Mystery Shelf Intrigue & Thriller Adventure & Quest Westerns Children's Books Spirituality & Poetry The Mystery Shelf Dead Man's Grove By Adrian Stewart. By Adrian Stewart. The big story of the day is whether Nathan Gabriel will run for Congress. Yet the story that claims public imagination is a stray dog near the freeway. Yet when police and the dog catcher collar the mutt, they discover the body of a drifter. Nor did the dead man die of natural causes. Someone helped him along and the question is who. Was it the drifter's buddy, the wino, or the priest who runs the homeless shelter? Or was it someone else? The police are stumped and rookie reporter Dana Leery is determined to find out. Yet she is not prepared for what she discovers as she probes the mystery of Dead Man's Grove. $12.95 ALL JAZZ PHILLIPS BOOKS ORDERED FROM THIS PAGE ARE $12.00. This is a 20% to 40% discount! Murder in the Choir A Jazz Phillips Mystery By Joel B. Reed. When a famous black musician is shot down at his eightieth birthday celebration in a small settlement in Arkansas, no one can imagine why. Smiley Jones is a living legend, a sweet grandfatherly soul loved by all, and there is intense political pressure to find his killer. To solve the case, the sheriff calls in Jazz Phillips, renowned former head of the Arkansas CID. The governor calls in the FBI, whose bumbling Senior Agent almost blows the case. Despite the incompetence of the FBI, Jazz quickly discovers a dark side of Smiley Jones that yields a wide field of suspects. Narrowing the list down, Jazz discovers this is no simple murder and he finds himself plunged into the shadow world of national security. He also discovers he is on the trail of an international assassin. Jazz finds himself no longer the hunter but the prey of a man never seen, a professional who leaves no loose ends. 2005 USABookNews Mystery Finalist $12.00 Murder by the Board A Jazz Phillips Mystery By Joel B. Reed. When an old friend calls in a favor, Jazz Phillips, former head of the Arkansas CID, agrees to help catch a cat thief. Known for breaking tough cases as a consultant to the FBI, Jazz doesn't take the case too seriously. Then a personal journal recovered from the thief outlines the most unusual series of murders Jazz has ever seen. Yet, Jazz is not certain a serial killer is at work. The journal is vague and the writer is unknown. Nor are the victims clearly identified. While there are details that match suspicious deaths in the area, the pattern does not fit the normal profile of a serial killer. Only when he digs deep into the past does Jazz discover he is not on the trail of not one murderer, but two, working as a team to extract revenge. One is a violent slasher, the other, a cold mastermind. $12.00 Murder in the Kirk A Jazz Phillips Mystery By Joel B. Reed. Jazz Phillips is one of the top criminal investigators in the nation. His specialty is serial murder. Yet, when he agrees to teach a seminar for the Ft. Worth police, he has no idea he will be thrown onto a trail of death leading from California to New Hampshire. At first, the murder of an Episcopal bishop looks like a simple homicide. Nor is there lack of motive. Controversy marked the bishop's career and the investigation quickly leads to the dark side of the man. Yet, within minutes at the crime scene Jazz knows the case is not simple. A very intelligent psychopath is at work. However, some of the evidence suggests accidental homicide and the chief of police is anxious to close the case. Jazz decides to pursue it on his own and turns up more than twenty murders by the same assassin. What is more chilling is discovering the killer has proteges. $12.00 Murder was a Blast A Jazz Phillips Mystery By Joel B. Reed. When a bomb goes off in Portland, it looks like a mob hit. The victim is a well known underworld go-between. He sets up deals for death and it looks like he arranged the wrong fatal accident. So when Jazz Phillips, former head of the Arkansas state CID is called in, he wonders why. His specialty is tracking down serial killers. Then a second bomb explodes in Seattle, soon followed by another in San Francisco and a rash of explosions in LA and Phoenix. What ties these together is the chemical signature of the explosives, the unique way the bomber works, and the fact the targets are all criminals. When everything points to a single suspect, an assassin long dead, Jazz realizes he is on the trail of a copycat, a professional bomber who is now deteriorating mentally and killing for sport. $12.00 Murder by the Queen A Jazz Phillips Mystery By Joel B. Reed. Who is the Queen of Spades? Is it a woman or a man? And why does this stalker kill? The evidence makes no sense. The victims are slain first and then mutilated, and the way it is done varies. The only tie is a calling card, the queen of spades. Then DNA evidence turns up a startling result. The latest victim is also a serial killer tied to at least five brutal murders. When a mysterious package arrives pointing to five more serial killers, all dead, Jazz Phillips realizes he is dealing with a killer who knows more than the police. Then a copycat strikes with three brutal slashings, leaving a queen of spades on each victim. To stop this second killer, Jazz makes a strange alliance and finds himself working with a multiple killer to catch a serial killer. Doing so leads him into a twilight zone where nothing is what it seems, and the alliance will cost him what he treasures most. $12.00 Murder on the Run A Jazz Phillips Mystery By Joel B. Reed. Jazz Phillips is in deep trouble. He has no partner, three million dollars is missing from the public till, the reporter covering the story is dead, and his boss is part of a state-wide scam that goes to the top. Nor are the feds willing to act. With nowhere to turn, Jazz heads for the local paper. The result is an editorial that shames the CID into giving Jazz what he needs. A second editorial spurs the feds into action. Yet the deeper they dig, the dirtier the case gets. Jazz soon discovers he is on the trail of a serial killer, and that the hunter can become the prey in this deadly game of cat and mouse. $12.00