Bøker av Rodney Riesel

In this, the twenty-first installment from the Tales of Dan Coast Series, Hot For Teacher, Dan, Red, and Skip are hired by a married nurse, Britta Millsworth, to find her missing boyfriend. The boyfriend, Barry Burlington, a local handyman with a sordid past, vanished during the holidays, and hasn't been seen since. This new case takes the trio of amateur sleuths on a road trip from Key West to West Palm Beach, and on up to the little lake-side town of Lake Pruitt.

Dan Coast and Red Baxter return in the twentieth installment of The Tales of Dan Coast Series. It's only been a few days since Dan and Red returned from Old Forge, New York. Gene and Peg Coast are still in town and staying through the holidays. There're murmurs of a Christmas party, Gene's building a new deck, and Dan is staying away from his house as much as possible. Even if that means morning runs and working a case through the holidays.During one of those runs, Dan and Maxine are almost mowed down buy a speeding vehicle. Moments later, the sounds of sirens fill the air. Are the two connected? Join Dan, Red, and Skip Stoner as they work to solve the murder of "A Great Guy."

When Banks Barrett overhears two men plotting his murder in a men's bathroom stall, he pulls up his feet and sits quietly until they leave. Not recognizing the men's voices, and with nothing to go on other than their shoes, Banks goes to the police. When the cops don't believe his story, he has nowhere else to turn. That is, until a friend tells him about two local sleuths who have solved murders in the past-murders before they happened. Join John Burton and his sidekick, Kurt Powell in this fifth installment of the Jensen Beach Mystery Series, as the put the clues together to stop a murder before it happens.

Dan Coast and his friends have always used his home as a place to discuss and brainstorm about current cases, but Maxine Dan's girlfriend, has had enough of their antics. After a late night argument, Dan, in an attempt to smooth things over, decides to get himself an office. As soon as Dan rents the office, two woman with missing husbands come forward, asking for help.Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they piece together the clues that could lead them to the same fate as who they're searching for.

Ten years ago John Burton had it all. A wife and a new baby son, a successful acting career, a hit television show, and a beach house in Malibu. Things couldn't get any better ... but things could get worse.Now, back in his home town of Jensen Beach, Florida, everything he owns doesn't even fill the back of a small U-Haul truck. Just days after John's return home, the bodies of two female tourists are found in their hotel rooms. Join John and his childhood friend, Kurt Powell, as they piece together clues leading to the killer's identity.

Professional hitman, Sam Dinkins, previously going by the name, Chuck Hewlitt, returns in his third adventure, Killer Cove. Sam's just finished up an easy job in New York City, and is about to meet his girlfriend, Rosie, in North Carolina. However, an unexpected phone call from Sam's handler, Bob, puts those vacation plans on hold. Bob needs Sam in Perkins Cove, Maine as soon as possible. A mark with a secret needs to be put down before he has a chance to run his mouth. A few days in Maine gives Sam an idea. He tells Rosie to meet him in Perkins Cove instead of North Carolina. They'll spend their vacation in the north rather than the south. The plan is to see Rosie for a few days, send her back to Florida, and then carry out his hit. What could possibly go wrong?

It's been four weeks since Allen Crane, Donnie Peppitone, and Cam Owens burst through Benny Strong's door, with guns blazing, to rescue Jacob Palmer. Cam and his wife, Mildred, have moved on. Donnie is recovering from his injuries at the home of Mya Duffy, and Allen is just waking up from a weeks long coma. In A Turn of Events, the second book in mystery writer, Allen Crane's series, Allen and his sidekick, Donnie, hear about a vehicle that's been torched and abandoned outside of town. The body of a young female, burned beyond recognition, has been discovered inside the vehicle. Allen and Donnie decide to give York Police Department's Sergeant Paul Rose some unwanted help, and set out to solve the mystery of the burned out car.

Who's Terrance Radcliff? That's exactly what Cole Ballinger was wondering when he read the newspaper headline. Local Family Disappears, it said. He knew the name sounded familiar, but from where? When two high school boys-brothers-and their parents vanish, Cole feels he may be to blame. With nothing taken from the home, and no sign of a struggle, Cole must piece together a timeline leading up to the family's disappearance.

In this fifth installment of the Fernandina Beach Mystery Series, local maintenance man, and amateur sleuth, Rex Langley is called in to repair one of the apartments over Collins' Hardware, and quickly realizes, all may not be as it seems. The apartment, he was told, was damaged in a break-in. Why would Roscoe Wade break into Darlene Sullivan's apartment? Rex wonders. The two had been neighbors for years. Fernandina Beach Detective Calvin Rance, one of Mrs. Sullivan's former students, says, "It's an open and shut case. Roscoe broke in, not knowing Darlene was home. There was a struggle, and Roscoe, slipping on a puddle of water, falls and hits his head on the edge of the tub." As Rex digs deeper, a mysterious man, a telescope, and a long ago death forces him to bring his wife, Gayle Langley, a retired Navy Master-at-arms, into the investigation.

It was a cool crisp Saturday morning in November when Gillian George's neighbors spotted her lifeless body floating in the stormwater pond out behind her house. She'd been stabbed to death and dragged into the water among the tall weeds and reeds. No one saw a thing. No one heard anything. But neighbors do remember seeing two male strangers in the neighborhood just days before Gillian's body was discovered. While questioning neighbors, Detectives Jake Stellar and Avis Lint soon learn that Gillian had recently kicked her husband, Alvin, out of the house, and was contemplating divorce. Could Alvin be the killer, or was this just a botched break-in? Join Detectives Jake Stellar and Avis Lint as they piece together the clues in Stormwater, the eighth action packed book in the Jake Stellar Series.

Butch Carter's just been released from prison after serving seven years of a ten year sentence. Things in the small town of Lake Pruitt, Florida have changed quite a bit while he was away. His father is in a nursing home, the family business has been run into the ground, and his girlfriend and the son he's never met, are now living with a guy Butch has hated his whole life. To make matters worse, Butch's brother, Ronnie, hasn't been seen in days. Luckily for Butch, his old friends, Taggart and Shifty, are at his side to help him find his brother and give him a hand in putting his life back together.

Coasts of Christmas Past is the third book in the Dan Coast series of books.Dan Coast is all set to spend Christmas just the same way he has every year for the past few years; alone and drunk. But when uninvited, unexpected guests arrive and throw a wrench into his holiday plans he is forced to sober up (slightly), and throw on a smile.Just when it seems nothing else could go wrong, a close friend is injured in what appears, to the police, to be a drug deal gone bad. Dan Coast and his sidekick, Red jump into action to find the truth while their friend lies unconscious in the hospital.