Halloween gets off to a bad start for veteran police officer Leo Banks when he discovers the murdered body of a man who had nearly murdered him years before

Cupid

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Reid, Robert Sims

Mystery

Crimeline

Benediction

Incensed about L.A. record producer and real estate developer Johnny Perbix's involvement in the drug overdose death of a teenaged starlet, Detective Leo Banks sees his chance for revenge when one of Perbix's aides is involved in another murder

With the president coming to town to support a local candidate, Rozette, Montana, police detective Ray Bartell is detailed to help the Secret Service keep tabs on the local lunatics, including supposed eco-terrorist and ex-convict Henry Skelton.

Wild Animals

Literature & Fiction

United States

Carroll & Graf Pub.

Good old by Merle Puhl is campaigning to be a United States Senator from Montana, and a former President is coming to Rozette to give him a hand. This means that the Secret Service is coming, too, and local police detective Ray Bartell is assigned to work with them. Bartell’s job: act as the security detail’s tour guide in the realm of local lunatics. The job starts out interesting, but takes a bad turn when Puhl decides to use one outspoken environmentalist, Henry Skelton, as campaign fodder. Skelton has a violent past, so the Secret Service—and consequently Bartell—must take him seriously. In response, Skelton seems determined to prove that everything Puhl does to portray him as a dangerous extremist is true. But where, Bartell comes to wonder, are the lines of extremism drawn? How do you recognize the difference between a patriotic fool and a foolish patriot? And how do you sort out the wreckage when the two clash?

West 26th Street Press

When Leo Banks was a young man, he fell hard for a woman named Sarah. Yet when Banks joined the navy during the Vietnam War, Sarah left him to marry his best friend, Gerry Heyman. Heyman became a doctor and settled with Sarah in Mauvaisterre, Illinois, his childhood hometown near St. Louis. He and Sarah had two kids, and life was good, just what both believed that they had always wanted. After the navy, Banks found his way by freight train to Rozette, Montana. Against all apparent odds, he became a police officer, completed a career, and retired. Gerry and Sarah Heyman were long out of his life, until the day they passed through town while on a vacation trip to Glacier Park. Would Banks, Heyman asks, be willing to come to Mauvaisterre and help him investigate a murder that happened nearly fifty years ago? Heyman is convinced that an innocent man, a man with diminished mental capacity, was wrongly convicted. Banks is not interested, but things change not long afterward, when he gets word from Sarah that Gerry is dead. She suspects murder and a connection to his interest in the old crime. This changes everything and Banks is soon entangled with murder, old and new, a rich man who knows no way but his own, and a lover whom he had long believed gone from his life forever.

The Red Corvette

Big Sky Blues

Alexandra Roeg was an artist, and one night she wanted to create a masterpiece by cutting the heart out of the man who raped her. Proving the case should be easy, she told Detective Leo Banks. Find the video recording made by a second man, and he would have all the proof anyone would need.For Banks, the attack brought to mind Donna Sanger, an eighteen year girl dead of an overdose five years ago after being lured into the porn trade by a Johnny Perbix, a recording industry mogul turned land developer. Unable to save Donna Sanger, Banks was determined to get justice for Alexandra Roeg—especially when he learned that her ex-husband worked for Perbix, the man who turned out Donna Sanger. No stranger to crime and tragedy, the one thing Banks hadn’t counted on was how much he needed to trust somebody. And worse, the cost of making the wrong choice.BENEDICTION winds through the back rooms and the sometimes bleak, sometimes trendy streets of Rozette, Montana, where hope and vengeance simmer into a poisonous brew

A midnight call from a former college lover sends Leo Banks back to his home town to investigate the murder of his best friend, Gerry, a case whose clues could help him solve a fifty-year-old murder as well.

The Red Corvette: A Crime Novel

This crime novel features retired Montana detective Leo Banks. When Leo's ex-lover begs him to return to a small town in Southern Illinois to investigate the death of her husband, he finds himself having to solve a 50-year-old crime before he can identify the killer.

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Cupid

Benediction

Wild Animals

Wild Animals

The Red Corvette

Big Sky Blues

Benediction

The Red Corvette: A Crime Novel

The Red Corvette