Raymond Austin

Dead Again: Beauford Sloan goes to the rescue of a rape victim, and finds himself looking down the wrong end of the rapist's shotgun. Beauford grabs the gun and reverses the situation, but not before Deputy Sheriff Kay Thorner takes a blast to the chest. Next day Beauford gets a call from a Marilyn Lefkowitz, of the Lester Hancock Group, insurance. Lefkowitz wants a claim for double indemnity investigated. The investigator that had been assigned to the case has been killed in a car crash, or so they say! Beauford takes the investigation to the small English fishing village of Beer, in Devon. The killer, in covering the tracks, keeps one step ahead of Beauford. Beauford, and Ann Green, a hotel receptionist and ally of Beauford, fight for their lives in the caves of Beer. Ann and Beauford will certainly die unles help reaches them in time.

Dead Again is published by McKenna Publishing Group.

Paperback; 206 pages. ISBN 0-9713659-6-2.
The price is $19.95.

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The Eagle Heist: An Eagle Security armored truck carrying sixteen million dollars worth of diamonds and three million in cash disappears in Washington, DC. The only clue the police and FBI have is the distress call from the crew of Eagle Eleven as it was under attack. Days later, the harpoon-impaled body of one of the guards floats to the banks of the Potomac River. But the body's discovery doesn't put the authorities an closer to finding the diamonds, the money, or the killers of at least one of Eagle's guards. Six months later, with the case gone cold, ex-Virginia cop turned private investigator Beauford Sloan leaves the serenity of his Blue Ridge Mountain ranch and takes the case on the request of the dead guard's mother. Sloan, who bears an uncanny resemblance to film star Wilford Brimley, sets out on a trail of clues where death seems to follow his every step.

The Eagle Heist is published by McKenna Publishing Group.

Paperback; 203 pages. ISBN 0-9713659-4-6.
The price is $19.95.

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Your Turn to Die: Death follows Private Eye Beauford Sloan in his latest mystery. Keeping a promise, Beauford takes his goddaughter to New York's Rockefeller Plaze and The Today Show. Little does he know what is in store for him, and the world. Beauford faces death, thwarting terrorists hellbent on blowing The Today Show and its audience to kingdom come. Beauford is remembered by the killer who comes out of the shadows to plague America with death and terror. Froom Brooklyn Heights to Beauford's farm in Virgina, he carves a path of death. How many would die before the unknown assassin strikes at his final victim, Beauford Sloan? Beauford, wounded and weak from loss of blood, fights to save Sally, his PI partner, and her daughter (his goddaughter) from a gruesome death ath the hands of the killer.

Your Turn to Die is published by PublishAmerica.

Paperback; 239 pages. ISBN 1-4241-1147-1.
The price is $19.95.

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