Alex Cheradon Series

Steven Raines (you know, the man who made billions making an operating system that out-Microsoft-ed Microsoft?) has hired Alex Cheradon (private investigator) to look for his missing daughter. Good news: it's a million dollar payday. Bad news: she may be a Satanist hell bent on bringing the Devil to Earth.   The dead bodies are piling up. Vampires are crawling out of the woodwork. And there's something named Pookie that's lurking around the corner.   Breathtakingly paced, the jokes and wisecracks fly fast as Alex races against the clock to save the day.

In his third book, Alex Cheradon, private investigator, wants nothing more than to lay low and ride out the repercussions from his previous time traveling mishaps. Unfortunately, his ex-girlfriend, Angie, has other ideas and drags him into his most bizarre case yet.   Giggles, the town's most infamous midget, has run off with 10 million dollars. Vincent Jane, a nobody with nothing, is left holding the bill. If he doesn't get that 10 million back he'll be paying for it with his life.   Alex and Angie are caught in the middle and headed for a showdown with their toughest opponent yet: the malevolent, malicious Midget Mafia.

In this action packed follow up to Fruitbasket from Hell, private investigator Alex Cheradon is faced with a nail biting case. Reeling from the public relations nightmare that accompanied accidentally tackling a senator's daughter, Alex is approached by a man with a lethal case of amnesia. He wants to hire Alex to find out who he is, and since he just happens to have a winning lotto ticket that's worth 10 million dollars, money's no object. But as Alex starts to look into the man's past he finds more questions than answers and a whole lot of people out to kill him.  The clock is officially ticking. The crazies are coming out of the woodwork. And it's down to Alex to save the day... This is Book 2 in the Alex Cheradon Series. -------- Other books in the Alex Cheradon Series: VOLUME 1- Fruitbasket from Hell (Alex Cheradon #1.1)  A is for Amnesia, B is for Bullet (Alex Cheradon #1.2)  Little People, Big Crimes (Alex Cheradon #1.3)  VOLUME 2 - One Time Only (Alex Cheradon #2.1)  Welcome to Crazytown (Alex Cheradon #2.2)  Odd Man Out (Alex Cheradon #2.3)  Full Moon, Half Wits (Alex Cheradon #2.4)  One Tomb Short of a Graveyard (Alex Cheradon #2.5) VOLUME 3  Lucky Dogs (Alex Cheradon #3.1)  Everything's Coming Up Aces (Alex Cheradon #3.2) The House Always Wins (Alex Cheradon #3.3)

Alex has had a string of bad luck lately, culminating in the absolute destruction of his home and office by his sanity-challenged ex-partner, Devon Christian. Fortunately, things are starting to look up now that Jonathon Bragan, the most powerful mobster in Clayton City, has taken Alex under his wing.   Wait…what?   There's no such thing as a free handout from a power hungry mob boss. But before Alex can untangle the multitude of strings that are attached to Bragan's offer, there's the matter of Devon Christian.   After all, Devon didn't blow back into town just to blow up Alex's life. No, this time, Devon's got his sights set on blowing up the whole world.

The Messer Building is located in the heart of downtown Callahan. It's a building of architectural wonder. It's visible from almost anywhere in the downtown area.  And it's home to the Darketo Sanction, a top secret organization that's housing the largest collection of mad scientists anywhere in the country.  Two weeks ago, the security system in the Messer Building tried to kill every single human onsite and nobody knows why.  Since the geniuses in the Darketo Sanction can't figure it out, they've decided to outsource the mystery to Alex Cheradon.  (Although, to be fair, it's a building filled with a bunch of mad scientists. This one shouldn't be too hard to figure out, right? Right?)  Meanwhile, Devon Christian is on the edge of sanity. The voices in his head get louder every day. At some point, he's not going to be able to ignore those voices forever. And when he stops, there's only one person at the top of his hit list.


"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."  ~ Will Rogers   Peter Perkins was born and raised in Las Vegas. He's a jaded local through and through. So nobody's more surprised than him when a sleazy street magician cons him out of a priceless family heirloom. So Peter Perkins does the only thing he can think of:   He gets help.   From Alex Cheradon?   Wait a minute.   Alex Cheradon? What's he doing in Vegas?

They say flying is the safest way to travel. Clearly whoever said that has never traveled with a mad scientist in custody.  After finding, and apprehending, his absentee father, Alex Cheradon and his team are ready for their flight back home to Clayton City. One six hour nonstop flight from Las Vegas and then everything's back to normal.  Except that this isn't an ordinary flight.  And Charles Cheradon isn't an ordinary scientist. Hence the 'mad' label.  And Devon Christian…Well, obviously he's not normal. That just goes without saying.  And Alex Cheradon has an excellent track record for being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. This flight isn't going to be any different.  Trapped on a flight that feels like it's going nowhere, Alex finds himself worrying about his crazy partner, having to go head-to head-with a terrorist and, worst of all, dealing with a deadbeat dad who just wants to have a heart-to-heart with his son.