“I don’t care if you kill to get the money; you’re going to pay your taxes on this land,” tax agent, Paul Bradley said in 1913, only moments before his death. A hundred years later, Seth O’Malley’s old friend passes him a cold case - 4 unrelated murders in almost every medium sized city across the US. When murder-for-hire turns personal, Seth and Ava must find the tax assassin before he kills Ava.

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Forty years after he stumbles upon the horrific mutilation of a team of U.S. Rangers in Vietnam, Seth O’Malley wanders into a cat-and-mouse game with a mutilating psychopath. After murdering and mutilating some of the best detectives in the country, the psychopath is looking to mutilate the big prize—Seth O’Malley.

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Friendly Fire begins with a phone call in the middle of the night. Seth’s father figure and personal Lucifer is acting crazy. A day later, Seth learns that his mother wants him to find something that his biological father left at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital.

Standing in the lobby of the place that had restored him after two tours through the blood and muck of tunnels of Vietnam, Seth is drawn into a mystery that will take him through the meltdown of Reactor Four at Chernobyl to meet Russian Olympic marksmen and discover that a familiar demon is covering its tracks.

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The Cigarette Killer was never happier than when he was talking about torturing and murdering people. He flamboyantly bragged his way through two books and numerous televisions programs. So, why did he suddenly appeal his conviction?

According to his lawyer, Seth O’Malley and his deceased partner Mitch Delgado framed a poor disabled man. A cursory DNA seems to prove that the Cigarette Killer’s DNA does not match the perpetrator of these horrific crimes.

Alarm bells ring all over the country! This single case could lead to the reversal of thousands of cases. Requested by name, Ava O’Malley, Seth’s wife and forensic expert, and her team, along with other forensic experts are sequestered to recheck every forensic finding.

Told to stay in New York City, O’Malley’s focuses on the murder of a bouncer and a dancing girl outside of the Savoy Ballroom in 1955. As the Savoy Ballroom case unravels, O’Malley finds himself in the middle another Cigarette Killer murder.

As two mysteries become one, O’Malley is shot and captured by a Mob boss with nothing to lose.

The Cigarette Killer is filled with memorable characters, romance, and intrigue readers have come to expect from Claudia Hall Christian. The Cigarette Killer is the fourth in the Seth and Ava Mystery

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While Seth O’Malley is healing from a gun shot wound (received in The Cigarette Killer), Ava and her team is awarded a grant to look into cold cases in rural areas of Colorado with Seth as the consulting detective. No sooner than the grant is awarded, when Seth receives a request to look into the brutal murder of a young woman in Kiowa County, near the border of Colorado and Kansas.

Ava and her team discover that the girl was buried on top of a previously undiscovered archaeological site. Every step Ava takes to uncover who killed this poor young woman, the closer she gets to her own dark family history.

This novella is set in rural Colorado.

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Ava and her lab have received a grant to solve ten cold cases in rural Colorado using modern forensics techniques. The director of the CBI was irritated by the irregularities of their last case (see “Little Girl Blue”). He assigns Ava and her team the coldest of cold cases — an unpopular Senator was killed by RPG shot under his limousine after he left Aspen, Colorado.

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Ava and her team head out to the Pawnee National Grasslands to help exhume the remains of fifteen Native American women. Originally tasked to find the killer of a friend of Frederico Alvaraz, the case blows up as they discover multiple remains buried over decades. In the process of working this case, Ava and her team find hundreds of unprocessed rape kits from local Native American peoples. Soon, they are processing rape kits from Native American peoples from all over the country. As they close in on some of the perpetrators, the men decide to come for Ava.

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