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The Guns of Jake Youngblood

A Youngblood Novel

     In 1869, soon after his 20th birthday, Jake Youngblood became the richest orphan in the Commonwealth of Virginia, inheriting the state’s largest horse ranch. He had lost his father, killed in a St. Louis bank robbery, and soon after, lost his mother to typhoid fever, sending Jake into a deep depression that took over a year to pull out of. What remained was a smoldering anger that drove him to vow vengeance for his father’s death.

     Jake had two pistols custom made by Virginia’s finest gunsmith and a double holstered gun belt crafted by a well- known leathersmith. He honed his skills with his guns daily, practicing with both hands, until he was deadly accurate and extremely fast on the draw. Then Jake took his black Arabian stallion, Midnight, and headed west seeking his father’s killer.

     Along the way he made friends with a Louisiana prospector, a veteran wagon master leading a large wagon train to California, a rich rancher’s son, and two women who would play a significant role in Jake’s time away from Virginia. One, the beautiful, headstrong, Annabelle Brown, was intent on making Jake her husband. The other, the saloon-smart and equally beautiful barmaid Molly O’Malley, was seemingly only interested in Jake’s friendship.

     How this unusual love triangle plays out, as Jake seeks his revenge, is the heart of Jake’s story.

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The Donald Youngblood Mystery Series

Three Deuces Down

Book 1 of the Donald Youngblood Mystery Series (2008)

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     Bored Wall Street whiz kid Donald Youngblood returns to his East Tennessee hometown and on a whim gets a Private Investigator license.  Joined by best friend, Billy Two Feathers, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, they open Cherokee Investigations and for a few years work small cases and just hang out.  

     Then Don is summoned by the rich and powerful Joseph Fleet to find his missing daughter and son-in-law. As Don and Billy go through the motions of investigating the disappearance a sinister plot unfolds complicated by a restless girl friend, a beautiful blond police officer, a New York mob boss and a killer on the loose with Don in his sights.  

     From the backwoods of Tennessee to the coast of Florida to the streets of New York and half way around the world, Donald Youngblood, with the help of some well connected friends and a nose for trouble, chases an elusive and deadly foe to extract the ultimate revenge and realizes the chase will change his life forever.

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Three Days Dead

Book 2 of the Donald Youngblood Mystery Series (2009)

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     When Tennessee private investigator Donald Youngblood solved the Fairchild case he vowed never again to go hunting for a missing person. With live-in-love and Mountain Center cop, Mary Sanders, and his faithful black Standard Poodle, Jake, Don’s life has settled back into its old routine.

     All of that is about to change.

     A very young, very pretty and very persuasive blue-eyed, blonde female shows up in his office one morning needing help finding her missing mother. Now, Don must track down a mother gone wrong while trying to find her abandoned daughter a proper home before child welfare gets the scent.

     To complicate matters, an old flame, Sandy Smith, is being harassed by a former boyfriend, who is not what he appears to be, and Sandy is begging Don to do something about it. Tracking down the missing mother with the help of his best friend and partner, Billy Two Feathers, and Don’s ever-dangerous new friend, Roy Husky, the trail of clues leads to a Las Vegas confrontation where Don comes face to face with the evil henchmen of Vegas bad boy, Victor Vargas, and nearly pays the ultimate price.

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Three Devils Dancing

Book 3 of the Donald Youngblood Mystery Series (2011)

     After the Malone case nearly got him killed, ex–Wall Street whiz kid and private investigator Donald Youngblood wants just to settle down with his new ready-made family and watch the world go by.

     Not likely.

     A young woman with a mysterious tattoo turns up dead at a local lake, and the girl’s father persuades Don to look into her killing. Soon afterward, a three-year-old girl gets kidnapped. The girl’s mother, wanting to avoid police involvement, convinces Don to look for her daughter, leaving him with much more than he bargained for.

Who took the little girl, and why?

     Is the tattoo on the dead girl a significant clue or just skin art? Playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with an insane serial killer while trying to fulfill a promise to a ruthless drug dealer, Donald Youngblood, with help from partner Billy Two-Feathers and new ally Oscar Morales, pursues his most cunning adversary yet.

