Kurt Maxxon has been a successful stock car race driver for a decade. But when he arrives at the Masonville Oval racetrack and finds the bludgeoned body of the track's general manager, Elaine Willowby, on the concrete floor in a driver's garage, he turns into an amateur sleuth. Maxxon believes he is obligated to help find the murderer, but while the police focus on the missing driver who rents the garage, he looks elsewhere. Through masterful logic and innovative approaches, Maxxon works through his own list of suspects until he forces the killer to make a move. The first novel in the Kurt Maxxon series, "Masonville" takes you on a wild ride through the world of stock car racing, murder, and mystery.

Race driver Kurt Maxxon's quiet life of racing stockcars and training his new puppy, Beau, is turned upside down after he finds well-known local driver Rusty Gallegar shot to death at the racetrack. Very quickly into the investigation, the police arrest Alisa Sharpe, Gallegar's live-in mistress, who Gallegar kicked out of his life a week before the shooting. According to the police, Alisa lied about key items, and the evidence against her is compelling. Kurt's friend Mutt Sparks adamantly maintains that Alisa is innocent, and asks Kurt to help her. Kurt visits Alisa in jail and agrees Sharpe is probably not the killer, then launches his own investigation to prove it. Kurt discovers Gallegar was preparing to sell his auto body shop and quietly leave town, apparently running away with a woman. Kurt also uncovers a string of women who traded sex with Gallegar for his silence to their husbands and insurance companies about auto wrecks they had. Secrets and intrigues turn up in every corner Kurt looks. Love, infidelity, jealousy, gossip, and revenge surround Kurt Maxxon as he analyzes information, using his unique logic and approach, to find out the answer to the question-Who killed Rusty Gallegar?

When two homeless boys foraging for food stumble upon the body of restaurant owner Carlos Guerrero, they notify Kurt Maxxon. It's the third time in four years that racecar driver Maxxon finds himself involved in a murder case. Carlos was a friend, and he's determined to help authorities find the killer. A letter from Carlos addressed to Kurt surfaces, and it is the first big clue. The letter contains a set of directions; Kurt follows them and finds incriminating evidence implicating a prominent local politician, one of Carlos's associates. Kurt follows more clues in a bid to pinpoint why Carlos was killed and who should be blamed. He runs into a number of dead ends, but he continues asking questions and uncovering answers in his own unique ways. Against this backdrop, Kurt also has another mission: to win a race at the River Flats International Speedway. Find out who wins, who loses, and who killed Carlos in the third book in the Kurt Maxxon series, "Carpentier Falls."

Alisa Sharpe is a woman with a history, who is currently working as a private investigator with Terry Grossman Investigations. Her assignment is to answer the question: Did James Monroe Taeggardt commit suicide, as the ME ruled, or was he gunned down during a robbery, as Taeggardt's sister adamantly claims? Alisa meets Tuxedo, the cat, who helps her find a stash of twelve cassette tapes hidden in a hidey-hole. Why so many tapes? Why are they hidden? As Alisa listens to the tapes she discovers they are full of news, weather, sports, and trivia, with frequent quotations from famous authors as well as frequent Biblical quotations. Are the tapes a code? Are they a message? As Alisa digs deeper, she suddenly learns there are nefarious people who do not want her digging up their stories.

When Kurt Maxxon arrives at the Centralia Racetrack, he is confronted by a gun-wielding man with a wad of cash in his free hand. Inside the driver's lounge, Kurt finds the body of local race driver Melvyn Hightower-shot dead-his wallet rifled. Kurt has no doubt the gun-wielding man did it-until they can't find the dead man's racecar. Kurt learns that Maggie Decker, a waitress in a nearby diner, had gone to the track at the same time as the shooting, intent on having sex with Melvyn. The cops arrest Jason Tobias, the track secretary's husband for the murder supposing a love triangle. In the meantime, Kurt meets a precocious eight-year-old girl-Brittany Grenwahl-who quickly worms her way into Kurt's heart, and convinces Kurt to help her unemployed mother. Who shot Melvyn Hightower? Why? Where is Melvyn's car? Kurt is surrounded by possibilities, but no clear answers. The facts are leading to nothing but dead ends. Could this be the first case Kurt cannot solve?

Race driver Kurt Maxxon's quiet life of racing stockcars and training his new puppy, Beau, is turned upside down after he finds well-known local driver Rusty Gallegar shot to death at the racetrack. Very quickly into the investigation, the police arrest Alisa Sharpe, Gallegar's live-in mistress, who Gallegar kicked out of his life a week before the shooting. According to the police, Alisa lied about key items, and the evidence against her is compelling. Kurt's friend Mutt Sparks adamantly maintains that Alisa is innocent, and asks Kurt to help her. Kurt visits Alisa in jail and agrees Sharpe is probably not the killer, then launches his own investigation to prove it. Kurt discovers Gallegar was preparing to sell his auto body shop and quietly leave town, apparently running away with a woman. Kurt also uncovers a string of women who traded sex with Gallegar for his silence to their husbands and insurance companies about auto wrecks they had. Secrets and intrigues turn up in every corner Kurt looks. Love, infidelity, jealousy, gossip, and revenge surround Kurt Maxxon as he analyzes information, using his unique logic and approach, to find out the answer to the question-Who killed Rusty Gallegar?

When two homeless boys foraging for food stumble upon the body of restaurant owner Carlos Guerrero, they notify Kurt Maxxon. It's the third time in four years that racecar driver Maxxon finds himself involved in a murder case. Carlos was a friend, and he's determined to help authorities find the killer. A letter from Carlos addressed to Kurt surfaces, and it is the first big clue. The letter contains a set of directions; Kurt follows them and finds incriminating evidence implicating a prominent local politician, one of Carlos's associates. Kurt follows more clues in a bid to pinpoint why Carlos was killed and who should be blamed. He runs into a number of dead ends, but he continues asking questions and uncovering answers in his own unique ways. Against this backdrop, Kurt also has another mission: to win a race at the River Flats International Speedway. Find out who wins, who loses, and who killed Carlos in the third book in the Kurt Maxxon series, "Carpentier Falls."

Kurt Maxxon has been a successful stock car race driver for a decade. But when he arrives at the Masonville Oval racetrack and finds the bludgeoned body of the track's general manager, Elaine Willowby, on the concrete floor in a driver's garage, he turns into an amateur sleuth. Maxxon believes he is obligated to help find the murderer, but while the police focus on the missing driver who rents the garage, he looks elsewhere. Through masterful logic and innovative approaches, Maxxon works through his own list of suspects until he forces the killer to make a move. The first novel in the Kurt Maxxon series, "Masonville" takes you on a wild ride through the world of stock car racing, murder, and mystery.