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Kill Fee, A Jack Hansen Mystery
Freelance writer Jack Hansen doesn’t ask for much out of life. Give him a beer, a Big Aldo’s Supremo pizza, and the Dodgers on TV and he’s happy. But he misses his daughter, bookish 15-year-old Kat, who lives with Tina, his disapproving ex-wife. When Tina decides to move to New York and take Kat with her, Jack objects and Tina counters with a proposal: If he can kickstart his career and make more money, Kat can stay with him in LA.
Jack goes looking for a lucrative gig and finds it—ghostwriting the memoir of Hollywood actor Randall Delaney. But Delaney is murdered before the book is finished, and the police target Jack as the prime suspect in the case. Jack is not only innocent, he knows something the police don’t—a woman from the actor’s past already tried to kill him once and had a motive to try again. He now has no choice but to transform from writer to detective and find the woman before he’s charged with murder.
The trail leads from the wealthy suburbs of Los Angeles to the campaign headquarters of a corrupt judge to a gritty Mexican town run by a drug gang, testing Jack’s investigative skills and resourcefulness and unwittingly putting him and Kat in deadly danger in a tense final showdown with the mystery woman herself.
Quirky and funny and full of twists and memorable characters, Kill Fee is the first volume of the Jack Hansen Mystery series.
Books by Jerry Smith: Mysteries & Motomemoirs
Missed Shifts: True stories, tall tales, and outright lies from a 30-year career in motojournalism.
Missed Shifts is a collection of stories told in the unique voice of veteran motojournalist Jerry Smith, who served on the staff of Rider, Cycle Guide, and Motorcyclist.
Hotshoe: A Jason Street Mystery
When motojournalist Jason Street is named in a lawsuit following the suicide of tire manufacturer Sherman Case, whose products he panned in print, he's put on leave by his editor at Motorcycle Monthly. But the dead man's daughter refuses to accept her father killed himself, and hires Street to go on the road with racer Rusty McCann to find the killer. With his professional life on hold and his personal life a shambles, Street takes the job and finds there's just as much danger off the race track as on it.
Deadman's Throttle: A Jason Street Mystery
"Your brother's death was not an accident," said the voice on the phone. "He was murdered."
Based on this anonymous tip, motojournalist Jason Street sets off on a quest to find his brother's killer, uncovering a web of lies, professional rivalries, and the dark side of his sibling's life that makes Jason question whether he ever knew him at all, until he finds himself up against a ruthless foe who will stop at nothing--not even murder-- to silence him.
Dents
You can run from your past but you can’t hide from it.
That’s especially true for Dennis, a small-time campus radical in his youth who’s now hiding from the law while managing a chain of auto-body shops in Northern California.
When his old college crush shows up, followed by her ex-boyfriend who's one step ahead of a gang of vengeful drug dealers, Dennis must either face up to his past or go back on the run before the FBI and the meth mob catch up with him.
Rolling Stops: A motobiography
Jerry Smith has been a motojournalist for more than 40 years and an avid motorcyclist for more than 50. Rolling Stops is the story of how he turned a hobby into a profession and wound up going down roads he never expected to ride.
Success story or cautionary tale? You be the judge.