Seth and Ava Mysteries
Seth O’Malley is a piano prodigy and a retired Denver Police Department Detective. Ava O’Malley is a forensic specialist who runs a laboratory at the Denver Crime Labs. Together, they solve crimes in and around Colorado.
In the first four books, Seth leads the charge to resolve mysteries. When he’s shot in The Cigarette Killer, Ava and her team take a contract to resolve 10 cold cases in rural Colorado. The first four books, The Tax Assassin, The Carving Knife, Friendly Fire, and The Cigarette Killer are full length mysteries where as Little Girl Blue, Billie’s Bounce, and Footprints are novellas.
The Tax Assassin
“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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The Tax Assassin is the first full length novel
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The Carving Knife
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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The Carving Knife is the second full length novel
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Friendly Fire
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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Friendly Fire is the third full length novel
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The Cigarette Killer
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?
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The Cigarette Killer is the fourth full length novel
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Little Girl Blue
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.
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Little Girl Blue is the fifth mystery and first Ava novella
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Billie’s Bounce
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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Billie’s Bounce is the sixth mystery and second Ava novella
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Footprints
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 the perpetrators, the men come for Ava.
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Footprints is the seventh mystery and third Ava novella
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Freddie the Freeloader
When “The Evil Wizard,” Ava’s nickname for her boss, asks Ava and her team to identify the owner of two bone segments of an index finger, they should have expected danger and difficulties. Two small bones grew into an entire bone field in the near center of the Colorado Rockies. Every set of remains was missing the ends their index fingers.
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Freddie the Freeloader is the eighth mystery and fourth Ava novella in the Seth and Ava Mysteries.
Ava's first day back from medical leave, her boss, "The Evil Wizard," emailed to remind her that she'd signed a contract for 10 rural cases, not 10 bodies.
Ava and the team are asked to solve the case of a dead homeless man found in a construction trash dumpster in Mancos, Colorado. For a homeless man, he is immaculately groomed.
As the oddities add up, the case begins to stretch back to the violence of the years after the Vietnam War and Seth O'Malley's hidden past.
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Lazy Bird is the ninth mystery and fifth Ava novella
in the Seth and Ava Mysteries.
Lazy Bird
Speak Low
Forensic scientist Ava O’Malley is in the middle of a criminal trial when a mysterious box arrives from Center, Colorado. Inside the box are the boney remains of at least three young children. Ava and her team must throw their usual controlled process to the wind to track down who these bones belong to.
Ava's investigation leads her to encounter an ancient evil creature known only in Indigenous myth. As Ava gets closer to the truth, she finds herself in danger, but she is determined to bring justice to the families of the murdered children.
Speak Low is a suspenseful mystery set in the wilds of rural Colorado while taking a fascinating look at an Indigenous myth.
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Speak Low is the tenth mystery and sixth Ava novella in the Seth and Ava Mysteries.
