Events
The folks at the Jefferson City Public Library were kind enough to invite me to a book signing. Take a look at the poster they made up for the event. Find me at 108 City Center Drive, Jefferson City, TN. Call 865-475-9094 for more information. See you then.
Serpents & Scoundrels
One of the strangest investigations ever! Definitely the most unique interrogation you’ve ever read. An informant takes Chief Sam Jenkins and Sergeant Stan Rose to a partially buried corpse in a forest clearing once used by marijuana growers. At the crime scene, the medical examiner states a fact and makes a conjecture. The victim was killed elsewhere and the killer may be a vampire. The investigation leads to a religious con man, snake handling fundamentalists, and a beautiful woman scorned. Only Jenkins’ singular style of...
read moreMurder In A Wish-Book House
Chief Sam Jenkins investigates the murder of a Blount County, Tennessee school teacher. All the facts point to a simple conclusion, the man’s wife, an escaped mental patient, killed her husband to gain custody of their small daughter. With the help of his usual cadre of friends and co-workers, Sam devises a plan to lure the obsessed woman into a trap when she tries to kidnap the child from the foster parents caring for the girl. The surprise outcome even disturbs Jenkins. Based on one of the bloodiest killings in Long Island history. And a...
read moreV is for . . . Vitamin?
What starts out as a slam-dunk arrest of two subjects for a series of armed robberies on the greenway at Prospect, Tennessee turns into a murder investigation at a local nursing home. But was it murder? The attending physician says, “No.” The medical examiner says, “Maybe.” But an ex-detective in a wheel chair claims it’s a homicide. Chief Sam Jenkins and his partner, Sergeant Bettye Lambert, need to crack a few tough customers: three septuagenarian female residents of the nursing home, to get the evidence, tie all the puzzle pieces together,...
read moreReenacting A Murder
One potential witness said, “Whitey wasn’t the best-liked member of the reenacting community, but who would have thought he’d end up like this?” When Prospect, Tennessee Police Chief Sam Jenkins attends the town’s annual heritage festival it not only satisfies his interest in Early American history, it draws him into the investigation of another murder on “the peaceful side of the Smokies.” Local antique dealer, G. Nobel Whitehead, has been savagely killed. As the former New York detective wades...
read moreFate of A Floozy
Sam Jenkins investigates the shotgun murders of an aging movie star and the younger man with whom she was having an affair. Two of the suspects include the woman’s husband, a Hollywood producer, and the young man’s father, a high-powered attorney. Sam knows he’s not dealing with the usual down-home crowd from Prospect, Tennessee as his inquiry spans the nation, from California to a prestigious country club in Knoxville. In a theatrical ending, Jenkins once again emulates his favorite fictional detective, Nero Wolfe, by assembling all the...
read moreThe Great Smoky Mountain Bank Job
Sam Jenkins’ law enforcement colleagues know he’s quick to ask a professional favor. But when a beautiful Treasury agent asks for his assistance, he balks. Special Agent Lucy Frobisher wants Sam to re-open a forty-three year old investigation and find her father’s killers. Reluctantly, the ex-New York detective turned Tennessee police chief delves into the robbery-homicide and finds himself back in the 1960’s, chasing down a group of anti-government anarchists who robbed banks to finance their violent revolution. Join Sam and his friends from...
read moreHurricane Blow Up
Hurricane Irene caused thousands of coastal residents to flee inland and escape the storm’s carnage. Two of them ended up in the Smoky Mountain tourist town of Prospect, Tennessee. And then their car blew up. The bomb expert said they were the target of an assassin. One of the intended victims was a former New York Detective who had sent dozens of Russian mobsters to prison. But he also stole the wife of an NYPD bomb technician who just happens to have retired to Prospect. Chief Sam Jenkins enlists all his usual assistants to lay a trap...
read moreClive Eaton Interview
I’m off to Great Britain to be interviewed by thriller author Clive Eaton who wanted to know all about HEROES & LOVERS. Read the interview.
read moreA Leprechaun’s Lament reveiwed by Jennifer Kimble for US Review of Books
Those who some see as the worst, are heroes to their families and the people they represent. Those seen as the best by others, are monsters to the people they oppose. When routine Homeland Security funded background checks of all police department civilans take a mysterious turn, Sam Jenkins finds himself caught up in a case the likes of which he thought he hasn’t seen since trading his New York detective badge for the simple life of Prospect Tennessee Police Chief. Finding one of his investigated employees murdered execution style...
read moreA NEW PROSPECT Retires From Competition
In addition to being named Best Mystery at the 2011 Indie Book Awards, A NEW PROSPECT, the first full-length Sam Jenkins Mystery, was chosen as 1st Runner-Up from all Commercial Fiction entries at The 2012 Eric Hoffer Book Awards and Finalist for a Montaigne Medal Finalist for the First Horizon Book Award.
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