Miami’s most wanted drug dealer is on the run, always one step ahead of the cops. Young, newly married FBI agent Marsha O’Shea, working with the fugitive task force, has figured out how to draw him out of hiding. Will she get killed in the final showdown?
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Clearwater Blues- Book 2 in the FBI Agent Marsha O’Shea series
Detroit Wheels Book 3 in the FBI Agent Marsha O’Shea Series
A killer strikes in Motown every year on the anniversary of 9-11. His target: Muslim woman. Can FBI Agent Marsha O’Shea stop him before he strikes again?
West Reading Traffick Book 4 in the FBI Agent Marsha O’Shea Series
A beautiful 16 year-old farm girl thought she was coming to America to be a model. An international sex trafficking ring for the uber-wealthy has a different agenda. Can injured FBI agent Marsha O’Shea and an honest cop find her again before she disappears?
Elm City Towers Book 5 in the FBI Agent Marsha O’Shea Series
Twenty years ago, Sandra Jenkins, a law student in New Haven, CT, was brutally murdered. Her alleged killers were quickly apprehended. Case closed. End of Story. That was until new evidence exonerates them and a new investigation is begun, but not by the cops. An investigative journalist turned podcaster is looking to make headlines. He is burning up social media. FBI agent Marsha O’Shea is working the case quietly as a special project for the FBI Deputy Director. As they get closer to the truth, bodies start to drop. Will Marsha find the killer before she becomes the next target?
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Come ride around the country with veteran investigator John A. Hoda as he doggedly searches for the truth. From a celebrated 42 year career, he has selected great stories and he keeps them coming like free refills of coffee from a 24 hour Diner. From a simple traffic stop to a massive RICO Indictment to working homicides from both sides of the aisle, the reader gets an insider’s look at the gritty world of a working investigator. Some of the stories are ripped from the headlines of the Philadelphia Inquirer and The New Haven Register. Each short story is separated by a humorous, poignant or jaw-dropping vignettes leaving the reader hungry to turn the next page.
Milford Elementary, Book One in the Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mystery Series
One deceased groom-to-be. One dead-end clue. One last chance at redemption.
Gwendolyn Strong feels lost outside the classroom. And at loose ends after retiring, the ex-kindergarten teacher longs for the excitement her stable marriage and yoga sessions can’t provide. So the spirited fifty-something leaps into action when a former student takes his life on the eve of his wedding day.
Skeptical that he died by his own hand, Gwendolyn teams up with her elderly mentor and true-crime addict daughter to scour the small town for clues while dodging the dismissive cops. But when her prime suspect turns up fatally crushed in a freak accident, she fears a cunning culprit could be pulling some murderous strings.
Can Gwendolyn solve the case before her name is next on the hit list? Milford Elementary is the nail-biting first book in the Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mystery Series. If you like whip-smart heroines, buried secrets, and gripping suspense, then you’ll love J A Hoda’s masterful whodunit.
Can Gwen solve a 50-year-old homicide? How about two?
When two dead bodies are found behind a fake wall in the basement of a pre-civil war era mansion, the grisly discovery rocks the world of centenarian Emelina Bidwell who believes her nephew and his wife left small town Milford fifty years ago.
Former kindergarten teacher Gwendolyn Strong agrees to help her mentor, but the sleuthing rules are changed by Emelina who made promises of secrecy to the dead all those decades ago.
Can Gwen solve the mysteries of their deaths with one arm tied behind her back?
Who is protecting the killer a half-century later? Why does the town’s power elite want to shut her down?
Is she next to disappear?
Can this amateur detective repeat her success In this second book of the small town mystery series.
If you like determined heroines, constant twists and turns and realistic amateur sleuthing, then you’ll love J A Hoda’s traditional cozy right up to the unexpected reveal.
Buy Milford Coal & Ice (Book two) and follow the clues as Gwen heats up this cold case.
Sift out the clues with Gwendolyn Strong.
A nut allergy almost turns deadly at Milford’s daffodil festival.
When former kindergarten teacher Gwendolyn Strong starts delving into the elderly woman’s claim that someone is trying to kill her, little does she realize that the killer won’t stop until they get what they are after.
Is it revenge?
Is it money?
Things get deadly serious when they make an attempt on Gwen’s life. Does Gwen have the courage to continue sleuthing? Will she be able to be able to figure out who it is before they strike again?
If you like traditional cozies where you are racing the sleuth to identify the villain, then you’ll love J A Hoda’s realistic whodunnit.
Buy Milford Daffy Day (Book three) and follow along with Gwen as she finds more ingredients of this killer’s deadly recipe.
No way in. No way out. Who killed the party host?
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Follow the clues with Gwen in this present-day homage to locked room mysteries of the Golden Era in Milford Bed & Breakfast, book four in the Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mystery Series
Gwendolyn Strong is invited to a sumptuous dinner. The occasion is the grand opening of a restored Victorian mansion overlooking the town as a bed and breakfast. Gwen’s husband Ken performed the restoration. A wealthy stockbroker and his socialite wife invites their family, close friends, business associates and a glamorous movie star. In the morning, the host is found dead, shot in the head. This locked room whodunnit pays homage to Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr. Can Gwen solve his murder? Phone lines are down and the only bridge to the mansion is washed away. The house is cut-off from outside assistance. Can Gwen solve the murder with just what she learned?
Buy Milford Bed & Breakfast (Book four) and race Gwen to the final reveal.
Twenty-Seven years in business, headline-making Private Investigator John A Hoda provides invaluable business advice from both his successes and failures for aspiring investigators, those struggling to keep the lights on, and for successful PIs looking to take their business to the next level. How to Rocket contains all the other books in one book. All four books are in print, digital and now in audio (Google Play).
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