A Jack Hunter Mystery Series

Jack Hunter returns to Los Angeles, heartsore and his soul damaged, after unveiling a monstrous crime in Key West. Moving back into his beach house, he hoped to find solace. But trouble – always a companion – has other ideas. Unwittingly, he once again comes face to face with true evil in the form of a Satanist group. An old dream quickly turns into a living nightmare of murder. LAPD Detective Laura Dalton teams with Los Angeles Sheriffs Detective Emilio Zaragoza to put together the pieces of a horrific puzzle with no picture to guide them. Jack takes matters into his own hands. Only to risk having his number come up in an explosive ending.

Malice murder is by law a homicide done with express or implied malice. Express malice is the deliberate intention to unlawfully take the life of another human being, which is manifested by external circumstances capable of proof. Malice is implied when no considerable provocation appears and where all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart. KWPD Detective Earl Gleason and his new partner, Detective Rachel Powers, have their hands full with a series of brutal homicides in a homeless encampment. Each a puzzle of its own with no apparent connection to the others. Other than the fierce brutality involved, that is. Jack Hunter returns to Key West and is soon caught up in the investigation. And in no time, falls under suspicion. Nor does it take him long to get the attention of one killer as another one comes for him.

Jack Hunter, in Miami on advertising business, learns that his ex-wife was found dead in Los Angeles. The next morning an LAPD detective shows up at his hotel with uncomfortable questions Jack can't satisfactorily answer. Thirty minutes later, Jack is a fugitive on the run for Key West. Broke, homeless, living by his wits and always looking over his shoulder, Jack gets help from an eclectic and eccentric group of characters, sweet of soul, that one can find only in a quirky place like Key West. But no help comes from a couple of twisted individuals. The action moves quickly between Key West and LA, with neither side knowing fully what the other is up to. And Jack discovers that, while Key West is a place of unforgettable charm and beauty, it can also be a loose knot ready to slip in a minute, sending all bets spinning away with the tide.

Jack Hunter’s fortunes have taken a turn for the better in Los Angeles. But trouble soon finds him when he returns to Key West. An old friend has been hospitalized from a brutal beating that may have to do with the unsolved murder of his son. Jack teams up with a private investigator to look into the case. And is quickly caught in a tangled web spun by twisted characters. He risks becoming a victim himself. LAPD Detective Laura Dalton, battling demons of her own in Los Angeles, comes to Key West on vacation and winds up joining Jack, an old nemesis, in the hunt for the killer. The path leads them to a small-time hood from Miami who has opened shop in Key West. Politics and corruption follow hand-in-hand along the way and things get deadly in short order. While Key West, beguiling as ever and always a loose knot that can slip in a minute, throws in a few stunning surprises of its own.

Questionable deaths of children buried in the Key West Cemetery have gone unanswered for years. Rumors point to a pair of doctors from an old and prominent Key West family as being responsible. Hearsay? Or something more substantial? Jack Hunter determines to find the truth. And soon realizes that he has taken on more than he can handle. He brings in Detective Earl Gleason. But the KWPD is not interested in pursuing rumors. Jack and the detective begin a clandestine investigation on their own. And violence becomes Jack’s companion in the journey to an evil conclusion. “Bob Coburn’s best storytelling yet,” says Hollis George, editor of Writing Tips From the Pens of Famous Writers