Harvey Mendez: 11 books

Jake Harwood, a burned-out former marshal, whose wife left him, rides west on his way to California. In the New Mexico desert, he happens upon an overturned stagecoach after an Apache attack. He rescues seductive Jessica Raymond, the sole survivor, half-buried beneath the stage. She is from New Orleans...

In this haunting tale in Old California, thirteen-year-old Ramon Montiel strives to save his beloved bull, Toro, from a fight with a marauding grizzly bear, a battle that could end in certain death for Toro. Ramon has raised Toro as his pet at Rancho Ortega, but when he meets Betsy Crowley,...

Thirty years after Amelia Earhart vanishes in the Pacific, Vincent Carlson, designer of her spy plane, now ex-CIA, still searches for the answer to her disappearance. His obsession with A.E. changes when Amelia Adams, a young, mysterious Amerasian, linked to A.E. by more than name, walks into his...

An unassuming young pharmacist falls into a cave filled with deadly giant wasps. When he climbs out, he becomes Yellow Jacket, the Crimefighter, ready to right the evils of the world.

RED EARTH embodies the spirit of human endurance. This sweeping adventure depicts the heroism and determination of Traiko Ivanoff and his family against the Bulgarian Communists in 1958.Helpless to save his innocent brother from execution by a Secret Police firing squad, Traiko finds revenge,...

No one would expect Cassandra Crowley’s horrific car accident on a stormy Halloween night in front of St. Anthony’s churchyard in Craggy Cove, Massachusetts to turn into a love triangle.Cassandra’s hero is Zack Hartack, caretaker of the churchyard and a one-legged ex-Marine, who rescues...

Vincent Carlson, designer of Amelia Earhart’s aircraft, spends time in Army Intelligence, the OSS, and the CIA. After he and his cat, Jerome, survive a cyclone on his island in the Coral Sea, his hammered heart is haunted by memories of the first time he sees, and instantly falls in love with A.E.,...

Five years after pharmacist Al Madison is killed in THE CHEROKEE MURDERS, Ludwig Kruger, great-great grandson of Mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria, buys his pharmacy in Cherokee, Arkansas. Sinister Ludwig wreaks havoc with the town’s women and conceals Rolf Wolf, a cursed man. Sheriff...

Losing her job after several young boys are murdered in Chicago, Kymberlee Shannon takes a teaching position in Cherokee, Arkansas—a small town of quirky characters, secrets, and steamy affairs.

Our 24/7 lives are saturated with round-the-clock fear. Scare-tactic headlines fill our homes and our public spaces. If it’s not the war on terror, it’s the new war on the middle class. Crisis is the new black, as catastrophe after casualty after crash shape the order of the day. Nothing to Lose...

Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime: The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator analyzes Asian/Americans’ interactions with the U.S. criminal justice system as perpetrators and victims of crime. This book contributes to a limited amount of scholarly writing so that researchers, policymakers,...