Tales of Dan Coast Books
A mystery set in the Florida Keys, Sleeping Dogs Lie, is the first installment of the story of lottery winner turned private detective, Dan Coast. Dan, a wise-cracking excessive drinker, is haunted by the memory of his dead wife. Short after the two won the lottery and purchased a small beach bungalow in the Florida Keys, her life was taken in a car accident. Soon after his wife's death, Dan relocated to the Keys with his wife's dog, whom he blames for her death. In Sleeping Dogs Lie, Dan Coast, an unlicensed private detective of sorts is hired to find the missing boyfriend of a woman who herself soon ends up missing. When someone from the woman's past unexpectedly shows up at Dan's home, with a story of faked deaths and missing life insurance money; Dan along with his side kick Red set out to find the money, and the woman.
A mystery taking place in the Florida Keys, Ocean Floors, is the second installment of the story of lottery inner turned private detective, Dan Coast.Dan, a wise-cracking excessive drinker, is haunted by the memory of his dead wife. Shortly after the two won the lottery and purchase a small beach bungalow in the Florida Keys, her life was taken in a car accident. Soon after his wife's death, Dan relocated to the Keys with his wife's dog, whom he blames for her death.In Ocean Floors, Dan Coast's chance meeting with a beautiful young woman leads him and his trusted sidekick Red down a road of murder and kidnapping. Join Dan and Red as they try and solve the murder while searching for a missing friend.
Coasts of Christmas Past is the third book in the Dan Coast series of books.Dan Coast is all set to spend Christmas just the same way he has every year for the past few years; alone and drunk. But when uninvited, unexpected guests arrive and throw a wrench into his holiday plans he is forced to sober up (slightly), and throw on a smile.Just when it seems nothing else could go wrong, a close friend is injured in what appears, to the police, to be a drug deal gone bad. Dan Coast and his sidekick, Red jump into action to find the truth while their friend lies unconscious in the hospital.
Ship of Fools is the fourth book in The Tales of Dan Coast series and begins where Coasts of Christmas Past left off. Find out how Dan deals with the death of a young friend, while looking into the disappearance of a new friend's sister. Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they fumble their way through a new mystery.
Shortly after Walter and Warren Bowman arrive in Key West in search of a sister they never knew they had, Warren disappears. With nowhere else to turn, Walter enlists the help of Dan Coast. Join Dan as he and sidekick Red Baxter search for the missing Bowman family members, while dealing with the fallout of an ongoing case.
How does someone with no enemies end up murdered? That's for Dan Coast and his sidekick Red Baxter to find out. Join Dan and Red, along with Skip Stoner and Dan's childhood hero, former astronaut, Kip Larson as they piece together the clues that may free an innocent man. In this action packed, sixth installment of The Tales of Dan Coast Series, Dan digs into a wrongly accused man's past and finds out he may not be so innocent.
Dan Coast has finally bought himself a new car, well, new to him. But when he returns to pick up his new ride, he gets an unexpected surprise. In Deadly Moves, the seventh installment in the Tales of Dan Coast Series, we also see the return of Officer Mel Gormin. Join Dan, Red, Mel, and Skip as they do their best to solve the murder of an elderly couple while working as bodyguards to a young starlet who is visiting Key West.
In On the Wagon, the eighth installment in the Tales of Dan Coast series, Dan decides to give temporary sobriety a go … just to prove to himself and his friends that he can do it. When boredom overtakes him, he and Red decide to look into the disappearance and possible murder of a local woman. With no suspects, no apparent motive, no weapon, and a case that’s ten years cold, is she really even missing? Is she really even dead? Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they piece together what little clues they have and fumble their way through another action and humor packed case.
When one brother disappears is the other brother to blame? No Enemies Here is the 9th book in The Tales of Dan Coast series. In this latest chapter join Dan and Red as they protect a marked man while they search for mob boss, Joey Pantucco's, missing nephew.
With Maxine Myers' return to Key West, maybe things can get back to normal for Dan Coast. Or maybe not.In Neighborhood Watch, the 10th book in the Tales of Dan Coast series, Dan has it out with an angry vacationer who has rented the house next door. When the woman vanishes the very next day without a trace, Dan, Red, and Skip are on the case.
Dan, Red, and Skip have returned home from their road trip to Bonifay. Dan is ready for some much needed relaxation. He makes himself a drink, grabs the newspaper, and settles into one of the Adirondack chairs by the fire pit. Life is perfect. Until that one phone call ruins it all.Make yourself a tequila, Seven, and lime, and join the boys as they try to get themselves out of trouble they didn’t ask for. This newest Tales of Dan Coast Adventure, Another Mother, also sees Dan’s parents, Gene and Peg, return to the island to deal with a surprise from Gene’s past.
Dan Coast and his friends have always used his home as a place to discuss and brainstorm about current cases, but Maxine Dan's girlfriend, has had enough of their antics. After a late night argument, Dan, in an attempt to smooth things over, decides to get himself an office. As soon as Dan rents the office, two woman with missing husbands come forward, asking for help.Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they piece together the clues that could lead them to the same fate as who they're searching for.
