Jensen Beach Mystery Books
Ten years ago John Burton had it all. A wife and a new baby son, a successful acting career, a hit television show, and a beach house in Malibu. Things couldn't get any better ... but things could get worse. Now, back in his home town of Jensen Beach, Florida, everything he owns doesn't even fill the back of a small U-Haul truck. Just days after John's return home, the bodies of two female tourists are found in their hotel rooms. Join John and his childhood friend, Kurt Powell, as they piece together clues leading to the killer's identity.
When John Burton and Kurt Powell witness a young boy almost being rundown crossing the street to his school bus, they stop to help. But when the bus driver disappears a few days later, Kurt thinks it's once again time to play private detective. After all, what could go wrong? Join in on the action with TV star, John Burton, in TV or Not TV, the seqquel to As Seen on TV, as he navigates life back in his hometown of Jensen Beach, Florids.
Now that John Burton’s pool is installed, he just wants to spend a quiet, lazy week pool-side sipping on margaritas and LandShark Lagers at his waterfront home in Jensen Beach, Florida. However, those plans are soon derailed when his sexy next door neighbor, Cassie, strolls over for a drink and a swim. When Cassie tells John and his childhood pal, Kurt Powell, about her friend’s deadly dreams, and how the young girl has already predicted the deaths of two strangers, Kurt wants to investigate. And as usual, John reluctantly goes along with the plan. In Dead Asleep, the third book in the Jensen Beach series, join John and Kurt as they get themselves into more trouble investigating a string of seemingly unrelated deaths. With the help of Cole Ballinger and Spence Oller, the two soon figure out that things are not always as they appear, and they too, may soon come face to face with death.
When a man—Otis Needleman—approaches John and Kurt with a strange story of being attacked and beaten every few years for the past twenty years, they don't believe him. Otis tells them that two different detectives from two different local police departments don't believe him either. But when he pleads for help and tells them the time is nearing for the next beating, John and Kurt decide to humor him. To their disbelief, the two amateur private detectives quickly discover that Otis is telling the truth. With no witnesses, no clues, and no suspects, John and Kurt turn to their friend, retired Fort Pierce Detective, Cole Ballinger, for help. Join John Burton and Kurt Powell in A Blast From the Past , the fourth installment in the Jensen Beach Mysteries, as they do their best to keep Otis Needleman, as well as members of their own families, safe from harm.
When Banks Barrett overhears two men plotting his murder in a men's bathroom stall, he pulls up his feet and sits quietly until they leave. Not recognizing the men's voices, and with nothing to go on other than their shoes, Banks goes to the police. When the cops don't believe his story, he has nowhere else to turn. That is, until a friend tells him about two local sleuths who have solved murders in the past—murders before they happened. Join John Burton and his sidekick, Kurt Powell in this fifth installment of the Jensen Beach Mystery Series, as the put the clues together to stop a murder before it happens.