Welcome to my series of ebooks, available only for e-readers.

Every time I write a book, I go back and cut out some of the funniest parts.

My writing drifts irresistibly into comedy. Even action scenes, even love scenes, even scenes in which someone’s life is at stake. One of the last things I do is to go back through the manuscript and cut all the funny stuff that doesn’t belong there.

One of the first directions I ever got from an editor was, “Cut every third joke.”

So I figured I'd write a series in which I could take the comedy as far as I wanted, as long as I maintained the structure and the high stakes that make thrillers work. The result is the Junior Bender series, which begins with Crashed and continues with Little Elvises.

Junior is a high-end burglar who moonlights as a private eye for crooks. He's also unhappily divorced, still half in love with his ex-wife, and the father of a precocious twelve-year old named Rina whom he prizes above all things.

I have enormous fun writing them, and I hope you'll enjoy them, too.