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|  | | Act Normal, A Stan Turner Mystery Book 8
In this 8th book Stan Turner struggles to keep his practice going in the wake of the tragic loss of his son and his rapidly disintegrating marriage. Mired in grief and debilitating depression, Stan is asked by the CIA to defend a woman accused of killing her husband and three small children. The CIA assures him she's innocent, but when one of the woman's children is found dead in an East Texas ravine, Stan wonders who's been lying to him. To further complicate matters, Stan must tread carefully to avoid revealing the CIA's top secret Tarizon Repopulation Project.
Stan gets his first assignment from the CIA after being recruited to assist aliens secretly living on Earth.
Bart, Paula's husband, gets fired by the Collin County DA's office and ends up helping her defend a man accused of the arson-murder of a prominent scientist and his family. It is thought a long feud over a barking dog is the motive for the murders, but further investigation reveals | |  | | Bitter Choices, A Stan Turner Mystery
A new client talks attorney Stan Turner into acting as his executor and trustee of his estate if he should die. Stan reluctantly accepts, but when the client is murdered before the ink is dry on the paperwork, Stan realizes he has been set up and must make some bitter choices in order to survive.
The attorneys of Turner & Waters are back at it again. In over their heads, each must win their respective cases or face dire consequences. It's 1999 and the world is awaiting the predicted Year 2000 calamity when millions of computers were expected to crash simultaneously due to short-sighted programmers. Although governments all over the world have spent billions trying to avoid this disaster, everyone is holding their breath on New Years' Eve, 1999.
Stan's son, Reggie Turner, has joined the firm and has his h | |  | | Black Monday, A Stan Turner Mystery Vol 6
Black Monday is set in Dallas during the savings and loan crisis of the late 80s and features legal sleuth, Stan Turner and his partner, Paula Waters. While Paula defends a man accused of murdering the chairman of a failed thrift, Stan searches for the killer of an old lady whose estate includes art treasures stolen by an American army officer during World War II.
Black Monday (Lean Press, Trade Paperback, Summer 2005) one of Stan's clients, a widow, is found murdered in her home along with eleven of her twelve dogs that were living with her. When Stan reviews the old woman's will, he discovers she has appointed him executor of her estate and that her beneficiary is the SPCA. He could kick himself for agreeing to be executor of Lottie West's estate and has no desire to act in that capacity since he's already in the middle of a high profile murder case, but there is nobody else to do it so he accepts the job and start | |  | | Brash Endeavor, A Stan Turner Mystery
A small time Dallas attorney gets in over his head with some big-time clients.
It's the late 70's in Dallas and Stan Turner is a new attorney just out of law school. He has no money so he starts his practice with a $2,000 advance on his American Express card. It's a boom time in Dallas and there a lot of shady oil and gas and real estate promoters around. Stan acquires a few of these as clients and quickly finds himself in deep trouble. When his wife, Rebekah, is arrested for murder he has serious reservations about his career choice. | |  | | Ca$h Call, A Stan Turner Mystery
September 2002, Trade Paperback, $14.95 - Book IV of the Stan Turner Mystery Series.
Stan and Rebekah’s good friends, Don and Pam Blaylock, are in deep trouble. An imprudent investment in a Golden Dragon franchise and their son’s arrest for DWI trigger an avalanche of misfortune culminating with the murder of Luther Bell, the smooth talking, restaurant promoter responsible for their impending demise. While Stan conducts a preemptive investigation to prove his clients are innocent, he is inundated with lawsuits and claims from their growing list of creditors and must deal with the inevitable marital strife that threatens these once proud families. Then one of Stan’s old flames | |  | | Cactus Island, At Stan Turner Mystery Book 7
Cactus Island
A Stan Turner Mystery, Volume 7
by William Manchee
Trade Paperback ISBN 1-929976-36-4 $14.95
September 2006
Stan is called out to Possum Kingdom Lake in Central Texas where a boy scout has been killed in a tragic Jeep accident. At first glance it appears to be just a typical case of a reckless teenager driving too fast, but the teenager, Steven Caldwell, insists the accident wasn't his fault. He claims he was distracted by an alien spacecraft flying over head. At first Stan thinks his client's story is ridiculous, but as his investigation progresses he discovers his client may be telling the truth. | |  | | Deadly Blood, A Stan Turner Mystery
Dallas attorney Stan Turner hates criminal law but has a propensity for attracting murder cases anyway. So, it's no big surprise when a simple attorney-ad-litem appointment in family court evolves into a complex murder trial.
