The Bone Detective Novels

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.

Praise for A Lonesome Blood-red Sun

“Overused terms like ratchet, rollercoaster, gripping and action-packed all fail to adequately describe this phenomenal thriller.”
—BookReporter
“[A] gritty street poem that evolves from a police procedural into an action-packed crime thriller, blending fiction with authentic, true-life incidents, creating an intense, genuine feel.”
—Mystery & Suspense Magazine

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.

Praise for A FEARSOME MoonLIGHT BLACK

“A cop’s life, whether a rookie or a seasoned detective, is jammed with encounters that are often routine, sometimes disturbing, and all too often life-threateningly dangerous, a grind that takes its toll on personal relationships. A FEARSOME MOONLIGHT BLACK pulls back the curtain and takes the reader into that world with in-your-face clarity.”
—Matthew Quirk, NYT bestselling author

Want to know what it’s like to be a trainee deputy on patrol in 1979? Then read this book. You will live it…right alongside Dave Beckett, who discovers what it truly means to wear, and embody, the badge…. You may not have graduated from the sheriff’s academy, or patrolled a beat in a squad car, but you’ll believe you have after riding the mean streets of San Bernardino County with Dave Beckett.”
—Glen Erik Hamilton, award-winning author