Mathiya Adams

• Oct-2025
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• Sep-2025
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When Sally O'Brian visits the library, two ghosts overhear her conversation and realize that she might be their salvation. Loretta Grey has been stuck in the Loretta Grey Memorial Library for the past seven to eight decades…and now she and...

• Aug-2025
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• Apr-2025
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When a string of grisly murders shakes the city—killings that scream vampire, but on bright, sunlit days, Ava's vampire colleague at the police department enlists her help. With a sarcastic cat on her heels, a case that makes no sense, and...

• Feb-2025
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Ava Storm's day isn't going great. Her good deed of caring for a stray cat turns into a disaster when she discovers that cat is actually her ex-husband magically transformed into an orange tabby. Then, when she is assigned her first actual police inv...

• Dec-2024
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Laurel Farmer, Jennifer's best friend and the bridesmaid at her wedding, has an odd request. Could Jennifer's mother, Sally O'Brian come to her fiancée's house and see it if is haunted?  Sally knows that her daughter is dubious about Sally'...

• Oct-2024
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Dr. Jack Winston finally asks for Sally's help. He thinks there might be a ghost in Crystal Cove Memorial Hospital. And as much as it bothers him to admit it, maybe Sally's ability to communicate with the dead might come in handy. Sally O'Brian ...

• Nov-2023
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When Sally O'Brian is asked by her friend Alan Ripple to rid his boat of ghosts, she is caught off-guard. Of all people, she never expected Alan, a dedicated scientist and a no-nonsense kind of guy, to believe that she could see and talk to ghosts.&n...

• Sep-2023
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Sally O'Brian is delighted when she is asked to help the children at the school where she had taught for most of her career to plant a vegetable garden. The portion of the school yard where the Principal wanted to place the garden was wasted space, a...

• Apr-2023
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• Mar-2023
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Before his death, Matthew O'Brian had a love of vineyards. His family owned a vineyard in Napa Valley, now run by Matt's sister Susan. So it was no surprise that Matt had helped his good friend Fred Ricci to purchase and establish a successful vineya...

• Mar-2023
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Sami leaves behind her whole life when her family moves to a seastead--an artificial island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.And the day she arrives, she overhears the hottest guy there secretly planning to oust her family from the island.But two c...

• Dec-2022
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All Sally O'Brian wants is a quiet Christmas. Yes, she wants to rent out her newly renovated and re-furnished Cliff House for the holiday season, but that goal is secondary to just spending some quiet family time with her daughter Jennifer, her son-i...

• Nov-2022
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When Santa turns up dead in a Christmas Tree lot, things look bad for Christmas. Especially since the man playing Santa, who was working at the lot over the holidays, was a friend of MacFarland's from his homeless days. Someone is definitely not feel...

• Nov-2022
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Sally O'Brian sees ghosts. Not   because she wants to. But when someone tried to kill her and her husband, she discovered that while his time had come, hers had not. Now she was back in this plane of existence, but this time with a mis...

• Oct-2022
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Sally O'Brian didn't always see ghosts. But when she and her husband were murdered, she discovered that she wasn't allowed to pass on through the Pearly Gates. She miraculously recovered but her husband is only with her as a ghost. She has to fi...

• Sep-2022
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The last book and stunning conclusion of the Hot Dog Detective series! McFarland has finally got his life in order.Kicked his addiction and turned his life around? Check.New career as a Private Investigator? Check.And most importantly...The woma...

• Apr-2022
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Young Tom Flannery thought he had it all. A great job helping out the Maintenance crews at the Pepsi Center—especially during hockey season, the best time of the year, a great girlfriend, a new car, and lots of money. But his good fortune comes...

• Mar-2022
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The case is simple, Mac, said Jerry Baker. My client, Brian Adams, is accused of killing someone. Who did he kill? asked Mark MacFarland. Jerry Baker, one of Denver's more prominent defense lawyers, looked over at MacFarland, a former Denve...

• Feb-2022
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TROLLING FOR MURDERNothing on the Internet is what it seems. The elusive, unknown person who uses the handle @XanthicXena is not really a mystery warrior princess, but is secretly Jacob Gold, a graduate student at the University of Colorado. He, alon...

• Jan-2022
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When Defense Lawyer Jerry Baker asked former Police Detective Mark MacFarland to help defend Anita Faraday, the wife of Tom Faraday, MacFarland thought proving her innocent would be a piece of cake. Tom had been the head of a polyamorous family, and ...

• Dec-2019
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There's a vigilante on the loose. He's killing people who have escaped justice or are in the process of committing heinous crimes. Former Denver detective Mark MacFarland thinks the police are going after the wrong suspects, but he is as much in...

• Apr-2019
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Everyone loved Ned Pendergast. He was personable, friendly, rich...and generous. Need money for a new house? Ask Ned. Need help with outstanding bills? Ned is always there, pen and checkbook in hand. Need someone to watch the kids while you take the ...

