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MW Burdette weaves together a stunning story about a US Navy lieutenant, John Bremen, who is tricked into participating in the Vietnam War by a senior officer. Bremen has his life planned out when he enlists in the US Navy, but the events that take place while he is in Saigon, Vietnam, in the early 1970s change his direction and engulf him in an undercover operation to track down a traitor. Bremen's involvement in counterespionage almost costs him his life. In this first book in a series of three novels, John Bremen becomes a super sleuth as he and his Vietnamese friend Klahan track down a dangerous and devious traitor who is smuggling arms into the United States.John's mission takes him to the brothels of Saigon and Cholon, the beautiful city of Bangkok, Thailand, and the shores of Kumamato, Japan, and transform him from a na ve junior officer intoa highly regarded CIA operative. John learns the importance of trusting one's friends as he struggles to find his true identity.

An Unlikely Partnership is the first novel in The Pilot and The Pianist Mystery Series, which is the fifth series of novels for MW Burdette. This mystery features Neal Bush Todd, a retired fighter pilot, and Claire Cavendish, a descendant of the famous Cavendishes of Great Britain. When one of your ancestors is a Lord, another a Duke, and a third the Prime Minister of Great Britain great things are expected of you. Even being a child prodigy in music wasn't enough for Claire to feel as if she had made her mark in the world.Todd had been the ace pilot in his own right, but after eight years racking up "Kills" in his country's overseas conflicts he wanted more challenges. He wanted to be a famous detective like Agatha Christie's fictional character Hercule Poirot. He was to Belgium as Sherlock Holmes was to London-an outstanding mind solving difficult murders in the early 20th Century in England. This unusual partnership between the pilot and the pianist came about by an accidental meeting but it gave both characters the opportunities to achieve their life goals.Burdette's other four series, The LT Maggie Watson Murder Mysteries, The Bremen & Whitacre Detective Series, and the John Bremen Chronicles, and the Dowdy and Summers Murder Series can also be found online at Amazon.com/Books/MW Burdette.

Murder at the Racetrack is the third novel in The Bremen @ Whitacre Detective series and is the sixteenth novel overall for MW Burdette. In this book, John Bremen and his wife Daphne view a horrendous accident at the Talladega Superspeedway in east Alabama.Alarmed with the violence of the crash, John inquires of the company sponsoring the car and driver and discovers foul play may have entered into the picture. The sponsor hires John and Daphne to uncover the truth about the recent fatal crashes on the automobile racing circuit. Burdette's other three series, The Bremen & Whitacre Detective Agency, The Dowdy and Summers Murder Series, and The John Bremen Chronicles can also be found online at Amazon.com/Books/MW Burdette.Burdette lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, and their two frisky West Highland Terriers, "Geoffrey Chaucer" and "Emily Dickinson."

Murder in the Rocket City is the third book in the Dowdy and Summers Murder Mystery Series and is one of the four book series that MW Burdette has written and published. Gary Dowdy and his beautiful wife, Jacqueline, take their two children to Huntsville, Alabama, to visit the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, aptly called Rocket City, for a late summer vacation before school started back in the fall. They trip coincides with some bizarre murders that happen in and around Rocket City and Gary and his partner are asked to help solve those murders.

MW Burdette continues the saga of John Bremen and his Vietnamese friend, Tran Klahan Chu, as they get involved pursuing the extortion and drug violence in the City of Denver. While pursuing their mission to shut down the local mafia family, John is forced to go undercover in a dangerous scenario that threatens his very existence.In this second book in a series of three novels, John has recently finished the FBI Training Course at Quantico in Langley, Virginia, and is transferred to the Denver office of the FBI. He meets Daphne Whitacre who becomes his girlfriend and fellow crime fighter. She is a lieutenant with the Denver Police Department. John is haunted by the knowledge that his old nemesis, Danny Briggs, has become a member of the Dallas mafia family, and he and Jimmy "The Hammer" Garrison are on a collision course with the FBI and John's team of agents. John, Klahan, and Daphne all face the ultimate challenge of their lives while bringing these criminals to justice.BioMW Burdette's first book, in the John Bremen Chronicles of Fighting Crime, focused on espionage and betrayal of one's country for the sake of monetary gain. His second book in this continuing saga continues to deal with crime, but now power and control has become the focal point of the narrative. Having lived in Dallas, Texas, for several years, he brings a unique look at the potential undercurrent of crime lurking beneath the surface of everyday life in a major city. Burdette lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and two West Highland Terriers.

Death at the Cathedral is the first in a series of murder mysteries featuring the irreverent, brilliant LT Maggie Watson, who must hunt down the murderer of an unidentifiable body in the local cathedral.

