Steve Goble
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Ed Runyon bolted from the NYPD after a runaway teen case fell through the cracks and turned into a nightmarish murder. Now, he's learned to bury the rage that consumed him, cope with depression, and enjoy life as a Mifflin County sheriff's detective in rural Ohio. Ed is trying to relax on his day off when Columbus PD Detective Shelly Beckworth comes to Mifflin County in search of a girl who vanished after a pop-up party. The clues are scarce-a few...
2) Wayward son
Author
Series
Ed Runyon mystery volume 2
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ed Runyon, a former sheriff's deputy haunted by past missing child cases that went horribly wrong, is struggling to launch a PI agency and still live in the Ohio farm country he loves. His love life is in shambles, too, as his partner turns to someone else. His best friend got roughed up by a rogue cop, so Ed is in a fighting mood. Ed finds a new focus when he is hired to find a runaway chess aficionado who is keeping secrets from his homophobic,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a cop is murdered in rural Ohio on Donny Blackmon's property, the case seems open and shut. Donny must've done it -- he's a known cop-hater, and he's already fled. Believing her husband is innocent, Donny's wife calls Whiskey River Investigations, the new one-man PI agency run by former sheriff's deputy Ed Runyon, to see if Ed can find her husband. Ed isn't sure he'll take the case until he visits the Blackmon family home and meets Donny's daughter,...
Author
Series
Spider John mystery volume 1
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"1722--aboard a pirate ship off the American Colonial Coast. Spider John Rush never wanted to be a pirate, but it had happened and he'd learned to survive in the world of cut and thrust, fight or die. He and his friend Ezra knew that death could come at any moment, from grapeshot or storm winds or the end of a noose. But when Ezra is murdered in cold blood by a shipmate, Spider vows revenge. On a ship where every man is a killer many times over, how...
Author
Series
Spider John mystery volume 2
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A historical mystery that blends nautical adventure in pirate waters with a locked-room murder mystery, featuring a pirate sleuth whose wits are as sharp as his blade. Spider John, longing to escape the pirate life he never wanted, has an honest seafaring job at last and a chance to return to his beloved Em and their child. But when Captain Brentwood is murdered in his cabin, Spider's plans are tossed overboard. Who killed Redemption's captain? The...
Author
Series
Spider John mystery volume 3
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"1723--Spider John and his friend Odin, no longer marooned in the Caribbean, believe they have left the pirate life behind. All Spider wants is to return to his beloved Em -- but the murder of a shady innkeeper threatens to keep Spider permanently land-locked." --- p.4 of Cover.