Life seemed anything but simple to aerobics instructor/private investigator Amanda Seraphina Strowski. With an errant husband who preferred to live life on the cusp of drugged-out insanity, to a low-level malaise that she couldn't quite put her finger on, Mandi's life seemed to be constantly mirrored by her automotive troubles and her constant unsuccessful quest to return to her maiden name. When her uncle, Sebastian Wine, invites her to lunch at Skuldany's, a Seattle hotspot, she would have never guessed that he would be dead before the day was over, brutally stabbed to death in what the police seem to want to characterize as a drug deal gone bad. Such besmirching of her uncle's name alone might have caused Mandi to search for his murderer. But it soon becomes clear that Mandi must find her uncle's killer in order to save her own life. She is joined by a retired Seattle policeman, Johnny Cohen, who soon sees the African American beauty as the daughter that he never had. Working feverishly to track down Sebastian's murderer, Mandi Wine and Johnny Cohen stumble onto an alliance of criminal gangs that threaten to flood the region with illicit drugs to an extent no one would have thought possible. Along the way, they are joined in the investigation by police lieutenant S. T. Harrison, and his African American partner Barry Jones, who has recently joined the Seattle Police Department on loan from Spokane. Mandi's best friend, Cliff Wheeler, loyal to a fault, puts his life on the line to try and help Mandi save herself and avenge her uncle. Tautly plotted and filled with Vin Smith's patented fascinating characters, a.k.a. Mandi Wine is a triumph of American storytelling.

Vin Smith returns with his most intricately plotted novel yet, introducing a new protagonist in the second installment of the critically acclaimed End Time Mystery Series. This time around The Watcher is monitoring Southern Jefferson University Cosmic Anthropology Professor Linder Fogelman. validity of his theories, widely seen in academe as outlandish. In his heart, he believes that if he can prove that Lemurians are real and have been peacefully watching over mankind for millennia-then the world's wars would be history. Jessie Ernest. She disappeared ten years earlier while exploring Abu Simbel in Egypt. In spite of a decade long search by Fogelman-with the help of American and Egyptian authorities using the conventional means available-Jessie is still missing. Jessie using a Cosmic Locator that he developed jointly with his buddy, Baron Lee. He will travel through a Vortex Portal on the sacred Mount Shasta, all the way to Abu Simbel in Egypt. it would keep Lindy Fogelman forever away from Becky Tournup, who has worked by his side and secretly loved him for years... an ancient prophecy that involves the handsome professor up to his eyeballs. The very fate of mankind hangs in the balance...

Mandi Wine is back with her intrepid partner, Johnny Cohen. The Sebastian Wine Detective Agency has undergone a bit of a facelift, which one might expect to be the case when a woman's touch is brought to bear. Now, after some hectic months of reorganization, Mandi decides to do a bit of skydiving near Pullman, Washington, while Johnny drives down to the California border towns of Yreka and Hornbrook to begin an investigation into the case of Ginny Regaluto, a young woman who has apparently vanished from the face of the Earth. When Mandi's chute fails to open because someone wants her dead, she is saved in midair by a handsome young man by the name of Henson Benjamin. It was a thrill ride that Mandi didn't bargain for. Especially when it becomes quite clear that Ching and Latoya still want her dead-and came close to succeeding. Mandi's buddies, Cliff Wheeler, Barry Jones and S. T. Harrison again work with her to track down the leaders of the drug cartel the Wine Agency and a combined task force thought they had stopped some months earlier. With death nipping at their heels, Wine and Cohen struggle to stay one-step ahead of their dedicated tormentors. With Get Mandi Wine, we once again have a Vin Smith novel jam packed with fascinating characters. "This is Vin Smith at his best." Charley Ubixo

