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Jim Nash isn't convinced a missing person is actually missing. Maddie Spence, his partner in the PI business, says otherwise. Unbeknownst to both, an old nemesis, Fiona Lubinski, is somehow out of prison and on the run. Fiona has an affinity for coffee. She walks into a Blue River coffee shop and all thoughts of the beverage are forgotten. Fiona discovers being on the run has benefits. One of the benefits is revenge.

Bad girls on the right side of the tracks Biker Frank Ross doesn't let much disturb him when he's on the road. But a woman asking for help causes him to ride 300 miles out of his way in the dark of night. Frank arrives cold, tired, and hungry. For his troubles, he's served up steak and eggs and a slice of hot apple pie for dessert. Now he has to go to work to pay for it. Bad Girls 2 - A good day for a ride Frank Ross is on the road riding north to Nogales. After a long day in the saddle, he'll soon be fresh out of Mexico. All he wants is a cold drink, cool shade, and a quick gas station burrito. Across the line, a Valle Verde gas'n'go has everything he needs to get back on the road in a hurry. Unfortunately for Frank, chance and a local woman are working against him.

Harry Delaney has a brand-new 50-million-dollar airplane. Now he needs work to pay for it. It wasn't always thus. Harry got his start camped out in the North African desert. He was flying an ancient, beat-up DC-3, smuggling weapons while trying to avoid getting lined up against a wall and shot. He graduated to a more civilized and comfortable life when he ended up flying in Northern Canada. It kept home, hearth, and family warm and happy. His new life is turned upside-down by the arrival of two former comrades from North Africa. They show up on his doorstep, and they're bringing Harry a proposal he's going to find difficult to refuse. Check out this Harry Delaney three-book extravaganza to learn if Harry is going to be able to make the payments on that new airplane. By the author of the Jim Nash Private Detective series.

It's a vacation. What could go wrong? Sasha Delaney and Barbara Williams are feeling housebound. Responsibilities of husbands, children, and business are taking a toll. A quick getaway would go a long way to improving their outlook on home life. Plans go awry when a sudden change in destination finds them south of the border down Mexico way. It's not their first trip across la l gne. It might be their last when they run into an old acquaintance who gives them a choice. They can go along, or they can work off a debt in a house of ill repute where the rates are low and the outlook for a future is dicey. Husbands Harry and Mike become disenchanted with the whole vacay thing when the wives don't, or won't, check in. That in itself isn't unusual. They're forced to grin and bear it until a phone call is finally answered and they must launch an airplane to recover their wives. By the author of the Jim Nash Private Eye series.

Harry Delaney is living the good life. He's flying the airplane he loves. He's able to spend time with his family on a regular basis. When he closes the hangar door at the end of the day and comes home, his wife and daughter are happy to see him. It's taken him a long time to get to that, but it's all good now.It's all good, that is, until two men from his past on the African continent show up at his door. They come bearing tales of a scheme that could take Harry back to a time he and his business partner Mike Williams want to forget.Despite his better judgement, Harry wants to say yes to the plan, but it would mean upending everything he has worked for. When Sasha, his wife, overhears their visitors' crazy proposal and that Harry is considering it, she puts her foot down. In fact, she puts both feet down. They all go, or nobody goes.That's all right with Harry, because he thinks his family would like to visit some of Africa's big game parks. Unfortunately for Harry, his wife, Sasha, has other ideas.Third in the series after DEAD RECKONING and UNCHARTED.

Harry Delaney is back on the Horn of Africa, smuggling guns and falling in love while partying it up on a Nairobi R&R. When Kari, his latest love interest, ends up in his desert camp, she saves a squad of his men during a shootout. The episode only serves to convince Harry she is the one. A DC-3 flight into Djibouti drops Harry and his crew into the middle of a revolution. Will it be a harbinger of things to come, or will Harry and his ragtag band of brothers conquer all and make good their escape? Hawaiian shirts, a night of dancing and drinking, and explosions will all play a part in putting Harry on the warpath to revenge. Number 2 in the series, following Dead Reckoning.

Jim Nash is a private detective who has occasionally made his living on the shady side of the street. In his past, he has done off-the-book work for the Feds. One of those old jobs has returned to haunt him.A women he long thought dead comes back into his life when she shows up at his office unannounced. He's not real happy when he sees for himself the woman isn't dead. Now, Lucky Lucy, as he calls her, is just another Fed looking for a sweet deal. This time, he's got the paperwork all filled out. Until it's signed, sealed, and delivered, he's not going to do the work.Jim's partner, Maddie, isn't happy, either. Neither is Luz. She almost kills the interloper when Lucky Lucy kidnaps Jim in an attempt to force him to go to work. All this before the contract with the Feds has even started.A trip to Bimini, drug and people smugglers in the Keys, and an exploding fastboat all figure in the Nash crew's latest adventure, No Free Ride.Includes the short story, Gone.

Frank Ross has been riding the highways and byways from Canada to Mexico and places in between. He tries to stay out of trouble, but there are times when he's not very successful. When trouble sticks, it's usually because of a woman. Just about any woman will do. He might say he's kind of weak that way. Hearing a good sob story will have him riding 300 miles out of his way to help a woman out until he learns the trouble is nothing but lies and deception. He even has a solution to that. He disappears over the asphalt horizon with the woman's sister.More recently, he's been spending winters on Baja norte y sur playas. Sometimes, he finds a female companion to share his tent beneath a palapa. Sometimes, he doesn't. That's all right, too, because come spring, he heads north across la frontera to begin life anew in a mad scramble to do it all over again.North. South. East. West. The road never ends for Frank. Neither does the adventure.

