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Nappy was on his feet waving his arms and shouting. “Dead body!! Dead body!” while a terrified Sandy Pittman was screaming at the top of her lungs.

Derek ran to the end of the peer as Nappy slowly steered the boat in toward the shore. Dmitriy was on his stomach over the side holding tightly to a fishing pole as the line tugged and pulled. When...

I’ve seen large funerals before but the one for my sister Kathy Taylor Landly filled the church and spilled out onto the street.

My name is Helen Taylor Hanson and I’m here to tell Kathy’s story. I sat beside her three year old son William Harris and her husband Chief of Police Derek Landly in the front row of the church and tried to swallow...

Every woman knows when your man gives you flowers three days in a row, and buys expensive dinners at a top shelf restaurant they want something. So it was that on the third evening of Derek cooking sirloins and agreeing to watch a chick flick on television I knew something was afoot.

“What do you want that you need my permission for?” I asked as...

Sandy Jessop hummed a holiday tune as she walked down the sidewalk from the village parking lot to her shop. It was the Monday after Thanksgiving, and already there were signs that the Christmas holiday would soon be upon them.

Orders for candies and brownies would nearly overpower her shop and she wondered if she’d have enough staff to handle...

Derek sat with a thud in his chair and stared at the empty cardboard box that sat on the desk in front of him. Pacing back and forth in front of the desk was Paul McClusky. His face filled with anger and determination.

“It’s wrong! Just plain wrong!” he snapped as Derek started packing items from the desk into the box.

“Paul, stop.” he said...

Paul took a deep breath and entered a name into the database. He knew it was the right thing to do but the old wounds it would open didn’t seem worth it. Kurt Adams was a lifelong criminal. Running with the gangs in Harris as a teenager, spending four years in a youth detention facility where apparently he had honed his skills and became a...

It was ten minutes past five in the morning. The hint of fall in early October had left a swath of cold air across the entire region, and Mildred was cold. Her first delivery of firewood wouldn’t arrive for another two weeks and the small electric heater was struggling to keep her bedroom above sixty degrees.
Reggie, her German Shepherd, was...

Margaret Walsh stood in front of Ed Hanson’s desk with a determined look on her face.

At seventy-five Margaret had owned and operated the Stitch In Time Quilt Shop for over forty years. She had seen good times, tough times and in between times. Now she wanted help and most of all justice.

“I’m telling you again, Mr. Hanson, a ghost robbed me!”...

Ed Hanson was forced from his job as an undercover operative for the FBI. Now he’s opened up an office in Heaven as a private investigator.
His first client is a young teenage girl who claims that someone raped her in an alley. She doesn’t know who he was, or does she have any physical evidence. Her one condition is he not contact her parents.
...

Police arrested Derek’s friend, FBI Agent Ed Hanson, for murdering an informant. Now his career is in jeopardy and so is his freedom.
Derek and the Heaven police force began an investigation, only to be stymied at every turn. Derek must inlist the aid of Hanson’s attorney and his three top officers in order to set a trap for a dirty agent.
As the...

A young man lies face down soaked in moonshine. He has been thrown from a moving car or truck. A second young man is found impaled on a farm rake. Heaven police must find the killer and soon. Derek will send Mayor George Williams on an undercover assignment to out the still.
But when an old secret in the village’s past comes to light Derek must...

Someone robbed the village of nearly two hundred thousand dollars. Then the bank was robbed by very professional band of criminals.
Derek Landly sets up an undercover sting in an attempt to catch the thieves. Can a slot machine, a jackpot of a million dollars lure the robbers to strike again?
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Derek and Kathy are just married. As they honeymoon in Paris fires are being set back home.
The town has a problem. There’s an arsonist setting fires. Little clues can be found but as Derek works the case the fire turns deadly and people die.
Can Heaven’s police force catch the fire bug in time

A sniper is killing police. It started with the targeting of a police convention. Heaven’s Chief Derek Landly is shot. Both bullets hover near his spine and threaten his life.
A madman is hunting cops. And, when he kidnaps Kathy all bets at are.
Derek will put himself at risk when he confronts the killer who is armed with an automatic rifle.
Who...

The arrest of Mayor George Williams for the murder of his new wife rocked the town of Heaven.
The murder is violent and follows the same method that three other murders have in recent weeks.
The police chief must gather evidence enough to save George from years in prison.

Can the sister of a gift shop owner lure the killer into the open or will she...

A new Sweet Shop has opened for business in Heaven. Sandy’s Sensational Sweets is open just in time for Valentine’s day with a free heart shaped box of chocolates.
But something is wrong and people are dying from the candy. Chief Derrek Landly is faced with the toughest case yet.
The investigation reaches to New York City, Harris, and Del mar. but...

It’s holiday time in the town of Heaven. Everyone is excited about the arrival of Santa and Mrs. Claus. But, Santa vanishes into nowhere and it seems that someone may have been involved.
The new Chief of Police has his hands full as he investigates and becomes aware of several steamy relationships. His investigation becomes center stage with the...

A small town with the unusual name of Heaven becomes the scene of a grizzly crime spree. When a homeless man is found dead in the backroom of a locked gift shop two sisters are plunged into investigating the crime.
It isn’t long before the town gossip disappears and the entire town is plunged into a crime spree and cover-up that will rock the...