What does the nation’s largest arts and crafts market, a tired Halloween movie set and the 24 Hour Church of Elvis have in common? They’re part of the weird world Tommy and Babs Valentine explore in this second Stumptown adventure. “Portland Weirder” places the Penns Grove, New Jersey private investigators under police scrutiny when a business card is found outside a St. Helens restaurant and a body turns up at the airport. Tommy can’t get home soon enough in this fifth tale in season one’s “linked short stories.” Babs won’t put the Portland guidebook down, and you won’t, too. Read more…

Private investigators Tommy and Babs Valentine, head to Portland, Oregon, where a sister’s boat is repossessed, a husband turns up missing and a New Jersey contractor faces a sudden and rude dining surprise, as their Sauvie Island vacation turns sour and only the most savage solutions can be applied. The usual fierceness and fun dominates this fourth Kindle-only short story, in the ongoing adventures of Penns Grove, New Jersey’s darkest and most entertaining detectives. Read them in order, if you like: “Kauai Adventure,” “Jersey Tomato,” “Beach Body” and “Portland Weird.” Next up, “Portland Weirder,” “Waimea Wiseguys” and “Monkey Punch.” A first-season anthology  of these linked short stories will be published in Kindle and paper versions April 2016. Read more…

Penns Grove private investigators, Tommy and Babs Valentine, head back to Long Beach Island to investigate the curious death of a Barnegat Light man, washed up on the sand in Beach Haven. A local church organist is implicated. A hairy Mafioso is adjudicated. The third of our Kindle-only short stories is dedicated to delivering the usual on-location dining hints, a mad swipe at the Philly Mafia, and a humorous and fun description of liquor and life in West Jersey. This is story number three–Waimea Wiseguys, Portland Weird and Monkey Punch yet to come–heading toward an anthology of stories to be published in spring of 2016. The anthology, and the stories’ original artwork, will be available in paperback and Kindle versions. Read more…

When Genoa farmer Orrin Hickman decides to resurrect the Mormon militia group the Danites to settle some long-standing accounts, an old curse threatens fire and floods on the people of northern Nevada. Ex-priest and Pinkerton Detective, W. W. Ronin finds his heart broken and his hands full and guns blazing as a returning husband complicates his personal life and prison-breaking felons join the “rising tide” of Latter Day Saint hit men in the fifth of the W. W. Ronin adventures, Home Means Nevada. Home Means Nevada defines place-based fiction, where real people and real places become the setting for hauntingly real human adventures. Home Means Nevada takes place in Carson City, Genoa and Gardnerville, Nevada, and tells the true story of what happens when religious dreams meet present-day realities among Nevada’s earliest settlers. Read more…

Private detective, Tommy Valentine, and his wife, Babs, visit New Jersey’s Long Beach Island for a little R& R, and pay for their trip by rescuing the Barnegat mayor’s dog. The second in a series of criminal escapades and inappropriate laughter, by gonzo fiction and Western author Gregg Edwards Townsley, Tommy takes on the Pine Barrens and saves a little something for the special folks at home in Penns Grove, New Jersey. Read more…

No two days are ever the same for Tommy Valentine, a Penns Grove, New Jersey private investigator. Trouble is just as likely to find him as he is to find it. Kauai Getaway is a rollicking tale of intrigue and danger on Hawaii’s “Garden Isle,” as Tommy and his wife Babs run into the Philadelphia mob on Kauai’s Coconut Coast. Read more…

Native American children vanish from a white man’s Christian Gospel mission, and two fast friends – brought together by passion and persistence during Nevada’s 1880s western expansion – are hell-bent on finding them. Read more…

When violent suspects elude the grasp of U.S. Marshal Augustus Ash and Storey County Sheriff Tom Kelly, fictional ex-priest turned bounty hunter W. W. Ronin tracks the two to eastern Nevada. Read more…

Can the dead speak? Will the living continue on? Ex-priest turned gunman and detective W. W. Ronin must find out before crystal ball gazers and card readers ruin everything for members of the Washoe Club, the Comstock’s most prestigious group of millionaires. Read more…

Does the “Lady of the Lake,” a large grey stone whose lower half resembles a woman’s body, hold the key to who murdered two Washoe Indian men up at Lake Tahoe? W.W. Ronin, an ex-Episcopal priest turned bounty hunter, is about to find out. With help from his Washoe shaman friend, Happy Hands — interpreter of dreams, earth-bound spiritualist and stranger to the white man’s rituals — Ronin is easing closer to an answer as the pair meanders up and down the Carson Valley in 1880s Nevada. Read more…