BASED-ON-TRUE-CRIME SERIES
Book 1 — “I’m so terrified… that psycho’s going to kill me!”
Maria Dersch prophetically predicted her death at the savage hands of her ex-boyfriend, Billy Ray Shaughnessy, who hid in her attic for two and a half days with an ax before sneaking down in the dead of night, chopping Maria and her new lover to death.
In The Attic is an intense, shocking, and unforgettable psychological crime thriller based on the horrific, true murder case Garry Rodgers investigated as an actual detective. It’s also told from the killer’s point of view through his lyrical, psychotic, and homicidal thoughts.
Note: In The Attic is FREE on all eBook platforms!
Book 2 — The Truth Lies Buried
Under The Ground is a psychological suspense thriller based on the true crime story of Kristen Madsen—a troubled eighteen-year-old victim last seen with her ex-boyfriend, Esa Raasanen in a small city on Vancouver Island at Canada’s southwest coast.
Conventional police procedural techniques fail to find the buried truth in the mystery of Kristen’s disappearance, so a highly-complex criminal undercover operation sets upon Esa. It slowly sucks him into a fictional—yet completely believable—world of organized crime run by a shadow figure known only as “The Boss.” The truth is uncovered through a sophisticated psychological manipulation of Esa, carefully planned and scripted by an undercover team who developed the amazing “Mister Big Sting”.
Book 3 — What if six members—three generations—of your family were slain in a monstrous mass murder?
From The Shadows is based on the horrific true crime story of grandparents, Ed and Patricia Bartley, parents Gunner and Trisha Jephsen, and their two prepubescent girls who disappeared on a Vancouver Island camping trip. Ella was just eleven. Lily was only nine.
This terrible tragedy shocked North America and riveted the Canadian public as Serious Crimes investigators scoured British Columbia’s west coast for any sign of the Jephsen and Bartley families. Where they were, what happened, and who did it captivated all. Get From The Shadows at leading EBook retailers.
Book 4 —Dead Men Do Tell Tales
An unidentified and decomposing body found dumped down a secluded bank beside a rural Vancouver Island road becomes the most baffling and bizarre homicide case of a detective’s long career.
“Beside The Road” becomes the file name for the rotting John Doe as the Serious Crimes investigation team uses nearly every available tool to figure out who this person was… and what happened to him. This based-on-true-crime story shows you how real police procedures and leading-edge forensic techniques slowly develop a subject profile. Informants, paid agents, wiretaps, digital re-creations, major media involvement and creative stimulations that manipulate suspects finally pay off. So does good old fashioned detective work like skilled interviews, acting on tiny details and operating with effective teamwork.
This dead man does tell a tale—a forensic tale of his true identity and why he was killed. It’s a tragic tale, and one filled with can’t-put-down suspense that ends with a baffling twist you’ll never see coming. It’s just that bizarre. Get Beside The Road at leading EBook retailers.
Book 6 — Angels Forever – Forever Angels
Who had the most to gain by murdering a bad-ass biker—especially the powerful president of a Hells Angels Motorcycle Club chapter? The answer lies in Between The Bikers—Book 6 in the Based-On-True-Crime-Series.
Mark Mitchell, aka Zeke, disappears on a Saturday afternoon just before a full-patch ceremony held between the bikers at a Hells Angels clubhouse on Vancouver Island in British Columbia at Canada’s west coast. The bikers are furious and the police are frantic to control an escalating mess that could lead to an all-out war within the Angels’ criminal organization. All fear a deadly underworld rift is about to explode.
While the bikers witch-hunt within their ranks and outside the law to ferret Zeke’s killers, the police urgently use every tactic and technique to solve the crime and contain the volatile gangsters. Wiretaps, surreptitious surveillance, clandestine operations, and highly-placed secret informants work through an unheard-of alliance between the bikers and their sworn enemies—the cops.
Book 7 — You Never Know What Goes On In People’s Minds
What really happened to Kita Southern? A vibrant entrepreneur with high ambitions suddenly disappears from a small Vancouver Island city. She seems to have it all. Beauty. Charm. And a passion for channeling the metaphysical. But Kita has a lifestyle most don’t know of, and you never know what goes on in people’s minds. The truth in Kita Southern’s case is beyond the limits of imagination—an incomprehensible tragedy.
