Jonathon Marcel’s debut novel is an epic crime story of a young coed who gets involved in organized crime. Action packed with gritty, cynical characters you won’t forget. Get ready to take a roller coaster ride on the noirish side of college life in this original, hard-boiled story inspired by actual events.

Gangland meets new adult!

Rochelle Donovan is preparing to leave her rural-Kentucky home for Ohio State University when her father’s sudden death leaves the family in dire straits. To save the family from financial ruin, Rochelle and her lover, Chris Porter, take over her father’s small criminal operation, and one conspiracy soon leads to another. After getting in bed with a Russian exchange student, Rochelle discovers she has landed in the middle of a mob war for control of the one thing she has to offer.

Meanwhile, the FBI is closing in on Russian smuggling, a DEA FAST team led by Agent Kelly Reed has tracked a drug cartel to the streets of Columbus, Ohio, and the ATF are just steps away from ensnaring the Ghost of Appalachia. The three agencies have now joined forces to stop the lawlessness, and they’re all noticing an otherwise unknown coed at every turn.

Torn between two lovers, Rochelle is about to lose everything, including her life. She faces her greatest trial when the bloodstained streets of Columbus go on lockdown, and graduating takes on a new meaning.

Prepare to dive into the hard-boiled heart and violent world of DEA Agent Kelly Reed as Jonathon Marcel’s thrilling crime series continues with his fast-action sequel to The Samogon Affair.

DEA Agents Kelly Reed and Paul Garner’s affair has come to a turbulent time marred with violence and uncertainty. As their FAST team prepares to take down the Ochoa cartel, members of the Russian mob shoot Garner and leave him for dead. Hearing the agent has survived the attack, the Russians turn on Garner’s family, and it falls on Kelly to clear the streets and avenge the man she loves. But a larger interagency investigation demands she stand down while the FBI handles the case.

Not one to sit idly by, Kelly lays it all on the line and begins hunting the Russians herself, caring only about revenge as her ravaged heart takes her outside the law she swore to uphold. With the body count steadily rising, can Kelly stop the Russians before federal authorities stop her? Time is against her, and no one is safe.

Jonathon Marcel delivers another riveting, action-packed noir with his fans’ favorite character, Kelly Reed. Whispers That Kill is a page-turner that will keep you on edge, guessing at every moment.

A young mother has mysteriously disappeared and no one knows why. Whispers on the street say she was a snitch, a thief, a mule, she knew too much. An unscrupulous narcotics officer is suspected of putting her in danger. A local drug dealer is suspected of murdering her. Her family wants her found, but the police aren’t working the case.

After a long and successful career battling the cartels, Kelly Reed has resigned from the DEA to live life as a private investigator. Her sudden fame from taking down the Russian mob and rescuing several kidnapped girls, to the recent capture of a high profile fugitive has kept her in the media spotlight. But life for Kelly isn’t so glamorous. After being pressured to take on a missing persons case, Kelly ends up in the crosshairs of the Mexican Mafia. And when the case crosses into a bombing investigation, she finds herself under the watchful eye of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. Kelly is now on the clock to find a woman some people don’t want found, and time is running out.

You can no more unfire a bullet than you can unlearn the darkness that writhes beneath the floorboards and between the covers of Jonathon Marcel’s latest novel. His action-packed crime series continues with a dreadful, skin-crawling suspense that will keep mystery fans guessing to the very end.

Private Investigator Kelly Reed is on the hook to free a convict she put behind bars, and the very nature of her client’s case is causing a painful memory long buried to surface. Every witness she interviews tells a different story, and she senses each one of them holding something back. As Kelly peels away the layers of her client’s case people begin disappearing, missing persons pop-up dead, and cold cases get reexamined. What began as a simple look into a four-year-old conviction has transformed into a deadly game to identify a serial killer, and it could very well cost Kelly her life.