Mackenzie August is starting a new life. After a successful but destructive career as a high-profile California homicide detective, and then a less successful and even more destructive stint working for a church, he has moved to Virginia to start over as a teacher. The only thing he’s bringing with him is Kix, his infant baby boy. He plans for peaceful living with his son, but trouble soon finds him as his new co-workers begin showing up dead outside of his classroom. The Sheriff’s Office is stumped, the teachers are scared, and hidden rifts within the county begin surfacing. The town turns to August for help, which he is compelled to provide after learning that evidence suggests he will be the next victim. August must survive entanglements with the small-time police force, a local drug dealer, and the young and aggressive brunette teaching across from him if he is to stop the mysterious killer.

Mack August, frustrated Los Angeles police detective, moves to a smaller city in Virginia to start over. Rather than join the force, he opens his own P.I. shop and hires out to local attorneys—until Sheriff Stackhouse comes calling, a stunner in designer khakis. Trouble has arrived, she explains, in the form of a gang general from the West Coach. He's galvanizing the drug trade using vicious strong-arm tactics, and the police can't identify him. The Sheriff begs Mackenzie to take a temporary assignment teaching at an inner city school, to infiltrate the general's operative ranks inside, identify the crime boss, and bring him down. It's an impossible task; he'd be a bull in a china shop. He could lose his license and people might get hurt. But if anyone can pull it off...

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B073PDKXS7 Meet Veronica Summers. She's a femme fatale in Jimmy Choo heels—a local attorney needing the services of a private investigator. She's come to the right place. Mackenzie August is hired to sniff out a traitorous informant hiding in an underworld operation. It's an assignment he should turn down—if only someone other than Ronnie Summers had asked, maybe he could have... Mackenzie is tossed into the deep end and finds himself mingling with the mafioso. Is his professional career worth risking for the sake of a cute girl with sordid secrets?

THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE NEXT GREAT DETECTIVE SERIES. ★★★★★ 'Jack Reacher with a wicked sense of humor.' Meet Dr. Everett Owens—a respected anesthesiologist bringing his tale of woe to the door of professional sleuth Mackenzie August. Roanoke City's premiere residents are being burglarized and Everetts' been framed for the crime. Mack is hired to investigate, unearthing dirty secrets buried by Roanoke's royalty. As the plot thickens, Mackenzie's carefully ordered world is struck by tragedy and he comes ever closer to Veronica Summer's final secret... Read Flawed Players today, the third book in your new favorite mystery series.

Mack is back, alongside trusty cohort Manny the marshal and dubious associate Marcus the underworld boss. Grady Huff, a wealthy and insufferable pain in the neck, killed his cleaning lady and confessed to the crime. No jury in the world could find him innocent and no amount of money can convince Mackenzie August to work for his defense. That is, until Veronica Summer's fiancé arrives in Roanoke and joins the prosecution... Darren Robbins has more on his mind than just convicting Grady—he's come to collect Veronica. And he's come to settle things with Mackenzie, a reckoning that will certainly spill violence into the streets. Read Aces Full today, the fourth book in your favorite mystery series.

Mackenzie August is a married man, a fact he's stunned to learn about himself. Matrimonial bliss will have to wait, however, as danger comes knocking. Arch nemesis Darren Robbins submerges Mack into the dangerous underworld of the Camorra in Naples, Italy, as retribution for his many sins against the District Kings. If he ever wants to get back to his son and new bride, Mack will have to fight his way out...

The sixth book in the next great detective series. Mackenzie August returns from Italy, battered, bruised, and unbroken. Also married. Mostly. A new client waits for him—Ulysses Steinbeck, a man who's lost his dog and wants it back. What makes this case so compelling for Mackenzie? Two things. 1) Steinbeck has anterograde amnesia and can't remember owning the dog; in fact, he hates them. 2) The dog holds the key to a fortune. Read the next book from Alan Lee today.

Mackenzie’s latest client is Darren Robbins, the man who abducted Veronica Summers. He demands Mackenzie find his ex-wife, a woman missing for five years. If he can’t do it by Thursday? Ronnie dies. Things aren’t as simple as they seem, however. Darren recently faked his own death and betrayed the District Kings, a ruthless crime syndicate. There’s unrest in the underworld, and Darren’s at the heart of it. To save Ronnie and thwart the plans of her abductor, Mackenzie enlists the help of Manny and begins searching. Not just for Darren’s ex-wife, but also for answers in the man’s mysterious past.

The Eighth Book in the Best Selling Mackenzie August SeriesA wealthy retired businessman knows someone is trying to kill him and he hires Mackenzie to keep him alive. But he doesn't just hire Mackenzie. He also hires two other private detectives. It's Mackenzie's first case working with other PIs, and it might be his last...The journey continues for the next great detective! Read Bad Aim today.

Mackenzie needs a vacation, and Ronnie has just the ticket—a luxury sleeper-train voyage through the Rockies. Along with Manny, they pack up and board the West Coast Zephyr in Chicago, ready for five days of peace. The first signs of trouble appear, however, when members of the crew go missing, a true mystery. Relaxation for Mackenzie will have to wait if the train ever wants to reach its destination beyond the mountains, where a howling blizzard waits.