Larry Darter: 15 books

Interest in marathon running continues to grow at a record pace. For the first time ever, in 2010 the number runners entering and finishing a U.S. marathon exceeded the half-million mark. Many of those runners completed their very first marathon. One of the first questions from those thinking...

Budgets shouldn't feel restrictive but empowering. Learning how to budget shouldn't be a dreary or tedious experience. Want to become a better money manager by learning how to make and keep a budget that works for you? This step-by-step guide to creating a budget shows you how by providing...

A drop-dead gorgeous blonde socialite, with a penchant for seduction and with secrets to keep, pays a visit to the office of Los Angeles private eye and ex-L.A.P.D. Detective Ben Malone. Malone is an eccentric shamus who plays fast and loose with the rules, insisting on following only his own personal...

Living paycheck to paycheck is hard. As television personality and author Bill O'Reilly once observed, "Living paycheck to paycheck renders one powerless." Your paycheck always seems to be spent before you even get it. The money comes in and the money goes right back out. It's a stressful...

Ben Malone is a tough, streetwise, and freewheeling former LAPD detective turned private eye. Amanda Gates, the wife of a California candidate for the U.S. Senate, pays Malone a visit. The woman who once had a checkered past confides to Malone that a thug she used to work with at a Los Angeles...

Foregone Conclusion is the fourth novel in the thrilling Malone Private Investigator Series of Crime and Suspense Thrillers. If you like breathtaking action, laugh-out-loud humor, and a hint of romance, then you'll love this edge-of-your-seat detective story. Over 15 years after the biggest...

A search for the estranged husband of a rich young thing from Boston seeking reconciliation leads L. A. private detective Ben Malone south of the border to the exotic locales of the Mexican Riviera and into an entanglment with a trio of ruthless grifters who will stop at nothing including murder to...

Mitch Blaine is a bitter man living in a gold mining boom town in South Dakota Territory. Since the end of the Civil War, Mitch has been a man on the run, running from his past and the heartbreak of betrayal at the hands of a woman he loved. After the war he drifts from his native Virginia to Texas...

Live Long Day is the fifth novel in the thrilling Malone Private Investigator Series of Crime and Suspense Thrillers. If you like page turning action, dry wit, and a hint of romance, then you'll love this high-octane private investigator thriller. On the surface, except for a strict, ill-tempered...

What really goes on inside nudist clubs and resorts? Are nudists actually the eccentric weirdos, perverts and hedonists that many Americans believe they are? What kind of people become nudists and why do they choose the nude lifestyle? This objective, straightforward look at American nudist culture...

A spellbinding tale of deceit, betrayal, dark choices, and murder that reviewers describe as "gripping," "full of suspense and thrills," and "hard to put down." Inspired by a shocking true story, Come What May, the debut book in the new Ben Malone detective mystery...

One of Hollywood's elites has been murdered, the accused her estranged husband. The situation doesn't look good for the husband, whose appetites for booze, gambling, and extramarital sex are as out-sized as his ego. To make matters worse, he is on the hook to his bookie for a quarter million bucks,...

If You Love Harry Bosch, Robert B. Parker's Spenser, Philip Marlowe, Jack Reacher—it's time you met Los Angeles private eye, Ben Malone. He's a street-wise, smart-mouthed tough guy, but with a heart of gold. Three complete novels, and over 900 pages of lightening-paced thrills, suspense,...

Ben Malone is a modern-day Los Angeles private eye in the mold of Chinatown's Jake Gittes and Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, a street-wise, smart-mouthed tough guy with a heart of gold. Two Book Set No. 1 consists of the first two books in the series, "Come What May" and "Fair...