Fred Carver

The New School Executive: A Theory of Administration

Tropical Heat (The Fred Carver Mysteries, 1)

Forced into early retirement by a bullet to the knee, ex-cop Fred Carver undertakes a missing persons case that quickly places him in mortal dangerWhen the criminal’s bullet shattered his knee, Fred Carver’s colleagues called him lucky. Between his pension and the insurance check, they said, he had ...

Burn (The Fred Carver Mysteries, 9)

When he is accused of stalking a woman he swears he’s never met, a local businessman asks Fred Carver for help clearing his nameJoel Brandt swears he’s never met the woman before. His wife dead six months before, the small-time businessman is perplexed when Del Moray police inform him that a local w...

Scorcher: A Fred Carver Mystery

Scorcher, the fourth book in a series that includes Tropical Heat, Flame and Kiss, again features Florida private detective Fred Carver. A serial killer is on the loose, a maniac wielding a homemade flame thrower fashioned from a scuba tank. He has murdered three people - and one of them is Carver's...

Bloodfire (The Fred Carver Mysteries, 5)

When a nervous husband asks him to track down his heroin addict wife, Fred Carver learns that not every client can be trustedWhen he meets Bob Ghostly, it’s hardly the first time that Fred Carver has been asked to find a missing spouse. But Ghostly’s tale about a beautiful woman who fled for no appa...

Torch (The Fred Carver Mysteries, 8)

When a client dies in an apparent suicide, Florida detective Frank Carver suspects murderDonna Winship is an ordinary woman with a typical problem. No longer in love with her husband, she has taken to spending evenings and long afternoons with a new man. Fearful that her husband will learn the truth...

Lightning (The Fred Carver Mysteries, 10)

After an explosion causes his lover to miscarry, Fred Carver hunts for the man who planted the bombFred Carver’s lover, Beth, is not a woman who wants to be tied down. When she learns that she is pregnant with the detective’s child, she resists his attempts to marry her and initially wants to have a...

Spark (The Fred Carver Mysteries, 7)

Fred Carver investigates a series of suspicious deaths in a stately Florida retirement communityHattie Evans, a retired schoolteacher, isn’t one to fuss. When her husband drops dead of a heart attack, she does her best to move on without too many tears. After all, Jerome was seventy years old. But a...

Flame (The Fred Carver Mysteries, 4)

When a client dies in a car explosion, Orlando detective Fred Carver learns the man may not have been who he said he wasFor Bert Renway, it starts out as a simple proposition: a fat bundle of money to spend a few weeks impersonating Frank Wesley, a local tycoon. But after a while Bert grows suspicio...