The Detective Tony Pantera Series
(in order, starting with the first book in the series)
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surviving evil takes courage. fighting it requires persistance.
When an obsessed man kidnaps high school freshman Samantha Dobson while she walks along a deserted street, Detective Tony Pantera finds himself searching for a young girl with virtually no clues to help him. His only other kidnapping case didn’t end well, and he is determined this one will have a happier ending, but the odds are against him.
Meanwhile, Samantha’s family must deal with the sudden tragedy. Her mother tries to hold the family together, but her father buries himself in his work while her older brother and sister deal with the loss in their own self-destructive ways.
A kidnapping thriller that features absolute evil pitted against a persistent detective and strong-willed girl, Hell is Empty is sure to keep you reading into the night.
Detective Tony Pantera of the Richmond, Virginia, police force takes on his first serial killer.
The city is experiencing seemingly motiveless murders, and Tony Pantera is called upon to find the killer. Pantera wonders at the odd clues left behind on each victim, each wrapped in a used paper napkin or a discarded piece of paper and urinated upon: a victim’s severed wedding ring finger with the expensive rings still there . . . strands of a victim’s pubic hair . . . a man’s wallet, the credit cards and cash left behind. What could they mean? Why is the killer urinating on each item? None of the victim’s have been raped or sexually molested, so if robbery or rape isn’t the motive, what is?
When a friend of Pantera’s becomes a victim of the madman, Tony suffers waves of guilt because he was unable to prevent the tragedy by stopping the killer who calls himself “The Purger.” He knows he must work fast before more are murdered and left behind like yesterday’s trash.
In Hell is Empty, Pantera faced a serial kidnapper. In The Purger, he dealt with an insane serial killer. Neither were able to commit the perfect crime.
In The Whirligig of Time, Book 3 of the Detective Tony Pantera series, Pantera deals with his most evil nemesis yet—a man who may have found the perfect method for getting away with murder…or practically any other crime.
This time, the killer seeks revenge against those from his past
who, as he sees it, earned his vengeance. He takes further pleasure
in taunting Pantera and his partner, Harry Overmeyer, until finally,
the killer threatens all that Pantera finds worth living for. Don’t miss
the book one reader has called “the best of the series, by far!”
Don’t miss Book 3 of the series readers call so suspenseful that the
books remind them of the writings of Stephen King (Amazon Reader Reviews).
Miranda Buckhorn, the kind of beautiful young woman society notices before dismissing, is found naked and dead in an empty lot in Richmond, Virginia. The investigation leads Detectives Tony Pantera and his partner, Harry Overmeyer, into an investigation of a corporation that is so secretive that nobody is allowed to go anywhere inside the building unescorted. Clues lead to suspicions, but not to any conclusions, as the detectives work their way towards attempting to solve the case.
They soon discover that Claude Paulson, the new chief executive of the Richmond location, had his own reasons to kill the girl, not to mention his personal security guard has gone missing. As the investigation leads to a number of puzzling questions, and as the body count begins to grow, the puzzle becomes even murkier. Did Paulson kill Miranda? If not, who did? The answers are not as obvious as they seem.
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” - Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, IV, v