This time of year I’m especially appreciative of Florida. Largely for the same reasons many of my books take place in Florida. The high today is 78 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius)— and it’s almost December! Just like Florida can do a mean Halloween, Florida can pull off a heck of a holiday/Christmas/winter celebration, too! One […]
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Surprise $40 Million Inheritance
Some people have all the luck, don’t they? In my novel Blood Trails, the job of my protagonist, Michael Flint, is basically to track down the people with “all the luck.” In other words, he’s an heir hunter. Michael Flint tracks down people who are heirs to a fortune. Why do these heirs need to […]
Pre-Order New Jess Kimball Thriller!
Pre-order links for our upcoming Jess Kimball Thriller — Fatal Fall — are now available from all retailers! To be sure you don’t forget about Fatal Fall when you’re so busy with holiday events, you can pre-order now if you’d like. Here are the links: Pre-order Fatal Fall from Amazon Pre-order Fatal Fall from iBooks Pre-Order Fatal […]
When Closed Adoptions Require Investigation
Many adopted or abandoned children, now adults, are on a mission to trace down their biological parents. Or at least, to find as much information about them as possible. Sometimes, such a search calls for a man like Michael Flint, the star of my thriller novel, Blood Trails. Michael Flint is a professional heir hunter. […]
Great News, Library Lovers!
My ebooks are now available through OverDrive’s library system! If you’re already familiar with OverDrive, I’ll send you straight to the online lookup for specific libraries you might like: www.overdrive.com/libraries If you’re not familiar with OverDrive, it’s a program used by over 30,000 libraries in more than 40 countries, through which anyone with a library […]
When Can You Afford To Fail?
Call them what you will. Risk takers. Speculators. Explorers. All three can have similar implications in certain scenarios. All three are also descriptions of oil wildcatters. In this day and age, a wildcatter is generally someone who is drilling for oil in a spot where there’s no record of oil existing. It used to be […]
Another Visit From Neagley in Lee Child’s NIGHT SCHOOL
If you’re a superfan of Lee Child, I can only assume you’ve finished reading his latest novel, Night School, by now. Was it fantastic or what?! I’m honored to call Lee Child a friend. And what a good friend he is. You know, there’s a reason I dedicated my Hunt for Jack Reacher novels to him: […]
Night School & Deep Cover Jack: The Craft Behind the Books
Lee Child and I both have new releases right now: Lee is about to release Night School, and I just released Deep Cover Jack, the fourth novel in my Hunt for Jack Reacher Series, which is an authorized spin-off series from Lee Child’s Reacher novels. Today, I wanted to take you on a behind-the-scenes tour into […]
New Thriller: Sneak Peek on iBooks!
You know that old saying that good news comes in threes? Well, it certainly applies to my new book releases this fall. I’ve been working hard for the past three years to bring you exciting new reads, and three novels were ready almost all at once! We’ve already released two new novels……. and a […]
Florida Can Do Halloween, Too!
What are the Halloween traditions where you live? In Florida, where many of my books take place, it doesn’t always feel the way you might expect a typical Halloween to feel. The average temperature on Halloween in Tampa is 72 degrees Fahrenheit. The record low was in 1963 at 43 degrees, and the record high was in 1971 […]
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