Billy Ray Chitwood: 15 books

Marcie Madden and Billy Jay Campbell were high school sweethearts and very much in love. Separated by years of military service and advanced education, they reunite and find themselves suddenly in a world of mystery and intrigue. Billy's best friend and co-worker is murdered. Marcie's husband is a...

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? A LIFE'S TRUE TALE is Non-Fiction - A non-fictional memoir that covers the author's time in East Tennessee and his whirlwind education in the big world of neon lights, gin mills, pretty ladies, acting, television, stage, and film. It is also a book that takes a remarkably honest...

Inspired by an Arizona 'Cold Case' - On a sunny Sunday afternoon, a mother and her 14-year old daughter walk three miles to a country store for cigarettes and ice cream...a walk often taken by family members. They arrive at the store, trade pleasantries with the owners and a few customers, and leave...

Fiction inspired by true events in California of a mother from hell - torturing in despicable and vile ways , killing two of her daughters and an ex-husband. This novel pens some of the awful truths regarding this case, with some author embellishments... It was a difficult book to write (author's...

Mackland, PA Chief of Police and his old college friend, Attorney Brady Pickett, work to solve multiple crimes that are tearing their historic small town apart: a police officer is ambushed and murdered on his way home from a shift; a mother of four children goes missing; father of the missing woman...

Satan's Song was inspired by a true decapitation crime in Phoenix, AZ some years ago. It was a 'cold case' past 2010, but was solved recently. My fictional account here was written before the actual case was solved... It was quite the newspaper headline at the time: the lovely young lady's severed...

Bailey Crane, auxiliary cop for the Phoenix PD, is set-up by the bad guys and nearly consumed by a warehouse fire as this adventure begins. One of the thugs utters a mysterious phrase, 'Beware the Brutus Gate,' and the boys in blue have a good chuckle and try to figure out its meaning. This simple...

A handsome young man lands the job of his life in the Metroplex of Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX. Scott Mahlon attends the company's social event and falls in love with a beautiful hostess. They are together for all of six and one-half hours which tragedy strikes... This begins a sensational story...

FICTION INSPIRED BY TRUE CRIME An Arizona wife and mother is murdered while on holiday in Mexico. Bailey Crane is an auxiliary cop with the Phoenix PD and is obliquely involved in the case until he visits close friends in Pueblo del Mar. The local police chief seeks Bailey's help in this most...

Bailey Crane and wife, Wendy, are just settling into their new condo unit on the Sea of Cortez when the call from an old friend begins an unexpected and dangerous ride through another mystery maze. They're all here, the scammers, the contract killers, the good guys and the bad guys. Bailey came to...

FICTION INSPIRED BY ACTUAL CRIME! Meet Bailey Crane, a son of the south, now firmly transplanted in Phoenix, Arizona. Bailey is six feet tall, one hundred eighty-five pounds, a ruggedly good looking guy in the mold of a young Christopher Plummer, the "Sound of Music" gentleman. Bailey...

Former sleuth Bailey Crane and lovely wife Wendy are enjoying their penthouse pleasures until a cartel sting operation at their Mexican resort brings chaos and emotional uncertainty into a blurry reality. Wendy is kidnapped, and Bailey faces the demons running loose in his mind as he struggles with...

A Phoenix, Arizona entrepreneur and an ad agency director fall in love in a most unusual way. Their relationship is interrupted by sibling clashes, a gambling addiction, a murder, and a matriarch's secret that ultimately causes emotional chaos and disorientation. This is a book that will draw the...

The Cracked Mirror - Reflections... When Prentice Paul Hiller enters the senior care facility he brings with him not only a hip surgery gone wrong, but a mirror of his past, cracked with the stress of all his memories: a family broken apart by their Appalachian circumstances and the 'great...