Decoy Series

When his entire family was brutally slaughtered, actor Ryne Lanark left the stage to become a cop, swearing revenge on the sadistic scum responsible. Using his mastery of disguise to head up Chicago P.D.'S elite DECOY squad, the relentless crusader has embarked of his own personal war of retribution. A tortured loner, a ruthless executioner, Ryne Lanark is on the streets - overstepping the boundaries of the law to mete out his own explosive brand of urban justice.

After his family is brutally murdered by deranged thugs, Ryne Lanark decides to channel his violent rage constructively. He leaves his acting career behind, and signs on as a Chicago city cop. Using his mastery of disguise and calculating perseverance, Lanark winds his way through the seamy netherworld of drug dealers and killers. A tortured loner, a relentless crusader, Lt. Lanark is the ultimate equalizer.

His family was brutally slaughtered by deranged thugs. Now former actor Ryne Lanark is channeling his explosive rage and extraordinary talents in a bold new direction - as a Chicago city cop.

He likes hands. He likes their comfortable shape and weight and size. He likes the portability of the hands once they are severed from the rest of the ponderous body. He might carry them in his coat pocket, carry them to where he works, to the cafe, the park. But really, The Handyman isn't a selfish sort, the hands are for someone else, someone without proper hands of their own. And besides, the "donors" never felt any pain, they barely even bled. The Handyman had worked out every detail.

Each of eight short stories based on the characters from the author's eight continuing series make up a Party of 8. These characters are featured respectively in my Instinct Series, the Edge Series, the Dean Grant ME Series, the Decoy Series, the City Series, the PSI Series, the Bloodscreams Series, and the Flesh Wars Series. The stories then move from crime novels and medical examiners and police and serial killers to historical suspense to psychics, urban fantasy and strictly horror tales.