When a local weed dealer decides to try his hand at pimping, he asks one of his best customers for help. After she turns him down, he adds blackmailer to his resume. With only a few days left until her husband's return to Key West, Josie Lynn Willets-Kramer decides to hire a private detective. It's Dan, Red, and Skip to the rescue in this thirteenth installment of The Tales of Dan Coast Series, What He Doesn't Know.
Shoulda Seen it Comin' is the fourteenth book in the Dan Coast Series and the third and final book in a three book arc. A letter from beyond the grave may not be enough to get Dan to solve a murder, but the check that came with it probably is. Red, Skip, and a woman from Dan's past team up to help Dan solve the murder of The Amazing Gary.
Dan Coast and Red Baxter are back for the fifteenth volume of From the Tales of Dan Coast. When Lindsey Malvo, a heart transplant recipient with not long to live, finds a love note written to his long-deceased wife, he hires Dan Coast to find the man who wrote it. With Skip Stoner nowhere to be found, Dan and Red have to go at it alone in this action-packed installment. Can Dan and Red solve the mystery before their client’s time runs out? All this while Dan struggles with reminders and the anniversary of when he lost his own wife. But where is the mysterious Skip Stoner? Find out the answer to that question in the upcoming novelette, Charlie Hewitt: Bro Code, due out soon.
Skip Stoner has finally returned to Key West, and as soon as he does, he gets a call from his dad, Larry, about an old friend's missing daughter. Dan, Red, and Skip head to Siesta Key, Florida in search of the young college girl, whose friends say they haven't seen her in days. Her boyfriend, a young man from an affluent family, has returned home without her, has retained a lawyer, and isn't talking. Join the trio as they piece together the timeline—using the young girl's social media pages—of the days leading up to Lisa Brink's disappearance.
Someone wants Sissy Love dead … and they want it to happen on her wedding day. When Sissy Love, the private nurse of heart transplant recipient, Lindsey Malvo, starts receiving threatening phone calls just weeks before Tying the Knot , she turns to Dan Coast and Red Baxter for help. Dan and Red quickly run down through the short list of probable suspects. What's the motive? Revenge? Jealousy? Join the detecting duo as they race—I mean amble—against time to find the answers before Sissy's big day.
When young Bentlee August is charged with the assault of his own girlfriend, Trinity Carson, the boy's grandmother turns to Dan and Red for help. She swears her grandson is a good boy, and wouldn't do such a thing. “That's what they all say,” Dan says, but decides to take the case anyway. Maybe Bentlee isn't the good boy his family thinks he is. Maybe Trinity has a few things to hide. But when the mounting list of clues, suspects, and lies lead to Maxine's abduction, Dan ad Red team up with an unlikely ally—Officer Jackson Barbosa.
When Dan Coast is notified by Town of Webb police investigator, Eric Stone, that the caretaker at his camp in Old Forge has been murdered, Dan and his trusty sidekick, Red Baxter, head to New York. And what could be better for two Key West guys than a winter in upstate New York. What starts out as a search for a new caretaker, soon ends up being a search for a killer. While questioning locals, Dan and Red quickly come to the realization that everyone in town liked Leland Mavin. “He was a great guy,” says everyone. But who, who was the one person who wanted him dead, and why?
Dan Coast and Red Baxter return in the twentieth installment of The Tales of Dan Coast Series. It's only been a few days since Dan and Red returned from Old Forge, New York. Gene and Peg Coast are still in town and staying through the holidays. There're murmurs of a Christmas party, Gene's building a new deck, and Dan is staying away from his house as much as possible. Even if that means morning runs and working a case through the holidays. During one of those runs, Dan and Maxine are almost mowed down buy a speeding vehicle. Moments later, the sounds of sirens fill the air. Are the two connected? Join Dan, Red, and Skip Stoner as they work to solve the murder of "A Great Guy."
In this, the twenty-first installment from the Tales of Dan Coast Series, Hot For Teacher , Dan, Red, and Skip are hired by a married nurse, Britta Millsworth, to find her missing boyfriend. The boyfriend, Barry Burlington, a local handyman with a sordid past, vanished during the holidays, and hasn't been seen since. This new case takes the trio of amateur sleuths on a road trip from Key West to West Palm Beach, and on up to the little lake-side town of Lake Pruitt.
A few days after Dan Coast, Red Baxter, and Skip Stoner return from Lake Pruitt, after the events in Hot For Teacher , Skip receives an urgent phone call from Butch Carter. Lake Pruitt's police chief, Waylon Harding, and his wife, Harper, have been murdered. Butch, along with the other business men and woman, know the murders were carried out by a man named Webb Sullivan. Chief Harding had recently made it his mission to remove Webb and his top dog, Woody Tupper, and their small army of drug manufacturers and hired guns. With no solid proof to make an arrest, the case is growing cold. With nowhere else to turn, the towns people of Lake Pruitt enlist the help of Dan, Red, and Skip. Knowing they're heavily outnumbered, Skip asks his brother, Sam, (Charlie Hewitt) for assistance. Add body guard, Tank Lyman, and retired Fort Pierce police detective, Cole Ballinger into the mix, and One Cold January becomes a laugh-filled, action-fueled tale of community cleanup.