Beyond The Limits is Book 7 in the 12-part Based-On-True-Crime Series by retired homicide detective and coroner Garry Rodgers. This story comes with a warning: Explicit descriptions of the crime scenes, factual dialogue, real forensic procedures, and actual police investigation, interview and interrogation techniques are portrayed. If you crave graphic realism in crime writing, Beyond The Limits is your book.
Book 8 — She Was 74 Years Old, For God’s Sakes
What monstrous savage viciously attacked Bea Bonnell—inflicting fractures, burns, and excruciating torture on her? And why did he do it? Bea was seventy-four years old, for God’s sake, when this true crime story occurred.
Beatrice Bonnell and her husband, Stan Bonnell, spend their winters at the cabin they own on De Courcy Island in the mild southwest coast of British Columbia. Their De Courcy cabin is far south of their second home near Atlin, an equally small place in the cold goldfields of northern Canada’s Yukon Territory. And it’s always safe and secure at the De Courcy cabin—until a masked and armed stranger arrives with a depraved demand and the brutal intent of getting back something extremely valuable. Bea resists, and the barbaric beast works Bea over—breaking her fingers and ribs, repeatedly singeing her side with a red-hot knife, then setting the cabin on fire with Bea blindfolded and hogtied inside.
Is there a link between the two cabins—Atlin and De Courcy—bringing on this atrocious assault and putting Bea Bonnell into a life-threatening state where she’ll succumb to horrific wounds? That’s the complex case facing the Serious Crimes Section. Their intricate investigation takes detectives from the wintery waters of the Pacific Northwest to the snow-packed roads of the Klondike where they prove two fundamentals found in solving all crimes. One: Occam’s razor—when faced with two hypotheses, the simpler one is always correct. Two: The stranger the circumstances, the closer the answer is to home.
Based-On-True-Crime Series Collection (Box Set)
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SHARLENE BATE CRIME FICTION SERIES
Do you believe in ghosts?
No Witnesses To Nothing is a police procedural novel based on a true crime story straight out of CSI or The X-Files where many believe that paranormal intervention occurred.
Sergeant Sharlene Bate, of Vancouver’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, pries open Pandora’s Box when two drug informers are brutally executed and a tragedy occurs when two young police officers attempt to capture a madman terrorizing the Canadian Yukon wilderness.
No ordinary madman, the local Tlingit people say. It’s The Kushtaka. The Wildman-Of-The-Woods. The mythical being who tricks you, kills you, and steals your soul.
No Witnesses To Nothing is a book about karma – what goes around, comes around; both in life and in death. Disguised as a can’t-put-down murder mystery, Sergeant Sharlene Bate’s investigation reveals a secret bridge connecting science and spirituality along the pathway to understanding the essence of our existence – the soul.
Desperate People Do Desperate Things
No Life Until Death is a terrifying, psychological suspense thriller by retired homicide detective and forensic coroner, now investigative crime writer, Garry Rodgers.
Outwardly, Inspector Sharlene Bate of I-HIT, Vancouver’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, has her life back on track. Shining career. About to remarry. And a healthy, thirteen-year-old daughter named Emma.
Inwardly? Sharlene Bate knows different.
In Palo Alto, California, Abra and Darren Playfair’s middle-class world is imploding. Their thirteen-year-old daughter, Molly, is dying from Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome—aHUS—now in end-stage renal failure. Her kidneys must be replaced.
Molly Playfair and Emma Bate have something else in common besides age—an AB Positive blood-type—one of the rarest on earth. Only matching organs will save Molly’s life, forcing the Playfairs to hire unscrupulous scalpels in the Philippines and buy her a transplant through the underground world of human organ trafficking.
When Inspector Bate investigates a body found butchered and robbed of its organs, she’s dragged into a ring of black-market harvesters operating in Vancouver and shipping parts to Manila—internationally targeting those with rare blood. Oblivious to desperate people doing desperate things, Sharlene Bate battles personal blackness while the traffickers stalk Emma.
