The Alex Evercrest series takes place in the recent past.
Alex Evercrest, a black, dynamic, extremely talented detective in the Cincinnati Detective unit solves case after case. She is the best.
The Waterfront – Book 1
A killing on the Cincinnati waterfront leads her to a prominent, bitter Art curator, killing runners.
The Girl on the Grill – Book 2
The death of a young woman thrown from an overpass onto the grill of a semi-truck result in having her apartment destroyed. In this story, she meets her soul mate in Mississippi and she hires the witness to the murder, a Vietnam veteran, to be her system analyst. The combination of a world class hacker and her intuitive nature makes them unstoppable.
Missing – Book 3
A Cincinnati librarian shares the rumor that a girl missing for more than fifteen years is thought to be alive in the woods of Pennsylvania. When her car explodes during the investigation she realizes she is close to solving the case and must work extremely fast to save the girl that is now in her upper twenties.
Maggot – Book 4
During work on a Drug investigation, she and her partner are kidnaped. Her partner is almost beaten to death. She breaks free, saves her partner, and then eliminates drug bosses all the way to the top.
Racist – Book 5
She is attacked as she rides her bicycle from her apartment to the police station. The attack causes her to realize that she is attacked by an unbalance mind because of her skin color. The attacker makes a fatal mistake of trying a second time.
Votive Candles – Book 6
The department agrees to apprehend a wayward pedophile priest that has fled arrest. The chase leads Alex into Mexico where she apprehends and returns the priest to the US border where he is arrested and returned to Cincinnati for trial.
Country Road – Book 7
A vacation back to her home, leads to the discovery of an organization focused on abducting and raping young women. In total this organization has disappeared more than two hundred young women and surrendering means life in prison or the death penalty. The case spans the country, and each cell of the organization puts up a determined gun battle rather than giving up.
Pool of Blood – Book 8
Alex finally takes a true vacation to the Island of Maui where she believes she has escaped the fact that strange cases seem to find her. However, the Maui detective Unit asks her to help in solving a series of missing persons cases that they believe is the work of a serial killer. The killer has eluded detection for many years. The number of missing persons increases but there are no bodies and there seem to be no way to identify he killer. They ask Alex to help them.
Alex Cathy Evercrest, who dreams of being an exceptional crime fighting detective, is given this as her first case.
Cincinnati Detective Chief as a way to break the color barrier and put a woman on the detective unit. He soon realizes he has hired the best detective in the country. She becomes known as ‘Cincinnati’s Black Annie Oakley, ‘ after repeatedly demonstrating her ability to be fast and extremely accurate with her weapon.
Time and again she is attacked and each time even when wounded she eliminates the attacker.
She always gives the person she is pursuing the chance to surrender but the attackers seem to think they have the upper hand but find themselves underground.
Her experiences are counter to her up bringing of ‘Treat others the way you wish to be treated.’ Bad guys don’t understand such a concept and they die.
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The Waterfront
Chapter 1: The Invalid Marathon Runner
Chapter 2: The First Case
Chapter 3: Fishing
Chapter 4: Return to Normal
Chapter 5: The Chief
Chapter 6: The River Front Runner
Chapter 7: The Perfect Crime
Chapter 8: The Pencils
Chapter 9: The Mother
The Girl on the Grill
Chapter 1: At the end of the day
Chapter 2: Ambition
Chapter.3: Witness
Chapter 4: Protected
Chapter 5: Back-up
Chapter.6: Protection
Chapter 7: New team member
Chapter 8: Connection
Chapter.9: Full Circle
Chapter 10: Forward Payment
Chapter 11: Weapons and More
Chapter.12: Pursuit
Chapter 13: Connections
Chapter 14: Mississippi
Chapter 15: Cincinnati’s Annie Oakley
Chapter 16: Flushing the Rat
Chapter 17: To the Shower
Chapter 10: The Wife
Chapter 11: The Boss
Chapter 12: The Windy City
Chapter 13: The Chief
Chapter 14: The Competition
Chapter 15: The Windy City
Chapter 16: The Family
Chapter 17: The Brazilian Coffee Shop
Chapter 18: The Lake
Chapter 19: The Crystal Lake
Chapter 20: The Take Down
Chapter 21: High Noon in Cincinnati
Chapter 22: The Wife and Fiancé
Missing
Chapter 1: Cold Case by a hand from Above
Chapter 2: The Sheriff’s Albatross
Chapter 3: The Clue
Chapter 4: The Parents
Chapter 5: Annie
Chapter 6: Explosive Verification
Chapter 7: The Cabin
Chapter 8: Jeff
Chapter 9: Found
Chapter 10: Home
Chapter 11: Once in a Lifetime
Chapter 12: Dessert
Chapter 13: The Mall
Chapter 14: Dinner
Chapter 15: The Meaning of Survival
Chapter 16: Future
Maggot
Chapter 1: Captives
Chapter 2: The Chief
Chapter 3: Johnnie
Chapter 4: Trey
Chapter 5: Vincent
Chapter 6: Philly
Chapter 7: Mary
Chapter 8: The Warehouse
Chapter 9: Gunship
Chapter 10: Bedside
Chapter 11: Coal Barge
Chapter 12: Matt
Chapter 13: Scanned
Chapter 14: Adriana and Ernesto
Chapter 15: The Chair
Chapter 16: Sandra
Chapter 17: Financial Disaster
Chapter 18: Dinner
Chapter 19: Reassignment
Chapter 20: Mole
Chapter 21: Discovery
Chapter 22: Orders
Chapter 23: Unmasked
Chapter 24: Location
Chapter 25: The Good Wife
Chapter 26: Angel on the Hill
Chapter 27: New York
Chapter 28: New Normal
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About the Author
Ronald E. Mueller
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Ron grew up in what is now Flint River State Park in Southeast Iowa. The 170-year-old house Ron lived in is built into a hillside. It faces a 125-foot-high cliff towering over the little Flint River. The house and the land talked to him about; the passing of time, the struggle to conquer the land, the struggles people faced and the wonder of nature.
He climbed the cliffs, crawled into the caves, dove from the swimming rock, collected clams from the bottom of the pond, gigged and skinned frogs for their legs. He trapped muskrats for fur, hunted raccoon in the dead of night, and with only a stick hunted rabbits in the dead of winter.
His young life was outdoors, and nature tested him.
He walked to a one room stone schoolhouse uphill both ways. A stern but warm-hearted teacher, Mrs. Henry was instrumental in shaping his character as she shepherded him from the fourth to the eighth grade. A Montessori before its time. It was a great way to grow up.
His experiences inter-twined with snippets of fantasy lend themselves to the adventures he leads the reader through.