Dan Kelly: 19 books

“Soaring with Vultures” by Dan Kelly In post-Civil War Missouri, killing was the way of life. With the echoes of Rebel gunshots only recently silenced in Kentucky and his near-fatal chest wound still healing, Union Colonel William A. Warner moved his wife and children to a new land...

Casino Capers is a novel of fascinating intrigue with suspense, mystery, danger, humor, surprise, revenge and a touch of romance interestingly interwoven throughout. In the opulent surroundings of two of the most impressive casinos in the United States, one land based and one on a riverboat, Jacob...

CALUMNY CAPERS Flyleaf Commentary This is a story about a nefarious group of people who have achieved top of the ladder success in their chosen career fields accompanied by significant growth in their net worth, yet they remain dissatisfied with their status in life. The root cause of...

Life can take some strange twists. This is a book about what happens to a chauffeur of luxurious yachts when his normally peaceful life at sea is shattered by modern day pirates and an old friend of his in the Coast Guard contacts him in a clandestine way soon after the incident. Pete Brody,...

This is a tale about two intrepid Navajo attorneys who take on a small cadre of despicable, amoral, greedy individuals who are well entrenched in the Washington D. C. bureaucracy. These people are willing to do anything, to go to any lengths, to get what they want, including murder. In this...

Cabernet Capers is a story about two unscrupulous Napa Valley, CA vintners, Duilio and Riccardo Paganelli, identical twins with identically huge egos, who will do anything to grow their business for the wealth, power and prestige that will come along with it, including forging a relationship with...

Carat Capers is a jewel of a story, pun intended. It’s a tale about three very intelligent and extremely greedy men, Felix Feldman, Amos Kadden and Jacob Kessner, whose desire for wealth and the power and social status that usually comes with it has them embarking on a well-planned crime spree that...

Computer Capers is a riveting story about a league of seven exceptionally intelligent, successful and wealthy businessmen who have decided that America is headed down the path to ruin, to bottom rung status in the global community, with an urgent need to save itself from itself and they are the people...

calling card capers is a fascinating mixture of suspense, adventure, intrigue, revenge, violence, courage, humor and romance all woven into a captivating tale with an ironic climax that the reader will find very hard to put down. It pits an fbi special agent, don ericson, a private investigator...

This is a story about two journalists, Hank Hadley and Kylie Driscoll, working for a small Washington D.C. newspaper, the Capital Sentinel, whose nose for news uncovers a plot of government corruption so broad in scope it rocks the very foundation of American democracy. Using the power of the press...

Celestial Capers is a suspenseful yet delightful story about the experiences and adventures of a dozen twelve year old kids with special abilities that take place on planets in faraway galaxies. From the very beginning, the reader’s imagination is tickled and will remain stimulated until the last...

This is a story about two ruthless gangsters who live on opposite sides of the globe who have joined forces to rip off the rest of the free world, primarily Europe and the USA. They have raised organized crime to a whole new level, threatening the economic stability of many nations and the lives of...

Imagine paying a fine for walking across town. Or hiding an illegal marriage. Or losing your life for playing the harp. Strange crimes, dangerous activities, some from the not-so-distant past, return to life in Hidden in Crime. See why Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine says Fiction River’s crime volumes...

Editing an anthology can prove tricky business. Wonderful stories sometimes find themselves on the rejection pile simply because they do not fit in the editor’s vision of that anthology. So, editor Mark Leslie decided to save some of those amazing stories for this latest volume of Fiction River:...