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MY BOOKS
Since 2008, I've been writing books in a variety of genres. From Christian fiction, Adventure Thriller, Fantasy, Horror. All clean. Most relatively 'family friendly'. I've run the gamut in genres. In the last few years, however, my tastes have moved toward cute, humorous cozy-like murder mysteries. Curious about my books? Then scroll down to see what I have to offer!
NEWEST RELEASE
For Christians, the use of Santa Claus in Christmas festivities have always been complicated. Many well-meaning believers in Christ adamantly believe Kris Kringle to be a usurper of the Christmas throne from Christ. Therefore, they have done away with all vestiges of the jolly old fat man in their celebrations (and often shame others who don’t have the same conviction. Others feel there’s nothing wrong with him at all and think the others take things far too seriously.
What if I told you, the answer was somewhere in the middle? What if I told you, it’s all in how Papa Noel is presented or utilized? What if I told you we’re missing an amazing opportunity for one of the greatest missionary tools of the modern age by ignoring the white-bearded toy maker from the North Pole? Interested? Find out more by clicking the button below!
Mysteries
The Vampire's Valet (A Dime Novel Mystery)
Book one of the Dime Novel Mystery Universe!
Death stalks the fog-shrouded streets of London. A mysterious killer is hunting down vampire familiars, driving stakes through their hearts, and cutting off their heads for good measure. Nestled in his padded, bug-infested cell at Seward’s Sanatorium for the Criminally Insane, R.M. Renfield, familiar prime to Count Dracula, imagines he is safe from the scourge… Until he awakens standing over the body of his cell mate with the murder weapon in hand.
Accused of the crime and unable to prove his innocence, he escapes the asylum and resumes the life he knew before Dracula. Before madness. The life of Inspector Renfield of Scotland Yard. Venturing into the seedy underbelly of the city, he hunts for the murderer amid a myriad of suspects. Is it the beautiful folklorist researching the legend of vampires? Her brutish and enigmatic chauffeur and bodyguard? A reporter obsessed with Dracula’s reign of terror seven years earlier? Or the cult of vampire hunters who revere the inexplicably missing Abraham Van Helsing?
As the body count of familiars serving London’s vampires continues to climb, Renfield, with the reluctant assistance of his brutal master Dracula and the villainous intellect of Mr. Hyde, must put aside the safety net of madness and reclaim his former glory as a brilliant detective to track down the killer before more innocent souls are lost.
International bestselling author J. Kent Holloway spins a web of mystery that’s one part The Hound of the Baskervilles, one part Dracula, and a whole lot of The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, which will propel you on a spine-tingling journey into a world you only think you know.
Death stalks the fog-shrouded streets of London. A mysterious killer is hunting down vampire familiars, driving stakes through their hearts, and cutting off their heads for good measure. Nestled in his padded, bug-infested cell at Seward’s Sanatorium for the Criminally Insane, R.M. Renfield, familiar prime to Count Dracula, imagines he is safe from the scourge… Until he awakens standing over the body of his cell mate with the murder weapon in hand.
Accused of the crime and unable to prove his innocence, he escapes the asylum and resumes the life he knew before Dracula. Before madness. The life of Inspector Renfield of Scotland Yard. Venturing into the seedy underbelly of the city, he hunts for the murderer amid a myriad of suspects. Is it the beautiful folklorist researching the legend of vampires? Her brutish and enigmatic chauffeur and bodyguard? A reporter obsessed with Dracula’s reign of terror seven years earlier? Or the cult of vampire hunters who revere the inexplicably missing Abraham Van Helsing?
As the body count of familiars serving London’s vampires continues to climb, Renfield, with the reluctant assistance of his brutal master Dracula and the villainous intellect of Mr. Hyde, must put aside the safety net of madness and reclaim his former glory as a brilliant detective to track down the killer before more innocent souls are lost.
International bestselling author J. Kent Holloway spins a web of mystery that’s one part The Hound of the Baskervilles, one part Dracula, and a whole lot of The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, which will propel you on a spine-tingling journey into a world you only think you know.
Death Warmed Over (Book 1 of The Grim Days Mysteries)
DEATH TAKES A (WORKING) HOLIDAY!
Becca Cole is a big fish in a small pond. The former big-city homicide detective is now the Chief of Police in Summer Haven, a sleepy Florida beach town where nothing ever happens. But all that changes when she is summoned to the scene of a grisly murder. A naked young woman lies dead on the beach, a knife sticking out of her back, and the supposed killer stands over the body. It looks like an open-and-shut case, but not all is as it seems.