• Nov-2018
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When one of MacFarland's friends asks him to prove that a man accused of murder is innocent, MacFarland reluctantly agrees. He tells her that he will go where the facts take him, but if that means that the man is guilty, so be it.But then MacFarland ...

• Aug-2018
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Tommy Chow was about to graduate from the University of Denver. His parents and sister waited expectantly for him to appear on the stage to receive the diploma that would allow him to continue on to medical school and a worthy career as a doctor. But...

• Jun-2018
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Gavin Lewis mourned the death of his best friend, Bruce Parker. But when it turned out that Parker was actually a terrorist bomber, Gavin himself comes under suspicion. Did Parker plan and execute the act of terrorism alone or did he have help from L...

• Jan-2018
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The New Caldonia Quartet always had problems getting along with each other. Arguments over what music to play, how to interpret it, who should get the most center stage time, even what costumes to wear plagued them ever since the four members came to...

• Nov-2017
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When Rufus Headley's high school friend, now living in Los Angeles, is accused of murdering the doctor treating him for cancer, the decision for MacFarland to go to the City of Angels to defend him is easy. What is not easy for MacFarland is solving ...

• Aug-2017
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"Benny and I are going to continue our investigation in the murder we're working on," said Detective Pierson."She was murdered in her home? Were there any witnesses?""Oh," smiled Pierson, "I would say so. There were probably seventy thousand witnesse...

• Aug-2017
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When Neela Woods, a well-known international travel blogger goes missing, her family assumes she's just on another jaunt. But her partner suspects foul play, specifically the Obnoxious Oilman who the blogger has been dating.The stakes are high. Neela...

• Jul-2017
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Mark MacFarland, a former detective with the Denver Police Department, always knew that the Mile High City had a seamier side, but it had never been his particular playground. After all, despite its lurid reputation, Denver's kink community was relat...

• Jul-2017
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Most of the time, Defense Attorney Jerry Baker asked MacFarland to find the evidence he needs to get one of his usually guilty clients a lesser sentence or even off the hook. Most of the time, MacFarland does so because he trusts Baker's judgment abo...

• Jul-2017
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Mark MacFarland had no use for politics when he was homeless on the streets of Denver. Now that he is struggling to pull himself back into regular society, he still finds politics a necessary evil he'd rather avoid. But when his friend Jerry Baker as...

• May-2016
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Jessica Chamberlain has a problem. She's high on drugs and has blood all over her. The murder weapon has her prints and she's got gunshot residue on her hand. It's pretty clear to the Boulder Police what happened.When the Boulder Police arrest her fo...

• Mar-2016
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MacFarland doesn't like it when one of the "invisible people" gets accused of a crime. Innocent or guilty, it doesn't matter -- the system is weighted against them. MacFarland becomes suspicious that the police have the wrong man when he learns tha...

• Feb-2016
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MacFarland knew in his heart that Scott Porter really was guilty...The problem was, he had promised his sister-in-law that he would find a way to prove the man innocent. All he had to do was find out who really killed the man's wife, Amanda.But as ev...

• Jan-2016
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Tomas Aleciades has a big handicap. He's nearly blind. That doesn't stop him from doing what he most loves...gardening. What will stop him, though, is being accused of murder.MacFarland is asked by his good friend Jacinto Gomez to prove that Aleciade...

• Oct-2015
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Football is back!For those of us who enjoy seeing twenty-two huge muscular men mash it up on a large field, this time of year is a welcome one. Especially for those of us whose baseball team has not fared as well as we had hoped, the prospect of foot...

• Sep-2015
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A dose of religion! MacFarland's sister-in-law wants to improve MacFarland's life, and what better way to do that than to get him involved with a church? Not just any church...the Church of Blessed Grace which promises you not only spiritual happines...

• Jun-2015
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MacFarland is off to Mexico!MacFarland is old school when it comes to legalized marijuana. But when it comes to the daughter of the owner of legalized pot stores getting kidnapped, he is ready to run off to Mexico to rescue her. Unfortunately, rescui...

• Apr-2015
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MacFarland knows what it's like to live on the streets. Although he now has a place to live, he still keeps an eye out for the homeless community. He's overjoyed when he learns that one of the "invisible people" he's helped, Teena, a runaway teenager...

• Mar-2015
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Hot dog vendor Mark MacFarland -- "Mac" to his friends -- is suspicious when a young construction worker, Wanda Warren, approaches him with a tale of conspiracy, fraud, and murder. A friend of hers died in a tragic work accident, but she thinks t...

• Dec-2014
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Detective MacFarland -- "Mac" to his friends -- was kicked off the Denver police force for a variety of reasons, most of which came out of the mistrial of the man who murdered his wife. After a couple of years on the streets, MacFarland is getting b...