Sometimes the hard road is the only option.

Get to know Jesse Yates, ex-Navy SEAL, as he
walks away from the military and into a private investigation agency
headquartered in an old vintage motel.

Palm Court Detectives Series

Book 1 – Death’s Door
Book 2 – Swamp Blood
Book 3 – Dead Hero
Book 4 – Sparkle

  • It's 1943,
    and Mobile, Alabama is a wartime boomtown filled with bedlam and intrigue—a WWII detective story that’s a bit of a prequel to the Palm Court series.

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  • Louisiana Woman, Indiana Man, connecting over
    the road—the long-haul truckers’ road that is. This girl-trucker story serves a big
    helping of romance.

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  • A funny, uplifting, and fast-paced story about two 11-year-old boys, a couple of bullies, and a displaced yearling cougar that follows them around their small  hometown.

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I've been a soldier, a newspaper reporter, a copywriter and a long-haul truck driver. In each of those careers, I came across characters and events that would not leave me alone until I sat down at the keyboard and told their stories.


I grew up a Hoosier but now my wife Carol and I live in her hometown of Mobile, Alabama. I may complain about the heat in summer and lack of snow in winter, but the Gulf Coast is the perfect setting for Jesse Yates and the rest of the
Palm Court crew.