The Clarke Lantham Mysteries

72 hours. The cops only look for missing adults after 72 hours.
Three days for Nya Thales to turn up dead somewhere if ex-cop Clarke Lantham can't find her first. But when he sets foot in Nya's world, Lantham's race against time turns into a run for his life: blocked at all corners, framed for murder, and stalked by a killer intent on covering up who kidnapped Nya Thales--and Why.

For crappy Christmas presents, Detective Clarke Lantham figures most people couldn't beat getting thrown in an out-of-state jail on a trumped up charge. So when he calls up his brother for help with bail, he thinks he's prepared for the ordeal of spending a holiday weekend with relatives who put the "strange" back in "estranged.

That was his first mistake.

An old girlfriend pulls Clarke Lantham into a New Year's Eve chase for a federal fugitive and the $50,000 price on his head. Book 3 of the Clarke Lantham Mysteries

Clarke Lantham got a good chuckle when a world-famous alien hunter tried him to prevent an attack on San Francisco. He stopped laughing 12 hours later when gray aliens apparently stole a priceless artifact in full view of security cameras. But when takes the case, he finds himself working against the Chinese Government and the FBI. Book 4 of The Clarke Lantham Mysteries

According to the official story, Martin Galloway shot himself in front of two cops. But his bereaved fiancee smells a rat, and when the system fails her, she turns to Clarke Lantham Investigations to prove that Martin was murdered. At stake: the reputation of one of the world's greatest humanitarians...and his twenty billion dollar estate.

Stranded in the mountains with no cell phone, Clarke Lantham must elude two gunmen intent on killing his companions, and uncover the dark secret behind who hired them.

Ten-year-old detective Teddy Stride hires Clarke Lantham to investigate his father's suspicious behavior. But Lantham didn't expect that taking the case would send him straight to the heart of the biggest academic scandal in state history, and set him on a collision course with ghosts from his past that may jeopardize his freedom, ruin his career, and endanger the life of everyone he cares about.

When Nya Thales started her basement remodel, she expected a good hard project. But when an accidental exhumation gets her a chance at solving one of the biggest unsolved crimes in California history, her only hope for claiming an FBI reward lies in the fears of her neighbors, the memories of the survivors, and the secrets buried beneath her floorboards.