Higher Ground
Catnip Jazz
A Cajun fortuneteller. A sassy sex show performer. A pair of Voodoo Buddhists in the Bywater… What more does an aspiring street musician need to make his life complicated? When Myles rescues Kit, a mysterious woman wandering in the desert landscape of the Baja Peninsula, he has no idea how his good deed will irrevocably […]
Windfall
A Tyler Mackenzie Novel.
Snake Island
A seemingly uneventful father/son beach-camping vacation on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra spins alarmingly out of control when Tyler Mackenzie’s sixteen-year-old son, Tucker, goes missing after being last seen with Chloe, a winsome young woman, at a weekly conga drum performance in a local bar. Supported by a group of colorful campground cohorts, Tyler […]
Blue Moon
A friendly stranger who walks into the West Jordan Inn one evening becomes the prime suspect in the murder of an old friend, whose body is discovered in the smoking remains of a derelict hotel. Sarah Scupper, the inn manager, calls her boyfriend, Tyler Mackenzie, an investigative journalist from New York City, to see if […]
Night Heron
Investigative journalist, Tyler Mackenzie, heads to rural northern Vermont in 1986 to write an article about a renowned stained glass artist who died in 1955; his world is rocked when he meets her daughter who has been working anonymously as a bartender in the local inn. Together they uncover the sordid details surrounding her parents’ […]
Jamaican Draw
Set against the lively, pulsing backdrop of 1980s Jamaica, this evocative thriller captures the dark mystery and steamy passion of the most iconic of Caribbean islands. In an exciting chain of events set in motion by a murder in Negril, Jamaican Draw follows the dual story lines of Carson, a young American artist, and his […]
Butterfly Tattoo
Tyler Mackenzie returns to rural Vermont in a quest to find Woody Foster’s long lost sweetheart who disappeared from a small Mexican village twenty-five years earlier. At the same time that Woody is diagnosed with cancer, a mysterious package is mailed to him from another Vermont town, which begins the ensuing search for Suzanne, who […]
Dead Reckoning
Tyler Mackenzie, former investigative journalist, is now just another unshaven, alcoholic, nightmare-addled beach-bum on the Caribbean island of Grenada. Until he is shaken out of his rum-soaked stupor by a call – old friend, Lucy Brookstone is dead in a car crash just a few islands away and her six year old son is missing. […]
Double Phoenix
Two men and a baby show up at the West Jordan Inn; when one of the men mysteriously disappears, business as usual quickly becomes less than status quo. Tyler Mackenzie, a former investigative journalist, leaves his longtime girlfriend, innkeeper Sarah Scupper, as well as his job as inn chef, and takes up acting at a […]