Bøker av Bill Craig

A break in at the Hemingway museum leads to a lot of speculation on the coconut telegraph. Nothing appears to have been taken and the only damage is to an old desk that Ernest Hemingway had used. The Key West Police Department writes it off as routine vandalism. Except Katrina Morrow doesn't think so. Katrina is a Hemingway scholar and suspects that the break in had a specific purpose, so she hires Marlow to look into it. As he begins his investigation, some sinister characters show up and try to scare him off. But Rick Marlow doesn't scare easily, and as the stakes rise, he becomes more determined to find the truth, even as it leads south to Cuba and a deadly confrontation over what might be a lost Hemingway manuscript

Phillip Chandler is a hardboiled private eye working Indianapolis -- called Circle City for the towering war memorial in the circular drive at its center. Here he sets out to prove a pro basketball player didn't kill his girlfriend. As it turns out, there are lots of other suspects to pick from, dangerous bad guys who inhabit Circle City. "The 'Circle' is definitely made up of hell-on-wheels criminals. Bad guys you will love to hate, and dames in distress. A hero worth launching a series for. Five stars," says Eve Palunden, a ranked Amazon reviewer. "Very readable ..." agrees John Spooner, an online reviewer.

Do parents still read to their children at bedtime? Or do they take time during the day to snuggle together for a special story? Storytime can be a special bonding time for parent and child. The Adventures of Little Mouse is a collection of stories perfect for a parent or grandparent to share with their child, as they each are based upon lessons which Little Mouse has either learned from Daddy or Papaw Mouse. The stories are not moralistic, but characteristics such as politeness are natural parts of Little Mouse's being. In the "Mystery of Christmas," Little Mouse helps unravel the mystery of the holiday as he shares his home with Mary Mouse. And giving his most special toy to the baby is a result of discovering more of Christmas's real meaning. In the "Wild Wolf" tale, Little Mouse seeks the staff of the Wizard, in order to ward off danger and keep his family and friends safe. In the story of the "River Pirates," Little Mouse shows the need for quick thinking and wise choices in order to outsmart the evil pirates. In "The Shadow of the Hawk" Little mouse uses his bravery and the self-defense skills taught to him by his father as he accomplishes a difficult task and defends the small messenger bird from the deadly Hawk.

Set in Key West, this new mystery series promises a can't-put-down story of murder, mayhem, and duplicity. Rick Marlow is a broken former NYPD cop who had been shot by his partner during the discovery of a dead body in an alley. Half-dead and barely recovered Marlow moves south to Key West, figuring the end of the road might mean a new beginning. Then, hired to find a missing heiress by a Key West attorney, Marlow suddenly has purpose once more. The case takes him from Key West to Miami, where big bucks, blackmail and Cuban Intelligence agents all cross his path.

Phillip Chandler used to be Chicago cop, but after a run in with corrupt officials left him jobless and disgusted, he moved south to Indianapolis, Indiana, and opened up shop as a private eye. While he has an office in a seedy part of Downtown Indy, Chandler spends a good deal of his time between Babes and The Slippery Noodle. So it comes as no surprise when a stripper working under the name of Mary Blue showed up wanting Chandler to locate her friend, Rita Clark (AKA "Red Rita") who vanished after working a "party" in Carmel a couple of nights before. Chandler agrees to look into it, and soon discovers that corruption is everywhere and innocence lost is never again found....

A new series from the creator of the bestselling Marlow mysteries: Retired Navel Intelligence officer Mitch Cooper had decided to stay in San Diego after leaving the Navy. Cooper was making his living as a security consultant and private eye, and in San Diego he was never at a loss for work. When an old navy buddy shows up on his doorstep looking for help, and gets murdered when he leaves, Cooper finds himself drawn into a nightmare web of international intrigue and stolen military secrets. Cooper discovers that even trying to stay alive could just be one more way to die!

When Vern Brisbane is murdered after docking his shrimp boat, the Key West Police think it was a random killing. But Brisbane's daughter Lilly disagrees. She hires Rick Marlow to look into the shrimper's death and what he finds is a smuggling operation that is using shrimp boats to smuggle in both drugs and people. Not knowing who he can trust, Marlow must navigate the Dark Waters to get the man behind it all.

In bestselling author Bill Craig's second entry in his Marlow series, a woman is washed up on the beach, battered and beaten, clutching a small leather sack and no memory of who she was. But Jorge Leone recognized what was in the sack and knew it meant trouble was blowing into Key West. He hired Marlow to find out who the girl was and where she had come from. As Marlow works the case, he finds himself being blown about in a Banana Wind as a storm of violence descends on Key West!

A storm is approaching Key West and something wicked is blowing into town with it. Tina Cord had been on the run from a psychopathic stalker when she arrived on the island. Then she met Marlow. Now he may be the only one that can keep her out of the stalker's hands. Lola Ponsberry, Walter's secretary, had also arrived in Key West running from her past, and now it has caught up with her. A maniacal child seeking vengeance has re-entered Walter Loomis' life. Yes, something wicked has arrived on Key West. The question is, who will survive?

Detective Rick Marlow is at it again, solving crimes in Key West. Getting his act together. He had cut down to five cigarettes a day and only occasionally anything stronger than beer to drink. He was running nearly half a mile now, a long way from where he had been before he got shot. So when he gets a new case, he's not prepared for the violence that's sure to follow. "Craig's Marlow series is an Amazon bestseller, at the top of the hardboiled private eye category," notes Shirrel Rhoades, editor of Murder In Key West. "A great read, it's as attention-getting as a fist in the face!"

