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Jaxon Jennings. Cop. Homicide detective. Partner. He always had your back and rarely made mistakes.

Until the death of his son. Until the night he couldn’t save him. Until everything he held dear was taken away from him.

Now, a shell of a man, his reckless actions mark him as a burn-out. A Loner. A dangerous man whom many in the Fairfax County Police Department cannot trust. The criminals he pursues in the suburbs of Washington D. C. are nothing more than ways to bide his time until his next drink, next fix, next loss of control. His past haunts him no matter how hard he tries to hide from it.

So, when a boy’s body shows up floating under the ice of a quiet neighborhood pool, Jaxon finds himself immersed in a world where the ghosts of his past feel too close for comfort. A psychopath is using the innocent in ways that appear familiar.

Jaxon’s past is catching up with him. And the anger that seethes below the surface threatens to destroy not only his life, but the lives of a group of kids somehow connected with him. The answers are locked, frozen in the part of his past he refuses to confront. But people are counting on him. And he must do anything to save them.

Anything. Even if it costs him his life.

Cache 72 – A Jaxon Jennings Thriller

72 hours. That's what the note said. 72 hours and the girl would be dead. Jaxon held the paper in one hand and the severed finger in the other. It was not a hoax. A day with his new hobby had turned into something he hadn’t seen coming.

GeoCaching—a modern scavenger hunt—was now a race against time. A woman he had never met was praying he wouldn't fail.

72 hours. Three days. A life hanging in the balance and the clock ticking. The killer's game deadly. Jaxon Jennings, retired cop and private eye, knew the girl had only one chance…

And he was it.

The truth will set you free. What a crock.

Jaxon Jennings knows the lie in the cliché. He’s lived it his whole life. So when his partner witnesses the murder of their client’s wife, he isn’t surprised by the trail of deceit, corruption, drugs and rape underlying the façade of truth in his city.

Paid to uncover the real murderer, Jaxon finds himself immersed in a world of treachery and lies. Lies so deep they cut like knives.

And when his recently deceased father is somehow connected, he must find the man who pulls the strings behind the scenes. The man who has the answers to all the questions. The answers that send Jaxon over the edge. For he knows…

Only the dead are set free by the truth. And the truth will burden you for life.

Our Sins Define Us.

Or do they?

Jaxon Jennings, private eye and brand new father, sees the world in a new light. One where he and his wife, Victoria, can raise their young daughter sheltered from the sins of this world, from his own sins and past mistakes. He has responsibilities and priorities. He has a new life. And his daughter Michelle is the center of it.

So, when a prominent local business owner—who had hired Jaxon for his private investigative services—ends up with his throat cut, the victim of a killer whose methods seem familiar to a case Jaxon had put to bed over twenty years ago, Jaxon’s past, once again, rears its ugly head to haunt him.

Reynolds Maubry, a psychopath who used a short, curved blade to take his victims’ lives, was serving a life sentence in Virginia. Jaxon had seen to that as a young homicide detective in Washington DC. Maubry’s methods were distinct and the evidence he left behind, unique. So, how could he be in sunny north Florida, taking lives again?

A copycat could be the only answer. But when Jaxon discovers that things are not as neat and tidy as they seem, he must face the mounting evidence that he and his family are in danger. And from a place he would never have suspected.

Jaxon badly wants to live this new life. But he can’t escape his past sins. To keep himself and his family safe, he must sin again. But who will survive?

All private eye Jaxon Jennings wanted was a vacation— just a few days to lie under the warm Caribbean sun with a cold beer. A much-deserved break from tailing cheating spouses, ex-cons, and insurance scammers.

But Jaxon’s hopes for time off are upended when his friend Max’s strange behavior lands the poor guy in the middle of an island murder investigation.

Jaxon works hard, and fast, to clear his friend’s name but makes a startling discovery: Max is a man with a dark past.

Unfortunately, someone from that dark past wants Max in prison or dead or both—along with anyone who tries to protect him.
Desperate for answers, Jaxon races to save Max from a killer—and a murder rap.

Can Jaxon exonerate his friend in time, or will the killer find him first? Is Jaxon next on the hit list?

From the first page of his latest Jaxon Jennings thriller, Eye Strain, author Richard C Hale mashes the gas and refuses to let up. A pulse-pounding manhunt that hooks you in and refuses to let go, Eye Strain will keep you guessing to the very end.

Family is everything.

Would you kill to protect it?

When Jaxon Jennings witnesses a woman attack a man and kill him, his only thought is to apprehend the woman and bring her to justice. But when he discovers the mysterious and deadly woman, Adi Jordan, is on a mission to save her kidnapped daughter, he can only imagine doing one thing.

He must help her.