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Three Deadly Drops

Book 4 of the Donald Youngblood Mystery Series (2012)

     More than a year has passed since Donald Youngblood closed the file on the Three Devils Case. His personal life is trending upward, business is booming and no one has come to him with a case likely to get him killed.

     When Jessica Crane walks into Don’s office asking him to look into the apparent heart-attack death of her husband, Don is convinced it is just the delusions of a grieving widow. But as he goes through the motions of his investigations, uncovering a mysterious note and a twenty-year-old picture from Desert Storm, Don starts to think there may be more to the death of Walter Crane than natural causes.

     The Silver Star, a soldier with a stress problem, an Army Ranger black ops mission gone bad, a rogue CIA agent, a missing vial and a unique list of soldiers turning up dead are all pieces to the puzzle that Don races to fit together before someone else dies.

     In the desert of New Mexico, the bayou country of Louisiana, the streets of Memphis, and small towns in South Carolina and Kentucky, Donald Youngblood tracks his most elusive foe yet and starts to wonder if maybe he is in the wrong business.

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Three Dragons Doomed

Book 5 of the Donald Youngblood Mystery Series (2014)

     Outside the small town of Saddle Boot, West Virginia, a bulldozer uncovers a long-buried body. Only four living people know it’s that of drifter Johnny Cross. But Johnny Cross was not who he appeared to be.

     In the early-morning hours a few days later, in Mountain Center, Tennessee, a body is dumped in a downtown back alley, a young female dead less than twenty-four hours. Over the next few weeks, two more dead females turn up in East Tennessee. A serial killer with an unusual signature is on the loose.

     The only thing that connects these events is private investigator Donald Youngblood. Don knows the identity of the body in West Virginia. He also knows the dead girls in East Tennessee are a personal message to him. A new and deadly game has begun.

     In this unique double sequel to Three Days Dead and Three Devils Dancing, Youngblood wrestles with two separate and distinct cases: finding the true identity of Johnny Cross and tracking down a serial killer who seems to be in a big hurry for a final showdown.

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Three Daggers Dripping

Book 6 in the Donald Youngblood Mystery Series (2016)

     Eight years ago, Sheila Buckworth’s ten-year-old son, Michael, disappeared with another young boy. The authorities classified them as runaways—no ransom note, no reason to believe they were abducted. Now, Sheila thinks she knows what happened to Michael and wants Donald Youngblood to prove it.

     The case soon intersects with an FBI terrorist investigation when Youngblood and sheriff’s deputy Billy Two-Feathers find themselves in the desert of southwest Arizona on the Tohono O’Odham Indian Reservation uncovering a sinister plot to inflict damage on the U.S. government. Racing against time to discover the lair of the terrorist group known as the Midnight Riders, Youngblood and the FBI must thwart the plan before the group can execute its “big event.”

     Meanwhile, Youngblood’s adopted daughter, Lacy, asks him to investigate the death of a classmate. Clay Carr, a local all-state football player, has crashed his car and killed his girlfriend. As Clay remains in a coma, Youngblood learns the crash was no accident. Working with his police-detective wife, Mary, he travels through a maze of dead ends trying to find the person responsible.

     Juggling two cases is nothing new for Donald Youngblood, who once again proves he is up to the task.

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Three Divers Deep

Book 7 of the Donald Youngblood Mystery Series (2017)

     Don Youngblood was enjoying a peaceful Saturday morning. Then, his previous boss from New York phoned for a favor. A belly dancer is missing and a financial hotshot employee is lovesick and under-performing. Youngblood’s Mission: Find the missing belly dancer.

     Problem: A male witch (warlock to some) is also looking for the belly dancer.

     A few days later, a call for help from a previous local client whose granddaughter has been kidnapped and Youngblood’s life is anything but peaceful. A kidnapping, serial killer clown and a sleaze-bag from the past who has seemingly risen from the dead are all part of a second case; one that leads Youngblood through a labyrinth of clues and dead ends to a shocking and deadly conclusion in the desert of New Mexico.

     Three Divers Deep proves to be another crackling entry in the Donald Youngblood Mystery Series.