Marina MysteryA dead body introduces Detective Jim Nash to Coroner Allie Sands. Despite warnings from just about every woman working in the same building, Allie throws caution to the winds while helping Jim solve a murder. As their relationship deepens, someone is intent on digging a grave for Jim deep enough that he will never climb out.Twisted SistersDetective Jim Nash has a problem. He has a murder victim in an alley and a dead woman in his bed. His own homicide division wants to charge him with murder. To say he's got serious commitment problems would be an understatement. He's on the lookout for twins, but he doesn't want to date them. He wants to know who murdered them.Sleeping with a .45Detective Nash still has a couple of problems. He doesn't know who killed the woman found dead in his bed. As if that wasn't enough, someone is trying to kill him, and the killer's methods aren't very inventive. In fact, they're pretty old-fashioned. His boss says he's too close to both crimes and won't permit him to investigate. The women in his life fare only a little better. Lucy and Zelda narrowly escape an attempt on their own lives.

WEDDING BELL BLUESJim Nash has no plans to attend the wedding of former best friend Warren to Allie Sands, a girlfriend from his past. All that goes out the window when his partner, Maddie, sees the emails and convinces him otherwise. With the decision made for both of them, Jim and Maddie are waylaid in a small town on the way to the wedding for reasons unknown. Faithful dog Friday is dispatched to rescue the pair.On arrival at the marina, Jim is determined to discover what's going on when the Feds make it plain they're playing for keeps. Convinced that the Feds are up to no good, he takes matters into his own hands with the help of three dogs, three women, and the two men who refuse to see the writing on the wall.Dogs, kids, and ice cream all play a part in this Jim Nash short story.BREAKDOWNJim Nash and his partner's faithful dog Friday are left to fend for themselves when Maddie Spence is called home. A concerned client lands on their second-floor doorstep, convinced his wife has gone missing. The police won't get involved. It's too soon, and the wife hasn't been gone long enough. Friday takes matters into his own hands when he chooses to babysit the man's young daughter while Jim handles business. Is the woman really missing, or has her husband contrived an elaborate plan to cover up something more sinister?

Escape - Jim Nash takes his crew on a well-deserved vacation and ends up knee-deep in trouble when, trapped in a blizzard, he is forced to delay their trip to a ski lodge in the Colorado mountains. When the Interstate is closed, another couple is waylaid in the small town in what at first glance appears to be a bullet-riddled car. Are they two troubled young people on the wrong side of the law, or only confused wayfarers railroaded into doing someone else's dirty work? Jim, Maddie and faithful dog Friday are drawn deeper into the mystery as a blizzard rages on.Forget Me Not - Jim Nash and his partner, Maddie Spence are called on to help an old friend locate his missing daughter. But is she really missing? Jim thinks she's gone on a romantic getaway for a long weekend and an opportunity to study for her final exams soon to be coming up. Maddie isn't so certain. An old nemesis is out of prison and looking for trouble. When she crosses the path of someone who looks familiar, it doesn't take her long to put two and two together. How could she not? The woman was the one who drove a giant snow clearing machine into the back of her car in god-forsaken Escape, scattering money, dreams, and hope for a new life in the bright lights and big city. Jim and Maddie agree to help locate the missing woman. They make for the Florida panhandle, determined to track down the woman with the help of faithful dog and companion, Friday, along for the ride.

Panicked city officials put a quarantine in place when an out of control virus lands. The quarantine goes sideways, and the National Guard is called in to quell the ensuing panic. State and Federal officials brook no demonstrations, and the city is slowly purged of dissidents. Only a dedicated few remain to live off what is left behind.When Russell accepts that he has escaped the city's purge of its inhabitants, he hunkers down in an abandoned house in a suburb. Managing his day-to-day needs occupies every waking hour. When he accidentally encounters another doing the same, he sets out to discover who it is and if they would like to partner up.The world he has known may be no more, but Russell has a plan. It includes a comfortable roof over his head, plenty of food, and even a partner. So far, his plan is working.When a wrench and a stranger are thrown into the mix, it's anybody's guess who will save the day and the relationship in a new and unforgiving land.

Jim Nash is back, and this time he's bent on exacting revenge on those responsible for his murdered wife. He's on government watchlists, so he can't just jump on a plane. He's forced to travel in a beater with no air, and already his disposition isn't good.During a stop at a gas-n-go, he crosses paths with a water-logged hitch-hiker and two men intent on forcing her into their truck. After rescuing her, she manages to convince Jim to drop everything and help locate her brother. She fails to mention the missing drugs and cash the brother might have walked off with.Before he can say no, he finds her in his life, in his bed, and in no mood for him to say no. She is intent on forcing him deeper into her world in the quest for her missing brother.Jim is inextricably drawn into a world of her crooked friends, a South American sicario, and the woman's innocent parents.

Jim Nash has been chasing the ghosts in his past for too long. Now, with a dead woman in his office, he has sworn to avenge her death. It doesn't matter that the local police and his friend, Detective Boyle, have told him to stand down.Bobbie Dawson, his business partner, has deserted him and disappeared. Nash thinks she might be out to avenge her friend's death, but he's not sure. He hasn't had so much as a text from her. That won't stop him from searching for her, though.Bobbie's recent replacement and her dog, Friday, keep handing Jim good-natured verbal abuse. He takes it in stride, but only because he thinks the huge black Lab has taken a liking to him.To top it off, Jim still hasn't learned who orchestrated the death of both his wives. He can handle the missing partner. He can even handle the good-natured verbal abuse his receptionist flings his way.What he can't handle is the runaround he's getting from someone who knows what happened to his wives and who should be taking the blame for their deaths.He's not waiting around, though. He's hell-bent on solving it all, even if it kills him.