Bøger af Don Yarber

A woman wins $114 million dollars in the Florida lotto. The next morning her daughter finds her on the beach, dead. Her throat has been cut. The lotto ticket is gone. Private Eye, Kip Yardley, is determined to find the winning ticket, even if he has to fight the New York Mafia. A thirty year old plane wreck reveals some clues but the secret is harder to dig out than draining an alligator swamp. Greed and evil continually surface, like scum on the shallow waters of the Everglades. The mob's message to Kip: lay off. Kip's message to the mob: "I don't scare easy." In the long run, Kip Yardley finds that if you want to fight the mob, you have to play by their rules. That means getting a lot more ruthless and cunning to defeat the evil in the Everglades.

Bodies and Beaches is the first in the Kip Yardley series. Kip is a former California Highway Patrol special investigator who trades his uniform for jeans and a tee shirt and opens a PI office in LA. Two murders occur within days of each other. A young highway construction worker is gunned down on a LA freeway and a notorious strip joint owner is shot to death in his limousine. The highway worker had bragged to friends that he was going to make a large sum of money and Kip believes that may have been for the killing of the strip joint owner. He fights his way through beaches and beach bums, barns full of marijuana, and looks for clues in strip joints. A nagging feeling that he is being set up for a hard fall by a CHP special officer and old friend has Kip confused and grasping at staws. With the help of an old girl friend and a new girl friend, Kip gets his act together and finally figures it out. Richard S. Prather, author of the Shell Scott mystery series, had this to say: "I have finally been able to read your book, "Bodies and Beaches" and am pleased to report that I liked it very much! It was not only a good read, but going along with Kip as he drove along familiar streets to well remembered Southern California cities took me back many years to happy times in that area. Moreover - and this is a really important point - I liked your lead character. I think in Kip Yardley you have created a fictional P.I. strong enough, real enough, likable enough to carry a series..... Bodies and Beaches" is a good job with a likeable lead and a lot of interesting action I enjoyed reading and you write very well indeed. Verdict: Well done!"

L.A. Private Eye Kip Yardley is called to Arizona to find the killers of a highway construction worker. The day after he arrives he is forced off the interstate and left to die in a burning jeep. Shortly thereafter he is left to die in the desert after being forced off his horse at gunpoint. Things really start getting hot, however, when he is asked to find beautiful Valerie Chiccarro, daughter of the wealthy road contractor. Flagstaff cops keep warning him to back off and leave the investigating to them but Kip is not one to give up easy. He keeps digging up bones and clues, trying to solve the killing and the disappearance. A piece of topography map, a business card and an old Indian peace pipe are the clues that Kip must unscramble to find out who the killers are and how to prove it. In the end he faces being shot and buried in the Arizona desert. The bad guys don't know Kip very well. When it comes to dying, he's got some tricks up his sleeve.

The fifth in the Kip Yardley mystery series, this follows Bodies and Beaches, Corpses and Canyons, Death and Deep Waters, and Evil and Everglades. In a Pig's Eye finds Kip Yardley in Peoria, IL looking for a suitcase. He hasn't been told what the suitcase contains, but while looking for it he watches a man fed to starving hogs. The killer drives away but Kip has recorded the event on his cell phone. His mission has changed slightly, he intends to find out who the killer is and bring him to justice. His initial assignment was just to find a suitcase, not to get involved in a drug heist or tangle with the gang that pulled it off. He intends to dig deeper into the mystery, but the bottom of a river wasn't his intentions. As usual, Kip intends to get to the bottom of things, and avoid the gang that wants to feed him to pigs or dump him again in the murky, pig waste filled river.