J. F. Freedman

Devastated by their archeologist mother's murder at the site of a Mayan ruin, Clancy, Tom, and Will discover that their father, who has stopped talking to them and started living with a young girlfriend, may have had a role in her death.

He used to relish putting suspects in jail, but in his latest case, Luke Garrison-now a defense attorney-will stop at nothing to save a man accused of murder During a sleepover with her two friends, Emma goes missing. The owners of a local news network, her parents have money and power. As the police scour the city, Emma's father offers a $250,000 reward for his daughter's safe return. Eight days after the abduction, two hikers find her. Emma has...

PI Kate Blanchard, a former policewoman, is hired by a California heiress to investigate the death of her boyfriend, said to have committed suicide while in jail on a drugs charge. Blanchard's investigation leads her to a conspiracy involving oil companies, the Mexican mafia and Las Vegas casinos, one which will ruin the countryside. At that, people try to kill her. By the author of Against the Wind.

After growing up in a hardscrabble Maryland town, a teenage boy will stop at nothing to pursue his dream It's 1957, and fifteen-year-old Roy Poole has again been awakened by the nightly argument between his mother, his sister, and his hard-drinking father. Roy sneaks away after the old man passes out, and hitches a ride to the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, to use its brutal obstacle course, which he can run better than most midshipmen. Whenever he's...

The novels of best-selling author J.F. Freedman combine gritty realism with gripping suspense. Bird's-Eye View is a vivid thriller that will keep listeners enthralled from start to finish. Ex-collegiate professor turned loner, Fritz Tullis dropped out of academia for all the right reasons. He now spends his time thinking, drinking, fishing and photographing birds from a sweltering, screen-windowed shack at the edge of a swamp in southern Maryland....