A Gray Cadaverous Dawn

Book 3

Dave Beckett chases a killer long hidden from the law.

Veteran homicide detective Dave Beckett has spent years working the cases nobody wants. He’s the Bone Dick. He handles the bones pulled from the desert, murders long forgotten by everyone but the dead. When a high-profile trial threatens to end his career—and his marriage—Beckett makes one last decision that will haunt him forever: he steps outside the lines.

What begins as courtroom testimony spirals into a relentless hunt through Southern California’s underbelly, from union offices and courthouse hallways to remote desert shacks where bodies are left to vanish. When a missing woman’s trail collides with a brutal murder in the Mojave Desert, Beckett uncovers something far more dangerous than a lone killer hiding in plain sight.

Hard-edged, unflinching, and brutally authentic, this Putnam’s latest delivers a blistering look at policing in 1983—where justice is never clean, truth is never safe, and the desert remembers everything.

In a world where everyone has an angle, the most dangerous thing is doing the right thing.

A Lonesome Blood-red Sun

Book 2

Dave Beckett, a homicide detective who doesn’t color within the lines, is regulated to the lowest job in the division and is known by his peers as The Bone Dick. He handles all “bag of bone” cases found in San Bernardino County’s twenty thousand square miles, at present, count 256 pending unsolved. It’s a boring, mundane job…until it isn’t. In A Lonesome Blood-Red Sun, Beckett is called to a house far out in the desert where a dog has brought a bone to the back door. Beckett investigates and discovers the victim, two years dead, is someone he knows. Beckett, with his usual verve and colorful methods, tracks the killer. The trail leads through a warren of dead ends until he discovers a most unlikely suspect hiding in plain sight.

A Lonesome Blood-Red Sun is fiction melded with true-life incidents that makes for a non-stop thriller of the first order.

A Fearsome Moonlight Black

Book 1

Dave Beckett is a wide-eyed young man when he joins the police department in a small town in Southern California. His naivete allows him to believe in his world, a vision where the cops are the good guys championing the rights of the wronged. He learns quickly that crime is not black and white, and the bad guys aren’t always the ones committing the crimes. This is the story of a victim turned predator, a young man who grows up too fast and becomes an apt pupil in the pursuit of criminals on both sides of the fence.