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J.Kevin Earp has lived in West Virginia, Ohio and Arizona. He is a graduate of the Ohio State University Fisher College of Business and worked in various computer technology roles before attending Ohio Northern Pettit College of Law. He practiced law for eleven years before retiring. He spends his time writing and in the company of friends and family. Kevin enjoys exploring the southwest U.S. with his wife and son. He is a distant cousin to the Earp brothers of OK Corral fame and enjoys researching the history of the brothers and the town of Tombstone. Kevin has been a member of the Tri C Ghost Hunters since 2019 and enjoys participating in paranormal investigations. He has written science fiction and mysteries since he was a teenager for his own enjoyment. Recently he decided to share his stories with the public. He is the author of the Marcus Lear Mysteries and the Josiah Solomon Paranormal Mysteries. In the Marcus Lear Mysteries, Marcus is a former police detective. Jenny Gibbons is his best friend, wildlife officer and a bodybuilder. Together they solve mysteries and hunt down dangerous killers. Join them in their adventures where the biggest challenge is sometimes just to stay alive! Josiah Solomon is a former U.S. Army Ranger and now the leader of a team of Paranormal Investigators. Relieved of combat duty after receiving a warning from a deceased friend, Josiah and his team now seek to help the living, and sometimes the dead, in resolving unfinished business!

One terrible night Detective Sergeant Marcus Lear exchanged gunshots with a 16-year-old burglary suspect. The boy was left a paraplegic. Marcus suffered PTSD and could no longer bring himself to carry a gun. Forced to resign the job he loved, Marcus returned to his historic family home on Perrys Island to try to put his life back together. Marcus had grown up there listening to the police chief’s stories of crime solving in the city. The chief’s stories inspired Marcus to leave the island and become the youngest detective in PD’s history. Marcus’s childhood best friend had been Jenny Gibbons, the Chief’s daughter, who was now an Ohio Wildlife Officer assigned to the island’s state park. She is determined to help Marcus face his pain and to reestablish their relationship. As they return home from an evening out, Jenny learns that the wife of an island businessman has been brutally murdered. With Chief Gibbons away for the night, a desperate Jenny turns to Marcus to use his experience to preserve the crime scene. Marcus refuses at first, unwilling to have anything to do with police work that might force him to relive recent events. Finally, he gives in to her pleas and agrees to supervise the crime scene just until the Chief can take over. Despite himself, Marcus is drawn deeper into the investigation. When a witness identifies a youth camp chaperone as the last person to be with the victim before her death, Marcus believes the man’s story of innocence. Marcus is proven correct when the elderly housekeeper who helped raise him is left for dead in his own house and the historic mansion set on fire. The attack provides a personal aspect to the case that drives him to narrow down the suspects. Marcus’s single-minded pursuit of the killer while fighting his personal demons might cost him his own life!

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Marcus Lear is a former Detective Sergeant with the Columbus, Ohio, police force. One terrible night a gunfight with a 16-year-old burglary suspect left the boy a paraplegic and Marcus with debilitating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Marcus resigned from the police force and returned home to Perrys Island. Determined to rebuild his career, he plans to set up a company to develop software that will help law enforcement agencies solve complex criminal cases. In the middle of all this, Marcus learns that the boy he shot, and his mother, are losing their home. Can he help them while successfully battling his own demons?When Marcus is hired by an insurance company to locate a fabulous collection of rare and valuable rubies, he looks forward to what should be an easy investigation, with no dead bodies to get in the way. However, he quickly learns that people connected to the rubies are being murdered, and a strange message is left written on each victim’s clothing in their own blood! Marcus asks his lifelong friend, Jenny Gibbons, to help in finding the rubies. But Jenny already has two jobs as both an Ohio Wildlife Officer and a bodybuilder with her eye set on professional competition. Jenny wonders what working so closely with Marcus would mean for their relationship, her career, and her competitive aspirations? Despite her misgivings, she finds this mystery irresistible and agrees to help. The ruby collection belonged to Robert Ellington III, patriarch of the wealthy Ellington family, who died leaving no one knowing where the rubies were hidden. Marcus and Jenny investigate each member of the Ellington family, including the brilliant and hauntingly beautiful granddaughter, Tiffany Ellington. As they draw nearer to finding the rubies, Marcus and Jenny learn of a hidden market that caters to the super-rich and deals in ultra-high-end gemstones. One of the gem brokers in this secretive market has been murdered, and the pair discover that he was looking for a buyer for several very valuable stones. Marcus acts the part of a potential buyer for the stones in hopes of luring the thief out of the shadows. But when Marcus sets a trap for the killer, he discovers that the trap has backfired and put Jenny’s life in terrible danger!

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Category: Literature & Fiction; Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Former Police Detective Sergeant Marcus Lear’s career was ended by PTSD, the result of a gunfight with a 16-year-old burglary suspect. He has moved on by founding a company that is developing software to help law enforcement agencies solve complex criminal cases. Now, the serial murderer known as The Mousetrap Killer claims to have struck again. Three times in the past, he announced to the police chief of Maryvale, Indiana that an innocent victim had been taken and imprisoned in an elaborate chamber, cleverly booby-trapped and set to kill if the victim could not solve a riddle in time. The riddle would provide a clue to escaping the trap. Every day, the Killer would taunt the police until the trap was sprung and the victim died. But no victim’s body had ever been recovered, and the Killer was never identified. Now, the Killer has sent another message announcing a new trap, and a new victim. Who has been dropped into that terrible prison this time? Where are they being held? And, who is the Mousetrap Killer? Desperate, the Maryvale police call on Marcus and his team to use their new and untested software application to help find the Killer and the latest victim. Can the Lear team and Kat Montague, young Asian goth detective and Lear’s newest field agent, work with the local police and FBI to find the victim before time runs out?The task force swings into action while awaiting the next message from the Killer, taunting the police and perhaps providing a clue to saving the victim. But why has the Killer gone silent! While pondering this new mystery, a frightening possibility is uncovered regarding the latest victim that hits very close to home. Marcus and his people must find the trap, and the victim, before it’s too late!

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Category: Literature & Fiction; Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Col. Josiah Solomon, a 20-year Army ranger had been in command of a critically important mission. A paranormal visitor warned him of an ambush and saved his unit. When he refuses to explain why he chose to disobey orders, the Colonel is deemed unfit for command and sent home to teach high school ROTC. There he joins a team of paranormal investigators. Most of the places they investigate come up empty, but they soon find themselves working to help the living and the dead!Ava Rinehart grew up the daughter of a local farmer. She is dealing with two problems: breast cancer and a ghostly friend who needs help. As a little girl she had played alone among the crumbling walls of the old Lakeshore Inn. In the shadows she had met the Gray Lady. She asks the Colonel’s team to investigate. During the pre-investigation, they discover the inn is being restored, possibly destroying forever any chance of identifying the Gray Lady. Mary Grace is the 7-year-old daughter of a local family. When she suddenly becomes terrified to enter her own bedroom, her mother asks the Colonel for help. Soon, her older sister, who had teased Mary Grace for her ‘ghost story’ is also traumatized by something in the house. Twice the team finds nothing in the home, but events soon convince them that there is something far worse than a ghost there. But how do they fight something they can’t even prove exists?

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Category: Literature & Fiction; Mystery, Thriller & Suspense