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THE HILL (Book 1)

A retired Judge puzzles out the reasons for a teenager’s death in one of America’s richest communities, uncovering greed, corruption, illicit sex and murder. what started as a favor for the girl’s mother becomes a duel with powerful forces, threatening The Judge’s reputation, his freedom, and finally his life. In this same crucible, The Judge finds new purpose, burning through a sad and solitary existence, reaching out to forge an extraordinary relationship with a younger woman. A woman put at risk by the forces that wished to end The Judge’s quest for the truth.

THE ISLAND (Book 2)

Catalina Island …and Avalon, a sunny village just off the Southern California Coast. It seemed the perfect place for R&R over Memorial Day weekend with the new young woman in The Judge’s life. But what he stepped into was gang violence, civil disobedience, bitter rivalries, infidelity, and even murder, ripping the social fabric of the small town asunder.

From Avalon’s Yacht Club, through its alleys, sidewalk cafes and swank watering holes, across its private beaches and beyond, to the Airport in the Sky and the party cruise ship sitting offshore, The Judge tracks a shadowy killer. And as the town is forced to fight for its very existence against overwhelming odds, The Judge finds his romantic relationship compromised by an old flame, forcing him to examine and re-define his own past before he can risk a new future.

SILICON BEACH (Book 3)

Attacked on Santa Monica Beach. The Judge has made more than his fair share of enemies over his ten years on the bench. But this came out of the blue…or did it? So starts the Judge’s desperate search along the boardwalks of Venice, through the tony bars and restaurants of Santa Monica, the yuppie ghetto of Playa Vista, and the clubs of West LA as he relentlessly pursues adversaries who threaten him — and anyone who gets too close to the secrets buried in Silicon Beach.
All the while The Judge must try to negotiate compromises required to maintain his new marriage to a woman 20 years his junior and come to terms with the child she carries. As The Judge closes in on his adversaries and the body count mounts, he finds his new bride and the child may become collateral damage in this deadly contest with conspirators who “risk all to win all”.

THE BAY (Book 4)

It was to be a mini vacation on Newport Beach’s golden sands for the retired Judge and his young wife, now very pregnant. But it turned, that morning, into something else. He’d agreed to do the FBI a small favor. But now there was a murder. He found himself head to head with one of America’s most subversive societies. Evidence implied a plot, but to do what? Wreak havoc on Orange County’s foremost amusement park as the FBI suspected? Or something more sinister?

As The Judge sets out to identify the murderer, his FBI partners suddenly turned antagonists, determined to stop his investigation at any cost. Who to believe? Who to trust? How to balance claims of National Security against the right of the victim and his family for justice and closure. And all the while trying to cope with his young pregnant wife, unstable and depressed, not the person he’d married, buckets of testosterone coursing through her system as her body prepares for the birth of a son unplanned.

CABO (Book 5)

Cabo San Lucas looked to be a great getaway…until bodies started falling off roofs. The Judge found himself caught among shifting loyalties as police and politicians scrambled to hide corruption reaching to the highest levels of Cabo society. Murder in the boardroom, assassination of reporters, an attack on the beach, Katy kidnapped, The Judge frustrated at every turn as he tries to solve twin murders, save his new bride, and escape the wrath of a network dealing in modern-day slavery and human misery. Follow The Judge through the labyrinth of raucous watering holes, exotic restaurants, pristine beaches and tawdry red-light districts, as he stalks killers too powerful to stop in the upside-down World of…. “CABO”.

THE STRAND (Book 6)

When The Judge dropped off his young son at The Strand pre-school that morning, he didn’t expect to find a body in the pre-school’s maintenance room. Nor to be dragged into the middle of allegations of sexual abuse of the young charges attending the pre-school. He certainly had no premonition of the immense wave of public opinion about to form, about to raise into a towering swell behind him, only to come toppling down, crashing over him, over his bride, Katy and even over little Ralphie, his five-year-old son, churning them in a cauldron of confusion, social stigma, hate and even violence. Upending friends and circumstances taken for granted, nearly bankrupting his law practice, and challenging the very bedrock of his marriage. When his former lover is caught up in a national frenzy as the press and the networks rush to judgment, condemning her for child molestation and devil worship, The Judge feels compelled to step forward to help his old friend, leading her defense in a winner take-all jury trial, and exposing the real killer that morning, in the maintenance room of THE STRAND.

Inspired in part by the facts and circumstances of a real case (characters, events and story portrayed are fictional.)

THE LAKE (Book 7 to be published in late 2019)

The Judge investigates the death of his friend and fellow lawyer in Lake Arrowhead, in the process unearthing scandal, puncturing reputations, outing the dishonest, and stripping away the layer of anonymity from a community laden with secrets.