Books


Dangerous Wind
Author: Alan Cook
Published: March 12, 2013Series Name: Carol Golden
Category: mystery/suspense
Main Character: Carol Golden, Enoch Lightfoot, Alice Tisdale, Lord Binghamton, Eric Nordahl, Josh Hostetler, Rigo Ramirez

In the third Carol Golden novel, Dangerous Wind,
Carol is abducted from Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she lives with her
grandmother and is thrown into an adventure that will take her to all seven
continents. It involves a former boyfriend she doesn’t remember (because of her
amnesia), who is trying to bring about the “downfall of the Western World”
according to people in power. While Carol is hunting for the bad guys she has
to sort out the truth and figure out who they really are. But she isn’t prepared
for the shocking answer.


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Relatively Dead
Author: Alan Cook
Published: January 23, 2012Series Name: Carol Golden
Category: mystery/suspense
Main Character: Carol Golden, Rigo Ramirez

Carol Golden has recovered her identity if not her memory (lost in Forget to Remember) and wants to connect with more relatives than just her grandmother (her parents and brother are dead) but when she finds cousins it appears they are being targeted for murder. In addition, her grandmother, who is developing Alzheimer's has lost money to the Grandparent Scam. Carol travels from her home in North Carolina to Los Angeles to attend the service of one cousin, apparently murdered, and to try to connect this to the person who is scamming her grandmother.
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Forget to Remember
Author: Alan Cook
Published: October 19, 2010 by AuthorHouse
Series Name: Carol Golden
Category: Mystery/Suspense
Main Character: Carol Golden, Rigo Ramirez

Carol Golden isn't her real name. She doesn't remember her real name or anything that happened before she was found in a Dumpster, naked and unconscious, on the beautiful Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California.

After helping her get some initial medical treatment, government at all levels officially declares her a non-person and doesn't want anything more to do with her. She can't work because she doesn't have a Social Security number, which she can't get because she doesn't have a birth certificate. She can't get a driver's license, and, having no I.D. she can't fly.


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Run into Trouble
Author: Alan Cook
Published: January 7, 2009 by AuthorHouse
Series Name: Drake and Melody
Category: Mystery/Suspense
Main Character: Oliver Drake and Melody Jefferson
Winner of a Silver Quill award by the American Authors Association. Drake and Melody are teamed up to run a race along the California Coast for a prize of a million dollars—in 1969 when a million is worth something. Neither knows the other is in the race before it starts. They once did undercover work together in England, but this information is supposed to be top secret.
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Honeymoon for Three
Author: Alan Cook
Published: June 19, 2007 by AuthorHouse
Series Name: Gary Blanchard
Category: Mystery/Suspense
Main Character: Gary and Penny, the groom and bride; Alfred the stalker
Winner of the Silver Quill Award from the American Authors Association and Readers Choice award for best Mountain West book. It is 1964, 10 years after Gary Blanchard’s high school adventures in The Hayloft. He and his love, Penny, are going on the trip of their lives, and, oh yes, they’re getting married along the way. What they don’t know is that they’re being stalked by Alfred, a high school classmate of Penny who has a bellybutton fetish.
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The Hayloft
Author: Alan Cook
Published: June 2, 2006 by AuthorHouse
Series Name: Gary Blanchard
Category: Mystery/Suspense
Main Character: Gary Blanchard, high school senior; Sylvia Doran, student council president

Bobby sox, slow dancing, the communist conspiracy, bomb shelters—and murder. Within two weeks after starting his senior year of high school in the 1950s, Gary Blanchard finds himself kicked out of one school and attending another—the school where his cousin, Ralph, mysteriously died six months before. Ralph’s death was labeled an accident, but when Gary talks to people about it, he gets suspicious. Did Ralph fall from the auditorium balcony, or was he pushed?
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Hotline to Murder
Author: Alan Cook
Published: March 25, 2005 by AuthorHouse
Category: Mystery/Suspense
Main Character: Tony Schmidt, Shahla Lawton

Tony Schmidt joins the Central Hotline in sunny Bonita Beach, California to improve his listening skills. Shahla Lawton joins the Hotline to fulfill a volunteering requirement for her high school. Neither one expects to get mixed up in a murder investigation. But that is before Shahla’s best friend, Joy, also a listener, is murdered.


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