Published Books
Barcelona Harbor Murders
When 50- year-old builder and car restorer Mackenzie “Mac” Morrison is mysteriously given a 40-year-
old wax-sealed envelope, he finds two conflicting police reports from the 1983 accident that killed his
parents and orphaned him at age ten.
His curiosity now piqued, Mac and his dog Buddy take his resto-mod ’57 Chevy Bel Air on a road trip
from northern New Hampshire to western New York to visit his parents’ graves and learn more about
their deaths.
But upon arrival at Lake Erie’s Barcelona Harbor, his innocent inquiries set in motion events that uncover
not only the apparent murder of his parents, but three more deaths, all of which seem to point to the
same killer.
As a capably complex man and combat veteran, Mac becomes an avenging instrument, stirring things up
and making people who had been unsuspected for forty years come out of the woodwork. But when the
law cannot nab the killer, it’s Mac’s turn.
Return to Barcelona Harbor (Mac Morrison Murder Mysteries Book 2)
Mac Morrison’s habit of helping “sympathetic people” out of “sticky situations” made him enemies, most of whom were now dead. He had survived to age fifty by recognizing threats, so he should have noticed when a black Suburban paused, twice, at his construction site while he and his crew of three young Mexicans topped off a new home.
But he missed it, because a huge excavator snuffing candles on a birthday cake was more interesting than a strange vehicle cruising his country road. It was tourist season for leaf-peepers in Northern New Hampshire, and strange vehicles were expected; thus, the black SUV registered no threat to the hunter-gatherer portion of Mac’s brain. It was also Ramon Rodriguez’ 21st birthday, and to show off, he danced the new excavator on its toes, tipped the bucket’s shiny steel teeth downward and deftly cut the first piece of cake while Mac and his friends whooped and hollered. Three hundred feet away, the black Suburban returned a third time, and stopped. The driver lowered his window to peer at the gathering while a big man got out and set a camera with a long lens on the hood.
This time, sun glinting off the Chevy’s windshield caught Mac’s eye.
This time, he noticed.
Having solved five murders dating back 40 years in Barcelona Harbor Murders, Mackenzie “Mac” Morrison is a familiar name to police in Chautauqua County, New York. In Return to Barcelona Harbor, trouble is brewing in two states, so Mac has to fight battles in two places to protect the ones he loves. Before he is done, he will be on speed dial with the commanding Colonels of both the New Hampshire and New York State Police because…“Wherever Mac goes, Mayhem follows.”
Mayville Murders (Mac Morrison Murder Mysteries Book 3)
As a speeding basketball rolls down Mayville's Erie Street hill at dawn April 1,1998, nine year-old Johnny Newsome and his dog chase it. When the ball stops at the edge of Chautauqua Lake, it bears a bloody handprint and a familiar name in the neighborhood: Jenny Hartsall. The 17 year-old basketball phenom's body is found floating in the Chadakoin River the next day. She had been strangled.
The case goes unsolved for 25 years until combat vet Mackenzie "Mac" Morrison is asked to reopen it as a cold case consultant to the New York State Police. Mac and his trained Malamute police dog Buddy had just unraveled the 40 year-old murders of his parents in Chautauqua County and proved the murders of three others whose deaths had been declared accidental. His brutal and unorthodox methods attracted the concern of law enforcement, but since they garnered good results, instead of hounding him, they hired him.
When Special Investigator Mac peels back time on Jenny Hartsall's murder, he uncovers more unresolved cases of missing girls and realizes he is tracking a serial killer who is still alive, hiding in plain sight for 26 years. As Mac closes in on his prey, the murderer has to kill again to put an end to Mac's investigation.
But when Mac and Buddy-dog are on a case, bad actors better beware, because they take no prisoners.
The Case of the Chautauqua Orange Shoe Murders: A Mac Morrison Murder Mystery
Now available on Amazon!
Once again, the New York State Police and the Chautauqua County Sheriff are asking Mac Morrison, a cabin builder, classic car restorer and amateur sleuth, to solve multiple cold case murders. This time it is a psychotic serial killer who collects an orange shoe from his victims.
When Mac and Buddy-dog get involved, things start happening, but Mac soon realizes that he is not only the hunter, but also the hunted after his killer eludes him and instead comes after Mac and his team.