Illinois Authors

St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York : 2005.

Lieutenant Jonathan Stride knows it's not a moral world. One teenage girl has already disappeared on his watch, leaving behind no body, no killer, and no justice. Now, when another girl goes missing on a cold night in Minnesota, Stride must relive his worst nightmare ...--Page 4 of cover.

St. Martin's Minotaur, New York : 2005.

The disappearance of a beautiful teenage girl from the streets of Duluth, Minnesota, the second in a year, draws Lieutenant Jonathan Stride into a dark and dangerous conflict with the heart of evil as his search for a serial killer captures him in a web of secrets, lies, obsession, illict desire, and death that will transform his life.

Blackstone Audio, Inc., [Ashland, OR] : ℗2009.

When he was a teenager, Jonathan Stride fell in love with Cindy Starr, the girl who would become his wife. But that same year, Cindy's sister, Laura, was brutally murdered on the Fourth of July. The police suspected a vagrant of committing the crime, but Stride and Cindy were both convinced that the killer was someone close to Laura. Now, years after Cindy's death from cancer, the past is opened up again when Laura's best friend, Tish, shows up to write a book about the unsolved murder. Her investigation suddenly leaves Stride questioning his relationship with Cindy and his entire past.

St. Martin's Press, Minotaur Books, New York : ©2009.

This thriller takes you deep into the complicated past of Detective Jonathan Stride. Even those involved in the closest relationships can be kept in the dark about a loved one's past. When a woman shows up in town and informs Stride that she is writing a book about the 30-year-old mystery surrounding the murder of the older sister of the girl who grew up to become Stride's spouse, he's forced to re-examine the validity of his bond with not only his late wife, Cindy, who died of cancer five years earlier, but also that involving his current love interest, a former Vegas cop turned PI, Serena Dial.

Silver Oak, New York : ©2012.

The two Minnesota towns couldn't be more different: in affluent Barron, a powerful and secretive scientific research corporation enriches its residents, while downriver in blue-collar St. Croix, victims of that company's carcinogenic waste struggle to survive. The bad blood between the communities escalates into open warfare when the beautiful Ashlynn, daughter of the corporation's president, is found shot dead--and a St. Croix girl, Olivia Hawk, is accused of the crime. Olivia's father, Christopher, a Minneapolis lawyer, comes to defend his daughter and uncovers some ugly truths that endanger the residents of both towns.

St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York : 2009, ©2008.

As Lieutenant Jonathan Stride and his lover, P.I. Serena Dial, investigate a deadly crime linked to his partner, Maggie Bei, and pursue a blackmailer, they become the targets of a predator with a brutal past and a terrifying plan for revenge.

St. Martin's Minotaur, New York : 2008.

As Lieutenant Jonathan Stride and his lover, P.I. Serena Dial, investigate a deadly crime linked to his partner, Maggie Bei, and pursue a blackmailer, they become the targets of a predator with a brutal past and a terrifying plan for revenge.

Wheeler Pub Inc, Waterville, Me. : 2008.

Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial discover that two seemingly unrelated cases--a hit-and-run accident and a celebrity killed during a fling with a prostitute--have a bizarre connection to a brutal crime from Las Vegas's shady past.

St. Martin's Minotaur, New York : 2006.

Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial discover that two seemingly unrelated cases--a hit-and-run "accident" and a celebrity killed during a fling with a prostitute--have a bizarre connection to a brutal crime from Las Vegas's shady past.

Blackstone Audio, Inc., [Ashland, Or.] : 2011.

When Mark Bradley was accused of having an affair with a student, he lost his job and both he and his wife Hilary lost their reputations. Now a year later, a teen girl is found dead on a beach near their Lake Michigan island town and Mark immediately falls under suspicion. As Hilary tries to clear her husband's name, she discovers the victim was the only witness to a horrific crime years before. Nobody is willing to listen, except for detective Cab Bolton.

When 16-year-old Glory, Tresa Fischer's wild-child younger sister, turns up dead on a beach near Mark and Hilary's Florida hotel, Mark becomes the number one murder suspect. Det. Cab Bolton, who isn't one to jump to conclusions, travels from Florida to Wisconsin to unravel Mark--and Glory's--complicated lives.

Charnwood, Leicester : 2009.

Headline, London : 2009.

One murder has haunted Lieutenant Jonathan Stride for thirty years. In 1977 his girlfriend's sister was savagely beaten to death. Stride came face to face with the suspect - and let the man escape. And when writer Tish Verdure begins a book about the murder, he's reluctant to re-open the case. But Tish has new evidence that raises questions about the actions of the police...and even Stride's own wife. -- back cover.