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"Hello, Detective," said the Jasper Creek Police Department dispatcher. "Sorry to wake you, but a body's just been found inside one of the vacant warehouses downtown and you're on call tonight." Detectives Joe McFarland and Ginny Harris are on the trail of a killer in this second, thrilling installment of author Stuart Safft's mystery series. The victim is a one-time Special Ops service member suffering from debilitating PTSD. Dead of a gunshot wound, he's found in an abandoned warehouse owned by JC Realty Investments. Who wanted him dead, and why? Did he do something wrong in Afghanistan or know about something unsavory that happened there? Or back home in the States? Was he a loose cannon that needed eliminating? Or is there an even more elemental mystery behind his violent death? Detectives McFarland and Harris chase down the myriad confusing and conflicting leads to answer the who and why of this crime.

FIFTH BOOK IN THE JOE MCFARLAND / GINNY HARRIS MYSTERY Amy Richardson - a student at Pond View Academy, a prestigious all-girls school - goes missing. Detectives Joe McFarland and Ginny Harris are on the case-but, is there a case? They quickly find out Amy has a history of running away...is this just another disappearing act, or has she really been abducted or possibly murdered? Ginny and Joe have been good partners, both as detectives and as lovers. Now, they're taking a bold step in both their lives-selling Ginny's condo and moving in together. This move creates unexpected friction. Adding fuel to the fire, Ginny and Joe find themselves working separate cases, almost living separate lives. Will their love survive these changes along with the turmoil of solving Amy's disappearance that appears more sinister by the day? Detectives McFarland and Harris return in a fifth volume of Stuart Safft's thrilling mystery series. What will they find at the bottom of the rabbit hole?

Joe and Ginny are back on the beat, this time responding to an anonymous report of murder on a heavily armed militia compound. There's one major problem: how to get inside? Not to mention several questions in need of answers - Was there actually a murder or was it a crank call? If a murder did occur: Who's the victim? Who's the murderer? What's the motive? Where's the body? In pursuit of justice, the duo work closer together than ever before, dangers - both expected and unforeseen - awaiting their investigation at every turn. Confronting extremist ideologies head-on, they must earn the trust of those who naturally distrust all authority, even as the clock ticks on catching the potential murder victim's killer. What secrets lie buried on the FRAP compound? It's up to Joe and Ginny to unearth the answers - and, just maybe, set a date for their wedding (should they manage to come through unscathed).

FIRST BOOK IN THE JOE MCFARLAND / GINNY HARRIS MYSTERY Cops & FBI compete to find Ellen... or her body. No one knows what happened to Ellen – not her husband; not Tycon Technologies, where Ellen is an executive involved with military projects; not her friends, neighbors or family. Police detectives McFarland and Harris suspect Ellen was murdered. They suspect her husband. Not discounting these possibilities, the local FBI agents focus on espionage and kidnapping. While the detectives butt heads with the FBI, Ellen’s insurance money pours in and her husband takes a powder. What’s going on?

With a big storm on the way, Susie Ray left her boyfriend at home and drove to the local Kroger's for supplies. She was surprised at how crowded Kroger's was. Why does everyone need to stock up on milk and white bread whenever snow is forecast? Some secret winter recipe I don't know about? Ray was at the checkout counter 15 minutes later, and a young and pimply-faced boy pushed her shopping cart to her car. She popped the trunk. What happened next was not a recipe for a cozy wintery day at home. The bagger yelled, jumped back and dropped the bag of groceries. "Ma'am! Ma'am! You gotta come here! Quick!" "Oh, my God!" shrieked Ray as she looked in the trunk. Clearly visible was a woman, partially wrapped in a blanket or bedspread. "Is she dead?" "I th-th-think so," responded the ashen-faced boy. By then a few other shoppers had gathered around Ray's trunk. "Excuse me. Please. I'm a nurse. Let me take a look." Enough people stepped aside so that the nurse-shopper could get close to the trunk. She removed her right-hand glove and checked the carotid artery of the woman in the trunk. "No pulse. She's dead. Someone call 9-1-1." "Already did," said one of the onlookers. "Cops and an ambulance are on their way." And so is the detective team of Joe McFarland and Ginny Harris.

The bombs and bullets of World War II left lingering scars on the people of Belgium, the officially neutral nation where much of the worst fighting took place. The horror of war came home to three-year-old Rita Van Aerschot on a morning in the spring of 1940, when herfather stood in the doorway, handsome in his military uniform, but changed in a way her young mind could scarcely comprehend. As German forces occupied Belgium over the next four years, Rita’s War would devolve into a universe of shortages and oppression, set against the gnawing fear that ran as an undercurrent to all activity. On some days, Rita could attend school, almost as if the world had returned to normal. At other times, she and her family had to shelter in a concrete bunker as their country faced bombardment from first one, and then another of the warring parties. How could a child and a family manage to thrive in this damaged environment, where survival itself was often an act of heroism? That is the story of Rita’s War.

THIRD BOOK IN THE JOE MCFARLAND / GINNY HARRIS MYSTERY “Joe. Ginny. In here. Now!” So begins one of Joe McFarland’s and Ginny Harris’ most confusing and frustrating cases. This third installment in Stuart Safft’s mystery series finds the detectives working their way through an excess of motives to explain the victim’s Was it related to his earlier role as a prosecutor, his more recent defense attorney role, his position on the town council or just plain personal reasons? To make matters worse, for each motive the number of suspects ranges from a dozen to a few hundred.With no eyewitnesses stepping forward, and virtually no hard evidence, Detectives McFarland and Harris have their hands full. . . And everyone’s clamoring for this crime to be solved yesterday. This is the third book in the Joe McFarland – Ginny Harris Mystery Series.