Jake Martin is not your ordinary sleuth. He's an outsourced software engineer, handyman, and writer. Jake is accused of manslaughter, and he has to prove the accident was really murder.Along the way he encounters a poaching ring and falls in love with a beautiful game warden.

Some secrets should stay buried. That's nearly impossible when a Golden Retriever named Fred, with a knack for digging up the truth, shows up with his owner to investigate an accidental drowning. When Jake realizes the drowning is no accident, his new girlfriend starts avoiding him. She's a sheriff deputy and says she doesn't want or need his help, but could she have another motive for keeping him quiet?

Jake Martin and his Golden Retriever are drawn into another mystery when he finds a diary written by a woman who lied about a bank robbery and murder 35 years ago. Her false testimony had sent an innocent man to the gas chamber. Jake gets involved when his seventy-year-old friend and neighbor asks for his help because the person who was executed was the husband of a friend. His current investigation gets complicated when his eighteen-year-old daughter from his first marriage shows up because she isn't sure what she wants to do with her life and doesn't like Jake's girlfriend, Kelly, a sheriff deputy.Bad things start to happen after Jake starts looking into the old bank robbery. First, Fred, his golden retriever, and best friend is dognapped; then a string of arsons and dead bodies begin to pile up, all while he tries to deal with the conflict between his daughter and girlfriend.Just when Jake thinks he's solved the crimes, Kelly gets news from her forensics team...

This story is not your typical murder mystery. The sleuth is not a detective, private eye, or lawyer. He's an ordinary guy with an extraordinary dog.Jacob Martin is trying to make the best of a divorce and mid-life crisis when he gets a call at two o’clock Sunday morning from his mother. His sister has been arrested for the murder of her fourth husband, and his father is near death.Thus begins an adventure that takes Jake and his golden retriever from their Colorado retreat to a backwater town in the Missouri Ozarks where they search for cold-blooded killers, a cache of gold coins buried by Jesse James, and the love of a beautiful nurse.

This story is not your typical murder mystery. The sleuth is not a detective, private eye, or lawyer. He's an ordinary guy with an extraordinary dog.Jacob Martin is trying to make the best of a divorce and mid-life crisis when he gets a call at two o’clock Sunday morning from his mother. His sister has been arrested for the murder of her fourth husband, and his father is near death.Thus begins an adventure that takes Jake and his golden retriever from their Colorado retreat to a backwater town in the Missouri Ozarks where they search for cold-blooded killers, a cache of gold coins buried by Jesse James, and the love of a beautiful nurse.

Jake Martin is not your ordinary sleuth. He's an outsourced software engineer, handyman, and writer. Jake is accused of manslaughter, and he has to prove the accident was really murder.Along the way he encounters a poaching ring and falls in love with a beautiful game warden.

Jake Martin is not your ordinary sleuth. He's an outsourced software engineer, handyman, and writer. Jake is accused of manslaughter, and he has to prove the accident was really murder.Along the way he encounters a poaching ring and falls in love with a beautiful game warden.

This story is not your typical murder mystery. The sleuth is not a detective, private eye, or lawyer. He's an ordinary guy with an extraordinary dog.Jacob Martin is trying to make the best of a divorce and mid-life crisis when he gets a call at two o’clock Sunday morning from his mother. His sister has been arrested for the murder of her fourth husband, and his father is near death.Thus begins an adventure that takes Jake and his golden retriever from their Colorado retreat to a backwater town in the Missouri Ozarks where they search for cold-blooded killers, a cache of gold coins buried by Jesse James, and the love of a beautiful nurse.