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Three Doorways Dark

Book 8 in the Donald Youngblood Mystery Series (2021)

     In Three Doorways Dark, Donnelly combines elements of classic, old-style sleuthing with modern investigation tactics to solve the mystery of a Tennessee Congressman being blackmailed during his run for the U.S. Senate. Interspersed with his blackmail investigation is an attempt by Mountain Center Country Club golf pro Tony Price to fulfill a lifelong dream of qualifying for the PGA National golf tournament with Lacy Youngblood as his caddie. Add to the mix a world class sniper seeking revenge for his departed brother and you have a book where the action never stops.
     After his adventure in Afghanistan, East Tennessee private investigator and FBI consultant, Donald Youngblood just wanted to relax and heal. Boredom is fast setting in when Mountain Center Country Club golf pro, Tony Price, asks Don to sponsor him in his attempt to qualify for the PGA National tournament; an arduous two tournament process played months apart. Tony also wants Youngblood’s adopted daughter, Lacy, to caddy for him. Youngblood agrees, as does Lacy, and so begins a journey that could end up at one of golf’s four major championships.
     As fate would have it, Youngblood soon gets involved with a local congressman running for the U.S. Senate who has received a blackmail threat about a sex video that was made when he was in college. While Youngblood finds out if the threat is real or a bluff, a wealthy mother wants Youngblood to locate her daughter, who may, also, be involved in the blackmail plot. In the meantime, halfway around the world, a professional sniper practices for a revenge kill.
     Who is his target? How does Donald Youngblood fit in? With the aid of old friends and a talent for finding trouble at every turn, Youngblood must solve more than one mystery, and either one of them might get him killed.

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Youngblood Stories

Moving Target

Book 1 of the Youngblood Story Series (2022)

     At the behest of the President of the United States, Donald Youngblood, private investigator and FBI consultant, finds himself thrown into his most dangerous mission yet.

     Top secret, highly encrypted, government files are missing with information that could put American lives at risk and set the spy game back years. The stolen files are believed to be on the market for sale to the highest bidder. All the evidence points to the files having been stolen by a retired CIA agent.

     The President, fearing a mole inside the White House, enlists outsider Youngblood to track down the agent and bring back the files before the encryption can be broken.  Youngblood puts together a team of trained and experienced friends and heads out of the country only to discover the files are not where the President thought they were.

     Racing against the clock is nothing new for Youngblood, but in chasing the files halfway around the world, he encounters more than one major setback and continuous danger at every turn.

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The Christmas Stranger

Book 2 of the Youngblood Story Series (2022)

     Having dodged more than one bullet in his last bold adventure, Donald Youngblood does not find his next mystery wrapped in a big case, but rather in a mysterious stranger. Thanksgiving has recently passed and Christmas is fast approaching. A chance encounter with a very unusual young man at a local biker bar leads Youngblood on a road of discovery. Who is this stranger in town? He seems to be the source of all kinds of positive, unique and unexplainable occurrences in Mountain Center, but is he too good to be true? Youngblood is obsessed to find out.

     From a small town in North Carolina to a return trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, the facts that Youngblood uncovers about Mountain Center’s new visitor make less and less sense. But in uncovering the identify of this seemingly spirit filled man, Youngblood and his wife Mary discover the true meaning of Christmas and awaken a long-lost and forgotten faith.

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The Cajun Circle

Book 3 of the Youngblood Story Series (2024)

      April Lake is missing. When Donald Youngblood is persuaded by a desperate mother to look for her missing daughter, little does Youngblood know that the trail of an apparent runaway will lead him in the dark and sinister world of human trafficking, facilitated by a criminal organization known as The Cajun Circle.

      To make matters worse Youngblood is racing the clock; trying to find the teenager before she is swallowed whole by a business so evil that it will consume her to the point of no return.

      With the aid of a small-town police detective, an FBI ally known only as Wolf, and ex-CIA agent Henry Cole, Youngblood uses all the resources at his disposal to bring April Lake home.

      From a small town in Alabama, to the bright lights of New Orleans, to the luxurious decadence of Cancun, Youngblood follows a trail of greed and deviant behavior to extract the ultimate revenge and save a girl from a life of sexual slavery.

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