Dallas attorney Stan Turner hates criminal law but has a propensity for attracting murder cases anyway. So, it's no big surprise when a simple attorney-ad-litem appointment in family court evolves into a complex murder defense.
Melody Monroe, a delightful teenager with ambitions to be a gymnast, loses her parents in a tragic auto accident. She is devastated and falls into a deep depression. Without any relatives to take her in, she ends up with Child Protective Services. Due to what CPS considers to be her bad attitude, they have difficulty pl | |  | | Deadly Defiance, A Stan Turner Mystery
Volume 10 of the popular Stan Turner Mystery Series featuring legal sleuths Stan Turner, Paula Waters and Jodie Marshall.
This episode introduces a new addition to the attorney's at Turner & Waters, Stan's former secretary, Jodie Marshall, who has worked her way through college, finished law school and has now just passed the bar. Knowing how talented she is, Stan throws her into the deep end of the pool on her first case, and she soon finds herself pitted against an angry boss of a Mexican drug cartel!
| |  | | Deadly Dining
In this, Volume 11 of the Stan Turner Mysteries, a triple homicide is caught on tape yet the person or persons responsible and the motive for this grisly crime are a mystery. This is the kind of high-profile murder case that attorney Paula Waters loves but as she tries to unravel the twisted facts a critical witness is murdered and two others disappear. When the trial finally begins and she thinks she has everything figured out, Stan informs her that she has it all wrong!
A triple homicide is caught on tape by a professional photographer yet the person or persons responsible and the motive for this grisly crime are a mystery. This is the kind of high-profile murder case that attorney Paula Waters loves but as she tries to unravel the twisted facts a critical witness is murdered and two others disappear. When the trial finally begins and she thinks she has everything figured out, Stan informs her that she has it all wrong!
Paula isn’t happy with Stan’s revelations, particularly since he has been of little help to her during the trial. In the past he has been | |  | | Deadly Distractions, A Stan Turner Mystery Vol V
Stan is called back from his Colorado vacation when his client is found standing over the dead body of an IRS agent--shotgun in hand.
After two tough years practicing law, Stan and his family take a well deserved vacation to Colorado. Unfortunately the vacation is cut short when a client is found standing over the body of a dead IRS agent. It appears to be an open and shut case since Dusty Thomas has had a long feud with the dead agent Bobby Tuttle, and more than enough motive to kill him, yet he claims to be innocent.
Stan's new partner Paula Waters convinces Stan to finish his vacation promising to handle Dusty Thomas' arraignment and get an investigation underway. While Stan is away, she makes good on her promise | |  | | Death Pact
A young rich girl, Erica Fox, plots the seduction and compromise of the attorney appointed by her late father to be the trustee over her estate.
Richard Coleman, has made partner in his law firm in record time. Despite his success there is little joy in his life having recently lost his wife in a tragic car accident. It's been a year now and he's tried to adjust to the loneliness and emptiness in his life with little success. Then he meets Erica Fox, the seventeen year old daughter of a high roller, Franklin Fox. Mr. Fox is divorced and needs someone to be trustee over Erica's affairs should he die. After eliminating all potential candidates for the job, Rich ends up being recruited for the task. When Franklin dies, Rich assumes his | |  | | Desert Swarm
What looks like a cathedral suddenly begins to emerge from the sands of the Mojave Desert. Scientist believe it is a natural phenomenon but a local religious leader insists it is a sign from the Lord of the second coming of Christ.
Due to a freak auto accident, Jack Carpenter discovers a strange geological formation in the Mojave Desert near Bat Mountain, California. He thinks little about it until he returns out of curiosity and discovers the formation is growing, and doing so at a staggering rate. Fascinated by this, he calls in his friend George Parker, a local geology professor, and together they begin to study the Bat Mountain Formation in earnest.
Professor Parker has never seen or heard of a geological formation that is growing nearly six inches a day, so he contacts a friend at the U.S. Park Service to get him | |  | | Disillusioned, A Stan Turner Mystery Vol 9
The ninth Stan Turner Mystery takes place in 1976 while Stan is in law school at SMU. You'd think going to law school would be enough, but Stan juggles family, job, an election campaign, and a crusade to clear the name of a friend accused of an brutal murder-suicide.
