Mark Hepler's Novels
The Muffy Murders
A man loses his cellphone during Java Joe’s morning rush.
Muffy, a barista, agrees to return it to him after her shift, hoping to cop a finder’s fee or, at least, a lunch date.
Instead she runs into seriously bad dudes who think she might have accessed the phone’s contents. Being a free spirited self-professed artsy type, maybe she did?
Nashville Inferno
TV preacher Clay Coffee and his glamorous singing-star wife, Susan, lord over Nashville’s music-biz church—the place where rich country stars worship.
But Clay brings killer Jessie Tidwell into the flock, billing her as the church’s poster girl for redemption—a bad move. She uncorks Clay’s own criminal predilections and releases a torrent of murder, blackmail and deception.
The city’s leaders and record execs order police detectives to stanch the ensuing bad publicity. After all, tourism and music earnings teeter on the edge of decline, and scandal could cost the power brokers millions.
They order James, a former Special Ops soldier, and Kayla, a country music legend’s daughter, to track Clay, his girlfriends and his criminal past across East Tennessee’s mountains and Florida’s swampy panhandle, and finally to Palm Beach.
They live life on the road like there’s no tomorrow because, for Clay’s next victim, there might not be.
