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The award-winning, highly-acclaimed first mystery/thriller by Joseph LeValley that introduced Tony Harrington and the Orney, Iowa Town Crier to the world. In it, a young newspaper reporter believes a man on trial for murder is innocent. When he goes looking for the real killer, he sparks more tragedy and uncovers a sinister plot with widespread implications.

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Cry from an Unknown Grave - On sale!

​A girl escapes from human traffickers and reaches out to Tony Harrington for help, putting him on the trail of the vilest of all criminals – those who kidnap, abuse and sell children. This story takes Tony and his fellow reporter, Madeline, from Chicago to Kansas City, in addition to Iowa, to track down and expose a ring of evil beyond anything Tony could have imagined. Tony and Madeline find their own lives in peril as they race to rescue a group of young victims they've never even met.

​Winner of two honors from literary contests!
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The Third Side of Murder

  • ​Maybe his cousin’s fatal fall wasn’t an accident.
  • Maybe the stranger seen following her isn’t just a stalker.
  • Maybe the alleged mafia enforcer is something even worse.
  • Maybe the beautiful young woman isn’t who she says she is.
  • Maybe Tony Harrington is in over his head - again.
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Follow Tony to the Amalfi Coast of Italy and to New York City as he searches for the truth and risks everything to get the “The Third Side” of the story.

​Winner of two honors from the Incipher Awards!

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Performing Murder

  • A dead body floating in the country club swimming pool.
  • A loved one charged with murder.
  • Evidence against him that couldn’t exist unless the unthinkable was true.
  • A dark secret from the past fueling the fire.
  • An unspeakably evil man determined to destroy them.
  • A beautiful actress who says she wants to help.
  • A newspaper reporter searching for truth, even as his world is turned upside down.
  • Tony Harrington, in over his head… again.
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     A major motion picture company chooses Orney, Iowa for the on-location shooting of its latest drama/thriller. Tony Harrington and others at the Orney Town Crier join the rest of the community in excitedly welcoming the arrival of international celebrities to their small city. However, just two weeks into filming, the excitement turns to horror when one of the lead actresses is found dead, the victim of a violent homicide.
      Tony’s world comes crashing down when someone he loves is charged with the crime and the evidence is indisputable. Tony digs deeper, trying to prove the man’s innocence, but only finds additional damning clues. Distraught but still determined, he uncovers a dark secret from thirty-five years in the past that hints at an unspeakably evil hand at work behind the scenes.
      In the midst of the turmoil, Tony meets and is smitten by another beautiful and talented actress. He soon finds himself in a heated romance – the most significant of his twenty-nine years. She joins him in his quest for the truth, even as he faces assaults, attempted murders, the paparazzi, and a friend lying 
​Book Five: The Sophocles Rule
Spoiler alert: Tony survives his previous adventures so he can go on to solve the murder of an elderly man with ties to a dark episode in Orney's history.  The investigation sparks another murder and the disappearance of a high school student.  Tony is as shocked as everyone else when he learns the truth - but everyone else isn't staring down the barrel of a gun in the hand of a murderer!  The book is available now from this website. Its official release date in stores and at online sellers is March 3, 2023.  
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Three Weeks in Winter
in the street with a gunshot wound. As Tony gets closer to finding the truth, he finds himself trapped and facing the greatest peril of his life.
     Join Tony for this fourth tale of his exploits, as he races against time to save the people he loves, win a woman’s heart, and stop a criminal genius from once again Performing Murder.    Winner of two awards, including being named "Best Mystery of 2021" by the Maincrest Media Awards!​
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Winter is frigid but fear is just as numbing.
And death is the coldest of all.
A rural deputy sheriff’s suspicious death in Chicago draws small-town reporter Tony Harrington to the Windy City to investigate. Within days he discovers facts the police either missed or chose to ignore – facts that lead him to a white supremacist militia that calls itself The Patriots of Victory One.  
In a dangerous and foolhardy late-night incursion into the POVO camp, Tony finds evidence of an impending attack of incomprehensible scale and cruelty. To make matters worse, POVO and its plans may be funded by one of America’s greatest enemies.
Tony and his girlfriend, actress Darcy Gillson, face multiple threats in their efforts to expose and stop the POVO plot. What they learn grips their hearts in a fear as dark and as cold as a winter night in the Midwest. Though the FBI, the CIA, and the military mobilize to respond, the safety of thousands may rely on the courage and determination of a handful of civilians. The countdown has started as they race to prevent the deadly strike that could be fatal to everything we hold dear.
 
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