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4th Chase Dagger mystery

Author:
Lee Driver

Hardcover  $26.00
ISBN
978-0-9785402-8-9

TPB  $16.95
ISBN
978-0-9785402-9-6

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Chasing Ghosts

A Chase Dagger Mystery

August 2008

What if everything you knew about your past was wrong? What if who you thought you were was all a lie?  

In CHASING GHOSTS Dagger comes face-to-face with his past in the form of an intruder who first wants to hire him, then tries to kill him. What prompted this response? The answer lies in a series of numbers which triggers Dagger’s memory and leads him to a remote city … one mile below the surface, technologically advanced yet abandoned.  Or is it?  

Knowing all roads eventually lead back to BettaTec, a shadow corporation Dagger used to work for, he does all he can to keep his partner out of danger.  But Sara has her ways and knowing Dagger, he will risk everything, even his life, to destroy BettaTec. Sara is the only one who can keep BettaTec from destroying him.


4th Sam Casey mystery

Author:
S.D. Tooley

Hardcover  $26.00
ISBN
978-0-9785402-3-4


TPB  $16.95
ISBN
978-0-9785402-2-7

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ECHOES from the Grave

A Sam Casey Mystery

Former homicide detective, Sam Casey, finds it hard to stay away from crime scenes, especially those where victims have died violently, and where the killers are still unknown.  

Centuries-old skeletal remains of Native Americans along with artifacts are discovered during the construction of a downtown office building. Sam has a difficult time deciphering her visions of two moons and the sound of gravel crunching until she realizes the two moons are headlights. The Chasen Heights medical examiner follows Sam’s hunch and discovers that one of the victims died three years ago.    

Sam has more than a passing interest in the case. A family friend is in jail for threatening the construction workers. Sam’s mother is less than forthcoming about artifacts missing from the dig site. And her husband, Detective Sergeant Jake Mitchell, is at a loss to explain how the missing artifacts ended up in his garage.

Elton Breyton III, who runs his construction company on a tight schedule, tries to pull strings to remove the archeologists. Why the rush?  Could it be he knew the victim was his young wife, Amanda, who left him three years ago for another man?  Bryce Breyton resented his father’s remarriage but doesn’t have an alibi for the night Amanda disappeared. Nora Breyton despised the beautiful young woman who broke up her family.

Jake likes money motives and there are enough to peg all three Breytons for the murder. Sam likes passion motives. If Amanda was running off with another man at the time of her death, who was he?  More importantly, where is he now?  

The more Sam digs into the case, the more confusing it becomes, because now she is hearing more than one voice.

 




Author: 
S.D. Tooley

ISBN-10: 
0-9785402-0-4
ISBN-13:
 
978-0-9785402-0-3
$12.95  TPB


ISBN-10: 
0-9785402-1-2
ISBN-13:
978-0-9785402-1-0
$23.00  HC

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ForeWord Magazines
Book of the Year Award Finalist

Winner
Ida Chittum Award for
Best Young Adult Mystery


A Remy and Roadkill Mystery
(YA - Ages 12 and up)

Hidden passageways…a suit of armor that moves
…a small town with big secrets

Is there a better way to spend the summer?

Rembrandt (Remy) has a flair for forensic artistry.

Rob (Roadkill) has a macabre interest in dead animals.

Andy is a street smart runaway who knows more about ballistics than the town’s police.

When Remy completes her reconstruction of a monkey skull she purchased at an estate sale, she realizes the skull isn’t from an animal. The teens volunteer to straighten the shelves in the mansion’s library to find clues to the identity of the victim. But there are others who know the skull is human. And there is one person who will stop at nothing to keep its identity a secret.

Three thirteen-year-olds dabble in CSI to reveal a town’s long kept secret. Along the way three unlikely friends discover their true talents.

A new Y.A. mystery (ages 12 and up) from the author of seven adult mysteries.


3rd Chase Dagger mystery

Author:
Lee Driver

Hardcover  $22.95
ISBN
0-9666021-7-X

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It’s tough to catch a killer you can’t see!

“Chase Dagger is one of the more fascinating characters to grace a detective tale.”  
                                        — Midwest Book Review

“In Driver’s novels it is impossible to separate the lure of the plot and the magnetism of the characters.”
                          — Lisa DuMond, www.sfsite.com

“Shape-shifters are the stuff of high fantasy, but somehow Driver...keeps things firmly in the real world.” 
                                                            — Booklist

Lee Driver’s strength is her ability to create characters with unbelievable talents and make them believable. Readers are drawn to the captivating Sara, a shape-shifter whose talents go beyond the realm of human, and into the life of Chase Dagger, a detective whose past is so dark it’s pitch black.

