| Amazon Barnes & Noble Google Play iTunes | When the department store Santa of Rutherford, Minnesota, goes missing, it’s a child’s happy shot that calls attention to the red-suited figure just visable within the branches of the Christmas tree. Jake Hines is called to investigate a holiday mystery with too many...
| Amazon Barnes & Noble | People tend to laugh a bit, usually out of embarrassment, when they’re taken in by grifters and scam artists. But there’s very little to laugh about in Rutherford, where a gang has hit town and has Jake Hines and his team spinning, trying to follow...
| Amazon Barnes & Noble | Light deprivation’s already got the department on edge, when two crisis calls come into the station at once. Jake Hines uses all the department’s resources and gets help from his girlfriend Trudy and the other scientists at the state crime lab, but in the end,...
| Amazon Barnes & Noble | Jake Hines and his crew of police investigators chase scant clues in blizzard conditions when a half-naked body is found frozen in a snowbank. The mystery deepens as evidence indicates the dead man is a long-haul truck driver — but his rig is nowhere in...
| Amazon Barnes & Noble Google Play iTunes | Jake gets promoted to Chief of Detectives but has no time to enjoy his new office before a robbery, a kidnapping and then a shocking double murder lead Jake and his crew to a web of lies and greed growing unsuspected in peaceful,...
| Amazon Barnes & Noble Google Play iTunes | In this first Jake Hines novel, Jake and his crew of police investigators find two bodies left on softball fields in Rutherford, a small town in southeast Minnesota. The novel features realistic forensic details, humor, and believable characters free of the usual genre...