Marlow should have known that leaving the past behind is never easy. Because trouble seems to follow in his footsteps. Faces from the past turn up on Key West, and when one of them turns up dead, Marlow is faced with the most difficult case of his new life. He has to solve his own shooting, the one that ended his career on the NYPD. But the hardest part is that he has to solve it from Key West and his suspects are all in town and one of them is the killer that seems to be stalking him again, this time to finish the job and leave Marlow dead in the sand beneath a Neon Goodbye...

Former cop Joe Collins goes after those serial killers who are a threat to society. Along with former partner Doris Linacre, he sets out to stop another bad guy, this time someone behind a series of missing women and kids -- gone, no trace left behind.

Willie Walker was a famous saxophonist in the Jazz world. He had played all around the world. But now he was retiring to Key West to open up a Jazz Club at the End of the Road. But people around him start dying, and pretty soon Willie gets the idea that somebody doesn't want his club to open. His granddaughter Ruby is getting the same idea and hires Marlow to find out who is out to kill her grandfather and why. Willie has secrets he plans on taking to the grave. Secrets he promised never to reveal. But in order to keep Willie alive, Marlow has to uncover those secrets or they both might end up singing the Midnight Blues...

"The Caribe series by Bill Craig drops you right in the middle of an Ian Fleming novel..." -Dick Wall, Editor.Following the mission which effectively wiped out the Caribe team, Nick Storm is enjoying his retirement on Key West. Until an old friend from his days in the CIA shows up at the beach to ask Nick to undertake one last mission for the CIA. The Agency has a mole and has learned that a deadly disease is being weaponized in a secret lab in Costa Rica. Storm agrees to take the job and soon finds himself racing against the clock to contain the killer virus and stop it from being unleashed on an unsuspecting world!

"I'm a big Western fan. This six-gun and saddle-leather tale by Bill Craig follows the trail ridden by such masters as Louis L'Amour and John Jakes. A danged good read!"- Nick Teranzi, Online Critics CornerHis wagon train had been burned, people were dead, and his throbbing head didn't remember his own name. Making his way into Denver City, he takes a room, using money he found on a dead body among the wrecked wagons. When forced to sign the hotel register, he comes up with the name Maverick. Just Maverick. The only thing he knows about himself is that somebody wants him dead. But that's not likely to happen as Maverick loads his Colt Peacemaker .45 and sets out to face his enemies. Here's a rousing Western by the creator of the popular Marlow mysteries.

"Over 70 books published and Bill Craig just keeps on getting better. Maybe practice does make perfect. His latest Mitch Cooper mystery is a winner."- Byron McCafferty, Online Critics CornerPaloma Verdes was a woman of exotic beauty and Mitch Cooper had to admit that she had him nearly mesmerized when she first set foot in his San Diego office. But Paloma came with a sad story to go with her good looks. Her brother Enrico was a truck driver and he had taken a load up to San Clemente. She had called the company that he worked for and they had told her that he had never arrived. She wanted Cooper to locate her brother and make sure that he was okay and not dead in a ditch somewhere between San Diego and San Clemente. Cooper had known women like Paloma before, and he had learned the hard way that they weren't to be trusted. He was willing to work for her, but he didn't think that she was a woman he would be willing to die for...

"You can't beat a great storyteller, whether he's writing the Great American Novel or a private eye adventure. Bill Craig is a great storyteller."- Edward Squires, Not Quite NovellasArnie Grossman was a wealthy man who had been investing heavily in Indianapolis, the city he had grown up in. But wealthy men make enemies. And when Arnie walks in and finds a dead woman in his living room, he knows that he is being set up. Somebody wants to frame him for murder. So he calls in Phillip Chandler, the former US Marshal turned Private Investigator. Chandler is an old friend, and the one man who he is sure can prove that he had nothing to do with murdering the young woman.

"How great is this? A second book in Bill Craig's Caribe series published on the heels of the first. Couldn't wait to read it. This spy novel has the Bill Craig touch!"- Byron Rupert McCafferty, pop culture guru and noted online criticCaribe is a multinational task force created to handle a burgeoning level of espionage and counter espionage happening in Central and South America and the Caribbean. Their next assignment is a tough one. A U.S. Intelligence agent washes up on Nassau. The only problem is; the dead man was reported killed ten years earlier on a mission to Serbia. Riley and the Caribe team are assigned to find out what happened to the agent and where he had been for the past ten years. What they uncover is a deadly terrorist ...

"The Past Never Dies is the second in Bill Craig's new mystery series about a sharp-witted San Diego private eye. If you haven't read the first, go get it. And you'll want to keep your eyes open for the next one. It's that addictive."- George "Harley" Davidson, Zoo in a BookLindsay Call is a reporter for the San Diego Reader and is working on a story about Tech firms working with China. After somebody takes a shot at her, the newspaper hires Mitch Cooper to protect her. However someone doesn't like that idea and when a dead body turns up from Cooper's past, he has to find out why and what the connection to Lindsay's story is. The answer is shadowed in Cooper's past from his days as a Navy Seal and a classified mission that officially never happened against the Chinese.