Jim Nash Adventures

Detective Jim Nash has a problem. He has a murder victim in an alley and a dead woman in his bed. His own homicide division wants to charge him with murder. To say he’s got serious commitment problems would be an understatement. He's on the lookout for twins, but he doesn't want to date them. He wants to know who murdered them. Previously published as Twisted Sisters.

Retired Detective Jim Nash is headed for a long-awaited vacation in the Florida Keys when he checks his messages and discovers that an old flame needs his help. After a brief consult with Zelda, the new woman in his life, Jim heads west to Panama Cay where he becomes embroiled in the rough seas and rocky shores of drugs, guns and money.

Retired detective Jim Nash is headed for a much-needed vacation with the two favorite women in his life. When he pulls off the highway into a rest stop, his girlfriend disappears without leaving a trace. Left to his own devices when the local PD refuses to let him file a missing persons report, Nash pulls out all the stops in his attempt to find the missing woman all by himself.

Allie manages to talk Jim into a vacation in the Keys, where trouble finds them once again when they cross paths with a woman and her little girl being harassed by the locals. It’s not long before Zelda’s tracking abilities are called upon to restore things as they should be. Third in the Jim Nash adventure series.

Jim and Allie end up investigating a double homicide while vacationing on an island resort paradise owned by a venture capitalist Jim once cleared of a murder charge.

Jim is tasked by an old friend for assistance in cleaning up part of a gunrunning operation created by government mismanagement. He dives full throttle into Mexican waters, only to encounter the mysterious yacht Captain and crew that will transport him to his rendezvous with trouble and death.

A beautiful woman. A knife-throwing sister. An unpaid debt. Jim Nash is long on memory and short on forgiveness in this Mexican adventure featuring boats, women, good times, and bad fortune for at least one of his girlfriend Allie’s former employees.

Jim is back in Mexico to come to the aid of a former flame that just happens to be handy with a knife. This time, he’s starting out with a boatload of trouble already on board. Two women who won’t allow him to say no to their demands insist on coming along for the ride. It’s a foregone conclusion that this trip will definitely not be going well for Jim. Jim Nash Adventure #7.

Jim Nash never learned to swim, but that doesn’t stop him from continuing to be caught up in one misguided scheme after another south of the border down Mexico way. Water, boats, and women in bikinis continue to figure prominently in his endless quest for a semblance of normality in his life. A drug cartel and a female assassin conspire to prevent Jim from finding a future with the woman he loves.

Nash turns himself into an insurance investigator tasked with discovering whether the death of a former drug dealer is cause for concern regarding a life insurance payout. The policy can’t be paid until Nash has finished his investigation into the old man’s life. Along the way, Jim somehow manages to fall in love with the personable beneficiary. Secrets and lies conspire against Jim until the end.

Jim has a brand new Private Investigator’s license, but he can’t use it in Nassau. After a briefing in the Big Apple on the diamond market, he heads off to the sunny paradise to try and dissuade a friend from flashing a blue diamond at one of his infamous parties. Minus a guest list for the forty partiers, they’re all suspects in the investigation.

A missing teenager draws Jim back to the scene of the crime in Mexico where Kara, his pregnant wife, was killed in an explosion aboard their sloop. He’s needed the intervening two years to get over the life-changing event, but now he’s ready to take another look. He crosses the border and lands an exceptional deal on a rental car. Now all he has to do is find two missing girls.

Jim Nash is well on his way to a complete recovery. He's in his second marriage and very happy. His job at the resort is secure. Then a blast from his past re-emerges and threatens to throw a wrench into his plans for the future. Will his bond with the new woman in his life be endangered? Jim is forced to making choices that could forever affect the new life he has chosen for himself.

Jim Nash is as content as he’s ever been—that is, until he manages to get himself arrested thanks to the new girl that has come into his life. While being held on trumped-up charges of murder, all the women in his life come together to post bond. With the local PD’s enthusiasm to pin the crime on him, he is forced into honoring payback in a form he will find very familiar.

The position of chief of police isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Bored with desk duty, Jim takes a short leave to use his P.I. license to help two sisters in their time of need. Persons unknown are harassing and threatening their startup business. To find out who, his quest leads him to gator country in the Florida Everglades, where he must separate business from pleasure.

Jim is back, and this time he’s bent on revenge for his murdered wife. With a drowned hitch-hiker in tow who manages to convince him that he should drop everything and help her find her missing brother, Jim is drawn into the woman’s world of crooked friends, sicarios, and her innocent parents. Before he can say no, he finds her in his bed, in his life, and in no mood for him to say no to anything.

Jim Nash and his partner's faithful dog Friday are left to fend for themselves when Maddie Spence is called home. A concerned client lands on their second-floor doorstep, convinced his wife has gone missing. The police won't get involved. It's too soon, and the wife hasn't been gone long enough.

Jim Nash has been chasing the ghosts in his life for too long. His business partner has deserted him and he doesn’t know if she’s coming back. His most recent receptionist and her dog, Friday, keeps handing him verbal abuse. The requested HR meeting never happens. And to top it off, he still hasn’t learned who orchestrated the death of both his wives.

Jim Nash takes his crew on a well-deserved vacation and ends up knee-deep in trouble when, trapped in a blizzard, he is forced to delay their trip to a ski lodge in the Colorado mountains. When the Interstate is closed, another couple is waylaid in the small town in what at first glance appears to be a bullet-riddled car. Are they on the wrong side of the law, or innocent victims?

Jim Nash has no plans to attend the wedding of former best friend Warren to Allie Sands, a girlfriend from his past. All that goes out the window when his current partner, Maddie Stone, sees the emails and convinces him otherwise. With the decision made for both of them, Jim and Maddie are waylaid in a small town on the way to the wedding for reasons unknown.

The sitter has never been late before, and Angela Franklin is expecting her baby sitter to arrive at any minute to keep an eye on her daughter. Anxious to get to work, Angela leaves six-year-old Holly alone to wait for the sitter. In her haste, she forgets her phone on the counter. Holly eventually gets bored playing by herself. She goes in search of the sitter.

Jim Nash and his partner, Maddie Spence are called on to help an old friend locate his missing daughter. But is she really missing? Jim thinks she’s gone on a romantic getaway for a long weekend and an opportunity to study for her final exams soon to be coming up. Maddie isn’t so certain. An old nemesis is out of prison and looking for trouble.

Maddie Spence is left to her own devices after her partner in business and romance has left her in the lurch with nary so much as an explanation or a phone call to alleviate her worries. With Jim Nash MIA, she takes on a case involving a strip club and credit card scammers. Thanks to her pole dancing class, she agrees to go undercover with almost no cover.

Jim Nash has gone missing and Maddie Spence, his partner, doesn't know where he is. That's probably for the best, though, because Jim has gone off the reservation and is down Mexico way. He's not taking a well-deserved vacay, though. He's trying to retrieve something he left behind years ago, and he's picked up a stowaway to help him do it.

Jim Nash and Maddie Spence find their lives disrupted when a woman from Jim's past lands on their doorstep. Faithful dog Friday doesn't seem to mind. He has a new bestie, even when she slips from their shared sofa-bed and disappears. It doesn't faze Friday in the slightest. He knows she'll be back, even when everyone else refuses to believe it to be.