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Two teens disappear. A girl from rural Georgia, a boy from Chicago. Two Private Eyes are hired to find them. Their styles are as different as black is to white. Both have their eyes on the pretty female Homicide Detective, Beverly Miller. They finally agree to join forces to find the missing teens and to solve Georgia's most horrendous murder. The victims are the parents of the missing girl, brutally shot to death in their suburban home. The missing girl's grandfather, one of the richest peanut farmers in Georgia, is willing to pay a pretty penny to solve the case and for the return of his grand daughter.

Charles Merritt and his war buddy, Will Durant, have just started their spread in Arizona Territory when Will takes sick. Charles gets Will to the train to Tucson but only has the fare for one, so he follows the track on horseback. Under a railroad water tank, he finds Will dead, shot in the chest. After burying his friend, Charles Merritt sets out on a journey of revenge, swearing to gun down the polecat who killed his friend. Through a series of events that are beyond his control, he meets beautiful Elizabeth McAllister and falls in love with her. He doesn't tell her, but he has vowed that he will marry her as soon as his partner is avenged. Eventually the young cowboy has to decide between his love for Elizabeth or his cold blooded lust for revenge. A dizzying tale of hard riding and hard shooting, this first time Western by PI novelist Don Yarber, falls in line with mystery and suspense but with the action and scenery of old time Western novelists like Zane Grey and Luke Short.

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!"

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.