Bodies and Beaches is the first in the Kip Yardley series. Kip is a former California Highway Patrol special investigator who trades his uniform for jeans and a tee shirt and opens a PI office in LA. Two murders occur within days of each other. A young highway construction worker is gunned down on a LA freeway and a notorious strip joint owner is shot to death in his limousine. The highway worker had bragged to friends that he was going to make a large sum of money and Kip believes that may have been for the killing of the strip joint owner. He fights his way through beaches and beach bums, barns full of marijuana, and looks for clues in strip joints. A nagging feeling that he is being set up for a hard fall by a CHP special officer and old friend has Kip confused and grasping at staws. With the help of an old girl friend and a new girl friend, Kip gets his act together and finally figures it out. Richard S. Prather, author of the Shell Scott mystery series, had this to say: "I have finally been able to read your book, "Bodies and Beaches" and am pleased to report that I liked it very much! It was not only a good read, but going along with Kip as he drove along familiar streets to well remembered Southern California cities took me back many years to happy times in that area. Moreover - and this is a really important point - I liked your lead character. I think in Kip Yardley you have created a fictional P.I. strong enough, real enough, likable enough to carry a series..... Bodies and Beaches" is a good job with a likeable lead and a lot of interesting action I enjoyed reading and you write very well indeed. Verdict: Well done!
Charles Merritt and his war buddy, Will Durant, have just started their spread in Arizona Territory when Will takes sick. Charles gets Will to the train to Tucson but only has the fare for one, so he follows the track on horseback. Under a railroad water tank, he finds Will dead, shot in the chest. After burying his friend, Charles Merritt sets out on a journey of revenge, swearing to gun down the polecat who killed his friend. Through a series of events that are beyond his control, he meets beautiful Elizabeth McAllister and falls in love with her. He doesn't tell her, but he has vowed that he will marry her as soon as his partner is avenged. Eventually the young cowboy has to decide between his love for Elizabeth or his cold blooded lust for revenge. A dizzying tale of hard riding and hard shooting, this first time Western by PI novelist Don Yarber, falls in line with mystery and suspense but with the action and scenery of old time Western novelists like Zane Grey and Luke Short.
Four boys are out shooting at deer signs when a man is shot in the head. The shooting unleashes pandemonium in rural Green County, Tennessee and the boys are convinced one of them will go to jail. Viet Nam war veteran, Buck Leggett has a score to settle that might get him into trouble.
A woman wins $114 million dollars in the Florida lotto. The next morning her daughter finds her on the beach, dead. Her throat has been cut. The lotto ticket is gone. Private Eye, Kip Yardley, is determined to find the winning ticket, even if he has to fight the New York Mafia. A thirty year old plane wreck reveals some clues but the secret is harder to dig out than draining an alligator swamp. Greed and evil continually surface, like scum on the shallow waters of the Everglades. The mob's message to Kip: lay off. Kip's message to the mob: "I don't scare easy." In the long run, Kip Yardley finds that if you want to fight the mob, you have to play by their rules. That means getting a lot more ruthless and cunning to defeat the evil in the Everglades.
LA private detective, Kip Yardley, is hired by an aging actress to find the remains of her husband, shot down over a south pacific island in WWII. A few days later the actress if found dead, shot in the head. All Yardley has to do is fulfill the assignment to make a cool $250 thousand. There are some people who do not want Kip to succeed. Even the pretty girls on Kira Bali island are not playing straight with Kip. That's a sure sign of trouble!Little does Kip know that this case might involve Homeland Security, FBI and local authorities on the island. Devious people require devious actions, however, and Kip is a master at playing that game.
Throughout long profiles and conversations--ranging from 1982 to 2001--the renowned author makes clear his distinctions between historical fact and his own creative leaps
Dedicated to everyone who has ever asked where the road will take them and then taken that first step towards the unknown. However, it takes an extremely strong person armed with a sense of humor to laugh at adversity and challenge. So now I have described the "Diana" series in totality: one is the writer and the other is the reader. Just remember to keep the dreams alive and let no one put them aside, they are way too important.
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