The Tucker Crime Novels Series

Tucker, a retired cop, is asked by the FBI to assist in investigating a series of missing person's cases in National Parks Campsites throughout the Southeast. Traveling in his motorhome from park to park he is ideally suited for this case and soon becomes thoroughly involved. During his investigations he befriends a beautiful suspect and finds himself torn between his growing feelings for her and his fear that she is an accomplice or possibly a vicious serial killer. Tucker travels from National Park to National Park and eventually is able to solve the crime with the help of the FBI and local authorities. Action moves from the parks to the gambling mecca of Tunica, Mississippi with a brief stop in New Orleans. As time passes the case becomes more and more violent and eventually all of the main characters are involved in the action of the surprising conclusion.

Tucker and Susan, while traveling the coast of North Carolina, get involved in a local murder case to help the victim's wife. What appears to be a straightforward case turns out to have multiple layers of intrigue as they dig into the events leading up to the murder. Their own involvement turns dangerous as they work the case but this strengthens their resolve to identify the killer and stop the carnage. Their relationship grows stronger as they work together to the conclusion of the case.

Tucker and Susan go on a Caribbean cruise to take a break from their lives as Private Investigators and tie the knot. While on the ship they are recognized by a man from Tucker's past.The man, a high ranking member of a Mexican cartel, takes the opportunity to seek revenge for a prior encounter with Tucker by hurting his new wife. After playing mind games, Ruiz and his men take Susan and Tucker from the ship to his hacienda in the high desert of Mexico. Ruiz takes pleasure in torturing the pair but is interrupted when an important business deal requires his attention.The encounter becomes deadly as the two manage to escape the compound only to become inadvertently involved in the plot to import weapons of mass destruction into the US. Ruiz' obsessive vendetta against Tucker leads to a final confrontation between him, Tucker, and Susan.