The Crockett Stories Series

“Got a gun?” With those words, David Allen Crockett, a retired police officer who simply wanted to be left alone, finds his seclusion shattered by his friend, therapist Ruby LaCost. At Ruby’s request, Crockett agrees to teach one of her clients, Rachael Moore, how to defend herself with a handgun. During the course of those lessons, Crockett and Rachael begin an intimate relationship. When Rachael is found dead from an apparent suicide, Crockett is devastated and tries to slink back into his self-imposed seclusion. But things get complicated when Crockett is contacted by Rachael’s aunt, who believes the suicide was staged and claims she has the name of the murderer. Together, Crockett and Ruby begin an investigation that leads them into a world of treachery, deceit, and death.

After trying to help a friend with bad dreams, Crockett and Ruby are visited by a beautiful woman who was the victim of murder over fifty years ago. From an unknown grave, she sets them on a course to save her great grand daughter from repeating the mistakes of three generations. With the help of Cletus Marshal and the skill of a Vietnam era helicopter pilot, Crockett and Ruby attempt to rectify a past, save a future, and keep a Grave Promise.

Crockett is enjoying a new life at Watkins Marina on Truman Lake when a call from Cletus shatters his reverie. Ruby has been abducted. Pulled back into what he'd left behind, Crockett is plunged into a terrible reality. He and Clete are on the hunt in the wilds of northern Arkansas, time is running out, and Ruby is in chains.

Yet again, Crockett finds himself needing to rebuild his life. Too much has happened to go on like he is. Just when he thinks he’s got it all figured out, one of Ruby’s old friends, Carson Bailey, reaches out to him because there is no one else to turn to. She confesses that she is in the Federal Witness Protection Program but feels that her cover has been blown. From a vicious attack and murder near Chicago to a rogue FBI agent, to hired killers, to the wilds of the Black Hills, Crockett, Cletus, and the gang fight for their lives while trying to help a woman on the run.

On vacation in a house on wheels, Crockett and Ruby’s luxury camping trip is interrupted by the discovery of a runaway girl hiding in the basement of their motorhome. When the child is reunited with her mother, the kidnapping of a brother is brought to light and, once again, Crockett is on a mission. With the help of a retired firearms instructor, Crockett, Cletus Marshal, and the redoubtable Stitch are supplied with the talent and tools to challenge a group of white separatists and bring the kidnapped boy home. It’s Crockett and company against a racist militia and the trick to survival is Situational Flexibility.

Life has finally settled down, and things are going well for Crockett. Best of all, his bluegill are getting big enough that it won’t be long until he and Satin can host a simple fish fry. Then, he gets a call from an old flame who needs a favor. All hell breaks loose as a series of vicious killings lead Crockett to investigate a wealthy businessman and his deeply twisted body guard. Stitch and Clete are there to help, and the discovery of a cache of illegal weapons bring in the FBI and the Missouri State Police. Lives are on the line as things become touch and go, and no one is safe from the threat of the Six Cut Kill.

A three-year-old who communicates with her deceased great-grandmother sets Crockett on a course seeking justice for the wife and family of a murdered cop. Crockett, Stitch, and Clete, with help from Satin’s daughter, Danni and her friend, Whisper, infiltrate a drug business with ties to Italy and Afghanistan as Crockett goes UNDERCOVER.

Crockett takes a part time job as a small-town cop and becomes suspicious of a local nightclub. With the help of the Missouri State Police, a cute undercover operative, and the ever-present Stitch, Crockett begins an investigation that leads to murder, mayhem, and more when he goes BEHIND THE BADGE.