A Jack West Novel Houston Homicide Detective Jack West is back at work. A fresh case he's working might be connected to a murder case fellow detectives Chang and Severson are working. The Medical Examiner's report shows some similarities to each murder, but the victims are strangers with nothing in common. A third murder victim found under a bridge on the Buffalo Bayou confirms Houston has a serial killer on the loose. Three very diverse people are dead—are these hate crimes, and if so, how many more will die? The clock is ticking; Jack and his team need to catch this killer before another body shows up. deannakingwriting.com

A Jack Went Novel Cyrus Shelton spent twenty-three years locked up in the Huntsville State Penitentiary with only one thing on his mind–revenge. Once paroled and having learned the arresting detective, Frank Windom, had the nerve to die, he sets his sights on Windom's former partner, Jack West, and his lousy defense attorney, Jonell Simone. When a cryptic letter addressed to Jack and his dead partner shows up, he's curious but he is deeply involved with a triple homicide and had to set it aside. When the Attorney General’s Office steps in and orders him to stand down, Jack knows his case goes deeper than just a homicide. With no murder case to work, he turns his attention to the cryptic letter. The former DA, Jonell Simone, informs Jack she received a similar letter. Cyrus Shelton is on his murder rampage and the gloves come off. Jack wants revenge. Now it is personal.

Introducing Jack West, a hard-nosed, relentless homicide detective, who sifts through some of Houston's filthiest secrets to solve a murder involving prostitution, executions and corruption at the highest levels. Solving the homicide of a 15-year-old girl who was fatally bludgeoned by a 17-year-old boy, Homicide Detective Jack West and his partner Dawson Luck, known around the station as ‘Lucky’ are putting fresh eyes on two ancient cold cases. In an affluent Houston neighborhood, a call goes out reporting a murder/suicide. The new case takes precedence. Jack and Lucky wrap this case up in record time, and they are back on the cold cases. As Jack begins to dig, he hears a bizarre tale from a dying ex-prostitute that is unbelievable; digging deeper, Jack unravels truths about cops on the take, executions, prostitution, conspiracy to cover up a murder involving a high ranking official and revenge.