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Cole Ballinger is a retired Fort Pierce police detective and the owner of The Breakwater Bar and Grill. Cole has spent the last 10 years doing his best to avoid contact with his ex-wife, but that’s easier said than done when she lives in the same town and they have three children together. Now Cole’s ex has asked for a favor: look into the violent murder of an old acquaintance.

Shortly after Walter and Warren Bowman arrive in Key West in search of a sister they never knew they had, Warren disappears. With nowhere else to turn, Walter enlists the help of Dan Coast. Join Dan as he and sidekick Red Baxter search for the missing Bowman family members, while dealing with the fallout of an ongoing case.

Dan, a wise-cracking excessive drinker, is haunted by the memory of his dead wife. Shortly after the two won the lottery and purchased a small beach bungalow in the Florida Keys, her life was taken in a car accident. Soon after his wife's death, Dan relocated to the Keys with his wife's dog, whom he blames for her death. In Sleeping Dogs Lie, Dan Coast, an unlicensed private detective of sorts, is hired to find the missing boyfriend of a woman who herself soon ends up missing.

Ship of Fools is the fourth book in The Tales of Dan Coast series and begins where Coasts of Christmas Past left off. Find out how Dan deals with the death of a young friend while looking into the disappearance of a new friend's sister. Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they fumble their way through a new mystery.

Dan Coast and Red Baxter are back for the 15th volume of From the Tales of Dan Coast. When Lindsey Malvo, a heart transplant recipient with not long to live, finds a love note written to his long-deceased wife, he hires Dan Coast to find the man who wrote it. With Skip Stoner nowhere to be found, Dan and Red have to go at it alone in this action-packed installment. Can Dan and Red solve the mystery before their client’s time runs out? All this while Dan struggles with reminders and the anniversary of when he lost his own wife.

Dan Coast and his friends have always used his home as a place to discuss and brainstorm about current cases, but Maxine, Dan's girlfriend, has had enough of their antics. After a late-night argument, Dan, in an attempt to smooth things over, decides to get himself an office. As soon as Dan rents the office, two woman with missing husbands come forward, asking for help. Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they piece together the clues that could lead them to the same fate as who they're searching for.

Skip Stoner has finally returned to Key West, and as soon as he does, he gets a call from his dad, Larry, about an old friend's missing daughter. Dan, Red, and Skip head to Siesta Key, Florida in search of the young college girl, whose friends say they haven't seen her in days. Her boyfriend, a young man from an affluent family, has returned home without her, has retained a lawyer, and isn't talking.

Shoulda Seen it Comin' is the 14th book in the Dan Coast series and the third and final book in a three book arc. A letter from beyond the grave may not be enough to get Dan to solve a murder, but the check that came with it probably is. Red, Skip, and a woman from Dan's past team up to help Dan solve the murder of The Amazing Gary.

In On the Wagon, the eighth installment in the Tales of Dan Coast series, Dan decides to give temporary sobriety a go….just to prove to himself and his friends that he can do it. When boredom overtakes him, he and Red decide to look into the disappearance and possible murder of a local woman. With no suspects, no apparent motive, no weapon, and a case that's 10 years cold, is she really even missing? Is she really even dead? Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they piece together what little clues they have and fumble their way through another action- and humor-packed case.

Dan, Red, and Skip have returned home from their road trip to Bonifay. Dan is ready for some much-needed relaxation. He makes himself a drink, grabs the newspaper, and settles into one of the Adirondack chairs by the fire pit. Life is perfect. Until that one phone call ruins it all. Make yourself a tequila, Seven, and lime, and join the boys as they try to get themselves out of trouble they didn’t ask for. This newest Tales of Dan Coast Adventure, Another Mother, also sees Dan’s parents, Gene and Peg, return to the island to deal with a surprise from Gene’s past.

Dan Coast is all set to spend Christmas just the same way he has every year for the past few years: alone and drunk....

Dan Coast has finally bought himself a new car - well, new to him. But when he returns to pick up his new ride, he gets an unwanted surprise. In Deadly Moves, the seventh installment in the Tales of Dan Coast Series, we also see the return of Officer Mel Gormin. Join Dan, Red, Mel, and Skip as they do their best to solve the murder of an elderly couple while working as bodyguards to a young starlet who is visiting Key West.

When Dan Coast is notified by Town of Webb police investigator, Eric Stone, that the caretaker at his camp in Old Forge has been murdered, Dan and his trusty sidekick, Red Baxter, head to New York. And what could be better for two Key West guys than a winter in upstate New York. What starts out as a search for a new caretaker, soon ends up being a search for a killer.

Mystery writer Allen Crane hasn't written a single word in over three years - not since the death of his wife. His publisher suggests a two-week stay in York Beach, Maine. Maybe that's just what Allen needs to snap out of his writer's block and return to the top of the best seller's list. hinking his publisher is probably right, Allen packs up, grabs his dog, Frankie, and heads east. It doesn't take long at all for Allen to discover that the sleepy little town of York Beach might not be so sleepy after all.

A mystery taking place in the Florida Keys, Ocean Floors is the second installment of the story of lottery winner turned private detective Dan Coast. In Ocean Floors, Dan's chance meeting with a beautiful young woman leads him and his trusted sidekick, Red, down a road of murder and kidnapping. Join Dan and Red as they try and solve the murder while searching for a missing friend.

How does someone with no enemies end up murdered? That's for Dan Coast and his sidekick Red Baxter to find out. Join Dan and Red, along with Skip Stoner and Dan's childhood hero, former astronaut Kip Larson, as they piece together the clues that may free an innocent man. In this action-packed sixth installment of The Tales of Dan Coast series, Dan digs into a wrongly accused man's past and finds out he may not be so innocent.

It's a beautiful Sunday morning in North Myrtle Beach and Emily Bowen, a wife and mother of four, lays dying on the beach. Jake Stellar returns in Beach Shoot, a new mystery by Rodney Riesel. Beach Shoot is the second Jake Stellar book and sequel to the Amazon Best Seller North Murder Beach. In Beach Shoot, Jake finds himself teamed up with the most unlikely of partners - his nemesis and fellow detective Avis Lint. Join Jake and Avis as the piece together the clues in this thrilling new mystery.

In Neighborhood Watch, the 10th book in the Tales of Dan Coast series, Dan has it out with an angry vacationer who has rented the house next door. When the woman vanishes the very next day without a trace, Dan, Red, and Skip are on the case.

Retired Fort Pierce police detective and beach bar owner Cole Ballinger returns in From Bad to Worse: Sunrise City 2. In this latest installment, Cole is asked by a single mother to look into the disappearance of her only child. Join Cole as he pieces together the clues and quickly discovers why she called him for help and not the police.

Has a serial killer from the past returned to North Myrtle Beach? Jake Stellar is back in When Death Returns. Join Jake and his partner Avis Lint, in this exciting, third installment of the Jake Stellar series, as they investigate a homicide that eerily echoes the past.