Southern California

The tenth novel in the Alexander Wright Murder Mystery Series has our hero, Alex, entwined in a civic lesson of greed and unethical underpinnings. If you think politicians can be corrupt, this is a local-level example of corruption and greed. It may be thought of as a victimless crime, but greed is only a gateway drug to worse. As bad as that seems, Alex is still able to hit the prime surf spots of Southern California, the envy of the world, and advance his love life and family life. Although a chronological series installment, Town for Sale can stand on its own just like the other nine ...

For twenty years Alex Wright, the Laguna Beach surfing real estate appraiser, has believed that his parents died in a freak auto accident on their way home from a weekend in Palm Springs. Now he learns that they were killed, mob-style, with single bullets to their heads. Why would they deserve to die this way? Meanwhile, Alex’s wife, Rachel Fix, is not adjusting well to the settled life of wife and mother. She is drawn back to the excitement of celebrity and fame that she enjoyed during her ten years on the pro surfing tour. So begins the seventh story in the Alex Wright Mystery saga. ...

A homeless man is found dead and butchered in a dumpster. This leads to a series of heinous murders. Alex Wright, Laguna Beach real estate appraiser, discovers the second body while surfing at Salt Creek and feels the need to help uncover the mystery of why these homeless men were chosen for such a grisly death. A note from the killer suggests the homeless crisis in Orange County may be the killer’s motivation or maybe it’s just a symptom of a psychologically twisted pervert. Alex leads an all-in effort among the rich and powerful elite of Orange County to end homelessness. The action ...

In a suburban LA neighborhood, neighbors keep wary distance and at times collide, propelled by desire, fury, and mischief. Precocious Korean-American sisters Mira and Rosemary find their world rocked by a suicide; a charismatic and creepy drama teacher grooms his students; an aging gay horror novelist fights loneliness; and a white mother and her adopted Vietnamese daughter deal with lifelong anger issues.

What would you do if the government took your liberty?California citizens wage war against the UN, brought in to enforce martial law as their Islamist henchmen terrorize the countryside. Some citizens feel safer under martial law, free of the street violence and looting. Other citizens see this for what it is. Globalist tyranny. Their only choice is to fight the invaders, to the death if necessary. They’re making progress, but the cost is high.In Bug Out! California Book 11, the battle rages as the citizen patriot forces, under the leadership of Ivan the Butcher, make life impossible for ...

Alex Wright, a 32-year old real estate appraiser in Laguna Beach, California, finds himself in the thick of a major bank fraud. While struggling to distance himself from the scam, he discovers the dead body of his luscious client, Colette. His surfing buddy, Detective Zackery Potrero of the Newport Beach Police Department, is watching his back and shaking his head at each turn wondering how Alex can get himself in so deep! Watch for future adventures of this duo and their assortment of family and friends.

What would you do if the government took your liberty? California citizens wage war against the UN, brought in to enforce martial law as their Islamist henchmen terrorize the countryside. Some citizens feel safer under martial law, free of the street violence and looting. Other citizens see this for what it is. Globalist tyranny. Their only choice is to fight the invaders, to the death if necessary. In Bug Out! California Book 13, the Globalists hunted resistance team leaders, drawing blood, but taking losses themselves. General Hogan and Ivan planned their response, and launched it without...

What would you do if the government took your liberty?California citizens wage war against the UN, brought in to enforce martial law as their Islamist henchmen terrorize the countryside. Some citizens feel safer under martial law, free of the street violence and looting. Other citizens see this for what it is. Globalist tyranny. Their only choice is to fight the invaders, to the death if necessary. In Bug Out! California Book 13, the war ends after Daan Mertin’s defeat in New Mexico, the citizen forces ready to celebrate and go back to their normal lives. It was not to be. General Hogan ...

What would you do if the government took your liberty?California citizens wage war against the UN, brought in to enforce martial law as their Islamist henchmen terrorize the countryside. Some citizens feel safer under martial law, free of the street violence and looting. Other citizens see this for what it is. Globalist tyranny. Their only choice is to fight the invaders, to the death if necessary. They’re making progress, but the cost is high.In Bug Out! California Book 12, a multi-front battle rages. Marines and civilian recruits in Mexico battle a horde of Islamists as they race ...

The discovery of a fifty-year-old corpse leads Alex and his law enforcement friends on an amazing new adventure. How can you investigate a cold case that is this old? Where do you begin? What do you plan to learn? What will represent the end of the search – truth, blame, or just an unanswerable question? And so it begins, the sixth story in the Alex Wright mystery series - with Alex Wright, the Laguna Beach surfing real estate appraiser. He discovers the skeletal remains while measuring a house for an appraisal. Now he feels compelled to dig deep into the past to find out what happened on...