In The Unseen, Dagger is pulled into several cases that are linked by the most bizarre common denominator: None of the surveillance cameras reveals the assailant.

Sergeant Padre Martinez believes the assailant is an old nemesis, a computer savvy ex-con who has manipulated cameras in the past. When the body of a research scientist and his wife are discovered, things get complicated. Not only are the ex-con’s prints found in the scientist’s home, but the deaths also attract the interest of the FBI, CIA, NSA, and Department of Defense. Exactly what was the scientist working on and what connection does he have to the other cases? Are the crimes really the skill of a high-tech genius or is there something more sinister at work?

Just when the evidence points strongly to Padre’s number one suspect, Padre is accused of planting the evidence and removed from the investigation. Enter Chase Dagger.

Unusual cases require unusual detectives. Whether it’s solving the case of a woman who is murdered five years after her death (The Good Die Twice) or chasing after a suspect not quite human (Full Moon-Bloody Moon), Dagger has his hands full while staying two steps ahead of his mysterious past.


2nd Chase Dagger mystery

Author:
Lee Driver

Hardcover  $21.95
ISBN
0-9666021-4-5

TPB  $14.95
ISBN
978-0-9666021-8-0

Now Available in Audiobook

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Everything happened in the blink of an eye. Lisa didn’t have time to think. Didn’t have time to defend herself. Didn’t have time to pull out her gun. She didn’t have time to scream.

A full moon. A Friday the 13th.
The terror begins!

A series of gruesome murders leads an Indianapolis cop and a university professor to the doorstep of Cedar Point P.I. Chase Dagger. They have a theory behind the killings. Sergeant Marty Flynn has been tracking the suspect since March 13, 1998. Professor William Sherlock has been researching the killer’s family for far longer.

The professor believes the killings only occur prior to and during a full moon on a Friday the 13th. He believes the evil is passed on from generation to generation. Dagger feels the professor knows far too much about the suspect and the murders.

When the two men ask, “Have you ever heard of a shapeshifter?”, Dagger is forced to reexamine their theory. After all, Sara, his partner, is a shapeshifter. Sara has never known any other shapeshifters. And she doesn’t believe something this evil could exist...until it starts communicating with her.

Chase Dagger is back after his debut in The Good Die Twice. And he will need more than his cast of unusual characters and arsenal of weapons to destroy this killer. It has been around for 200 years!

Full Moon-Bloody Moon combines mystery with an element of horror. Lee Driver is a master storyteller. You will never look at another full moon on a Friday the 13th the same way.


1st Chase Dagger mystery

Author:
Lee Driver

Hardcover is 
Out of Print

Paperback  $6.50
ISBN
0-9666021-5-3

Now Available in Audiobook

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The Tyler Family is one of the richest families in Cedar Point. Five years ago Robert Tyler’s young wife disappeared off the family yacht. Was it just an accident? Her body was never found. Then one night Robert Tyler receives a desperate phone call from a familiar voice. But he dismisses it. Rachel couldn’t be alive. Or could she?

Chase Dagger is a private detective with no past, a sometime fiancé, a scarlet macaw with a brain and an attitude, and a beautiful young assistant named Sara. Sara witnesses the murder of a woman whose identity she doesn’t know, until she sees a picture of Rachel Tyler at the Tyler mansion. Rachel couldn’t be dead again. Or could she?

Who would want Rachel Tyler dead? Robert Tyler had all the money he could want. Or did he? Eric Tyler had a fling with Rachel before she married his father. Now he is happily married to Edie Tyler. Or is he? Nick Tyler has the bulk of the Tyler looks and charisma and could get any woman he wants. He doesn’t have a care in the world. Or does he?

Dagger seems to inherit the most unusual cases. To tackle these unusual cases requires unusual assistants. Einstein is a scarlet macaw with a photographic memory. Sara has extraordinary capabilities that allow her to go places and hear things no other human can experience. Together they are either the driving force behind Dagger Investigations or they are going to drive Dagger crazy.

The Good Die Twice is a unique tale of greed and betrayal with secrets that threaten to tear a family apart. A true masterpiece that will thrill mystery fans and fantasy enthusiasts.

Lee Driver skillfully blends the mystery/fantasy genres in a story teeming with suspense, humor, and unforgettable characters.


ForeWord Magazines
2003 Book of the Year Award
Best Mystery

Independent Publisher Book Awards 2003
Finalist - Mystery/Suspense/Thriller

3rd Sam Casey mystery

Author:
S.D. Tooley

Hardcover  $22.95
ISBN
0-9666021-6-1

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In 1985, Catherine DeMarco spent one hot July night where she shouldn’t have been, doing something she shouldn’t have been doing. This was a fatal mistake.

