At the start of The Hobo Chronicles, Acey’s in debt, unemployed, and dealing with his mother’s terminal illness. Desperate to make her proud of him in her final days, Acey finagles a job with an aging Private Investigator, who agrees to mentor him. But, once Acey gets a taste of the hunt and realizes he's finally good at something, he's hooked.

The Paper Child

A hit is botched on a young woman who recently started looking for her birth parents. PI Tapp and team are hired by the woman's boyfriend to help with the search. The trail begins at a cornfield in Indiana where the woman had been abandoned as a child. By the time the case is solved, the repercussions will be felt from coast to coast. (excerpt)

Dead Man’s Reach

A stranger breaks into McMunn and Son and tries to destroy their files. Captured, he is hospitalized and, shortly afterward, murdered. Hoping to learn the reason for the murder and the attempted arson, Acey Tapp and the other members of the agency travel to the stranger’s hometown in Texas. What follows brings the death toll to four and a cold case to its conclusion. (excerpt)

The Whiffenpoof Man

After orchestrating the capture of a man who kidnapped and sold children, Acey Tapp and Megan Bork take off supposedly on vacation. They get a room in a small Pennsylvanian town made infamous in the 1930’s when Zeke Bugbee, one of its denizens, was convicted of kidnapping and murdering little boys..

Two of Bugbee’s victims survived, one of whom was now their boss, Webb McMunn. Hoping to unearth information that might allow Webb to reunite the other survivor with his family, after an absence of seventy years, they check out the kidnapper’s old haunts. Only, in stirring up the past, they appear to have awakened a dormant menace.(excerpt)

Black Snow Rising

In this the second book of the Acey Tapp Series, Megan receives by mail a small leather pouch. The senders, a close friend and her husband, request that Megan have it examined by a forensic specialist. It's found to be made of human skin. Before the senders can be advised, they disappear. Acey and Megan travel to Africa to look for them.

The trail leads into the Sahara where the missing couple had been collecting folklore from various desert clans. An overheated radiator puts Megan and Acey under the thumb of a UN team living at an underground oasis. The travelers are encouraged to return home. They refuse and track the missing couple deep into the desert where they learn of mass graves and the meaning of the small pouch. (excerpt)

The Hobo Chronicles

In this first book in the series, you'll meet the two people who will make up Acey's team of cold case busters: Webb McMunn and Megan Bork. As a fledgling investigator, Acey works his first case: find a woman who's been missing for 50 years.

When the book opens, the body of a hobo has just been found in a clothing donation bin. Later, Acey finds an old photo showing the missing woman and that same hobo as childhood sweethearts. So begins a rollercoaster ride that uncovers a long-hidden series of murders across the border in Canada. (excerpt)