The Hot Dog Detective Trilogies Series

THE FIRST THREE BOOKS IN THE POPULAR HOT DOG DETECTIVE SERIES!   THE AVID ANGLER   Betrayed by his wife and the system, former Denver Police Detective Mark MacFarland dropped out of the system…all the way. But now he has put drinking and homelessness behind him, bought a hot dog stand, and started a new life.   Then a noted defense lawyer asks MacFarland to prove that his client was wrongly accused of murdering her husband. Suddenly, MacFarland's past catches up with him.   ABOUT THE BUSTY BALL BREAKER   Normally the fiesty construction worker "Busty" minds her own business, demolishing buildings or lifting loads of steel off of trucks. But when her friend dies in an industrial accident, Busty  thinks his death was anything but an accident. Was it? MacFarland uncovers a lot of suspects, but which one of them would commit murder? Actually, which one of them wouldn't commit murder?   ABOUT THE CRYING CAMPER   MacFarland soon discovers that a young girl's friend has been killed and that several other children are missing. Clearly more than charity is going on at that camp. While he has his suspicions about the people behind the "adoptions," it is when he discovers that Norris Peterson, the man who killed his wife, might be behind the missing children, that the case becomes personal.   Can MacFarland find out what is happening to the homeless children before another child goes missing…or turns up dead?

Tomas Aleciades has a big handicap. He's nearly blind. That doesn't stop him from doing what he most loves…gardening. What will stop him, though, is being accused of murder.   MacFarland is asked by his good friend Jacinto Gomez to prove that Aleciades is innocent. To do that, MacFarland will have to contend with a very naughty thirteen-year old girl, an angry father, crooked cops, and his own doubts and uncertainty.   * * *   The problem was, he had promised his sister-in-law that he would find a way to prove the man innocent. All he had to do was find out who really killed the man's wife, Amanda. But as every cop knew, it usually was the husband. Then, when the first of several homeless men were discovered killed in the same way as Amanda had been, MacFarland realized he was dealing with a serial killer. What was the connection between the pretty socialite, Amanda Porter, and a bunch of homeless men? And why couldn't MacFarland shake the feeling that Scott Porter had something to do with all the deaths?   * * *   MacFarland doesn't like it when one of the "invisible people" gets accused of a crime. Innocent or guilty, it doesn't matter – the system is weighted against them. MacFarland becomes suspicious that the police have the wrong man when he learns that the suspect—an old man named Isaac Dawes, a man who suffers with a bad skin condition—is accused of killing his best friend. After Lord Bozworth, the leader of the homeless community in Denver, asks MacFarland to help free Isaac Dawes, MacFarland is unable to refuse. But if Isaac Dawes didn't kill his best friend, who did?

This collection includes three complete books from the Hot Dog Detective series.   When Rufus Headley's high school friend, now living in Los Angeles, is accused of murdering the doctor treating him for cancer, MacFarland must go to the City of Angels to defend him.    

About The Morose Mistress   Mark MacFarland had no use for politics when he was homeless on the streets of Denver. Now that he is struggling to pull himself back into regular society, he still finds politics a necessary evil he'd rather avoid. But when his friend Jerry Baker asks him to find evidence that a restaurant waitress did not kill her boss, he finds himself right in the middle of political intrigue. It turns out that the restaurateur is running for the U.S. Senate. Was he killed for political reasons...or was he killed by the waitress, the would-be politician's mistress?   About The Naughty Neighbor   "Benny and I are going to continue our investigation in the murder we're working on," said Detective Pierson. "She was murdered in her home? Were there any witnesses?" "Oh," smiled Pierson, "I would say so. There were probably seventy thousand witnesses." The victim was Cloe Murphy, an internet porn star had over 70,000 fans, most of whom had the misfortune of seeing her brutal murder during Cloe's internet podcast. The most likely suspect is the estranged husband Toby who discovered his wife's body. The weapon has his prints on it, and neighbors report that they've heard heated words between the couple. But is he the killer? Or did one of her subscribers want to make sure she didn't share herself with anyone else? Jerry Baker asks MacFarland to look into the young porn star's death, and it quickly becomes apparent that there was more to Cloe Murphy's death than meets the eye.   About The Obnoxious Oilman   When Neela Woods, a well-known international travel blogger goes missing, her family assumes she's just on another jaunt. But her partner suspects foul play, specifically the Obnoxious Oilman who the blogger has been dating. The stakes are high. Neela not only comes from money...her Ranch in Elbert County may be worth over a million dollars in oil and gas rights. When MacFarland finds Neela's body in a bat cave, he also finds that he has plenty of suspects, any one of whom had reason and opportunity to kill the young woman.  

