Bay Publishing imprint: 15 books

Are you an author? Is your book about to be published? Are you wondering how to promote your book?  Over the years, Claire McKinney has found that the lack of information on how book promotion works has left most authors in the dark, without a clear idea of how they can contribute to their...

Tis the season of love and hope, spies and intrigue! A Christmas house party becomes a covert operation to trap a French spy posing as one of their guests! Can the Honorable John Bonnington protect his wife from the spy’s murderous intentions? Can Abbie Bonnington protect her...

It is the coldest day of winter, and most of the animals have gone to bed. But Brown Bear can't fall asleep. He wants to go outside, but he needs a disguise so the cold-loving animals won't recognize and ridicule him. But to look like a polar bear, he needs lots and lots of white wool. And for lots...

“Doug, I been practicin’ law for fifty years. And I learned a long time ago, there ain’t no such word as ‘attorney’ or ‘lawyer’. It’s ‘asshole attorney’ or ‘fuckin’ lawyer.’ " Author Douglas Wood first heard that advice from a southern lawyer nearly forty years...

The case of The Missing Screen Writer is a riveting documentary of an 18 year investigation into the disappearance of Producer/Screen Writer Gary Devore. An introduction by James Ellroy, provides all you will need to have this book grabbing you from the first page to the last. With an excerpt from...

Colin the Chameleon tells the story of a chameleon who, unlike his siblings, cannot change color and the dangers this poses. Eventually, Colin finds that it his very difference that makes himself special and helps keep his family safe from a greater threat.

Professional cellist Emily Hewitt loves nothing more than creating music. Sharing her musical gift with the world is all she lives for. Until her life is threatened. Caught up in a treacherous conspiracy, Emily becomes the pawn in an international play for power and must be assigned a bodyguard. Former...

Fifth in a series of noir mysteries featuring newspaper reporter Samuel Hamilton, The Halls of Power explores corruption at the top of the money chain in San Francisco in the early 1960s. The work teems with eccentric characters: hardboiled cops and immigrant workmen, prosperous businessmen, but especially...

Renowned osteopathic physician Dr. Maud Nerman demonstrates how a wide range of symptoms—including unexplained headaches, anxiety, back or neck pain, weight gain, low sex drive, constant fatigue, asthma, chronic pain, or memory loss—can stem from the body’s inability to recover after an injury...

On a cold and gloomy morning the mutilated body of Armand Hagopian, a prosperous Armenian businessman is found hanging from the gate of his toxic dump. The implacable finger of the law points to the decedent's illegal Mexican workers, but crime reporter Samuel Hamilton, with the nose of a bloodhound...

Third in a series featuring newspaper reporter Samuel Hamilton, The Ugly Dwarf explores the underbelly of San Francisco’s beatnik and gay communities in the early 1960s. Investigating a grizzly murder, the trail leads Hamilton and his Homicide Department cohorts through a devious assortment of crooked...

Sixth in a series of noir mysteries featuring newspaperreporter Samuel Hamilton, Unfinishedconfronts the question, how much hurt can be repaired when betrayal,kidnapping, and violence touch a person's life? The story opens with thekidnapping of a young boy—the third such kidnapping within a short period—onlynow...

The body of a well-dressed young man is found in San Francisco’s City Hall. Killed by multiple gunshots from an unusual foreign pistol, the mystery is further compounded by the fact that the victim had his fingerprints surgically removed. The search for the murderer leads newspaper reporter Samuel...

A noir mystery set in San Francisco, The Chinese Jars follows Samuel Hamilton, an ad salesman for the local newspaper, as he investigate the suspicious death of a casual acquaintance. The unraveling evidence leads him through a maze of traffickers in Chinese antiquities to Mister Song's Many Chinese...