One Step From Murder: The Friendly Burglar-Rapist His crime-spree was almost 3.5 years in the making and it took 3.5 decades for the true, inside story to make its way into book form. Aided by the memory of my long-time partner Thomas H. Covington Jr, I have completed a dream of ours. I have written [...]

The Authors Show is a really great internet forum for author interviews. The Authors Show host, Don McCauley, interviewed me on February 3rd for my book Innocent And Guilty. Each author who appears on the show has a twenty-four hour window for their interview to be available via their website. My interview aired yesterday, February [...]

The Hole In The Water, is featured in various of the novels drawn from the Black Book Investigations of Michael Grant and Associates Series; or more succinctly: the Michael Grant series. Location plays a very active roll in these novels. I try to paint the picture of places where action is occurring, for two reasons. [...]

A couple of months ago I was contemplating giving another book interview; someone else interviewing me, the author. I had the thought, “What if the author interviewed a reader?” The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea and began to think about questions I would ask a reader, a fan of [...]

One of the thrilling things about a series is anticipating the next story, the next adventure, the next book.  Trust me, I am just as anxious as you are to see the next action packed story from the Black Book Investigations of Michael Grant and Associates in print. Not only is it fun to read [...]

Cool off with a Chiller Of A Summer Thriller! Think December and January.  Think snow and more snow in the Colorado Rockie’s, the setting for Michael Grant and Associates in  And… Never Again.  The action will cool you down and heat you up.  So find some place cool, open your copy of  And… Never Again [...]

Suspense Magazine Reviews Jamaica Moon “Step aside 007; a new “international man of mystery” just rode into town. Michael Grant–ex-Dallas police homicide lieutenant sometime-government spook and private investigator–steam-rolls through Dallas causing mayhem to all the crooks he encounters.”  (This is the lead paragraph of the Jamaica Moon‘s review in Suspense Magazine’s January issue.) Though I [...]

And… Never Again.  Human & Eco-Disaster!  Hundreds of thousands of lives, millions of animals and billions in property are at stake in And… Never Again, the 3rd in the Michael Grant, PI, mystery/suspense series. Terry Dean Ballard, a young terrorist who killed 19 innocents in Texas before escaping Michael’s grasp at the end of Judas [...]

I recently took a visiting friend to the Greenville Avenue location of Desperados (Michael Grant’s favorite Mexican Food restaurant; Uno y Dos). Had another fantastic meal.  Started with a top-shelf margarita and Desperado Tacos – Beef and finished with “Deep Fried Latte”.  That’s right, Deep Fried Latte!  It is the name of a dessert concocted [...]

New Technology is the proverbial “Jones” as in keeping up with the Jones’. Just in the last six decades we’ve gone from radio to black & white analog TV to color HDTV; from 78rpm, 45rpm, and LP records to MP3; from the dusty Gutenberg Bible to Jamaica Moon on Kindle.  It remains to be seen [...]