Sam Jenkins Mysteries

A stipulation of the Patriot Act gives Chief Sam Jenkins an easy job; investigate all the civilians working for the Prospect Police Department. But what looks like a routine chore to the gritty ex-New York detective, turns into a nightmare. Preliminary inquiries reveal that a middle-aged employee didn’t exist prior to 1975.

TV reporter Rachel Williamson helps Chief Sam Jenkins with a classic fraud investigation. However, the case puts Rachel in jeopardy, and her abduction by a mentally disturbed man changes her life forever.

Sam Jenkins thinks no good turn goes unpunished when the famous singer he’s assigned to protect decides it’s hate at first sight. Famous country and western singer C.J. Profitt receives death threats from a group of rightwing zealots. Chief Sam Jenkins gets the job of keeping C.J. safe while she performs at a charity benefit.

Chief Sam Jenkins runs headlong into Tennessee’s faction of Korean organized crime when a mobster tries to shake down two former call girls attempting to establish a legitimate business. Soon, bodies begin piling up—all with a Korean connection—in Sam’s town of Prospect and nearby Knoxville.

Against his better judgment, Police Chief Sam Jenkins hires Dallas Finchum, nephew of local corrupt politicians. Now, Finchum is accused of a rape that occurred when he attended college three years earlier.

Sam Jenkins never thought about being a fish out of water during the twenty years he spent solving crimes in New York. But things change, and after retiring to Tennessee, he gets that feeling. In true Jenkins style, Sam turns common police practice on its ear to insure an innocent man doesn’t fall prey to an imperfect system and the guilty party receives appropriate justice.

Old-time mobsters, dead bodies, and a former love complicate Sam Jenkins’ life as he attempts to enjoy his new police job on “the peaceful side of the Smokies.”

Five mysteries spanning more than four decades in the life of career police officer Sam Jenkins.

A serial killer is preying on the young prostitutes of east Tennessee and only Sam Jenkins has the information to catch him.

A collection of small town, police procedural mystery stories from best-selling author, Wayne Zurl.

A collection of six crime novelettes that take you on a trip through the more off-beat regions of law enforcement.

Sam Jenkins is the new police chief in town and everyone wonders, will Prospect, Tennessee ever be the same?

A routine missing person’s case sends Sam Jenkins and John Gallagher into the world of industrial pollution, environmental activists and profuse ambiguities.

Six police mysteries investigated by career cop Sam Jenkins. From an old robbery-homicide that made national news in 1968 to a grisly murder reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO to a suspicious death in a nursing home, Jenkins and the officers of Prospect PD handle them in stride. Add to those, the murder of an aging movie star, the attempted murder of a retired detective and a bank robbery th