In a race against the clock and insurmountable odds, Jaxon joins forces with Adi in a desperate battle with the Russian mob to track down her daughter and get her back before the trail grows cold and Adi’s daughter is lost to the world of human trafficking.

Adi’s dark and mysterious past only adds to the pressure as her brutal and ruthless tactics bring Jaxon to a place he’s never been before. But will her actions destroy any chance they have of finding her daughter and surviving? Jaxon must walk a thin line between what is right and wrong. Will it be enough?

From the first sentence of his latest Jaxon Jennings Thriller, Traffic, author Richard C Hale piles on the suspense and kicks it into high gear. A pulse-pounding, thrill ride that pulls you in and never lets up, Traffic will keep you on the edge until the surprising end.

Ladies of the night are dying. Dying badly.

And when Jaxon Jennings’ first day back as a homicide detective starts with a bang, he knows he’s in for the ride of his life.

Prostitutes keep showing up dead, and Jaxon and his partner, Ray, must battle against the clock to find the man responsible.

But the killer has other ideas, and with evidence planted at the scenes that leads nowhere, Jaxon knows the man is no ordinary criminal.

This killer is smart. Very smart. And as the body count continues to climb, Jaxon finds that people from his past are somehow tied to the deaths.

In his latest pulse-pounding thrill ride, author Richard C Hale cranks up the tension and never lets up until the surprising ending.

Grab your copy today and begin the adventure immediately.

After decades as a police detective, Jaxon Jennings has seen it all: murder, bank robbery, the Russian Mafia—you name it. 

So, the veteran cop and part-time private eye barely blinks when a distraught man hires him to catch his cheating wife in the act. Jaxon knows he can do this job in his sleep—and soon learns the husband is cheating, too. But what starts as a routine case of infidelity quickly snowballs into a killing spree. 

Someone—obviously a pro—murders the husband, his wife, both of their lovers, and a growing list of victims who don’t seem connected to the case at all. Jaxon has no idea why they’re dead, who killed them, or how he can stop the bloodshed. 

And new bodies are piling up every day. 

Together with his longtime partner, a couple of hard-charging rookie detectives, and a shadowy figure from his past, Jaxon must race against time and a trained killer who’s now targeting his own family, including his four-year-old daughter. 

In this, his latest nail-biting thriller, author Richard C Hale returns with Jaxon Jennings’s toughest case yet. Jaxon might be getting older, but he’ll use all his experience, his instinct, and guts to make sure the killer’s latest victim is his Dead Last.

Jacksonville is under attack.

A maniac has bombed the airport and warns he’ll visit even more destruction on this Southern metropolis of nearly two million souls.

But the butcher bizarrely makes no demands, threatens no ransom, and meticulously conceals his identity behind a series of online personas and remote hideouts.

The police have no idea who he is, what he wants, or how to stop him.
And as the bombings continue, the city panics.

But the killer will talk to the police through an intermediary. One person in particular who’s caught his eye: Melinda Frazier, a twenty-two-year-old clerk who works for the sheriff one county over. Melinda, who hopes to wear the badge herself one day, has no idea why this mass murderer has targeted her, but along with the rest of the city she hopes and prays both his endless harassment and bloody rampage will stop.

Detective Jaxon Jennings is hell bent and determined to stop the bloodshed himself if he has to.
As the killer grows more brazen, openly taunting the authorities, Jaxon and his partner, Ray Maningham, race alongside the FBI, the ATF, and anyone else with a badge and a gun to protect Melinda, crack the madman’s identity, and prevent any more carnage.

The psychopath warns that time is running out, however, and Jaxon and his colleagues worry his spree of violence will crescendo in a slaughter that could make 9/11 look like a dress rehearsal.

They find the bones first. Meticulously stacked at a construction site a decade after the victim disappeared, her skeleton bears marks of unspeakable torture at the hands of a sadistic monster. But if he’s now dying in state prison, who arranged her remains?

Next come the fires. Arson. Two houses, at first, no obvious connection.

Then the district attorney turns up. Belly up, actually, his body butchered and floating in his own lake-house pool.
Detective Jaxon Jennings and his partner, Ray Maningham, are as lost as everyone else. Who’s behind these grisly murders? And how are they connected to a lunatic their department put behind bars years ago?

As the body count rises, the cold realization descends that this is something altogether new. A copycat, maybe, but a hunter far angrier, far more savage than his predecessor.

With no predictable pattern to track—the killer targets victims of both sexes, of any age—Jaxon and his team must dig deep into the secrets of the past to prevent a future slaughter. But the corpses are piling up. And the killer is now targeting kids.

Fan-favorite author Richard C Hale returns with Florida’s gutsiest detective, Jaxon Jennings, who must stop the vilest serial killer since Ted Bundy—before he turns the Sunshine State into America’s biggest open-air bone yard.