After being discharged from the United States Marine Corps, Stan ends up in Dallas where he intends to finish law school. In the spring of 1976, while attending SMU, he is recruited into the Republican party, elected county chairman, and finds himself helping President Gerald Ford in his campaign against Jimmy Carter. The campaign is marred, however by an untimely FBI investigation into the financial dealings of a major party contributor, Brad Thornton.
The investigation unleashes an avalanche of misfortune beginnin | |  | | Go Broke, Die Rich-Turning Around the Troubled Small Business
William Manchee's first non-fiction work is for small business owners. It's a How-Not-To-Do-It-Book designed to help small business owners indentify and avoid the many pitfalls in running a small business.
Written as a collection of short stories illustrating various business situations, Go Broke, Die Rich is a comprehensive guide to defending small businesses in trouble. It first identifies common causes of small business failure, then suggest ways to return the business to profitability, and finally gives guidance on how to protect the business while it is struggling to survive. | |  | | Plastic Gods, A Rich Coleman Novel
Matt's wife is brutally murdered by a ruthless banker. Unfortunately, he can't prove the banker is responsible, so he plots to ruin him and destroy his empire.
Rich Coleman's son Matt has just passed the bar exams and is anxious to make his fortune. Unfortunately his plans to be a personal injury attorney have been soured by tort reform. With the help of his new bride and a college professor, Matt devises a plan to expose the long-standing objective of financial institutions to enslave the American people with high-interest financing and credit cards. He hopes when people realize they've been exploited and bankruptcy is their only way out, his business will begin to boom. To promote this new venture Rich begins a series of TV infomercials which ar | |  | | Second Chair, A Stan Turner Mystery
Stan Turner's defense of a young college girl accused of killing her baby is complicated by her loss of memory and the attempts of a fanatic named Doomsayer to subvert the trial.
Drop into the home of Dallas attorney, Stan Turner, and his wife Rebekah for a Christmas Party. The house is packed with clients and friends eating, drinking and having a great time. But then the lights go out and Stan's CPA, Bobby Wiggins, is found dead. To make matters worse Bobby's wife blames her hubby's demise on Stan and Rebekah and files suit to collect two million dollars. In the mean time Stan takes on the hopeless defense of a young college student accused of murdering her own baby only to be stalked and terrorized by a fanatic named Doomsayer.
| |  | | Supreme Mandate
Supreme Mandate, Vol 1 of the Tarizon Saga. After a hundred years of war Tarizon is on the brink of becoming uninhabitable. Then, a boy named Sandee Brahn comes out of the wilderness with a wild beast at his side, claiming that the God Pelgrem has come to him in a dream and given him the task of bringing peace to Tarizon. Although many mock Sandee’s claim, thousands flock to his side believing he truly is a holy man and is Tarizon’s last hope.
Tarizon’s thrity-one states have been at war for over a hundred years. The cost of these wars has been the loss of millions of soldiers and civilians, the destruction of most of the world’s infrastructure, and a toxic pollution of the air that has made the planet nearly uninhabitable.
Believing Tarizon’s fate was sealed, the twenty most wealthy and powerful men on Tarizon known as the Group of Twenty make plans to evacuate with their friends and families to Tarizon’s sister planet Earth. Others board ships and go into orbital hibern | |  | | Tarizon: Civil War
Volume 2 of The Tarizon Trilogy. After embracing his destiny as the Liberator mentioned in the Prophecy, Peter Turner aka Leek Lanzia) is thrust into the midst of Tarizon Civil War.
Leek Lanzia, who many believe is "the Liberator" mentioned in the Prophecy, is given command of the remnants of the mutant army after it is decimated by the TGA’s seemingly invincible hovertanks. He must reorganize and rebuild the army if there is going to be any chance of stopping the TGA from marching all the way to Rigomol and overrunning the capital city.
After losing a bid to becoming chancellor, Lorin Boskie aligns herself with Leek in order to preserve the organization she and her father have so painstakingly built and to save the Nano | |  | | Tarizon: Conquest Earth
Coming September 2010, Tarizon: Conquest Earth, the final book of the Tarizon: Trilogy. Peter Turner returns home to warn the U.S. government of an imminent attack by fleet of battle cruisers.
