Books

Black River

From the series: Sean O'Brien

When an old man sees an unidentified Civil War photograph of a woman in the newspaper, he begins a desperate search for a 160-year-old painting. If he can find it, and if the woman in the painting matches the photograph, it will prove his great-great-grandfather didn't run from battle—clearing a family name tarnished for generations.

He hires...

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Blood of Cain

From the series: Sean O'Brien

When Courtney Burke appears at Ponce Marina on a humid summer morning, she leaves private investigator Sean O'Brien with a haunting tale—one that could lead him down a path beginning with a brutal rape forty years earlier and family secrets spawned from the desecration of the innocent.

Courtney is linked to a series of carnival murders. Police...

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The Black Bullet

From the series: Sean O'Brien

Glenda Lawson believes her husband was the only U.S. serviceman shot and killed on American soil during World War II. But in 1945, investigators ruled that Billy Lawson died in a "mugging turned ugly."

Decades later, Sean O'Brien is learning the ropes of commercial fishing when his anchor snags on something underwater—a German U-boat partially...

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The 24th Letter

From the series: Sean O'Brien

A priest hears the confession of a frightened prison inmate and learns a devastating truth: a man facing lethal injection in 84 hours is innocent. The lead investigator on the high-profile case was his old friend, private investigator Sean O'Brien.

Now O'Brien has a chance to right a horrible wrong—but less than 84 hours to uncover clues to a...

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The Butterfly Forest

From the series: Sean O'Brien

Some crimes never fade. Some secrets never stay buried.

When botany graduate student Molly Monroe enters the Ocala National Forest to release rare butterflies, she stumbles upon something violent and illegal. Her discovery makes her a target—and the forest becomes a hunting ground.

Terrified for her daughter’s life, Molly’s mother turns to Sean O’...

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A False Dawn

From the series: Sean O'Brien

Every legend begins with a choice. Sean O’Brien’s begins with a promise.

Sean O’Brien has never broken his word. It’s a code handed down by his grandfather—and the vow he makes to his wife, Sherri, just before she dies. When grief drives him to leave the Miami Police Department, O’Brien seeks solitude in the Florida wilderness along the ancient...

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