Following the successful completion of MW Burdette's John Bremen Chronicles trilogy, Burdette now tells the compelling story of a police lieutenant, Maggie Watson, who is the Chief Murder Detective for the City of Rowlette, Illinois, a small town fifty miles southwest of Chicago. The Piccolo Festival Murders is the second in a series of murder mysteries featuring the irreverent, brilliant LT Maggie Watson. The story takes the reader to Charleston, South Carolina, where a mysterious murderer is causing chaos at the annual Piccolo/Spoleto Festival that is held there each May. While Death at the Cathedral, the first novel in this murder mystery series, took place earlier in the year in Rowlette, Illinois, in the second novel Watson and her close friend, Jonathan Pembroke, travel to Historic Charleston for rest and recuperation, only to be dragged into another disturbing murder investigation by the local authorities.MW Burdette's first three books in the John Bremen Chronicles focused on the military, espionage, and crime. Death at the Cathedral, the first in Burdette's new series of murder mysteries, focuses on the disturbing world of maniacal murderers. The Piccolo/Spoleto Festival Murders, the second novel in his LT Maggie Watson Mystery Series, reveals the potential danger lurking behind every corner in the everyday lives of ordinary people. Burdette lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and two West Highland Terriers. His other interests include painting, singing, and long walks with his two terriers and best friends, Chaucer and Emily.

The St. Patrick Day Murders is fourth novel in The Bremen and Whitacre Murder Mystery Series, which is one of the five series of novels for MW Burdette. This mystery features Daphne Whitacre, detective and wife of John Bremen, the former FBI Director in Dallas, Texas, before he and Daphne moved back to his hometown of Ashburn, Alabama. Daphne and John's detective agency was having success and their recent ability to solve the death of the famous racecar driver at the Talladega Super Racetrack was reported in newspapers all over the Southeast and especially in the State of Alabama. John and Daphne had just taken on a new employee to partner up with Klahan Chu, John's best friend and fellow investigator, and they decided to celebrate as a team in Birmingham on March 17th at the annual St. Patty's Day Parade that marched down 20th Street South to the Little Five Points area of the city. It would be a parade that they would never forget. Burdette's other four series, The LT Maggie Watson Murder Mysteries, The John Bremen Chronicles, The Dowdy and Summers Murder Series, and The Pilot and the Pianist Mystery Series can also be found online at Amazon.com/Books/MW Burdette.

The Friedmont Hotel Murders is the seventh novel in The LT Maggie Watson Murder Mystery series and is the fourteenth novel overall for MW Burdette. In this book, Jonathan and Maggie are hired by the district attorney in Birmingham to help them find the person who is terrorizing the north side of downtown.The Friedmont Hotel is in the notorious section of the city where once grand hotels have deteriorated, and the clientele, which were upper class visitors are now homeless street people, professional hookers, and drug addicts. Crime in that portion of Birmingham has exploded, so LT Watson and her team are called in to help solve the problems and clean up that part of town.Burdette's other three series, The Bremen & Whitacre Detective Agency, The Dowdy and Summers Murder Series, and The John Bremen Chronicles can also be found online at Amazon.com/Books/MW Burdette.Burdette lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, and their two frisky West Highland Terriers, "Geoffrey Chaucer" and "Emily Dickinson."

MW Burdette continues his LT Maggie Watson Murder Mysteries with The Rowlette Veterinarian Murders. Jonathan Pembroke, Maggie's assistant investigator and boyfriend, and SGT Jo-Ellen Broussard are called upon to assist her in solving the murders that begin occurring at some of the veterinarian clinics in their home town of Rowlette, Illinois. Death at the Cathedral was the first in a series of murder mysteries featuring the irreverent, brilliant LT. Maggie Watson, who hunted down the murderer of an unidentifiable body in the local cathedral. This case would be as big a challenge as her first case in Rowlette.MW Burdette has written three other series of novels, and has published fifteen novels to date. This is the eighth in the series of LT Maggie Watson murder mystery novels. Burdette worked for many years in the real estate field, and sales management before becoming a writer. Burdette lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and two West Highland Terriers.