The victim, who was tangled up in Santeria and drug-trafficking, didn't die from a stab wound. In fact, an autopsy can't determine what killed her. The chief suspect turns out to be Silas Mot, an enigma in his own right. In fact, as Becca digs deeper into Silas's identity, she discovers the startling truth. He's the Grim Reaper. The personification of Death. The guy who decides who dies and when. It seems he's in town in order to determine why unsanctioned deaths have been occurring in and around Summer Haven, and he can't leave until he's cracked the case.
Becca and Silas will have to team up to discover who killed the young woman if they are to put a stop to the unscheduled departures, but for Silas, confined to a body of flesh and blood for the first time in his existence, the distractions of the world of the living may be the Death of him!
Becca Cole is a big fish in a small pond. The former big-city homicide detective is now the Chief of Police in Summer Haven, a sleepy Florida beach town where nothing ever happens. But all that changes when she is summoned to the scene of a grisly murder. A naked young woman lies dead on the beach, a knife sticking out of her back, and the supposed killer stands over the body. It looks like an open-and-shut case, but not all is as it seems.
The victim, who was tangled up in Santeria and drug-trafficking, didn't die from a stab wound. In fact, an autopsy can't determine what killed her. The chief suspect turns out to be Silas Mot, an enigma in his own right. In fact, as Becca digs deeper into Silas's identity, she discovers the startling truth. He's the Grim Reaper. The personification of Death. The guy who decides who dies and when. It seems he's in town in order to determine why unsanctioned deaths have been occurring in and around Summer Haven, and he can't leave until he's cracked the case.
Becca and Silas will have to team up to discover who killed the young woman if they are to put a stop to the unscheduled departures, but for Silas, confined to a body of flesh and blood for the first time in his existence, the distractions of the world of the living may be the Death of him!
Dead in the Water (Book 2 of The Grim Days Mysteries)
The sleepy beach town of Summer Haven is waking up to a new nightmare--reality TV!
Lance Avery, host of 'Mysterious Expedition'--a popular adventure documentary show--is in town to investigate a sunken shipwreck rumored to be the flagship of the infamous pirate Baron Tombstone, allegedly the last known possessor of a mystical artifact known as the Hand of Cain.
Summer Haven Police Chief Becca Cole knows all about the Hand of Cain. For the last year, she's been investigating mysterious deaths tied to the artifact, with a little help from the unlikeliest of partners--the Grim Reaper...Death himself, incarnate in the flesh of one Silas Mot, who has temporarily relocated to Summer Haven to discover why people are dying before their time.
When an inexplicable tragedy strikes the TV production, rumors abound that the death can only be attributed to "supernatural causes", but Becca is determined to find an all-too human killer.
Meanwhile, Silas is facing a different sort of crisis. With each bizarre death, he's losing his powers, inexplicably transforming into a mere mortal. If Becca and Silas can't solve this latest mystery, it will mean the end of his job as harvester of souls, to say nothing of his very existence.
Lance Avery, host of 'Mysterious Expedition'--a popular adventure documentary show--is in town to investigate a sunken shipwreck rumored to be the flagship of the infamous pirate Baron Tombstone, allegedly the last known possessor of a mystical artifact known as the Hand of Cain.
Summer Haven Police Chief Becca Cole knows all about the Hand of Cain. For the last year, she's been investigating mysterious deaths tied to the artifact, with a little help from the unlikeliest of partners--the Grim Reaper...Death himself, incarnate in the flesh of one Silas Mot, who has temporarily relocated to Summer Haven to discover why people are dying before their time.
When an inexplicable tragedy strikes the TV production, rumors abound that the death can only be attributed to "supernatural causes", but Becca is determined to find an all-too human killer.
Meanwhile, Silas is facing a different sort of crisis. With each bizarre death, he's losing his powers, inexplicably transforming into a mere mortal. If Becca and Silas can't solve this latest mystery, it will mean the end of his job as harvester of souls, to say nothing of his very existence.
Murder on Voodoo Island
[Originally published as Killypso Island]
The Cold War is heating up in paradise…
'Captain Joe' Thacker didn't come to the tiny Caribbean island of St. Noel looking for trouble. Just the opposite, the former flying ace turned sometimes-smuggler wants nothing more than to while away his days, smoking hand-rolled Havana cigars and sipping rum as the melodic beat of calypso drums drift through the sultry air.
But trouble has a way of finding Captain Joe.
It begins when the local inspector decides, seemingly on a whim, to hassle him over a shipment of booze meant for Jacques 'the Candyman' Lagrange—a popular local figure who runs the island's only candy store and happens to be both a gangster and a voodoo priest. He's also the elder brother to the island's despotic governor. The long-simmering rivalry between the Lagrange brothers is starting to boil over, making life on the island miserable and posing a serious threat to Captain Joe's livelihood. To make matters worse, three suspicious figures who just might be Russian spies show up and start nosing around.
Then Joe is accused of murdering the island’s beloved fortune teller, and the wife of the Candyman!
