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Curse of the Savoy, the fourth in the Priscilla Tempest mystery series, is a gripping tale of suspense set against the backdrop of high society and 1960s London.

In the luxurious setting of London’s Savoy Hotel, an opulent dinner party hosted by the legendary filmmaker Orson Welles takes a sinister turn. Amidst the grandeur of the Pinafore Room,...

Check back into London’s posh Savoy Hotel in the swinging sixties where dark forces and murder are uninvited guests—volume 3 in the cheeky series that is now a French bestseller.

Everything at London’s Savoy Hotel appears to be the picture of perfection: two Italian princes are checking in and an amorous English lord is taking photographs on the...

The rich and famous are converging on the iconic Savoy Hotel in swinging ’60s London—including a famous Broadway producer with anger issues, a demanding Indian raja, and a gorgeous film star with certain kinky predilections. All is as it should be—until the murder of a showgirl threatens to scandalize the hotel.

The list of suspects includes...

An atmospheric, entertaining new mystery series introducing a plucky Canadian heroine and set in the world’s most famous hotel.

It’s 1968. London is in full swing and the Savoy Hotel is at the height of its legendary glitz and glamour, welcoming the rich, famous and aristocratic into its rarified world of perfection. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard...

TREE CALLISTER IS LEAVING SANIBEL ISLAND!

Sanibel’s most unlikely private detective has decided to call it quits. Battered by hurricanes, their Captiva home in ruins, Tree and his wife Freddie are moving to Chicago.

Just before he leaves, Tree gets a call from his former wife, Judy Markov. Known as the American Oligarch, thanks to the business she...

American astronaut Becky McPhee is experiencing the euphoria of her first spacewalk as she makes repairs on the International Space Station when she hears...

A Voice…

Returning to earth, Becky announces at a press conference that the Voice has told her that the planet will cease to exist during the next solar eclipse .

The world, already recovering...

The Sanibel Sunset Detective is back—and he’s in bigger trouble than ever!

The last thing Tree Callister wants is to get involved in the movie that is being shot on Sanibel Island. But the film deals with the Hollywood life of his best pal, Rex Baxter. Cast as Rex is the legendary movie star John Twist who was lured out of retirement to play the...

Beat the Devil!

Two boys are caught in the midst of a raging nighttime storm on a Sanibel Island beach. Then lightning strikes and for those boys nothing will ever be the same.

One of the youths is Tree Callister who grows up to be an unlikely private detective on Sanibel Island. The other boy, Tree’s half-brother, Samuel Callister, known to...

Two nude bodies are found floating in an abandoned quarry outside the town of Georgetown and a quiet provincial region will never be the same.

Former RCMP corporal Jean Whitlock uneasily trying to put her life back together in her hometown of Milton, must come to the rescue of her abused cousin.

A famous member of Canada’s parliament suffers a...

Tree Callister and his wife Freddie are in London, England, to attend the wedding of Freddie’s nephew. It promises to be a relaxing time, visiting family, seeing London’s historic sites.

So then how does Tree end up following a mysterious young woman? Why are tattooed thugs banging him across the head and throwing him into the back of a van? In...

How does one detective end up married four times?

A good question. Tree Callister wishes he had the answer.

All he knows is that three of his ex-wives have arrived on Sanibel Island, off the west coast of Florida, much to the chagrin of Freddie, his fourth wife.

What’s more, all his ex-wives are in trouble.

Before Tree knows it, he is up to...

For The Confidence Man, love is the greatest con game of all.

Los Angeles in 1928, where everyone wants to be someone else, where fantasy and reinvention are the orders of the day, particularly now that the moving picture business, the city’s biggest industry, has got everyone scared thanks to this newfangled thing called sound.

Meet Billy...

WANTED!


A big, floppy-eared hound dog. Answers to the name of Clinton.

The FBI wants him. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is hunting for him. All sorts of bad guys are willing to kill each other for him.

What Private Detective Tree Callister can’t figure out is why everyone wants Clinton.

Besides, Tree has retired. He’s no longer the only private...

Tree Callister is not much of a private detective.

His first client just turned up at the door and he’s twelve years old. What’s more, the kid has the grand total of seven dollars with which to hire Tree to find his mother.

Everyone on Sanibel Island in Florida where Tree lives thinks the former newspaper reporter is out of his mind. His only...

“Ron Base is one heck of a writer!”
-- The Island Reporter, Sanibel Island, Florida

Private detective Tree Callister is in big trouble.

For starters, a towering, baseball bat-wielding woman appears to be intent on killing him.

Then there is the beautiful wife of a disgraced media mogul who thinks her husband is trying to murder her—but who...

Joshua and Madison are pretty smart kids.

Except they have no idea what their father does for a living.

They suspect the worst.

That’s where Private Detective Tree Callister comes in. Josh and Madi want him to find out what their father does, and why he keeps disappearing.

But Tree has problems of his own. Everyone on Sanibel Island thinks...

Welcome to Tree Callister’s Sanibel Island…

Meet some of his friends.

THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN. She tries to seduce Tree in Paris and Key West—and she may be trying to kill him on Sanibel Island.

TWO SHADY CHARACTERS. A former director of the Pakistani Secret Service, Miram Shah, wants Tree to find his missing fiancée. Accused Serbian war criminal...

A charming novel of old Hollywood, first loves, and man with a touch of magic

A mysterious young man named Brae Orrack arrives in Venice, California, in 1928, claiming to be a magic man who can turn stones to bees. Brae also comes carrying a curse. He says he will die unless he can find true love---and find it soon. Is he a con man or is he...