Jason Blacker

Janko Reinhardt has had a hard life. He was left at a church by his mother when he was six years old. Since then he's been jostled between one bad foster home and another. But that was a long time ago now. He's a young man, but things haven't worked out well. He's dying from AIDS complications and these are the last few months of his life. He wants to make amends, for the trespasses others have put upon him but perhaps more importantly for the trespasses...

Misery's Company is Lady Marmalade's fourth mystery. In Misery's Company, Lady Marmalade is having a few guests over for dinner and company at her 'cottage' called Avalon at Ambleside in the picturesque Lake District. Sir Anthony Gibbons is a teller of engaging tall tales. A retired surgeon who was friend to both Lady Marmalade and her husband Eric, Sir Tony regales the dinner guests with a true story of a murder most foul in Australia. Lady Marmalade's...

Nytewynd Blak is a senior software engineer for Valkyrie Machines. Valkyrie Machines makes AI robots, like 11AM65111, the one he bought. He calls her El and he's fallen in love with her. This is strictly forbidden and carries stiff penalties if he's caught.But the heart wants what it wants and Nytewynd had decided to take his love for El public. They visit a pop up underground club for humans who are in intimate with machines. It's called Skineez.What...

First Feature: And the bloodied Oscar goes to… the dead producer! A top Hollywood producer is found dead in his own den. A bloodied Oscar left as evidence. Is this a film critic or something more sinister? Some actors will sleep for a role, others will kill. The murderer will go to any length to keep the secrets and lies hidden. Join tough talking, wise cracking, Anthony Carrick as he juggles gay counterculture, the vegan hippy lifestyle, and...

Four Red Diamonds Contains the first 4 Lady Marmalade Mysteries: Poisoned Heart Visiting some friends, Lord and Lady Apleby turns out to be a dangerous affair. For the kitchen maid at least, who ends up dead. How did she die and who would want to kill her is up to Lady Marmalade and Inspector Devlin Pearce to determine. Making their work even harder are the five suspects who all had reason to kill her. The Lord of the manner who was having an...

After visiting a fortune teller on the Pier in Santa Monica, Anthony Carrick get's riled up about what she told him about the skeletons he carries around. Things get worse when she ends up dead in her tent. Thing is, the fortune teller's sister left moments before.A witchdoctor also ends up dead shortly after meeting Anthony Carrick. Now Anthony's starting to take it personally. This witchdoctor was a friend of the fortune teller. The murders are...

Money Ain't Nothing is an Anthony Carrick mystery. Money ain't nothing if you've got a lot of it. But then again, a lot of money won't necessarily buy happiness either. In this Anthony Carrick mystery, hard boiled detective Anthony Carrick is asked to solve the murder of a rich dame's son. Police think it's an accidental death, but could it be something more sinister? From the moneyed streets of Mulholland Drive to the trashy trailer park home of...

Some families cultivate flowers, others cultivate dark secrets! From stolen gold, opium dens and dark secrets, comes a tale of astonishing intrigue the likes of which Lady Marmalade has never before encountered. In the sleepy hamlet of Puddle's End, betrayal and deceit turn to murder. A sweet woman murdered in her greenhouse. Her philandering cad of a husband murdered next. Is someone trying to kill a whole family, or could it be historical backwash...

Brotherly Love is An Anthony Carrick mystery. There's a small park in the tony Holmby Hills, not far from Beverly Hills, called De Neve Square Park, where a man (Ray Hope) lies dead. Capt. John Robers of the LAPD Homicide Unit is investigating and he calls in his old friend, Anthony Carrick to help. Behind the rich facade of the Holmby Hills neighborhood, lies a rotting core. The rich men and women have a seedy side, and it's this seedy side that...

Frances is involved in her very first case as a young woman of 17. At the turn of the twentieth century, Mr. Chamberlain's housekeeper, Mrs. Buckham, at his London home is charged and convicted of murdering his personal secretary, Mr. Sefton. In her final year at St. Mary's all girls shool, Frances, with her best friend Florence, is reading The Observer at a tea room and learning about the miscarriage of justice and the lazy police work that led to...