Coffeetown Press imprint: 16 books

Retired game warden Steven T. Callan’s love of nature and passion for protecting wildlife took root long before he experienced the adventures described in his book, Badges, Bears, and Eagles. In The Game Warden’s Son, he recounts more of his own investigations along with those of his game warden...

A practical handbook for the artist or writer—experienced, aspiring, or somewhere in between. Long draws from her extensive background as a poet, writer, and master teacher, but also gathers the insights and practices of a wide range of high-achieving artists, including mystery writer Raymond Chandler,...

Moments of attentiveness illuminate our world, interrupting the rush of time to make each flash a revelation. Stopping to see what we may not have noticed, to listen, to feel, to remember past sensations, deepens our insights. This collection of poems examines the art of seeing with all the senses,...

Curious to see if their patients’ views reflected the wider public’s, naturopathic medicine Doctors Laurie K. Mischley and Michelle Sexton surveyed cannabis users worldwide. At the end of the survey they asked “Is there anything else you think we should know?” Cannabis Use Survey is the collection of the first 1324 people with something to say.

Two Kenyans who entered the U.S. with forged UN documents are killed. UN auditor Vermeulen suspects crimes worse than fraud. After riling “The Broker” in Newark, he follows the clues to Vienna. Hustler Earle Jackson soon regrets trying to con the Broker. Using the dead Kenyon’s passport, he flees to Nairobi. Both men are now the targets of a vast and vicious criminal network.

When her opera-fundraiser brother is charged with killing a donor, mezzo-soprano Renata Radleigh must clear his name. The victim invented a lucrative vaccine, and in visiting the medical center, Renata finds an unexpected ally: a handsome young man in PR. Their snooping will take her beyond the small world of grand opera and into the big-money, high-risk pharmaceutical development game.

When Renata Radleigh stumbles over a corpse in London, she fears the death has something to do with her brother Don’s boss, a secretive billionaire speculator. Don is acting as his front-man in St. Louis, Missouri, buying up and renovating a borderline slum. Renata’s beau Peter digs around and...

A Detroit detective and an Orthodox priest team up to solve two mysteries unfolding in the Santa Fe area: a missing person’s case involving a teenage girl and the ritualistic murder of a young nun. Their dangerous quest will require them to delve into the secret lives of Trappist monks and alienated...

Frank Raven, a former monk, cop, private detective, and hard drinker, is hired by a Hollywood director to protect his wild young star while they are making a movie in tiny Shelburne Falls, MA. After “Velcro” is swept away into the river, leaving no trace, Frank is driven to find out what happened. What role did her director play in her life? Did she fall? Did she jump? Was she pushed?

Eddie Collins, private eye and part-time Hollywood actor, is hired by ageing actor, Sam Roth, to locate his disowned son, Jack Callahan. Roth hopes to reconcile their relationship before his “Martini Shot” last scene of the day, as he is in his 90s. While working the Roth case, Eddie receives...

On the island of Sifnos, a tourist finds a child’s body in the ruins of an ancient temple, well hidden on the top of a cliff. The boy appears to have been sacrificed in a religious ritual. Chief Officer Patronas is summoned to investigate, along with his colleagues and his friend, Papa Michalis....

Psychologist Gil Moss is abducted by Doyle Wentworth, an elderly client who played John Muir in a satirical, anti-environmental miniseries. The two men journey westward from Indiana via freight train, private jet, and stolen automobile, aided and pursued by colorful figures from Gil’s and Doyle’s pasts. Destination: Muir Woods and the auditions for the revival of Yosemite Yahoos.

A priest is found brutally strangled before the altar of Detroit’s St. Cosmas Greek Orthodox Church. The captain of the Detroit Police assigns her star detective Christopher Worthy to the case, knowing that the interim priest is Worthy’s close friend Father Fortis. Worthy’s new partner Henderson...

Ritu Roy, a constable with an all-female United Nations peacekeeping unit in Darfur, Sudan, has been shot dead. Her superiors call it a random shooting. Her best friend thinks otherwise. She’s found a bullet casing from a sniper’s rifle, an uncommon weapon in the refugee camp. The case remains...