Blank

There’s a violence in me.

My name is Lincoln Delabar. I was born without a face. Yes, you heard that right. Smooth, clear skin from my forehead to my chin.

I see the world differently, yet it is still a place that holds wonder. At least most of the time.

With my uniqueness comes a burden. My mind is powerful. Very powerful. And I have an obligation, a purpose, to see things in my own special way. Some of the things I see are frightening.

The evil in this world is beyond anyone’s control. Or so you might think.

There is a violence in me. I’m not afraid. I can control it.

But should I?

8 years.

A lifetime.

For Lincoln Delabar, it had been a lifetime wasted. The teenager he had been was now a grown man. Older. Wiser. But a lesser man just the same. Something was missing and it festered like a splinter in his mind.

He had to find her. So, when a part of his past found him—a part he never knew existed—he discovered what he’d been searching for had always been right there. Staring back at him. Like a Blank face.

He was propelled into a world that would change his life forever. The violence in him had surfaced again and threatened to rule him. He’d let it in. He had to. He could control it.

Or could he?

Life or nothing.

For Lincoln Delabar, the choice meant more than the words. His life was a wreck. The one thing he held dear, lost from him, and for all he knew, never to be found again.

The pain of that loss fed a fever in him that, if allowed to extinguish, would cool to a loneliness that nothing could comfort. He had to try, even if it cost him his life.

The Threads of his world led to a place no one else could see. A place filled with darkness and evil.

And her.

But the fate of many more were tied with thin Threads. Linc’s strength, and his weakness, the only thing keeping the balance. A balance threatened by a psychopath all too familiar to him. The one man Linc knew better than any other in his life. The man who was his twin, yet nothing like him.

And this twin would bring the Apocalypse. If Linc could not stop him, all he held dear would be lost.

Forever.

Alien

That’s what I felt like in my own world. An alien who had come home to find that home wasn’t what I expected.

I had spent the last two years in another dimension—another Thread—living with a people I felt were my own. But something pulled me back. An urgent calling that left little doubt in my mind that home was where I needed to be.

Savannah, Colton, they felt it too, so we came home to find nothing had changed. At least at first.

But when a ‘friend’ surfaced, and offered to help, I knew what must be done. I had to get her back. She wasn’t gone like I had imagined. Only lost. And getting her back home was the most important thing in my life.

It wouldn’t be easy. Nothing that lasted ever was.

Home.

It was good to be here. But I had work to do…

Near Death – A Jake Townsend Thriller

For Jake Townsend, the loss was shattering. And every night for the past two years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The moonless night. The piercing screams. The horrific crash. The night his wife was taken from him. The last time he saw her alive.

Everyone tells him to move on. But for Jake, there can be no closure. A message appears in his dreams—a warning he is reluctant to heed.

The omens ignored, Jake finds himself caught between the desire to see his beloved wife again and disrupting the delicate balance of life and death. The technology he developed has shown him the path, and others will do anything to use it, but at what price?

He must choose, and the consequences may ultimately shatter his world.

Near Sighted – A Jake Townsend Thriller

Readers captivated by Near Death will eagerly devour Near Sighted, the much anticipated second book in Richard C. Hale’s riveting thriller series.

Near Sighted continues the story of Jake Townsend and his mind reading technology as he attempts to find equilibrium between what he should and should not do with the knowledge.

Jake feels his life has moved on, but when his dreams return and he sees a glimpse into his future, he discovers that the nightmare has only begun.

Somewhere, someone has stolen his secrets. And as he learns of their evil purpose, he must find a way to stop them. Or risk losing everything he holds dear.

Once again, the fate of the human race hangs in the balance and Jake holds the key.

But will he have the courage to use it?

Death touches everyone.

At the peak of the summer in broiling and humid Miami, Cori Dresdon, watches as the world around her dies.

A virus—so devastating, it kills everyone it infects within 48 hours—has spread like wildfire throughout the world, bringing chaos and death in a matter of weeks.

As thousands of survivors flee the city in panic, Cori finds herself locked in a battle to survive, the remaining population sinking into desperation and cruelty.

Scared and alone, Cori embarks on a journey to reach her mother. The last time she had spoken with her, she had been sick—and then the world went dark. Silence.

She must reach her…

As the world succumbs, ordinary people must find extraordinary ways to survive. With society collapsing around them, it will take all their courage and cunning to survive, and to protect what they have, as well as the ones they love.

From Author Richard C Hale comes The Last Dawn series, a pulse-pounding apocalyptic saga featuring endearing, flawed, and complex characters and riveting action adventure. A survival thriller perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Boyd Craven, and Kyla Stone.

