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Johnny Bensinger, fifth grader at East Side Elementary, has “borrowed” a few books from the school library. He had his reasons. Now the principal is requesting, over the intercom, information about the missing books. His teacher, Mrs. Bass, is giving him the eye. That’s when the adventure begins. Soon it will involve a long dead Confederate...

Three full-length mystery novels from award-winning author Ted Clifton.

Santa Fe Mojo (Vincent Malone #1)
Divorced, aging, alcoholic legal investigator Vincent Malone loses his last client and decides to live out his years in Santa Fe. He takes a job as a shuttle bus driver for a new B&B, but when a high-profile LA sports agent is murdered and...

Rejoin Ray Pacheco and Tyee Chino in their latest adventure unraveling a maze of misdeeds involving wealth, power, political corruption and Navajo warriors. Farmington, New Mexico located in the Four Corners area where four states meet is about to experience a level of crime and mayhem never seen before. The local sheriff has abandoned his post...

Tommy Jacks encounters new love and old threats while covering one of the most brutal U.S. Senate races in history. With a massive oil fire threatening the city of Tulsa, three candidates face off: a ruthless oil baron, an idealist college professor, and a reverend running under the God Party. When the race suddenly turns deadly, the winner may...

The high-end contemporary art gallery scene explodes in Santa Fe, New Mexico with ugly feuds, artistic temperamental egos, sexual entanglements and murder. Vincent Malone, one-time attorney and legal investigator, now down-on-his-luck shuttle driver, is right in the middle of all of the suspenseful action. His new employer, the Blue Door Inn, is...

A man at his end faces a new beginning.Vincent Malone didn’t set out to be a failure—but he didn’t set out to be an alcoholic either. Disbarred, disgraced, and divorced, with his health in decline, Malone tries working as an investigator, but just can’t seem to keep his head above water. When his last client fires him, there’s no fight left in...

In an exclusive residential neighborhood, a U.S. Senator’s wife has died. Tommy Jacks and his fellow journalists don’t believe the police chief’s story blaming it on natural causes. It has the smell of a crime. So begins a new journey set in the 1960s involving numerous dead bodies, high-tension political intrigue, police corruption, the drug...

New journalism grad, Tommy Jacks, hires on as a political reporter with a struggling paper caught in the middle of an ugly newspaper war. Intrigue, love and tragedy follow.
Set in the 1960s, Tommy Jacks first day at work ends with a competing reporter’s body being found on the state capitol grounds. Who murdered the reporter and why? This is not...

Murder and greed visit the high country...

Tired of spending his days fishing, Ray Pacheco takes on his second assignment with his partner Tyee Chino when the state Attorney General asks them to find out just what the hell is going on in Ruidoso, New Mexico. With the town’s sheriff in the hospital with a mysterious illness, acting sheriff Martin...

Sheriff Ray Pacheco returns from his introduction in The Bootlegger’s Legacy to start a new chapter as a private investigator, along with his partners: Tyee Chino, often-drunk apache fishing guide, and Big Jack, bait shop owner and philosopher.

The trio are pulled into a mystery immediately when an abandoned showdog appears at Ray’s cabin and...

When an old-time bootlegger dies and leaves his son Mike a cryptic letter hinting at millions in hidden cash, Mike and his friend Joe embark on a journey that takes them through three states and 50 years of history. What they find goes beyond money and transforms them both.

This is an action-packed adventure story that partially takes place in...