After seven months laying low in Ocean Beach, California, Seattle PI Leo Waterman has finally stopped looking over his shoulder - specifically, for the vengeful band of Washington white supremacists who blame Leo for blindsiding their big plans for America. Where better to disappear with his bodyguard, Gabe, than this laid-back stretch of San Diego heaven? But when Leo finds a boy’s body on the beach, he comes out of hiding to investigate.

It started with a 5 a.m. phone call... The adventure leads Alex and his friends to Montana and east to Minneapolis; as well as to the rugged seashore of Big Sur, California in search of the truth. In search of a killer. The entire story covers a mere 23 days! It is a fast-paced, road trip to be experienced.

What would you do if the government took your liberty?California citizens wage war against the UN, brought in to enforce martial law as their Islamist henchmen terrorize the countryside. Some citizens feel safer under martial law, free of the street violence and looting. Other citizens see this for what it is. Globalist tyranny. Their only choice is to fight the invaders, to the death if necessary. In Bug Out! California Book 15, the Deep State is exposed. They become a bigger danger than the surviving funders of the war.In Book 16 – Darkness to Light, the Deep State is frantic, upping ...

Chances are your grandchildren have no idea of the world before cell phones, internet, and digital everything. Written for the author's grandchildren, this book presents vignettes of life before MTV and 24-hour news cycles. At times poignant, funny, and cynical, it's easy and entertaining reminders of a simpler time.

Prohibition. Mobsters, murder, and mayhem. FBI agents. Cops, robbers, and worse. Sound like the background for a Hollywood epic? It's Ernest Marquez's latest very true story of the renowned gambling ships that anchored in Santa Monica Bay in the 1920s and 1930s. It's the story of Tony Cornero, the cockiest gangster who ever bootlegged a bottle of scotch, the man who helped found Las Vegas, and the smooth operator of the most glamorous gambling ship in the Pacific, the Rex.

What would you do if the government destroyed your liberty?California citizens labored under the cruel hand of the UN, brought in to enforce martial law. Some citizens felt safer, free of the street violence and looting. Other citizens saw this for what it was. Globalist tyranny.In Bug Out! California Book 5, the battle is ramping up. Citizens won early battles, kicking the UN and their Islamist allies out of LA and Orange Counties, but the battle didn’t end there. The enemy has regrouped, and they’re coming at the citizens full force. Who will prevail?Ivan the Butcher is using his vast...

In his latest adventure, Alex Wright, a 32-year old real estate appraiser in Laguna Beach, California, finds himself involved in the murder investigation of a computer geek, Eric Thompson, who has developed a means to steal identities in an undetectable manner. His surfing buddy, Detective Zackery Potrero of the Newport Beach Police Department, is amazed at how Alex can analyze situations and discover leads that were missed by the police and the FBI. With the help of FBI Special Investigator Louis Faulkner, the trio peels away several layers of crime in their effort to solve the mystery.

Something is wrong in California.Martial Law is in place. UN Peacekeepers take on enforcement in the cities as their secret Islamist allies terrorize the countryside. The trouble starts right away. UN Peacekeepers push the population around, beating or killing those who resist and kidnapping women to fulfill their own evil desires.Ivan the Butcher leads a movement to foil the plans of the globalists, setting up two core groups. One group works in the extreme south of the state, led by Ji-Ho, a wealthy Korean man with mob and mercenary ties. The other group works in the South Bay, led by ...

It all starts with a car crash that kills a friend of Laguna Beach real estate appraiser, Alex Wright. He is unwilling to accept that it was an accident. The action develops as Alex, along with his surfing buddy, Newport Beach Police Captain Zack Potrero, search for the compelling motivation and reasonable opportunity among a list of possible suspects.... Meanwhile, Alex's romance with 4-time World Champion surfer, Rachel Fix heats up; in this, the fifth story in the ALEX WRIGHT MYSTERY/ADVENTURE SERIES... an exciting and fun read!

Desperate to find an experienced blaster, the owners of the South Pacific Coast Railroad turn to the Chinese for help. Chen, veteran transcontinental railroad blaster at the Donner Summit tunnel, agrees to return to his old job, with conditions. During the arduous four-year nightmare to drill and blast four tunnels through the Santa Cruz Mountains, he faces racial discrimination, unsafe working conditions and other unimagined dangers. The author spent long hours sorting through recently uploaded online newspapers from the era, which provide new insights to the construction of the tunnels. ...