Jake Stellar Books

North Murder Beach, by Rodney Riesel, is the first installment of the story of North Myrtle Beach police detective, Jake Stellar. The spring bike rallies have ended, the spring breakers have all gone back to school, and the summer tourist season is a few weeks away. What better time for a police officer to take a nice quiet relaxing week off from work? That's what Jake Stellar had in mind. That is until someone from his past resurfaces to remind him of a terrible secret he has spent years trying to forget. In North Murder Beach, a story of revenge, Jake is unwillingly and violently forced to confront this secret from his past.

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.

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.

Join Detective Jake Stellar and his partner, Detective Avis Lint in this fast paced, North Myrtle Beach based Jake Stellar Series. In this fourth installment, The Obedience of Fools, Jake and Avis butt heads with some of The Grand Strand’s elite as they try to uncover a secret that may hold the answer to a string of recent homicides.

When the pool boy finds the woman who hired him floating face down in her pool, he becomes the prime suspect. Dead in the Water is the fifth book in the Jake Stellar Series. In this installment, North Myrtle Beach detectives Jake Stellar and Avis Lint investigate the murder of Wanda Truman and soon find that the deeper they dig into her past, the longer the suspect list becomes.

When Jennifer Oliver complains to her superiors about the continued sexual harassment she’s receiving at work, it’s her who’s fired. As the harassment continues, only her husband believes her. After she ends up dead, it’s Detectives Jake Stellar and Avis Lint who must piece together the clues and find out what really happened.

Levi Strong has retired to North Myrtle Beach. With a home on House Creek, he's enjoying the life he's looked forward to for a long time. He spends his mornings fishing and his afternoons puttering around the house. This may be the life Levi has always wanted, but it's nowhere near exciting enough for his younger wife.When Levi is found murdered at the end of his pier one day, and his little row boat is missing, who's to blame? In Southern Exposure, the seventh book in the Jake Stellar Series, North Myrtle Beach detectives, Jake Stellar and Avis Lint round up and question a cast of oddball characters in and attempt to solve Levi's murder.

It was a cool crisp Saturday morning in November when Gillian George's neighbors spotted her lifeless body floating in the stormwater pond out behind her house. She'd been stabbed to death and dragged into the water among the tall weeds and reeds. No one saw a thing. No one heard anything. But neighbors do remember seeing two male strangers in the neighborhood just days before Gillian's body was discovered. While questioning neighbors, Detectives Jake Stellar and Avis Lint soon learn that Gillian had recently kicked her husband, Alvin, out of the house, and was contemplating divorce. Could Alvin be the killer, or was this just a botched break-in? Join Detectives Jake Stellar and Avis Lint as they piece together the clues in Stormwater, the eighth action packed book in the Jake Stellar Series.

It’s been almost a year since Jake Stellar’s neighbor, Abernathy Boone burned to death in his tool shed. The fire and death were ruled accidental, but Jake knows better. Jake also knows it’s only a matter of time until Dwight Wood kills again. He and his partner, Avis Lint, have been warned to stay away from Wood. Jake and Avis return in, A Matter of Time, the ninth book in the Jake Stellar Series. Ride along as they investigate the death of Dwight Wood’s mother, a death that appears to be self-inflicted.

Octogenarian, Minnie Morris, is being visited by aliens again, and one of those aliens is her long dead husband, Shep. Shep visits about once a week now, according to Minnie. They visit, he spends the night, and in the morning he asks for money. Minnie feels no price is too high to see her long lost love again. But when Minnie's family finds out, they phone the police, trying to put an end to their mother's seemingly crazy behavior before she blows through every bit of her savings. Join North Myrtle Beach Detectives Jake Stellar and Avis Lint in this action packed tenth installment of the Jake Stellar Series.