J J Macleod: 34 books

'Jeremy's Secrets' is the first book in the Harry & Company Mystery series featuring ex-CIA retirees. When deputy director Jeremy Foster is killed before he can expose illegal operations inside the Agency, Harry Wilson is tapped to lead an outside effort to find where his best friend...

Disappearing Queen is is the third book in the Harry & Company Mystery series. Harry is caught between a rock and a hard place when girlfriend Brenda faces major surgery at the same time his friend Charlie needs help finding his missing wife, affectionately known as 'Queen Mary'. While struggling...

Harry and Brenda's vacation plans suddenly vanish when she is summoned for jury duty and he rushes off to keep a secretive neighbor from being killed. From the moment Brenda is impaneled, the trail judge issues a gag order than cuts off all communication about the highly controversial trial....

Presumed Trust is the fourth book in the Harry & Company Mystery series. Harry, Brenda and Nicky are a formidable team, but this time their well-ordered lives are suddenly pulled in opposite directions by seemingly unrelated events. Harry uncovers a blackmail plot which threatens the very future of...

A seasonal cold and unseasonably heavy snowfall set the stage for Harry and Brenda’s involvement in two seemingly unrelated cases. Both of them had been looking forward to a relaxing getaway with friends at the fabled Courtland Valley Inn in rural Pennsylvania, but rest was nowhere in the script...

'Triple Towers' is the second book in the Harry & Company Mystery series. Five suspected terrorists disappear after entering the U.S. and the CIA is powerless to act on intelligence warning of an impending attack on an unknown target. Harry's lack of finesse and take-no-prisoners attitude...

What if Vladimir Putin has been telling the truth all along? What if Russia didn't meddle in the 2016 Presidential Election? Who else had anything to gain by electing a political wild card to the highest office in the land? 'Rules Violations' reveals the answers in this mystery tale about a former...

*An iBooks US Bestseller* Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young children in the late sixties, and they found the island of Papavray in the Scottish Hebrides. There they bought a croft house on a “small acre” of land, and Mary J. (also...

The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish society of the...

J. M. MacLeod, although admittedly not a credentialed Bible scholar, has invested most of his life in the study and teaching of scripture in various churches and Bible study groups. He has received "words of wisdom and knowledge" concerning The Revelation which many other Bible teachers haven't seen...

Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of...

This book examines the impact of the new liberalism on English literary discourse from the fin-de-siècle to World War One. It maps out an extensive network of journalists, men of letters and political theorists, showing how their shared political and literary vocabularies offer new readings of liberalism's relation to an emerging modernist culture.

Adult learning matters. There is now widespread agreement that modern countries depend on the creativity, skills and knowledge of the entire population for their prosperity. Many people talk of our future well-being in terms of a ‘knowledge economy’ or a ‘learning society’ in which every person’s...

Property and Practical Reason makes a moral argument for common law property institutions and norms, and challenges the prevailing dichotomy between individual rights and state interests and its assumption that individual preferences and the good of communities must be in conflict. One can understand...