Bruce Hammack

CJ is living the life she’s always wanted. She’s married to the man of her dreams, enjoying a new home in the country and a rewarding career as the assistant police chief at a private university. Then her world turns upside down.

It’s a long, twisting road to justice.
Texas State Trooper David Harper’s mother was murdered. For sixteen years his life has been a lie. Now, truth is rising to the surface.

Steve isn’t celebrating Christmas… he’s trying to survive it.

Blind PI Steve Smiley loathes Christmas—too many memories. When his partner secures an invitation for them to teach at a mystery writers’ conference in Miami, what promises to be a welcome early December escape turns into a tidal wave of mysteries to solve.

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells…Rifle Shells?
Blind private investigator Steve Smiley and his partner, Heather McBlythe, hear a rifle shot. Hordes of Christmas shoppers scatter. A famous big-game hunter drops to the sidewalk.

A chilling murder only a blind man can solve.

Who committed the murder in the ice house? A lawyer of questionable repute approaches PIs Smiley and McBlythe to find out. They agree on one condition: that truth will prevail.

Even if that means the Russian cooling his heels in jail is guilty.

Was this long fall suicide?
Or was it murder?

Four classmates arrived in town for their twentieth high school class reunion. Now one of them is dead.

It was no accident…It was murder.

Found at the bottom of his exercise pool, police rule the death of Steve Smiley’s friend an accident. Smiley doesn’t buy it.

A phone call from out of the blue leads blind PI Steve Smiley to become executor of a large Texas estate—one which includes the last undeveloped lakefront property in the state. While the sheriff looks for the rancher’s killer, Steve and his partner Heather bring the family together for the reading of the most peculiar will they’ve ever seen.