Time runs out for Molly and Emma as Sharlene Bate and the Playfairs desperately fight to keep their daughters alive. One must die so the other can live. For the girls…there’s no life until death.
How far would you go to save your child?
STAND ALONE BOOKS
Is there a hidden reason why the Sioux and Cheyenne warriors defeated Lt. Colonel Custer’s U.S. 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn that no other historian has published?
The Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of the highest-profile events still shaping North American history. It’s an intensely studied military and social conflict. Yet, the main mystery of what occurred in June of 1876 on the Montana plains seems unsolved.
That’s why—not how—the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors were able to strategically and tactically annihilate five United States Army 7th Cavalry companies under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer’s command and severely maul other soldiers in his regiment.
The core reason—the root cause—of why Custer really lost the Battle of the Little Bighorn hasn’t been clearly identified by most historians. They’ve overlooked the Sun Dance effect—the psychological and spiritual impact of the warriors’ cultural unity led by Lakota Chief Sitting Bull. Sun Dance — Why Custer Really Lost The Battle of the Little Bighorn outlines why the Lakota Sioux Sun Dance had such a powerful effect on the warriors’ will to win and why this sacred ceremony was the root cause of Custer’s demise.
Who are you? Where did you come from? Where are you going? And what is your interconnected place, purpose and meaning in the universe?
These are timeless queries people like you’ve asked since humans first consciously observed the heavenly heights. Long ago, your ancestors used their emerging awareness to question universal curiosities. It’s a natural thing for humankind to look for simple answers to straightforward questions and, no doubt, you’ve queried them many times during your earthly existence without receiving any clear response.
Inside Interconnect, you’ll find a conclusion about your place, purpose and meaning in the universe. It might be one person’s opinion, but it’s based on thorough research and over six decades of personal experience from an author with extensive life and death exposure. However, for the finding to make sense you need to take a little tour through the universal truths.
If you’re looking for a fascinating read filled with fun and realism, Interconnect — Finding Your Place, Purpose and Meaning in the Universe is for you. It’s guaranteed to make you think and raise your awareness. Possibly, it’ll provide piece of mind and happiness as well.
WRITING-CRAFT BOOKS
How to Write Deadly Crime Thrillers — A No BS Guide With 101 Killer Tips
Are you writing your first of many crime thrillers? Are you a seasoned vet wanting to improve your crime thriller writing skills? Or are you just looking for useful and down-to-earth tips on how to write deadly crime fiction?
Regardless of your stage in writing crime thrillers, retired homicide detective and forensic coroner—now bestselling crime writer, Garry Rodgers, tells you how How To Write Deadly Crime Thrillers and gives you a No BS Guide with 101 Killer Tips.
This informative guide is one of the few books on crime thriller writing that clearly tells you what it takes to write a Bestselling Crime Thriller that will climb to the top of the charts and stick.
How To Write Deadly Crime Thrillers is laid out in eight easy to understand sections covering the main points on the craft of crime thriller writing. This book covers the foundation for fiction crime writing and has an accompanying book called How to Self-Edit Deadly Crime Thrillers.
How To Self-Edit Deadly Crime Thrillers — A No BS Guide With 101 Killer Tips
Are you self-editing your first of many crime thrillers? Are you a seasoned vet wanting to improve your overall self editing skills? Or are you just looking for useful and down-to-earth tips on how to generally edit yourself, no matter what you’re writing?
Regardless of your stage in learning the craft of self editing for fiction writers, retired homicide detective and forensic coroner—now BestSelling crime writer, Garry Rodgers—tells you how How To Self-Edit Deadly Crime Thrillers and gives you a No BS Guide with 101 Killer Tips.
This informative guide is one of the few books on self editing for indie authors that clearly tells you what it takes to polish your editing and proofreading skills and write a Bestselling Thriller that will climb to the top of the charts that’ll stay there.
How To Self-Edit Deadly Crime Thrillers is laid out in eight, easy to understand sections covering the main points on the craft of editing for writers. It also has an accompanying book titled How To Write Deadly Crime Thrillers — A No BS Guide With 101 Killer Tips.
