SECRET OF THE SCROLL (Bloody Dagger Award Second Place)
Retired Air Force OSI agent Greg McKenzie thinks his troubles with the Metro Nashville Police are his biggest problem, then a Palestinian terrorist group invades his home and takes his wife hostage. Now he finds himself with an ancient Hebrew scroll worth millions, wanted by both the Palestinians and a radical far-right Israeli organization. When he tries to exchange it for his wife's freedom, everything goes wrong. He discovers the scroll has a secret with calamitous possibilities in the wrong hands.
"A superbly written book with an excellent plot. The action is ongoing and riveting." All About Murder Review - 5 Daggers
DESIGNED TO KILL (March 2004) "A thoroughly enjoyable mystery with an intelligent plot, clever clues and characters who are like people you know."
Phillip Margolin, author of 9 New York Times bestsellers.
"Chester Campbell's Designed to Kill is a terrific achievement. Greg McKenzie is an affable hero, ably abetted by his wife, Jill. It's a cleverly plotted, tightly written book that should add lots of readers to his fan list." Sallie Bissell, best-selling author of In the Forest of Harm and A Darker Justice
"Don't ever go up in a high rise condo with Chester Campbell. You may never come down. Designed to Kill is everything you could want in a mystery. Suspense, colorful characters and a great surprise ending. Read it, but read it on the ground floor." Don Bruns, acclaimed author of Jamaica Blue and Barbados Heat
"The plotting, pace and dialog are perfect in Designed to Kill. This is a
perfect read for the beach or a long winter afternoon."
DEADLY ILLUSIONS: Molly Saint hires McKenzie Investigations to run a background check on her husband, then disappears. It starts Greg and Jill McKenzie on a tangled trail of deceit. Complicating matters, Greg gets drawn into a troubling police investigation of the assassination of the Federal Reserve Board chairman at a Nashville hotel, resurrecting old problems with Nashville's finest. The deeper they dig, the more deadly illusions they face. Nothing appears to be what it seemed, and the fear for Molly's life grows.
"Campbell has his own unique style of writing that is both dashing and touching . . . All in all, DEADLY ILLUSIONS is another winner . . . Campbell obviously has many stories to share, and he continues to write fabulous mysteries."
Shelley Glodowski, Midwest Book Review
THE MARATHON MURDERS (the fourth book in the Greg McKenzie Mysteries series): Retired Air Force OSI agent Greg McKenzie never imagined a 90-year-old car could cause such destruction until he takes on a case involving Nashville’s long-defunct Marathon Motor Works. When Greg and his wife, Jill, Nashville PI’s, agree to look into a potential murder case so cold it’s frigid, they face a present-day conspiracy filled with chicanery in circles of power and chaos created by a frenzied killer. It starts with a stash of yellowed records found during restoration of the abandoned Marathon buildings, where the once-popular touring car was built. The documents vanish as the construction foreman who had them is murdered. The McKenzies’ clients, Col. Warren Jarvis and his girlfriend, Kelli Kane, believe the records would shed light on the fate of her great-great-grandfather. A Marathon officer who disappeared in 1914, he was accused of embezzlement and later found dead. More murders occur, appearing aimed at suppressing the secret behind the missing records. It’s a tale of greed, misplaced pride, family loyalty, and the unpredictable violence of an irrational mind.
Three seemingly unrelated murders crop up during the investigation of a decade-old chemical dump that plagues a rural community west of Nashville. PI Sid Chance, a former National Parks ranger whose career as a small town police chief was cut short by malicious accusations of bribery, pursues the case after being coaxed out of self-imposed exile by Jaz LeMieux, a wealthy ex-cop.
Is the man responsible for the pollution dead or alive? Who is having Sid tailed and threatened? When Jaz helps with the investigation, she is awakened by an explosion behind her mansion. Is it related to the abduction of her housekeepers’ grandson, or Sid’s case? As the tension mounts, Sid finds himself confronting the unsavory people responsible for his past troubles.
