Atropos
Atropos will keep you on the edge of your seat and guessing from the opening line until the heart pounding ending.
If there is such a thing as a routine murder, Detective Riley Scott was hoping that the one he just caught would be exactly that—routine—but it turns out to be anything but. He quickly realizes that it is connected to a string of murders throughout Tampa, and the only common thread is the senselessness and brutality of the killings.
The closer Scott gets to the investigation, the closer the investigation gets to Scott, hitting home in ways he could not have imagined. Before the case is cleared, Scott will find himself suspended from his job, rushing to find his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared, and standing at the scene of the murder of brother officers.
With just days to go before the Chief takes the investigation away from him and turns it over to a Task Force, Scott must race against the clock to find out on his own if his girlfriend is a cold-blooded killer.
After 40 years in forensics, working on countless investigations, Royce Wilson has turned his forensic and CSI experience into a gripping thriller of detective versus serial killer. This book takes the reader on a journey of how real CSIs work scenes, and how real detectives think, speak, and act during investigations.
The Cameo
Read one of the best murder mystery novels to come along in quite some time. Written with the reader in mind who does not want to have the clues placed in front of them like a trail of breadcrumbs, The Cameo is a thrill ride like no other.
Every book has a line, a page, or even a chapter that is so powerful the reader stays with it and re-reads that part over and over again. If there were a Book of Evil, the chapter on Lowell Huffman would be that part; dog-eared and worn edges, the chapter on the man whose darkness knows no depth and no margins would catch you reading it again and again.
Huffman is evil and nothing else.
As a homicide detective in Tampa, Florida, Riley Scott has seen his fair share of murders, but never has he looked so deeply into the eyes of a man who enjoyed it; a man who breathed it in like oxygen and drank it up like water. Scott has looked into those eyes and knows he is in a race to save the latest captive of the killer—a killer who escaped police custody and now taunts Scott and terrorizes Tampa. Just when Scott thinks he is getting close to Huffman, he realizes he is still one step behind.
But when a 9-1-1 call leads police to a dead body with a screwdriver protruding from its neck, and the body is identified as the man Scott has been chasing, and the call was made by one of the killer’s surviving victims, it’s case closed, right?
A few days after the man’s body is discovered, Scott’s instincts wake him from his sleep and lead him to the actual killer where Scott finds his own life in danger, as well as that of one of Huffman’s captives.
The Diamond
Ever wonder what it’s like to be in business with organized crime, and want to get out? They say there is only one way in, and only one way out. The way in… is through someone else’s murder.
The way out…well, you know.
Detective Preston Hollis had never killed anyone during more than a decade in law enforcement. That all changes when one of his informants turns up dead and he is pulled, like a man being drawn and quartered, between his career, his loved ones, and the investigation.
Most career criminals are not known for their intellectual prowess, but when a Tampa crime boss devises a plan to kidnap a local Major League baseball player from his home and ransom him for millions, it goes beyond the pale. Undercover detective Preston Hollis, who is thrown into the investigation, will soon find his own life and the lives of his family hanging in the balance of the investigation, with the only apparent solution being to participate in the kidnapping plot, and possibly, a murder.
A truly harrowing, heart pounding tale of little man versus big man, The Diamond is as riveting as it gets.
The Domino Effect
The Domino Effect will have you up late at night—with the lights on, checking under the beds and behind doors—turning pages, trying to figure out what is coming on the next page.
The FBI estimates there are at least 25 – 50 serial killers active in the United States at any given time, committing roughly 150 murders a year. The chances of a random detective becoming involved in one of those investigations is slim to none, but Riley Scott has been through two of them—successfully, though not unscathed. Now he finds himself targeted by a killer bent on proving his superiority to Scott by framing him for the very murders he is investigating. When his bosses in the department buy into it and turn on him, just as someone close to him is abducted, Scott is thrown into a race against the clock to clear his name and stop the killer before anyone else is murdered.
The Honorable
Have you ever wanted to work an actual murder investigation? Ever wish you could spend a week working alongside real homicide detectives? The Honorable is a glimpse inside how real detective work gets done, with unexpected twists and an ending you will not see coming!
Every detective knows it usually comes down to luck—whether or not they clear their case—and that luck is usually found hidden somewhere in the minutiae of the investigation. When Riley Scott catches the case in which the Mayor’s son is found murdered in a pay-by-the-hour motel room, he knows it will be a heat case with career implications. But before he is even able to take a breath, he finds himself up to his neck in politics, the DEA, and his own command staff.
When a drug kingpin targets one of the people Scott has interviewed, he realizes what direction he has to take the case in, putting his career and life in jeopardy.
Like Royce Wilson’s other books, The Honorable will have you rewinding the story and replaying different scenes in your mind for days after you finish reading it.
The Slayer Statute
A teenage boy on trial for murdering his mother and shooting her fiancé.
An investigator for the prosecution who believes the young man is innocent, and the fiancé staged the scene.
Both stand to inherit millions from the woman’s death. However, Florida has a slayer statute which states that anyone responsible for the death of another cannot benefit from that person’s murder.
The evidence is ambiguous, but the line in the sand is clear.
Be seated. The trial is getting ready to begin.
When a robbery detective resigns his job from the sheriff’s office because he has a problem with arresting people and taking away their freedom, or worse, he is hired by his long-time friend as an investigator at the prosecutor’s office. In his new job, he will only be preparing cases for trial—no arrests. But in his first assignment, he finds himself questioning the guilt of the young man accused of killing his mother, and learns there is forensic evidence against the defendant that can be interpreted in more than one way. This propels him along a course, pitting him against his boss and the original investigating detective, with a suspenseful ending in the middle of the trial, or so it seems.
Code Black
A Vice detective is murdered during a drug buy.
His partner—in Vice and in life—witnesses the shooting and immediately goes code black, a law enforcement term for going blank during an extremely stressful situation.
Months later, after being medically and psychologically cleared to return to duty, she is ambushed and killed during what appears to be a routine traffic stop.
Riley Scott must try to connect the dots that lead him into the world of drug smuggling, inter-office relationships, and street justice before another officer is murdered in a similar ambush, and his own life is placed in peril.