In 1870 Nacogdoches County, Texas, Buck Hudson is a twelve-year-old boy, and big for his age. He is fast becoming quite the cowman in the estimation of his father, Billy, and also is a pretty fair hand around his mother Liz's chickens. Buck's grandfather, Old Man Hudson, is visiting indefinitely from St. Louis, and in spite of the fact that Buck and his parents live in Nacogdoches County, Texas, is quite close to the boy. Billy Hudson wants nothing to do with the oil business, and has been rebuffing the ruthless oilman, Barnabas Callahan, who along with his sometime partner, Denton Delacroix, have been busy wrapping up Nacogdoches County ranch land in order drill wells. While Old Man Hudson and Liz are away getting supplies, an attempt at heavy-handed negotiation goes terribly awry, and Billy Hudson is killed by Callahan's gunsel, Mackenzie Slade. Buck is badly beaten into a six-year coma. Old Man and Liz Hudson secretly return to St. Louis with the comatose boy, allowing the town to think that Buck is dead. On a Christmas in 1876 St. Louis, Buck finally reawakens. It will take the three years until Buck reaches his majority to rehabilitate his body and train under the watchful eye of Old Man Hudson, a former gunman and a practicing gunsmith. During those three long years, Buck Hudson spends every waking moment getting himself ready to return to Nacogdoches. When Buck reaches his one time stomping grounds, things are more complicated than he might have imagined. His childhood sweetheart, Sabrina Delacroix, is now engaged to the vicious Mackenzie Slade, and Buck Hudson must deliver a bullet for Slade.

Vin Smith is back! And this time he weaves a yarn for children from 8 to 80, although at least one centenarian has reported having fun with Jinamon and that Nine Goodkids Gang who refuse to accept cartoon death. Now the kids have morphed themselves into the real world, though they must endure their opaque cartoon bodies. It seems that Uncle Ted Carmoody has decided to retire and move to the West Coast of Florida, while putting his famous cartoon strip, The Nine Goodkids Gang, to the mothballs permanently. Ted will now spend his days collecting specimens from tidepools, to satisfy his yearning to be an amateur marine biologist. Not at all okay. By some miracle of science, Jinamon and his buddies have found a way to break into the real world. Unfortunately, so have their dreaded nemeses, Mr. Gold and Dr. Dreth. It will be up to Stacey and Tracey, the nine-year-old twin daughters of Hiram and Abigail Kelley, to put a stop to the nonsense that Mr. Gold and Dr. Dreth will unleash!

Vin Smith returns with his most intricately plotted novel yet, introducing a new protagonist in the second installment of the critically acclaimed End Time Mystery Series. This time around The Watcher is monitoring Southern Jefferson University Cosmic Anthropology Professor Linder Fogelman. validity of his theories, widely seen in academe as outlandish. In his heart, he believes that if he can prove that Lemurians are real and have been peacefully watching over mankind for millennia-then the world's wars would be history. Jessie Ernest. She disappeared ten years earlier while exploring Abu Simbel in Egypt. In spite of a decade long search by Fogelman-with the help of American and Egyptian authorities using the conventional means available-Jessie is still missing. Jessie using a Cosmic Locator that he developed jointly with his buddy, Baron Lee. He will travel through a Vortex Portal on the sacred Mount Shasta, all the way to Abu Simbel in Egypt. it would keep Lindy Fogelman forever away from Becky Tournup, who has worked by his side and secretly loved him for years... an ancient prophecy that involves the handsome professor up to his eyeballs. The very fate of mankind hangs in the balance...

Life seemed anything but simple to aerobics instructor/private investigator Amanda Seraphina Strowski. With an errant husband who preferred to live life on the cusp of drugged-out insanity, to a low-level malaise that she couldn't quite put her finger on, Mandi's life seemed to be constantly mirrored by her automotive troubles and her constant unsuccessful quest to return to her maiden name. When her uncle, Sebastian Wine, invites her to lunch at Skuldany's, a Seattle hotspot, she would have never guessed that he would be dead before the day was over, brutally stabbed to death in what the police seem to want to characterize as a drug deal gone bad. Such besmirching of her uncle's name alone might have caused Mandi to search for his murderer. But it soon becomes clear that Mandi must find her uncle's killer in order to save her own life. She is joined by a retired Seattle policeman, Johnny Cohen, who soon sees the African American beauty as the daughter that he never had. Working feverishly to track down Sebastian's murderer, Mandi Wine and Johnny Cohen stumble onto an alliance of criminal gangs that threaten to flood the region with illicit drugs to an extent no one would have thought possible. Along the way, they are joined in the investigation by police lieutenant S. T. Harrison, and his African American partner Barry Jones, who has recently joined the Seattle Police Department on loan from Spokane. Mandi's best friend, Cliff Wheeler, loyal to a fault, puts his life on the line to try and help Mandi save herself and avenge her uncle. Tautly plotted and filled with Vin Smith's patented fascinating characters, a.k.a. Mandi Wine is a triumph of American storytelling.