Over the years, I have published fourteen novels in my Maggie Keiller/Derek Sloan crime-fiction series. The previous thirteen are: By Precept and Example, 2007; Until He Killed Her, 2010; Lockdown, 2012; First, Do No Harm, 2015; Missing and Murdered, 2017; Nobody Counts On Dying, 2019; The Resurrectionists, 2020; After the Lake Caught Fire, 2021; Lost and Found and Lost Again, 2022, Delayed Penalty, 2023; The Cannabis Murders, 2024; Trafficking In Murder, 2024; and The Lonely, Silvery Rain, 2025.

The newest is Brothers By Deceit.

Malevolent deceit on a grand scale is revealed in this riveting tale, the fourteenth novel in the acclaimed Maggie Keiller/Derek Sloan crime-fiction series.

Two little boys, half-brothers, are cruelly manipulated by their mothers in order to inherit a substantial fortune from the father they have in common. A third brother, as yet unborn, is soon to arrive, and the high stakes become deadly when their father is murdered in a premeditated ambush.

Maggie and Derek become involved because a close friend may be next on the killer’s list. As they try to get to the bottom of the mystery, working closely with police, another man is killed, and then a police officer. A grim mystery comes to light when long-dead skeletal remains of a missing girl turn up in a farmer’s field.

The tension mounts daily as Maggie and Derek race against time, only to discover a long-lost fact about Maggie’s heritage.

If you’ve enjoyed reading the previous books in this acclaimed series, you will surely love this one!

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I have also published ten collections of tales, including: On Top of the Grass: Tales of a Snowbird in Florida, 2008; It Matters to Me: Tales of a Young Father, 2010; The Passing Parade: Tales of a Bemused Bystander, 2017; Tall and True: Tales of an Unrepentant Fibber, 2019; Ranting, Raging, and Surviving the Storm: Tales of a Closet Curmudgeon, 2019; I Haven’t the Time: Tales of a Woke Wayfarer, 2020; I Calls ‘Em The Way I Sees ‘Em: Tales of a Capricious Critic, 2020; My Relentless Muse: Tales of A Vagabond Storyteller, 2023; and Write On! Tales of a Serial Scribbler.

The tenth one, Makin’ It Up As I Go! Tales of a Flagrant Fabulist, was released in 2025.

Fabulists are storytellers, and in this, my tenth book of tales, you will find more than forty stories and poems I’ve written during my years of association with the Pelican Pens writers in southwest Florida. The collection here is selected from more than two-hundred-and-fifty pieces I’ve shared with this group of talented writers.

The flagrant fabulist in the title of this assortment of tales is me, of course, an aging scribe who has spent most of his lifetime writing. I still find myself searching every day for new ideas, new subjects, new stories I can make up to please myself—and, I hope, you—the reader I treasure.

Whether your taste runs to humour, pathos, whimsy, or serious reflection, you will enjoy this book of tales!

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I am currently plugging away on a fifteenth novel in my crime series (working title: Not In My Backyard), and a collection of haiku poetry, as yet untitled.

All of the books, some in e-book format, are available for purchase at this safe link—

https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/precept

If you enjoy reading this blog, I know you will enjoy my books.