November’s Past

Larry Macklin Mysteries Book 1

The job of criminal investigator in a rural Florida county is never easy, but it’s even harder when your father is the sheriff.

When Larry Macklin investigates the murder of a mutilated stranger, the search for the victim’s identity intersects with an arson investigation. The common thread is a small group of people who were in high school together in the ’70s, including Larry’s own father. Before Larry can rule any of them out as the killer, one of them turns up dead.

Why is the murderer targeting this particular group? What past secrets could be worth killing for now? Larry is running out of time and suspects, and his search for the truth may make him the next victim.

December’s Secrets

Larry Macklin Mysteries Book 2

Still smarting from his disastrous last date with Cara Laursen, criminal investigator Larry Macklin is nevertheless thrilled to get a call from her. But when he arrives at her house, he finds the chief suspect in his latest murder case sitting in her living room—her father, Henry.

Henry claims he is being framed and Larry wants to believe him, but evidence suggests otherwise. And when another murder occurs with direct links to Henry, Larry can’t stop him from being taken into custody.

For Cara’s sake, Larry will do anything to prove Henry’s innocence, but will he have to sacrifice his own ethics and risk obstructing justice in order to do it?

January’s Betrayal

Larry Macklin Mysteries Book 3

The specter of corruption has hovered over the Adams County Sheriff’s Office for months. Criminal investigator Larry Macklin is convinced he’s identified a mole for drug dealers within the department, but he doesn’t have enough evidence to prove it.

Larry’s attention is diverted when a recently released suspect in a series of rapes is shot and killed in the act of raping and murdering a woman… or so it seems. But the more Larry digs into the case, the more it becomes clear that the incident is part of a larger conspiracy—one that could have a devastating effect on his father’s career as sheriff.

Larry is desperate to find the real killer and to protect the reputation of the sheriff’s office, but it just might lead him to make the biggest mistake of his career.

February’s Regrets

Larry Macklin Mysteries Book 4

Following his resignation as an investigator with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, Larry Macklin is working part time as a reserve deputy and trying to decide what to do with his life.

He’s drawn back into investigating against his will when his friend, Shantel Williams, asks for his help to find her missing niece, Tonya. While Larry initially believes that there’s a reasonable explanation for Tonya’s lack of communication with her aunt, it quickly becomes obvious that her disappearance is part of something more serious. The Swamp Hacker, a serial killer who stalked Adams County fifteen years ago, has returned and is killing again.

Unable to resist the hunt for a predator that eluded the sheriff so many years ago, Larry agrees to assist with the current investigation. It becomes a race against time as the murders become more brutal and more frequent. Will the killer escape justice a second time?

About the Narrator

James D. Sasser

With a career spanning Broadway, off-Broadway, and television, James has been involved in the development of dozens of new works as an award-winning writer, actor, director and producer. James made his Broadway debut as a singer for Riverdance and has worked with outfits ranging from NY City Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar (as Pilate), the NY cast of Forbidden Broadway, The O’Neill, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, Goodspeed and many more. Stage favorites include Emile in South Pacific at Houston TUTS, and Lawrence in Engeman’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. TV appearances include Succession, The Good Fight and Madam Secretary.

As a writer, his TV pilot Forsyth County has garnered nine awards, including Best TV Screenplay at the HollyShorts festival in Hollywood. As one half of the writing team Burwell & Sasser, their musicals include Bottle Shock! (based on the hit film and nominated for 14 Broadway World awards), CUBAMOR, Le Comte Noir and the new operetta By Georges! the first ever new works commission by Lamplighters Music Theatre. As a producer with 959 Group, his first outing won two Tony awards and was nominated for twelve with Natasha, Pierre, and The Great Comet of 1812, marking Josh Groban’s Broadway debut.

Along with voicing The Larry Macklin Mysteries for A.E. Howe, James can be heard in hundreds of commercials, audiobooks and video games, where he’s most often a law enforcement professional, swashbuckling bodice ripper, drawling gunslinger or quite often British.

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