CHELMIN AND SPAULDING CID
(CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DIVISION) MYSTERIES

Introducing two new characters readers already love: Army CID agents Rudy Chelmin and his rookie partner, Will Spaulding.
From a 5 star Amazon review of the first book in the Series, "M-9": "This book has everything! There are complex characters, exciting action, thoughtful moments, and a great ending that I never foresaw...I couldn't put the book down!"

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El Pistolero

Book 4 in the Chelmin and Spaulding CID Series.

The partners dive into a fifty-year-old Vietnam War mystery: What happened to Lt. Felipe Aznar, a distinguished infantry officer who disappeared while on emergency leave from Vietnam and is listed as a deserter? When someone using his name books a roundtrip flight from Los Angeles to Houston, the CID is alerted. The FBI says that Aznar is one name used by a suspected killer-for-hire who has murdered at least sixty men going back thirty years. Against the backdrop of still mysterious events that occurred during the Vietnam War, Chelmin and Spaulding begin their search in Southern California and run into a hornet's nest. Only after surviving multiple attempts to shoot them, abduct them, and blow up their hotel.do they learn that Lt. Aznar is long dead and the man they seek may have killed him and stolen his identity.



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Snake Heads

Book 3 in the Chelmin and Spaulding CID Mystery Series

Against a backdrop of rising military tensions with North Korea, Chelmin and Spaulding, based in Seoul, confront the work of a madman who puts bombs on bullet trains and US Army buses.
 
With thirty Americans dead, the CID agents uncover a viper who used bombs to manipulate the stock market for fun and profit. The CID joins forces with an incorruptible senior ROK officer, only to learn that the killer is the son of a powerful official. Determined to rid themselves of an honest cop who knows too much, the killer’s father outsources his problem to the Snakeheads, a lethal international gang, who mount successive attacks on the CID agents and their ROK police ally.
 
Especially for fans of Tom Clancy, Lee Child, and James Rollins, this explosive thriller will keep you guessing till the not-so-bitter end. 

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The Zombie Deception

Book 2 in the Chelmin and Spaulding CID Mystery series

Army CID agents Chelmin and Spaulding battle a well-equipped and sophisticated gang of US Army deserters, men believed long dead in Afghanistan but instead passing millions in counterfeit century notes around Alabama. The CID investigation begins on the ground, moves to the air, and ends with a night sea battle.

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M-9
A Chelmin and Spaulding CID Mystery

Who killed Kendra Farrell and left her bound, dehydrated body on a boxcar loaded with Army boots?

Army CID agents Rudy Chelmin and his rookie partner, Will Spaulding, trace the train’s route back to Barstow, CA, and the Marine Corps Supply Depot. Before they can begin a joint-service investigation, they come under attack by a determined and heavily armed international gang. As they try to unwrap the mystery of Kendra’s death they must take out a sniper, escape from an RPG attack that levels a city block, and dodge a car bomb—and that’s just the first few days.

To find Kendra’s killer they must learn why she was killed. As they unravel a mind-twisting snarl of nefarious, intertwined networks, they must also battle the bureaucracy—The FBI, Homeland Security, and the Barstow police want their share of the case.

Then Chelmin vanishes and Spaulding has only three days to learn if his partner will suffer Kendra’s agonizing fate.

"Strange circumstances throw together a detective duo in this riveting, complex tale."
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THE RABBI BEN MYSTERIES

AVAILABLE NOW IN PRINT AND KINDLE eBOOK

Bride of Finkelstein
Rabbi Ben Mystery #4

He's not your Zayde's rebbe!
Rabbi Ben takes on Chicagoland Crime Lords and gets in cold water.
Lots of cold, deep water.
Not that this stops a nice Jewish boy who knows Taekwando.

Paperback published September 6, 2020. Kindle eBook released Oct. 13, 2020!

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For Whom the Shofar Blows
Rabbi Ben Mystery #1

Something isn’t kosher in Burbank. First, huge sums appear, then vanish from a little-used congregational bank account. Next, a body turns up in an unsold cemetery plot. And then the congregation’s beloved secretary is brutally murdered. Enter Rabbi Ben, roving troubleshooter, master of Taekwondo and Talmud, an M.I.T. computer whiz who seemingly walks through walls—and a man with his own bag of secrets. The High Holidays are just around the corner—so what could possibly go wrong? Ben’s investigation leads him to a decrepit cemetery, an opaquely mysterious private bank, a shofar-blowing, part-Korean cabinet-maker, a ruthless gang-banger, and the ultimate in money laundering techniques. Along the way this heroic-but-very human character survives a hit-and-run murder attempt, defuses a bomb in his living room and wriggles out of his intended early grave. This terrific, twisting plot and compelling, finely-drawn characters are accessible to every reader. You don’t have to be Jewish to be enthralled by Rabbi Ben’s audacity, inventiveness and courage.

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A Scribe Dies In Brooklyn
Rabbi Ben Mystery #2

Missing for more than half a century, a fragment of the world’s oldest Hebrew Bible codex, a unique and priceless religious artifact, surfaces after the death of a reclusive Brooklyn businessman—and is immediately stolen.  Hired to find the long-lost pages, Rabbi Ben battles a mysterious gang of thieves who will stop at nothing to get the codex.  
 
Immersed in the superstitious and almost medieval society of Syrian Jewish immigrants, Ben unmasks a serial swindler, restores a clan's honor, returns a stolen identity and solves a decades-old series of unsuspected murders. Along the way, he meets the woman of his dreams and then must walk through fire to save her.

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A Tale of Two Rabbis
Rabbi Ben Mystery #3

Arriving in Pittsburgh to participate in  a year-long medical trial, Ben soon meets a married couple—a nurse practitioner and her wife, a cop. They ask him to help find their missing rabbi, who seems to have overstayed a brief vacation. Prodded by Miryam, his fiancée, Ben reluctantly agrees to help but soon begins to suspect that the man he seeks is neither missing nor a rabbi. Delving deeper, dead bodies begin to pile up as Ben encounters a series of thugs attempting to stop or kill him. His investigation turns into a fiendish hall of funhouse mirrors, where little is what it seems and there is no way out. 

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