The world has descended into chaos.

A lethal super-virus has wiped out much of the population, toppling governments, religions, and most of society.

Stranded on a remote, faraway mission, Col. Noah Dresdon agonizes about what’s become of his family in Florida. Did his wife survive? The last time he talked to her, she was already sick.

What about his two daughters? When the plague began, they were in college on opposite ends of the state. But it’s been weeks. He’s heard nothing.

It’s not like Dresdon can just abandon his post to look for them. He’s stuck on a NASA space station 250 miles above the Earth.

But when a resupply mission to the station goes wrong and some of the crew contract the virus, Dresdon and a colleague commandeer the lone remaining shuttle in a desperate bid to get home.

The world they return to, however, barely resembles the one they knew before. Civilization has collapsed. Roving gangs—small private armies of heavily armed marauders—rule pockets of the country amid endless wars for food, weapons, and the few remaining resources.

Making it back to Earth was just the beginning. To find his family, Dresdon must navigate a reality turned upside-down while evading the bloodthirsty mobs who might kill him on sight.

In The Last Dawn: Apocalypse, author Richard C. Hale, creator of the fan-favorite Jaxon Jennings crime series, delivers the powerful first installment of a new sci-fi series that could be ripped from today’s headlines. The sun has almost set on humanity, Hale cautions us in his new, gripping tale, and mankind will have to fight like hell just to survive one more day.

What’s left of the world deserves to die.

At least that’s what A J thinks. His world is nothing more than a constant battle for survival and a debilitating feeling of loneliness. So, when he watches as a pretty young girl is attacked by a madman and taken hostage, he can only do one thing.

He must rescue her.

The world has descended into a place of cruelty and harsh justice. And when Michalla discovers just how bad her life can be, she prays for salvation, even if that salvation is death. Her only hope comes as a surprise when a boy she doesn’t even know risks his life to save her from the psychopath who now holds her hostage.

As the saga of the Dresdon family continues in The Last Dawn: After Midnight, ordinary people must find extraordinary ways to survive. Society has collapsed from a devastating virus that has killed most of the humans who inhabited the planet.

Noah, Cori, Dak, and Emily continue their search for Michalla as the few survivors of the apocalypse fight to stay alive. They must find her.

From Author Richard C Hale comes The Last Dawn series, a pulse-pounding apocalyptic saga featuring endearing, flawed, and complex characters. The riveting action continues in book 2, a survival thriller perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Kyla Stone, and Boyd Craven.

Who is in control?

Michalla, A J, and Harlee arrive at the ARK—America’s last place of hope—and soon discover that the surviving leaders of the free world are running the show. When those leaders try and force the trio into a series of questionable experiments, they must choose to remain in relative comfort, or set out on their own again in search of a better world.

As the saga of the Dresdon family continues in The Last Dawn: Horizons, ordinary people must find extraordinary ways to survive. Society has collapsed from a devastating virus that has killed most of the humans who inhabited the planet.

Noah, Cori, and Dak, continue their search for Michalla as the few survivors of the apocalypse fight to stay alive. They must find her.

From Author Richard C Hale comes The Last Dawn series, a pulse-pounding apocalyptic saga featuring endearing, flawed, and complex characters. The riveting action continues in book 3, a survival thriller perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Kyla Stone, and Boyd Craven.

The Wild West Calls To Them

Michalla, A J, Harlee, and Marty head west, their search for a place to call home the most important thing in their lives.

As the saga of the Dresdon family continues in The Last Dawn: Sunset, ordinary people must find extraordinary ways to survive. Society has collapsed from a devastating virus that has killed most of the humans who inhabited the planet.

Noah, Cori, and Dak, continue their search for Michalla as the few survivors of the apocalypse fight to stay alive. They must find her.

From Author Richard C Hale comes The Last Dawn series, a pulse-pounding apocalyptic saga featuring endearing, flawed, and complex characters. The riveting action continues in book 4, a survival thriller perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Kyla Stone, and Boyd Craven.

All is not Lost

Determined to start a new life in California, Michalla, A J, Harlee, and Marty fight for their place in the new world.

As the saga of the Dresdon family continues in The Last Dawn: Sunrise, ordinary people must find extraordinary ways to survive. Society has collapsed from a devastating virus that has killed most of the humans who inhabited the planet.

Noah, Cori, and Dak, continue their search for Michalla as the few survivors of the apocalypse fight to stay alive. They must find her.

From Author Richard C Hale comes The Last Dawn series, a pulse-pounding apocalyptic saga featuring endearing, flawed, and complex characters. The riveting action continues in book 4, a survival thriller perfect for fans of Ryan Schow, Kyla Stone, and Boyd Craven.