The Four-Leaf Clover Murders is the fouth murder mystery novel in The Maggie Watson Mystery Series. Maggie's assistant Jo-Ellen Broussard, who was promoted to corporal after her commendable work on the St. Aquinas Cathedral deaths in 1998, begins to build a Murder Board, tying multiple attacks on young women together where other four-leaf clovers have also been left at the murder scenes. Maggie, Jonathan, and Jo-Ellen race to solve these four-leaf clover murders before the perpetrator strikes again

MW Burdette continues the compelling story of police lieutenant, Maggie Watson, the Chief Murder Detective for the City of Rowlette, Illinois, and her quest to solve several mysterious murders in the Magic City of Birmingham, Alabama, while she and her friend Jonathan Pembroke are visiting to attend a wedding.The Mysterious Magic City Murders is the third novel in The Maggie Watson Mystery Series. Maggie and Jonathan have a personal interest in the first victim, who is the fianc of Jonathan's distant cousin. On the evening before the wedding, a body is found hanging from the arm of Birmingham's giant statue of Vulcan-god of iron and fire. Maggie's investigation uncovers a myriad of criminal and underworld activities common to this Southern city since the 1950s.MW Burdette's first three books in the John Bremen Chronicles focused on the military, espionage, and crime. Death at the Cathedral, The Piccolo Festival Murders and The Mysterious Magic City Murders revolve around the investigative powers of the irreverent and brilliant LT Maggie Watson.

LT Watson and her assistant investigator Jonathan Pembroke are drafted by a powerful politician in Washington, D.C., to help him find his daughter, who has gone missing from Ashburn University. Their investigation turns into a multiple criminal affair when other young women begin to disappear.The Ashburn University Murders is the fifth murder mystery novel in The LT Maggie Watson Mystery Series. Maggie and Jonathan team up again with their trusty assistant, Corporal Jo-Ellen Broussard, who begins to build a Murder Board when the first body is discovered near the campus. Rumors of mysterious murders happening in the past at this respectable small university become known to the students and casts a dark spell of fear over the campus. Jonathan and Maggie must solve these murders quickly or face the wrath of a powerful father and the local community.MW Burdette's previous novels featuring LT Watson and Jonathan Pembroke-Death at the Cathedral, The Piccolo Festival Murders, The Mysterious Magic City Murders, and The Four-Leaf Clover Murders-can be found online in paperback or in eBooks format at Amazon.com books.

John and Daphne were married in Dallas, Texas, with both the CIA and FBI Directors in attendance. They left for a romantic honeymoon in England, but the first night they are in the city of London they are involved in an explosion in an historic pub. They determine that their old nemesis, Danny Briggs, was behind the bombing and is taking his criminal enterprise international. They also discover that Briggs may be trying to murder police officers and FBI agents, as well. They must decide how best to stop his plans to cripple law enforcement, as well as try again to get Danny Briggs off the street.

MW Burdette continues his LT Maggie Watson Murder Mysteries with The Plein Air Murders. While attending a national police convention in Atlanta, Georgia, Maggie and Jonathan Pembroke, her fianc and co-investigator, solve the murders that occur in association with the Plein Air Festival for artists, which occurs in major American cities each year. Their associate, Corporal Jo-Ellen Broussard, who is also attending the convention, joins the two investigators as they crack the case.BioMW Burdette has written two other series of novels, and has published eleven novels to date. This is the sixth in the series of LT Maggie Watson murder mystery novels. Burdette worked for many years in the real estate field, and sales management before becoming a writer. Burdette lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife and two West Highland Terriers.

John Bremen and his wife, Daphne Whitacre, launch a new career as private investigators after leaving their previous government jobs in the Dallas, Texas, area. John had become disillusioned with the FBI, and Daphne was frustrated that her career in law enforcement was also going no place fast. They decided to move to John's hometown of Ashburn, Alabama, where he had graduated from college in 1968. They bought a dilapidated, old mansion, and immediately were hired to find the rightful owner of that estate, who had disappeared fifty years before. John and Daphne attempt to solve the case of the missing heiress.The Bremen & Whitacre Detective series is the third series of novels for MW Burdette. Burdette's other two series, The LT Maggie Watson Murder Mysteries and the John Bremen Chronicles can also be found online at Amazon.com/Books/MW Burdette.BiographyBurdette lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, and their two frisky West Highland Terriers, "Geoffrey Chaucer" and "Emily Dickinson."

The Murder in the Wyndemere Mansion is the first novel in The Dowdy and Summers Murder Mystery series, and is the forth series of novels for MW Burdette. In this book, Gary Dowdy and Mike Summers are hired by a real estate broker to discover who murdered one of her real estate agents. Lance Gary Dowdy and Michael Robert Summers had decided to start an investigation agency after the crash of the real estate market in 2008. Their initial interest was to chase down accident victims and help them file suit against the insurance companies who held policies with accident victims. However, when one of their real estate friends was brutally murdered they decided they had a higher calling.Burdette's other three series, The LT Maggie Watson Murder Mysteries, The John Bremen Chronicles, and The Bremen & Whitacre Detective Agency Series can also be found online at Amazon.com/Books/MW Burdette.BioBurdette lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, and their two frisky West Highland Terriers, "Geoffrey Chaucer" and "Emily Dickinson."