With some help from an eclectic bunch of island dwellers, Joe goes on the run and on the hunt for the real murderer. But St. Noel is a tiny island, and the with police, a horde of angry voodoo practitioners, and a trio of insidious KGB agents hot on his heels, Joe's biggest challenge will be staying alive long enough to clear his name.
The Cold War is heating up in paradise…
'Captain Joe' Thacker didn't come to the tiny Caribbean island of St. Noel looking for trouble. Just the opposite, the former flying ace turned sometimes-smuggler wants nothing more than to while away his days, smoking hand-rolled Havana cigars and sipping rum as the melodic beat of calypso drums drift through the sultry air.
But trouble has a way of finding Captain Joe.
It begins when the local inspector decides, seemingly on a whim, to hassle him over a shipment of booze meant for Jacques 'the Candyman' Lagrange—a popular local figure who runs the island's only candy store and happens to be both a gangster and a voodoo priest. He's also the elder brother to the island's despotic governor. The long-simmering rivalry between the Lagrange brothers is starting to boil over, making life on the island miserable and posing a serious threat to Captain Joe's livelihood. To make matters worse, three suspicious figures who just might be Russian spies show up and start nosing around.
Then Joe is accused of murdering the island’s beloved fortune teller, and the wife of the Candyman!
With some help from an eclectic bunch of island dwellers, Joe goes on the run and on the hunt for the real murderer. But St. Noel is a tiny island, and the with police, a horde of angry voodoo practitioners, and a trio of insidious KGB agents hot on his heels, Joe's biggest challenge will be staying alive long enough to clear his name.
Curse of the Devil's Teeth
Dirge of the Witch Haints
Feast of the Sin Eater
Clean Exit (An Ajax Clean Forensic Thriller)
Anton Jax - Ajax Clean, to those who know - is a professional cleaner. As in cleaner for the mob. Bloodstains on your shirt? No problem. Fingerprints and DNA evidence all over the crime scene, enough to put you away forever? For the right price, Clean will make it all go away.
But now someone wants to make Ajax Clean go away.
His instincts told him the job was too good to be true. He should have trusted them. Two dead bodies, trace evidence pointing to him everywhere, and those sirens he hears in the distance?
Yeah, coming for him.
On the run, Clean will have to take help where he can get it; from a half-crazed voodoo hitman, a retired homicide detective, and the beautiful young medical examiner Clean is desperately trying to protect. All he has to do now is survive long enough to clear his name, get some payback, and maybe, if he's lucky, make a clean exit.
But now someone wants to make Ajax Clean go away.
His instincts told him the job was too good to be true. He should have trusted them. Two dead bodies, trace evidence pointing to him everywhere, and those sirens he hears in the distance?
Yeah, coming for him.
On the run, Clean will have to take help where he can get it; from a half-crazed voodoo hitman, a retired homicide detective, and the beautiful young medical examiner Clean is desperately trying to protect. All he has to do now is survive long enough to clear his name, get some payback, and maybe, if he's lucky, make a clean exit.
Rise of the Knightshades: The Djinn
[Originally published as The Djinn.]
A Holy Land...A Holy War...A Holy Terror Against Evil
In the final years of the first Kingdom of Jerusalem, in a vault, hidden deep beneath the Temple Mount, Baron Gregory De L'Ombre has made an astonishing discovery. Imprisoned within the vault are twelve monstrous abominations, created by one of King Solomon's wives as an ultimate act of revenge. The secrets of the vault will ensure Gregory's absolute power and forever enslave the Outremer—the Holy Land. No man dares stand against him.
But the Djinn is no mere man.
A creature of smoke and shadow...a living legend...only the Djinn grasps the full scope of the baron's plans. Only he—along with his army of Knightshades—can save the Holy Land from a fate more terrible than anyone imagines.
A Holy Land...A Holy War...A Holy Terror Against Evil
In the final years of the first Kingdom of Jerusalem, in a vault, hidden deep beneath the Temple Mount, Baron Gregory De L'Ombre has made an astonishing discovery. Imprisoned within the vault are twelve monstrous abominations, created by one of King Solomon's wives as an ultimate act of revenge. The secrets of the vault will ensure Gregory's absolute power and forever enslave the Outremer—the Holy Land. No man dares stand against him.
But the Djinn is no mere man.
A creature of smoke and shadow...a living legend...only the Djinn grasps the full scope of the baron's plans. Only he—along with his army of Knightshades—can save the Holy Land from a fate more terrible than anyone imagines.
MIDDLE GRADE Mystery
The Mystery of the Undying Man (Book 1 of The Grand Avenue Detectives)
A Haunted House…
Missing Children…
A Dead Man Walking…
The Grand Avenue Detectives are on the case.
