bait Man

Taylor and Seale Publishers

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Bully Route Home

Ever hear of Operation Paperclip? Our heroine, Chessie Partin, had not. She soon found that its unintended consequences would threaten her life and many of her associates. Before it became the CIA, the United States' clandestine service was the OSS or Office of Strategic Services. It was a desperate organization born in WW II's desperate times. One desperate plan was the highly secret operation called, "Paperclip." It was concocted to beat the Soviets in the race to grab as many German scientists as possible at the end of the war. Mistakes made to expedite this operation were carefully hidden but did, and still do, haunt the US government. Chessie, her boss, and a team of archaeologists and scientists are selected by the US State Department to go to Argentina. They meet a similar Argentinian team to examine a location they're told has multiple sites to excavate. What they believe is to be a dig exploring the Guarani Indians' past, turns out to be the excavation of a transplanted Nazi compound. From the beginning, it's apparent there are those who don't want them in Misiones Province when the plane they were scheduled to fly on is blown up. The danger rises as Chessie and her crew, begin unearthing 70-year-old dirty laundry. Accompany her asshe narrowly escapes death and unearths secrets NO one is supposed to know.

Escaping Skeletons (Chessie Parton, Archeologist, Mysteries)

Literary

Taylor and Seale Publishing

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Turtle Point: Featuring Harper Sturgis In The Iron Lady Mystery/Suspense Series

The Hangin' Oak: A Ghost Story

A Christmas Story Collection

A PLACE NO ONE SHOULD GO: Keana-eno-pa-watchee

OUT OF ITALY: Featuring Harper Sturgis, The Iron Lady Mystery/Suspense Series (Turtle Point)

Blue Water Red Blood

The Bait Man

Blue Water Red Blood

Bully Route Home

Escaping Skeletons (Chessie Parton, Archeologist, Mysteries)