Whit Pynchon Mystery

THE ABDUCTION: It's no laughing matter when a terrified three-year-old girl is kidnapped from Milbrook's Fun Time Day Care Center by a man in a clown mask. It's every parent's worst nightmare -- and a delicate matter for Raven County's special investigator, Whit Pynchon.THE SUSPICION: The little girl's frantic mother is certain that her ex-husband is responsible and it looks as if Whit may have only a routine custody battle on his hands. But when a mysterious prowler begins stalking another child from the same day care center, Whit is convinced that the snatched toddler is facing a much uglier -- and possibly deadly -- fate.THE EXPLOSION: As the furor heats up -- in the town, in the press, and in Whit's persona life -- he and his lover, newspaper editor Anna Tyree, find themselves in the eye of the storm of controversy. With one child still missing and another in certain danger, Whit must double his efforts to unmask and capture a kidnapper who may be desperate enough to turn killer...

THE INCIDENT: An interrupted burglary on a peaceful Milbrook street ends in the stabbing of a citizen and the murder of a cop. And that's only the beginning of a criminal nightmare for special investigator Whit Pynchon.THE INVASION: Whit has good reason to believe that the bloody B & E is the latest in a rash of break-ins committed for the same reason: to steal firearms. Even worse, the culprits may be neo-Nazi terrorists, who rove through small towns like Milbrook, committing robberies as part of a larger, more treacherous plan.THE INVESTIGATION: Even with the help of his lover, newspaper editor Anna Tyree, Whit has his hands full -- with an obnoxious new police chief, a rabble-rousing minister, a pack of eager news hounds and the elusive killer thieves, whose vengeance is set to explode.

A.P.B.Special investigator Whit Pynchon and crime reporter Annie Tyson-Tyree race against time to find the psychotic killer who is murdering the wives and girlfriends of all the cops in the small West Virginia town of Millbrook*****D.O.A.THE TEAM: Whit Pynchon, the D.A.'s top cop (and bane of the town's police force) is back on another murder case, more heinous than any he can remember. Dogging his footsteps is Annie Tyson-Tyree, local crime reporter and Whit's lover as well, determined to report the story even at the cost of her job.THE CASE: A young girl brutally murdered, her pregnant mother blasted into a coma. Why was the woman silenced? What did she know? If the mother doesn't regain consciousness, the answers will die with her.THE CHOICE: More than a horrifying crime, more than a classic puzzle begging to be solved, news of the double shooting spreads to neighboring states and confronts one young girl, an innocent bystander, with a dangerous choice that will rob her of that innocence forever.*****B.O.L.O.THE CRIME: Two cops, investigating a suspicious gathering off an isolated mountain road, stumble on a massacre in the making, in which they along with men, women, even children find themselves among the bloody victims.THE CRIMEMAKERS: From the Florida swamps to the Appalachian hollers, a powerful network of drug dealers have staked their empire. They've got arsenals of firepower to protect their turf. They're greedy. And they don't give a damn.THE CRIMEBUSTERS: Investigator Whit Pynchon and editor Anna Tyree live-in lovers, occasional rivals are on this one. But a killer who never misses lures Anna into his gunsights. And this time Whit can't help her.