Videl Lai is dead and Tarizon’s cataclysmic civil war is over, or so most people think, until Tarizon’s Intergalactic Fleet refuses to surrender. Then Videl Lai’s adopted son, Evohn Cystrom, masterminds the escape of Rupra Bruda, recognized to be the father of the Purist movement. As the Fleet defiantly leaves it’s moon base on Clarion, Cystrom informs Chancellor Lorin Boskie that they intend to travel to Earth, conquer it, and someday come back and destroy Tarizon. The Chancellor, at great personal political ri | |  | | Tarizon: Shroud of Doom
Shroud of Doom, Vol 2 of the Tarizon Saga, takes place thirty-seven years after unification (37 A.U.) The planet's ecology is slowly recovering from the effects of the long war that has killed millions, destroyed most of the planet's infrastructure, and left Tarizon barely habitable. In order for the human population to survive huge domes have been constructed over the cities to protect the inhabitants. Unfortunately, the cities were unable to contain the entire population and millions were left outside the domes to die. Shroud of Doom chronicles the conflict between those inside the dooms and those left on the outside.
In this prequel to the Tarizon Trilogy the lives of three important leaders are chronicled, Rupra Bruda as the father of the Purist Party, Ramel Garcia as the champion of the Supreme Mandate, and Threebeard, the leader of the millions of mutants living outside the domed cities of Tarizon. Interwoven in the story of these influential leaders is the rise of the rhutz, Nanomites and Seafolken as sentient life-forms on Tarizon and the clash between the Purist, who want to enslave them all, and the Loyalist, who believe they are protected by the Supreme Mandate.
| |  | | Tarizon: The Liberator
When a high school student discovers his father is working with the CIA on a secret government project involving aliens from another planet, he must accept exile or be killed.
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When a teenager discovers his father is working on a secret government project with aliens from the planet Tarizon, the project is compromised and Peter Turner must accept exile or be killed.
Tarizon is recovering from a series of super volcanic eruptions that nearly destroyed all life on the planet. It is slowly recovering ecologically but the political situation is volatile. The fight is between the Purists who want to rid Ta | |  | | The Prime Minister's Daughter
A high school student who thwarts an assassination attempt on the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago becomes critical to the survival of the government and the target of the opposition's assassin.
It's the year 2000 in Trinidad, the NDC, is plotting the overthrow of the government. There's just been a hugh oil discovery near Trinidad and in an effort to gain control over the oil, the U.S. is sponsoring a free trade conference in Dallas. After the conference the Prime Minister checks into Medical City Hospital for some surgery and is joined by his wife and two daughters.
Kevin Wells, at the hospital because his mother is having surgery, meets, Kiran Shah, the Prime Minister's eldest daughter and they hit if off and hang out together. After Kevin' | |  | | Uncommon Thief
A college student working part time as a bank messinger is framed for a huge bank robbery. When a Bank employee is found dead in the vault, Fred Fuller finds himself on trial for murder and must depend on his girlfriend and two high school buddies to prove him innocent.
A college student is framed for a huge bank robbery and ends up on trial for murder when a bank official is found dead in the vault.
UCLA student Fred Fuller is pleased with his new part time job as a messenger for Bank USA. The job pays well, the hours are perfect, and many of the bank tellers he works with are young and pretty. When one of the tellers takes a special interest in Fred he struggles to remain faithful to his college girlfriend, Maria. But this temptation is nothing compared to the dilem | |  | | Unconscionable, A Rich Coleman Novel
Coming November 2012, the third volume of the Rich Coleman Novels.
Rich’s son Ryan finally graduates from law school and is anxious to start practicing law. While in law school he meets and falls in love with Amanda, Sherman, a classmate who doesn’t want to practice law but has her sights set on becoming a literary agent. When Ryan hears of this he remembers that his father has written a true crime book about the murder of Martha Collins, his mother's aunt. He tells Amanda about the book and she is ecstatic with the prospect of it being her first placement. Unfortunately, she soon discovers Rich and his wife, Erica, | |  | | Undaunted, A Stan Turner Mystery
A young man enlists in the Marines and unknowingly befriends a serial killer.
When Stan Turner is very young he has his fortune told and it is a very ominous one foretelling of a very difficult and perilous life. About this time he has a brush with the law and decides to be an attorney. This sets the stage for the Stan Turner Mystery series as Stan is confronted with every imaginable obstacle to becoming an attorney--the worst of which is when he unknowingly befriends a serial killer and is accused of murdering his drill sergeant.
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