Dana King

• Aug-2013
• / Private Investigator
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Detective Nick Forte is not impressed when Shirley Mitchell asks him to clear her son’s name for a murder everyone is sure he committed. Persuaded to at least look around, Forte soon encounters a dead body, as well as the distinct possibility the n...

• Dec-2014
• / Private Investigator
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Russell Arbuthnot isn’t just a ham, he’s the whole pig. Detective Nick Forte figures -- along with everyone else -- the bodyguard assignment he’s picked up is a publicity stunt for Arbuthnot’s one-man show, to perk up flagging ticket sales. W...

• Dec-2014
• / Mystery
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Penns River rarely sees two homicides in a year. Two in little over a week is almost too much for the police force to handle. The assigned detectives -- Ben Dougherty, a former MP and Penns River native, and retired Pittsburgh cop Willie Grabek -- fi...

• Jan-2015
• / Thriller
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Will Hickox is a decorated FBI veteran with a legendary ability to cultivate informants, much closer to retirement than to the days when he earned the nickname “Wild Bill.” Operation Fallout should cut the head off of the Chicago mob and provide ...

• Jul-2015
• / Private Investigator
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Nick Forte doesn’t want Marshall Burton’s case. Forte hates divorce work and doesn’t care much for Burton, either. Still, he has bills to pay, and still has them when Burton is shot dead, apparently the innocent bystander of a drive-by. Or not....

• May-2016
• / Private Investigator
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Chicago Private Investigator Nick Forte’s official task is to find out what he can about Jennifer Vandenbusch’s new suitor, who fails to measure up in the eyes of the family matriarch, Jennifer’s grandmother. This seems par for the course for F...

• Oct-2016
• / Mystery
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A new casino is opening in the rural town of Penns River, Pennsylvania but just where the money is coming from no one really knows. Is it Daniel Hecker, bringing hope to a mill town after years of plant closings? Or is the town’s salvation really a...

• Apr-2017
• / Police Procedural
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As if things aren’t bad enough in Penns River, development and funding of a new religious-themed mall grinds to a halt when heavily-armed assassins cut down five leaders of the town’s fledgling drug trade while eating lunch in the food court. The...

• Jan-2018
• / Hard-Boiled
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Nick Forte has a hard time leaving well enough alone. He seriously injures a man for slapping a woman Forte has never seen before, so when Becky Tuttle comes to him with disconcerting letters sent to her author alter ago Desiree d'Arnaud, he does ...

• Jan-2019
• / Police Procedural
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Vicki Leydig thought she was going to have a few drinks with her friend Mary. She didn't expect Doug Stirnweiss to offer her a ride home, and she sure didn't expect to watch a stranger blow Doug's head off in the parking lot. Penns River police d...

• May-2020
• / Law Enforcement
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Just because Penns River is an economic backwater doesn’t mean it’s immune from current events. An active shooter at a local discount department store leaves several people dead and the shooter in the wind. Maybe. It’s hard to say a...

• May-2021
• / General Fiction
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The more things change, the more they stay the same in Penns River. Stush Napierkowski has retired, replaced by retired Boston PD captain Brendan Sullivan. Nancy Snyder was promoted to deputy chief over several more experienced candidates. New office...

• Jul-2022
• / Police Procedural
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It's been a tough winter in Penns River and things aren't getting any better. A major snowstorm looms as a police officer shoots and kills a man after a bar fight. There are four complicating factors: 1. No weapon is found on the dead man. 2. The...

• Aug-2023
• / General Fiction
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School is back in session in Penns River, which means it's football season in Western Pennsylvania. The Penns River team is loaded after a few substandard campaigns and the town is so revved up a new gambling ring opens to allow PR supporters to put ...