Over the years, I have published sixteen novels in my Maggie Keiller/Derek Sloan crime-fiction series. The previous fifteen 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; The Lonely, Silvery Rain, 2025; Brothers By Deceit, 2025; and Not In My Backyard, 2025.

The newest is The Kintail Heist

Twelve years ago, an audacious band of robbers stole twelve million dollars from Pearson International Airport in Toronto. After stashing the money near Port Huntington, a small resort town on the shores of Georgian Bay, in a hidey-hole unknown to anyone, the twin brothers who masterminded the heist were killed in a highway collision. Consequently, the whereabouts of the millions remained a secret for more than a decade.

Before they died, however, the brothers sent a cryptic message to their sister, a clue to the money’s location. They had spent their childhood on Kintail Island, a decommissioned lighthouse property, and it was there they’d hidden the treasure.

Kintail is now owned by Maggie Keiller and Derek Sloan, friends of the robbers’ sister, and they become involved when sinister strangers arrive in Port Huntington, intent on finding the money. As competing, greedy parties try to take advantage of each other in order to advance their own interests, more people become enmeshed in the webs of deceit being spun. Blood is shed violently when two local residents are killed mysteriously as Maggie and Derek oversee a search for the money on the rugged terrain of Kintail.

Even as police investigate these murders, two of the searchers are killed by persons unknown. As the race to find the stolen money becomes more frantic, Maggie and Derek come to realize their own lives may be endangered.

When at last the money is found, the surviving treasure hunters are forced together in a crashing climax to this exciting quest for the long-buried fortune on Kintail Island.

The Heist is a mesmerizing story with something for every reader.

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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 seventeenth novel in my crime series and a collection of haiku poetry, both 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.