Now Jimmy Taggart is sitting on death row. Details of that night are still hazy in his mind but the evidence was conclusive. No one believed in his innocence then. Only one person believes in it now.

Sergeant Samantha Casey fought to clear the name of a Korean War vet in When the Dead Speak. She found a redeeming quality in a renegade mercenary in Nothing Else Matters. In Restless Spirit, Sam touches a button unearthed at a construction site and suddenly sees the murder taking place, hears the name of the killer repeated in her head. It’s not Jimmy Taggart’s.

Paul Goddard, the detective who had worked the most brutal crime in Chasen Heights’ history, had always felt the case against Taggart had been a little too easy. Now he is off the force and battling his own demons. Sam enlists his aid but the former detective has doubts about this new evidence after he hears how Sam obtained it.

The DeMarcos are less than cooperative. What secrets about Catherine’s life are they trying to hide?

Sam has a tough time convincing her husband, Jake, of Taggart’s innocence. He prefers to deal in logic, and Sam’s method of police work is far from logical. But while investigating another homicide, Jake discovers a safety deposit box filled with newspaper clippings from the DeMarco case.

Restless Spirit
runs true to form in a finely crafted blend of mystery, suspense, and Native American mysticism.

Sam has an advantage over other cops – the dead speak to her, tell her secrets about their life and death. But sometimes what she learns can get her killed.


ForeWord Magazines
2001 Book of the Year Award
Best Mystery

2nd Sam Casey mystery

Author:
S.D. Tooley

Hardcover  $22.95
ISBN
0-9666021-2-9

TPB  $14.95
ISBN
978-0-9666021-9-7

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Something else caught Davud’s attention, right at Gholam’s waistline where his shirt seemed to strain at the buttons. Gholam was a big man, but there seemed to be added bulk. It was slight. He had to watch carefully. Now he was sure. The fabric was moving.

He’s known by the code name, Sparrow. Authorities can only identify him by the tattoo on the back of his hand. Sparrow is a gun for hire and his next target is Reverend Everett Smith. His orders are to kill the Reverend on the River Queen Casino. But just before he pulls the trigger, someone beats him to it.

The Reverend is carrying $50,000 in counterfeit money. Sparrow soon realizes the fee he was paid is counterfeit. Sparrow is one man you don’t want to cross.

Detective Sergeant Samantha Casey is back after her debut in When the Dead Speak. Suspended from the force after her last case, Sam is having a difficult time adjusting to unemployment. But there are more unsettling changes in her life than unemployment.

The owners of the River Queen Casino hire Sam to clear them of any involvement in the Reverend’s death. And who should be working the case for the Chasen Heights Police Department but Jake Mitchell, the one person she holds responsible for her suspension.

Sparrow plays a cat-and-mouse game with Sam’s young computer friend, Tim, and matches wits with Sam. Just who is Sparrow? Why does Sam have dreams of hot lights, unbearable pain, and bizarre torture techniques? And why does she keep hearing a strange mantra in her head--“Other than survival, nothing else matters”?

Nothing Else Matters is the second in the Sam Casey series and stays true to form, combining suspense, humor, romance, and a touch of Native American culture.


Winner of the
Reader’s Choice Award
Best First Mystery

1st Sam Casey mystery

Author:
S.D. Tooley

Hardcover  $21.95
ISBN
0-9666021-0-2

Paperback  $6.50
ISBN
0-9666021-3-7

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Does Anybody Hear?

A man’s body is found encased in a concrete pillar in Chasen Heights, a suburb of Chicago. Clasped in his hand is a gold pin shaped like a lightning bolt. What secret did he carry to his grave and why is someone hell-bent on keeping that secret buried?

Detective Sergeant Samantha Casey has an advantage over other cops. The dead speak to her, tell her secrets about their life and death. Sam has a gift inherited from her mother, a Sioux medicine woman, which helps her piece together the puzzles of a brutal murder. But sometimes what she learns can get her killed, as you discover in this thrilling debut novel of mystery and suspense.

The puzzle pieces pile up: The deceased is a U.S. soldier reported AWOL during the Korean War. A state representative owns a pin identical to the dead man’s. And Sam discovers another pin in her father’s jewelry box. Did her father know the deceased? What story had her father, an investigative reporter, been working on at the time of his own death years ago?

Sam slowly realizes the deceased holds the truth to her own past, and when all the truths collide, it can cause disastrous results.

When the Dead Speak is a fast-packed, tension-filled joy ride sprinkled with humor, plot twists, romance, and a touch of Native American culture. This is a sparkling debut novel introducing unforgettable characters in the first of the Sam Casey series.

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