Books

A Crimson Grace is the first Samuel Locke Novel. Sam’s best friend, Preacher, enlists Sam’s help on behalf of Sister Mary Elizabeth Kincaid. She wants to save two girls from the clutches of sex traffickers. It offends Sam that the tentacles of international trafficking in children darken the stretch of the Texas Gulf Coast he calls home, but he thinks her cause is hopeless. Eventually, her simple goodness inspires him to try. He and those who help him face deadly resistance from those who profit from the destruction of the innocence of children.

A Crimson Grace is available on Amazon as a trade paperback and for the Kindle here.

You can order the book directly from me here. At that link, you can order a signed copy.

Read the first chapter here.

In The Blues and Ballet, Samuel Locke is hired by his best client, the blues musician Thumper Lee, to protect Angelique Cambray, a dancer with the Houston Ballet. Somebody is directing violence her way and she has no idea why. Somebody is dead and Sam must protect her not only from the attacks against her but from the attention of the law, as well. Sam’s investigation takes him from Houston to New Orleans. From the dark swamps of East Texas to seamy bars on the coast, Sam encounters the evil of greed, criminals who kill without hesitation, a vengeful gangster, and Sampson, the alligator.The Blues and Ballet is available on Amazon as a paperback and for the Kindle here.

You can order the book directly from me here. At that link, you can order a signed copy.

Read the first chapter here.

 The third Samuel Locke novel, Peak Performance will be published in 2023.

Cynthia Fuller was the smartest kid at Kenwick High School. The night she graduated, she shared her first kiss and more with the school’s star quarterback. She told him goodbye and left town without looking back. Upon returning for her twentieth high school reunion, Cynthia learns that Ricky was found dead the morning after graduation. They called it suicide. She disagrees. Cynthia hires Sam to investigate.

You can get a sneak preview of the first chapter here.