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Dan Spalding
Series · 8 books · 2017-2022

Books in series

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#1

Answer Death

2017

Ex state cop Dan Spalding wants to run his vintage record store in peace. But when a punk who boosts a valuable LP turns up dead, it seems to relate to the revenge murder of an infamous entertainer. And Spalding is the next target. Dan Spalding navigates a seedy world of death, sex, and betrayal in a new myster/thriller series set in the heart of the Ozarks.
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#2

Flip Side

2018

The job seems simple enough to Dan provide private security for a geeky college professor and his beautiful red-haired girlfriend.But the flip side for this particular job turns out to be a brutal mix of love, betrayal, and vengeance.And for everyone involved, the final track sounds like death.Check out the second book in the Dan Spalding titles, introducing series regulars Velda Carmichael and mob boss Adrian Mitchell.
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#3

Back Mask

2018

From the Award-Winning author of Answer Death and Flip Side comes a story of betrayal and possible redemption. Ex-state cop Dan Spalding has a hell of a time keeping up with his record shop and watching out for hairy dog friends like old Digger Strickland. When Digger’s sordid secrets call up a decades-old evil involving evangelist and Senate-hopeful Darian Cole, Spalding needs all the help he can get. But a backwards message on an old record can only bring sorrow and ruin. But for who? Join Dan Spalding as he calls in his markers and picks up his guns for a dark and bloody showdown that will change the future of Ozark City and rip apart Dan’s world forever. The Marti Stahl saga begins here—and tears through Stage Fright before crashing to its stunning conclusion with Dead Beat !
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#4

Stage Fright

2019

She was bought and paid for...but the high bidder was death!Pretty runaway Apple May strips nightly at Ozark City’s newest club, but when she wants out it’s Dan Spalding’s job to run interference with mob boss Adrian Mitchell.Except the higher-ups aren’t ready to let Apple go.In fact, they’re dead set against it.Dan Spalding returns in a violent new thriller where sex is a fringe benefit, and human life is the stock in trade.
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#5

Dead Beat

2022

From the Award-Winning author of Back Mask and Stage Fright, the Marti Stahl saga tears to its stunning conclusion. For ex-cop Dan Spalding, the Ozarks are a dark and lonely place without Marti Stahl. And when a woman matching Marti’s description is found drowned and beaten, Dan won’t rest until he finds justice. Even if it means going through a vicious small town crime boss and his hired guns.
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#6

Deep Cuts

2022

When Dan Spalding’s life is rocked by a single day of gut-wrenching violence, he’s forced to consider a mob boss’s final declaration. When the bad guys come after you, they’ll come after your family too. They’ll come after your friends. They’ll cut deep. With his friends under attack and his brother already dead at the hands of a professional killer, Dan will stop at nothing to take down Reese Hogan’s billion-dollar empire once and for all. The end of a mob-boss dynasty and the beginning of a new era in Ozark City's gangland.
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#7

Needle Drop

2020

An explosive novel filled with motorcycles, martial arts, and mayhem from the author of A nswer Death and Dead Beat . Stu Heinrichs was the kind of guy who drank beer with your dad and let you drive his DeLorean. But he wasn’t a good guy then, and he’s not a good guy now—something ex-state cop Dan Spalding always knew but kept forgetting on purpose. Now, when a twenty year-old porn star takes a deliberate header off Stu’s luxury yacht with Dan as a witness, he’s caught in a web of murder and media outrage with more questions than answers. As the body count mounts, the blitz is on, and Dan Spalding puts his life, love, and passion for vintage vinyl records on the line in a wild gambit to blow up the past and gain a future.
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#10

Spalding's Groove

2017

Ex-state cop Dan Spalding isn’t looking for trouble when a broken TV star walks into his record store. But Tommy Stack’s vinyl collection isn’t what it seems to be, and that fact might cost Tommy his life. And death is always bad for business. A stand-alone crime story introducing a tough new character in a contemporary urban setting.

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