"An Unwilling Suspect" sample

McLaren goes to Scotland on the invitation of his estranged grandfather. But there's no welcome at the ancestral home, for grandfather hadn't sent for him. Who had...and why? This is the beginning of a trap that slowly unfolds and threatens McLaren's life.

"An Unfolding Trap" sample

Sample of "Arrested Flight" mystery novel

"Arrested Flight" sample

"Black Moon" sample

A sample of HIDE AND SEEK, at Jamie Kydd's promotion party

"Hide and Seek" sample

McLaren learns from his folk group member and friend, Simon, about the death of Simon's uncle last year.

Sample from "The Low Road"

The Swim is not one of my usual mysteries featuring former police detective Michael McLaren. It's a prequel novella giving a picture of his life from teenager to the strong man he is today. He's real to me, and I want you to understand him. I want you to understand a man whose need to help others find justice became his incitement in a world like today. He's been through a lot from his ordeal beginning with the "swim", his move from the Force, and his cold cases. He's made enemies, friends, and he has loved and lost. Like many of us.

Sample of THE SWIM

A teenager goes missing from a sleepy English village.  
Was the pressure to succeed too much for Luke?
Did he run away?  
Or did his fiancée cause him to flee?
Was his father involved in the boy’s disappearance?  
Three years later, ex-police detective Michael McLaren is hired to find the boy.  
As McLaren probes into Luke’s life, 
he discovers many lies that people may not want revealed.
It’s a dangerous game of cat–and-mouse between the ice-cold killer… 
and McLaren.

Sample of THE SWIM

Jo Hiestand

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