Will Carter
Investigations
A series of mostly stand alone gritty crime thrillers that follow cynical private investigator Will Carter, with a mix of high tech conspiracies and whodunits.
The Bear Trap
Private detective Will Carter is hired to track down missing 15 year old, Rose Bishop. The Chicago PD has given up, the community has moved on, even his partner, Sam, thinks they are chasing a ghost. In a city known for corruption, it's no surprise Carter finds himself running up against the police and turning towards the Russian mafia for help. But the further Carter delves into the missing person case, the more enemies he makes, the more lies he uncovers, and the more he tests the limits of his partnership. Only after it's too late does Carter realize he has pulled the curtain back too far, looked where others have always averted their eyes, and exposed a carefully crafted cover story. Only after the trap is sprung does Carter realize it was ever set, and soon he will realize what precisely could be worse than death.
A Wolf by the Ears
Carter's typical surveillance job turns deadly when he witnesses a murder. Soon after chasing the killer down, Carter finds himself intertwined with the man, and worse, he finds himself blamed for the string of murders left in the killer's wake. But this wasn't a coincidence. He has unknowingly been on a collision course for months with a serial killer who has been operating in secret...until now. There is evidence that will clear his name, or so he's told, but the killer won't give it up unless Carter meets his seemingly impossible demands. And the killer still has a list of people he plans to hunt down. As the body count grows, Carter and his partner must protect the last person on the killer's list and race to discover the true reason behind the murders.
One Horse Town
Visiting his rural hometown for a funeral, Carter becomes trapped along with everyone else when the only bridge out of town collapses. Soon Carter realizes his quiet hometown isn't as he remembers it at all. The mutiliated body of a young woman is found in an empty field on the edge of town with two gunshot wounds to the head, only half an inch apart. The shots are too precise for just anyone to make, and eerily reminiscent of the only other murder the town has ever seen - the unsolved death of a federal agent three decades ago. Carter believes solving one murder will solve both, so he begins investigating the cold case - a case that plagued his own father when he was sheriff of the small town. But this isn't just about finding a serial killer. Someone is lurking just outside of town, waiting to finish what was started 30 years ago.