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ROUGH DRAFT
A Nick Cotton Crime Story
An unpublished story by American author Ernest Hemingway surfaces in the hands of a high school teacher. When the manuscript is stolen and the teacher is murdered, school security chief Nick Cotton investigates the lies and deceits connected to the theft. This leads Nick and his friends into a series of double crosses and murders.
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ISBN (Softcover): 978-1-4685-0890-1
ISBN (Ebook): 978-1-47724-878-2
Cold Kitten
These dangers threaten to scandalize a large Midwestern high school, Sylvester Overton Barton (known as S.O.B.H.S.) unless school security chief Nick Cotton, partnered with a friend of shady background, discovers answers that can save lives and reputations.
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ISBN (Softcover): 978-1-4685-0890-1
ISBN (Ebook): 978-1-4685-0889-5
Film Flam
An independent movie company is beset by conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder from within when a crew of inept lawbreakers try to rip off a wealthy, though shady, businessman. One humorous situation follows another as a short, half-Chinese clown and two of the businessman's associates posing as "stunt men" try to protect the aging lead actress from herself and kidnappers. While this bumbling movie is being filmed, the clown and stuntmen find themselves working at cross purposes leading up to a comic conclusion full of double crosses, treachery and mayhem.
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ISBN (Softcover): 978-1-4685-4916-4
ISBN (Ebook): 978-1-4685-4915-7
Long Reach
When retired army colonel Tom Morgan returns to his hometown for his 45th high school class reunion, he is handed a long-misplaced letter from his former lover that intimates something bad may happen to her. She had died, in a somewhat suspicious circumstance, the same day she had written the letter. At the same time, taking place in the community was the kidnapping and ransom demand for a little girl, who later is discovered dead. Morgan embarks on his own investigation into the coincidence of the proximity of the two events and uncovers local corruption and cover-ups. The more deeply involved he becomes, the more likely it is that Morgan will not be allowed to leave town alive. Harking back to his days as an Army Ranger, Morgan is forced into battle with superior numbered and heavily-armed opponents.
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ISBN (Softcover): 978-1-4685-4345-2
ISBN (Ebook): 978-1-4685-4344-5
Castle's Keep
Caryn Castle, a small town police officer in the Midwest, kills a man in self-defense while on duty, a traumatic event that shakes her confidence. At the same time, in Florida, an ex-husband, Jimmy Castle, is involved with a mob hit man in a rip-off of drug money. Double-crossed, Jimmy manages to swipe the loot but makes the mistake of heading back to his hometown. He is pursued by the initial hit man, the Pray-er, and another gunman, Luis Santana, who was in on the heist.
A cat-and-mouse game ensues in which Caryn finds not only herself but also her family in danger if the money isn't returned to the Pray-er and Santana. Her only hope of saving herself and the people she loves is to either cooperate with the Pray-er or to outsmart him. Re-arming herself, Caryn vows to bring the pursuit and the danger to an end in a face-to-face encounter. One certainty exists for her: not all the players will survive the crucial hour.
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ISBN (Softcover): 978-1-4685-4138-0
ISBN (Ebook): 978-1-4685-4137-3
Hallelujah - Amen - and Pass the Bullets
Blackmail and murder lead Nick Cotton and his friend, Roscoe Buckmiller, to investigate a bogus church camp with armed guards. They discover the camp is supported by an East coast crime boss for the purpose of training and selling troubled young girls into prostitution. The test for Nick and Roscoe is finding a way to shut down the camp without harming innocent people.
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ISBN (Softcover): 978-1-4685-2880-0
ISBN (Ebook): 978-1-4685-2879-4
A CUT ABOVE
A CUT ABOVE is a hard-hitting, humorous crime novel mixing quirky characters, a twenty year-old murder case, and a search for a buried treasure. School security chief Nick Cotton reluctantly agrees to seek a friend's missing son. His quest takes him from mid-America to Florida where he becomes involved in a plot by a ruthless con man. Dodging threats and bullets, Nick is led on a chase into the Everglades in a desperate attempt to save innocent lives in the surprising and tough climax.
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ISBN (Softcover): 978-1-4685-0790-4
ISBN (Ebook): 978-1-4685-0791-1
Glitter Girls
In Las Vegas the 1940's saw mob influence in the growth of casino gambling, betting wires, prostitution and drugs. Private eye Jack Beech gets involved in two cases: one a search for a missing girl, and the other a search for missing diamonds stolen from Virginia Hill, Bugsy Siegel's girlfriend. Jack's life is in peril as he discovers a link between the two cases involving murder, treachery, corrupt cops and double crosses.
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ISBN (Softcover): 9781477208298
ISBN (Ebook): 9781477208281
The Hunter Legacy
At the turn of the 20th century a prominent small town family, led by respected matriarch Grace Blaisdell, faces a struggle for identity and survival when a young prostitute is brutally murdered. Grace's young grandson, Tony Hunter, works with family friend Lon Shirley to clear the name of Tony's itinerant father who is accused of the killing.
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ISBN (Softcover): 9781477213513
ISBN (Ebook): 9781477213506
Always an Eagle
In 1990 two retired Marines, Colonel Paul Duckworth and Sergeant Major Seth Thompson, are called upon to investigate an apparent friendly fire shooting that occurred 22 years earlier on a Viet Nam battlefield. Following a trail of sworn but questionable testimony, their inquiry will either convict or exonerate the accused Marine of deliberate murder.
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ISBN (Softcover): 9781477221204
ISBN (Ebook): 9781477221198
Killing Time
A torrential storm knocks out communications and power stranding travelers, including Nick Cotton, in a tourist convenience store near the Oglala Sioux reservation. Inside the store a murder was committed and a tribal cop enlists Nick’s aid in the investigation.
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ISBN (Softcover): 9781477294024
ISBN (Ebook): 9781477294027
About the Author
Thomas Cox is a published short story writer whose material has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and Manhunt Mystery Magazine. Holder of a master’s degree in English literature, he has served 33 years in public education and currently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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