About The Vacillating Vigilante   There's a vigilante on the loose. He's killing people who have escaped justice or are in the process of committing heinous crimes.  Former Denver detective Mark MacFarland thinks the police are going after the wrong suspects, but he is as much in the dark as they are.   He is more interested in finding out who robbed a local bank and killed an innocent bystander when the robber attempted to escape.   His interest in the case is piqued, however, when a former detective, Wally McCabe, asks MacFarland to find the killer of the innocent bystander. "She was a friend," says Wally. "I want justice for her."   But when the bank robber is captured, he claims that the Vigilante Killer caught up with him, but for some strange reason, allowed him to live.   Now it's time for MacFarland to find out who the Vigilante Killer really is.   About The Waster Womanizer     When Defense Lawyer Jerry Baker asked former Police Detective Mark MacFarland to help defend Anita Faraday, the wife of Tom Faraday, MacFarland thought proving her innocent would be a piece of cake. Tom had been the head of a polyamorous family, and the killer was probably a disgruntled member of the family.  While it was usually the spouse, as Detective Lockwood kept telling him, in this case, there were a lot of other potential spouses.   Tom Faraday had been poisoned. The poison was unusual. It was a toxin secreted by a species of newt not found in Colorado. Solving this murder should be easier than most. All he had to do was find the person who could put newt poison into a bottle of wine.   While MacFarland had several potential suspects, nothing tied them to the weapon used to kill Faraday.   This was clearly one of those times when MacFarland, in order to solve this case, would have to think out of the box.   About The Xanthic Xena     Nothing on the Internet is what it seems. The person, known on social media as @XanthicXena is not really a warrior princess, but is really Jacob Gold, a graduate student at the University of Colorado. He, along with a group of other graduate students, creates social media havoc, just so they can track information flow, social influences, and other variables of interest to their professor, Dr. Phillip Zovskii.   However, Dr. Zovskii's research studies come to an end when his star troller, @XanthicXena, is found dead in a car, the victim of an apparent suicide.   Jacob Gold's parents don't believe their son took his own life. They hire Mark MacFarland, part-time hot dog vendor and part-time detective, to investigate the real cause of their son's death.   MacFarland finds himself immersed in the complicated lives of a dozen graduate students, all of whom spend their days lying to people on the Internet… and probably to both the police and to MacFarland.

About The Strident Student   Tommy Chow was about to graduate from the University of Denver. His parents and sister waited expectantly for him to appear on the stage to receive the diploma that would allow him to continue on to medical school and a worthy career as a doctor. But when the last student paraded across the stage, the Chow family had a disturbing feeling that something was dreadfully wrong.   Where was their son?   A month later, the desperate family approached Mark MacFarland. They've heard he is the kind of detective who can do what the police cannot do. While sympathetic to their plight, MacFarland is convinced the young man is just a run away. But as he delves deeper into Tommy Chow's disappearance, he discovers that the young man had many secrets…secrets that could get him killed.   About The Truculent Trannie     When one of MacFarland's friends asks him to prove that a man accused of murder is innocent, MacFarland reluctantly agrees. He tells her that he will go where the facts take him, but if that means that the man is guilty, so be it.   But then MacFarland finds he is smack in the middle of a notorious hate crime. The victim is a transgendered woman who seems to have a lot of enemies. MacFarland suddenly finds himself in the middle of a crime where everyone has a reason to think he's helping to free a guilty man.   About The Unselfish Uncle   Everyone loved Ned Pendergast. He was personable, friendly, rich…and generous. Need money for a new house? Ask Ned. Need help with outstanding bills? Ned is always there, pen and checkbook in hand. Need someone to watch the kids while you take the little lady out for an anniversary dinner? Uncle Ned is the man to call. Why then, did someone cut off Uncle Ned's head and leave it on the porch of the Pendergast family?   And where is the rest of Ned Pendergast's body?   Someone is sending a message. But who is sending the message? What is the message? And who is the message intended for?   Detective Cynthia Pierson asks her former partner, Mark MacFarland, who now operates a hot dog cart, for help in solving the crime. After all, if anyone can think outside of the box, it's MacFarland. MacFarland is surprised when Pierson asks for his help. Then he finds out that the police already have confessions from the murderers: two sisters, Penelope and Serena both insist that each killed the uncle and the other sister is lying.

The final novels of the Hot Dog Detective series!   The intruder grunted in surprise as he missed his target. Despite the lack of light, he had an advantage over his intended victim. His vision had adapted to the dark room, whereas his victim was just waking up from sleep. But when his victim leaped across the bed to land on top of him, he began to suspect that his advantage was fleeting. The two men landed on the foot end of the other bed, waking up the woman and child. As the two occupants of the bed began to cry out in surprise and pain, the two men rolled off of the bed and onto the floor. The two men struggled until the intruder was finally able to jab his weapon into the other man's chest. The man cried out, as the intruder pulled the knife out and repeatedly slashed at his victim.   The woman continued screaming as the intruder leaped to his feet and raced for the door. He ran into the darkened hallway as guests from other rooms began to open the doors to their room to cautiously find out what the screaming was all about. The intruder ran to an emergency exit, just as the woman cried out, "Someone's killed my husband! Someone's killed my husband!"   The intruder disappeared into the night.