I have published eleven novels in my Maggie Keiller/Derek Sloan crime-fiction series. The first ten are: By Precept and Example; Until He Killed Her; Lockdown; First, Do No Harm; Missing and Murdered; Nobody Counts On Dying; The Resurrectionists; After the Lake Caught Fire; Lost and Found and Lost Again, and Delayed Penalty.

The newest is The Cannabis Murders. The riveting tale unfolding in this book is set against a backdrop of rising public concern over the extent of Chinese interference in Canadian political and corporate affairs.

The story itself is tied to the legal production and distribution of cannabis products in Canada, as Canadian Cannabis, Inc. (CANCANNA), an international firm with Chinese connections, attempts to establish a new manufacturing facility near the resort town of Port Huntington on Georgian Bay.  Along the way, the company generates community opposition, and runs up against Indigenous land-claims to the property in question, both of which throw up major stumbling-blocks to its plans.

Maggie and Derek become involved through her support of a young Indigenous woman caught up in events beyond her control, and through his part in negotiations on behalf of the Odishkwaagamii First Nation. To everyone’s dismay, repeated vandalism, extortion, violence, and eventually murder soon follow.

If you have enjoyed previous books in this acclaimed series, you will surely relish this one!

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

The most recent one, Write On! Tales of a Serial Scribbler, was released before the end of March. The first three pieces in the book have won awards from various writers’ organizations, including a first-place recognition last year from the Gulf Coast Writers Association for But He Didn’t!

Writers, raconteurs, storytellers, scribblers—call us by any name, and we still have this compulsive need to impart our tales to all who will read or listen.  In this book of such tales, there are more than forty stories and poems I’ve conjured while keeping company with the Pelican Pens group of talented writers in southwest Florida.  This collection is selected from almost two hundred compositions I’ve shared with the Pens.

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

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I am now working on a twelfth novel in my crime series, as yet untitled, and will soon begin a tenth collection of whimsical tales, with planned publication dates later this year, or early in 2025.

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.