J.C. Simmons

A Jay Leicester Mystery

3 - Blind Overlook (Aug-2000)
4 - Icy Blue Descent (May-2002)
5 - The Electra File (Aug-2003)
6 - Popping the Shine (Oct-2004)
7 - Four Nines Fine (Jul-2006)
8 - The Underground Lady (Sep-2007)
9 - Akel Dama (Nov-2008)
10 - The Candela of Cancri (Oct-2010)

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  Blind Overlook
  

  • Aug-2000
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  A Jay Leicester Mystery - 3
  

  Jay Leicester (pronounced Lester) is a retired airline pilot, retired because he could not stand the bureaucratic web the government spun over the aviation industry, and partly because anyone with the price of a bus ticket could fly on the airlines w...

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  Icy Blue Descent
  

  • May-2002
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  A Jay Leicester Mystery - 4
  

  In this newly re-released and moving novel, Jay Leicester, Simmons' celebrated Mississippi Aviation Consultant/Private Investigator, is hired by a young woman to find her sister. What appears to be an ordinary matter of a missing person is suddenly m...

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  The Electra File
  

  • Aug-2003
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  A Jay Leicester Mystery - 5
  

  In this new and moving novel, Jay Leicester, Simmons' celebrated Mississippi Aviation Consultant/Private Investigator, is hired by his friend, Guy Robbins, an attorney on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, to help find his missing sailboat. The boat is foun...

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  Popping the Shine
  

  • Oct-2004
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  A Jay Leicester Mystery - 6
  

  New Orleans settings, gangland murder, police corruption, and international drug operations are the backdrop for J.C. Simmons' sixth serial mystery. Simmons' famed Aviation Consultant/Investigator, Jay Leicester, is drawn into a worldwide drug manufa...

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  Four Nines Fine
  

  • Jul-2006
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  A Jay Leicester Mystery - 7
  

  A night takeoff in fog with zero-zero visibility in a venerable old Douglas DC-3 from Ciudad Victoria, Mexico almost ends in disaster for Jay Leicester, his copilot, and three passengers. The reason for the near crash was found to be that the aircraf...

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  The Underground Lady
  

  • Sep-2007
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  A Jay Leicester Mystery - 8
  

  Twenty-five years ago, in the deep south, a small airplane mysteriously disappears in the dense piney woods of Mississippi. The pilot, a young widow named Hadley Welch, who owns and runs a worldwide privately held pharmaceutical company is the lon...

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  Akel Dama
  

  • Nov-2008
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  A Jay Leicester Mystery - 9
  

  Akel Dama means "Field of Blood"
  
  An aged ex-airliner loaded with five tons of marijuana lands on a newly built, but unpaved, section of roadbed in rural central Mississippi. Apprehended by the local sheriff, the pilot refused to shut down the ...

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  The Candela of Cancri
  

  • Oct-2010
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  A Jay Leicester Mystery - 10
  

  J.C. Simmons, Mississippi's legendary author, returns with the tenth in the Jay Leicester series. Familiar and beloved characters, Rose English, Shack Runnels, Hebrone Opshinsky, and B.W., the Siamese cat, join in a medical thriller set in the Deep S...

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  Some People Die Quick
  

  • Feb-2012
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  Jay Leicester (pronounced "Lester"), a retired airline pilot now running his own investigation firm, is sent a client by his old friend Guy Robbins, an attorney on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. The client is a horribly disfigured young female marin...

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  Blood on the Vine
  

  • May-2012
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  Jay Leicester is a retired Airline Pilot, retired because he could not stand the bureaucratic web the government spun over the aviation industry, and partly because anyone with the price of a bus ticket could fly on the airlines, which resulted in ov...

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