It began as a simple assignment for private investigator Sam Blackman and his partner Nakayla Rob...

'Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral...

'[A] first-rate installment in an excellent series.' --Booklist

'The scam in de Castrique's debut is complex...theregional background sensitive and savory.' -Kir...

Praise for Fatal Undertaking...'Unassuming but commanding prose style...comparable to James Lee B...

The Singularity--the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cogn...

'A good choice for anyone who enjoys small-town mysteries and ghost stories.' --Booklist

'The Blackman & Robertson Detective Agency faces a disturbing reality: no clients. So when partne...

Hidden Scars

'Once the most polluted waterway in Western North Carolina, the toxic Pigeon River now runs pure,...

Barry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father's funeral home in t...

Praise for Final Undertaking...'De Castrique has married the complexity and fast pace of a police...

'When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, Barry Cl...

The night before a funeral that will thrust the mountain town of Gainesboro, North Carolina, into...

The Singularity--the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cogn...

A LOCKED-ROOM YOUNG ADULT WHODUNIT IN THE CLASSIC TRADITION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

'Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral...

'Another stellar entry in an outstanding series that deserves wider recognition: the family focus...

2018 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award nominee

A murder from the past comes creeping into the present, as two private eyes open up a cold case t...

It should have been a simple assignment for PI Sam Blackman and his partner Nakayla Robertson: fo...

Double Cross of Time

'Iraq War veteran Sam Blackman with his prosthetic leg and his no-nonsense private eye partner Na...

Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital i...

Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital i...

Sam Blackman, Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investi-gation Detachment of the U.S. militar...

Barry Clayton leaves the Charlotte police force for the small mountain community of Gainesboro, N...

The Singularity--the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cogn...

Gene Adamson thought he knew the answers. He thought he'd cracked the conspiracy wide open. He wa...

When private detective Sam Blackman agrees to help his partner and lover, Nakayla Robertson, cond...

2018 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award nominee

When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, the dual ...

Praise forthe firstSam Blackman mystery...'A wealth of historical detail, an exciting treasure hu...

Sam Blackman, Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detach-ment of the U.S. militar...

'You want to borrow a casket?' Funeral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton finds the req...

'Everybody has something to hide At 75-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underes...

'This urgent, cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by botched attack on two law...

The summer of 2020. COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire. Racial reckoning and Confederate monumen...