J M Davis: 8 books

Bart Bengo goes up against a corrupt chief of police, who is good at covering his tracks. Are the judge and prosecutor corrupt too or just incompetent. The evidence against Bart appears to be compelling, but it was planted. Bart's defense attorney, a former drunk, is in over his head. Time is running...

Jack Benhorn, a private investigator, is hired by a wealthy Texas woman to find her husband and bring him back from his latest drinking binge. After locating Hartley, in a small south Texas town, drinking shots in Sally's Bar and Grill, Benhorn is confronted by a woman with a gun. Finding Hartley has not been that difficult, but bringing him back is a whole different matter.

Jack Mayham is a criminal defense attorney with plenty to prove. Fired from three law firms in four years, he believes he's been given the chance of a lifetime to get back on his feet. Soon after depositing a retainer for $250,000, he learns saving the stunning Lisa LeRouse Bedford from the prosecuting...

Many of you are too young to remember the sixties, but for those of us who were there, it was a time of innocence as well a mine field for false steps. Rabbit, a seventeen-year-old student, needs to find a date for the high school PROM, which is going to be held Friday evening, four days away. Short story. Excerpts included after end of story.

Photographic proof of Bigfoot and a ten million dollar reward bring thousands of outsiders to Bowden, a small town isolated deep in the Ozark Mountains. In his thirty-plus years of service, the town’s veteran sheriff, Hank Logan, has never had to solve a serious crime. While men with high-powered...

A violin and three gold coins hold the key to solving a sixty-eight-year-old mystery. Hundreds of people have traveled to a small Southern town in America in hopes of proving the young man found dead in the city park in 1911 was their long lost relative. Or were they trying to make a claim on the...

Love and family appear to be distant dreams for Jack Lamont, who is beginning to believe he should have tempted fate and married his co-worker, Janelle, when he had the chance. It was not the fear of marriage or a happy home that drove Jack away. It was something only his subconscious understood. While...

What happens in Paris does not stay in Paris. A police detective places her career at risk, when she decides to help a wealthy man search for a woman who has been missing for seven years. Philip Lewellan discovers a mysterious painting. He’s sure it’s proof his missing wife is alive …...