No Rest for Private Investigator DeShawn Mills
You would think after getting caught up in a high-school brawl, racing to keep a city from burning down, keeping a mob of teenagers from killing each other, and running a pseudo-illegal con job on a rich and powerful man, my fashionable ex-con PI could take a break and enjoy a little vacation. Nope. Not […]
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PI DeShawn Mills: the Man with the Remarkable Eyes
Some of my early readers blasted me for introducing a new character so late in Tainted Justice. A cardinal sin according to many readers, publishers and authors. But I had a reason for doing it that my early readers weren’t privy to. A friend and indie author challenged me to write a novella series with […]
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Get the low-down on Jonathon Marcel’s private investigators
I am writing two crime series. One, a series of full-length novels, bounces all over the Midwest before settling in Colorado. My female sleuth in that series is Kelly Reed. The other, a series of novellas, is set in Kansas City and features PI DeShawn Mills. Kelly Reed Kelly is an Ozark, Missouri girl and […]
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Behind the Cover Design for Jonathon Marcel’s Crime Novels
I’m not a cover designer, not by a long shot. And yet, like any DIY author, I tend to believe I know what’s best for my books. I did study design somewhat extensively before unleashing my creativity, and I understand the cover is the first thing readers see, and it has to wow them immediately […]
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Excerpts from Jonathon Marcel’s Honor Thy Father
Chapter 4 “Jack Delacroix’s will is in probate. It’s being challenged by an illegitimate daughter no one knew he had.” I stalk back to my desk where the drink caddy waits to console me. “No such thing as an illegitimate child.” I hold out a bottle of bourbon, and Gabbler dismisses the offer with a […]
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Excerpts from Jonathon Marcel’s Race to Judgment
Chapter 6 The courthouse lobby resounded with the raw tongue of a teenager motivating the mob through a bullhorn. Near a hundred people crowded the lobby, interrupting the hearings in the adjacent two courtrooms. Bolinger exited the stairwell and hurried past the clerk’s office and into Prosecuting Attorney Madison Eijkman’s office. “Tell me what the […]
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Excerpts from Jonathon Marcel’s Deception’s Game
CHAPTER 5 Bourbon doesn’t cure insomnia. That’s what Detective Virgil Tibbs told Chief Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night. One of my favorite characters. Tibbs is the reason I wanted to be a cop, but circumstances changed that. Tibbs is right though. I’m into my fourth glass, still wide-awake, watching the sun creep […]
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