Every small town has its secrets… Places you never go, except on a dare… People who, when you see them coming, you cross the street and go the other way…
When a young girl in Burnside, Kentucky goes missing during an afternoon thunderstorm and the ‘zombie’ of the richest man in town is seen shambling the streets, inventor and 12-year-old sleuth ‘Lucky’ Lee Aker enlists his friends, Shane Morrow and ‘8-Bit’ Grant to solve the case. Naturally the trail leads them to the town’s most haunted place—Southwood Manor.
But this mysterious house, its enigmatic occupant, and others in town with sinister purpose do not easily give up their secrets.
Missing Children…
A Dead Man Walking…
The Grand Avenue Detectives are on the case.
Every small town has its secrets… Places you never go, except on a dare… People who, when you see them coming, you cross the street and go the other way…
When a young girl in Burnside, Kentucky goes missing during an afternoon thunderstorm and the ‘zombie’ of the richest man in town is seen shambling the streets, inventor and 12-year-old sleuth ‘Lucky’ Lee Aker enlists his friends, Shane Morrow and ‘8-Bit’ Grant to solve the case. Naturally the trail leads them to the town’s most haunted place—Southwood Manor.
But this mysterious house, its enigmatic occupant, and others in town with sinister purpose do not easily give up their secrets.
NonFiction
The Case for Kringle: God’s Christmas Missionary
Kris Kringle. Papa Noël. Sinterklaas. No matter the name, he is the beloved saint who brings Christmas cheer to millions of children each year.
But not everyone sees Santa as a harmless holiday tradition. Some argue he's a distraction from Christ-or worse, a tool of deception, commercialization, and even spiritual corruption. Is he an innocent symbol of joy, or has he become a usurper to the true meaning of Christmas in a post-Christian world?
Critics claim Santa encourages idolatry, borrowing too much from pagan traditions. Others say he promotes a works-based system of rewards, deceives children, and fuels the commercialization of Christmas.
Bible scholar and lifelong Santaphile J. Kent Holloway takes a thoughtful, candid look at these concerns, weighing them in his own Naughty and Nice list. Is Santa truly a holiday villain, or might it be that Christians are overlooking a powerful opportunity? Could Father Christmas actually be an ally in sharing the gospel during the season when hearts are most open to the message of Christ?
Engaging, thought-provoking, and full of holiday spirit, A Case for Kringle invites readers to reexamine Santa's place in Christian tradition-and perhaps to see him in a whole new light.
But not everyone sees Santa as a harmless holiday tradition. Some argue he's a distraction from Christ-or worse, a tool of deception, commercialization, and even spiritual corruption. Is he an innocent symbol of joy, or has he become a usurper to the true meaning of Christmas in a post-Christian world?
Critics claim Santa encourages idolatry, borrowing too much from pagan traditions. Others say he promotes a works-based system of rewards, deceives children, and fuels the commercialization of Christmas.
Bible scholar and lifelong Santaphile J. Kent Holloway takes a thoughtful, candid look at these concerns, weighing them in his own Naughty and Nice list. Is Santa truly a holiday villain, or might it be that Christians are overlooking a powerful opportunity? Could Father Christmas actually be an ally in sharing the gospel during the season when hearts are most open to the message of Christ?
Engaging, thought-provoking, and full of holiday spirit, A Case for Kringle invites readers to reexamine Santa's place in Christian tradition-and perhaps to see him in a whole new light.
I Died Swallowing a Goldfish and Other Life Lessons from the Morgue
Dead men tell no tales, but they sure make some excellent teachers.
Have you ever had someone give you the platitude that death is just a 'natural part of life'? Christians know better. Truth is, death was never intended to be part of the human experience. Sin brought death into the world. It is a result of our disobedience to God and His ideal plan for humanity.
Death is not natural. It's not pretty. It's never dignified. It's part of a curse. And no one knows that truth better than a forensic death investigator, who looks Death in the eyes on a near daily basis.
This book is a fascinating collection of real life and unusual death investigations as it can only be told by someone who's experienced it every day for the last twenty-five years. Though the subject matter might sound macabre, the message inside is one of great hope for living a more abundant life and developing a closer relationship with the One who had defeated Death. The Creator of Life.
Have you ever had someone give you the platitude that death is just a 'natural part of life'? Christians know better. Truth is, death was never intended to be part of the human experience. Sin brought death into the world. It is a result of our disobedience to God and His ideal plan for humanity.
Death is not natural. It's not pretty. It's never dignified. It's part of a curse. And no one knows that truth better than a forensic death investigator, who looks Death in the eyes on a near daily basis.
This book is a fascinating collection of real life and unusual death investigations as it can only be told by someone who's experienced it every day for the last twenty-five years. Though the subject matter might sound macabre, the message inside is one of great hope for living a more abundant life and developing a closer relationship with the One who had defeated Death. The Creator of Life.
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