J. Kevin Earp has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator. The most-rated is Murder on Perrys Island.
Strong Evidence
Summary
A frantic husband hires Marcus to find his estranged wife. When Marcus travels to Arizona to investigate, he finds that his long-time friend and the woman he loves, Jenny Gibbons, is one of the suspects. To make things worse, the missing woman was once a romantic rival and is now a rival on the professional bodybuilding stage. The police want to talk to Jenny. So does Marcus, but she went missing at the same time as the client’s wife. Did Jenny do away with the woman? Marcus has to find her, clear her name, and find the missing woman. Along the way, he encounters drug smugglers, hired thugs, a Macedonian crime family, and even a mountain lion! Join Marcus as he investigates the missing woman, his client, and the woman he loves!
©2020 J. Kevin Earp (P)2020 J. Kevin Earp
The Mousetrap Killer
Summary
Former police detective Sergeant Marcus Lear’s career was ended by PTSD, the result of a gunfight with a 16-year-old burglary suspect. He has moved on by founding a company that is developing software to help law enforcement agencies solve complex criminal cases. Now, the serial murderer known as The Mousetrap Killer claims to have struck again. Three times in the past, he announced to the police chief of Maryvale, Indiana, that an innocent victim had been taken and imprisoned in an elaborate chamber, cleverly booby-trapped and set to kill if the victim could not solve a riddle in time. The riddle would provide a clue to escaping the trap. Every day, the Killer would taunt the police until the trap was sprung and the victim died. But no victim’s body had ever been recovered, and the killer was never identified. Now, the killer has sent another message announcing a new trap, and a new victim. Who has been dropped into that terrible prison this time? Where are they being held? And, who is the Mousetrap Killer? Desperate, the Maryvale police call on Marcus and his team to use their new and untested software application to help find the killer and the latest victim. Can the Lear team and Kat Montague, young Asian goth detective and Lear’s newest field agent, work with the local police and FBI to find the victim before time runs out? The task force swings into action while awaiting the next message from the killer, taunting the police and perhaps providing a clue to saving the victim. But why has the killer gone silent?! While pondering this new mystery, a frightening possibility is uncovered regarding the latest victim that hits very close to home. Marcus and his people must find the trap, and the victim, before it’s too late!
©2019 J. Kevin Earp (P)2020 J. Kevin Earp
Murder on Perrys Island
Summary
One terrible night Detective Sergeant Marcus Lear exchanged gunshots with a 16-year-old burglary suspect. The boy was left a paraplegic. Marcus suffered PTSD and could no longer bring himself to carry a gun. Forced to resign the job he loved, Marcus returned to his historic family home on Perrys Island to try to put his life back together. Marcus had grown up there listening to the police chief’s stories of crime solving in the city. The chief’s stories inspired Marcus to leave the island and become the youngest detective in PD’s history. Marcus’s childhood best friend had been Jenny Gibbons, the Chief’s daughter, who was now an Ohio Wildlife Officer assigned to the island’s state park. She is determined to help Marcus face his pain and to reestablish their relationship. As they return home from an evening out, Jenny learns that the wife of an island businessman has been brutally murdered. With Chief Gibbons away for the night, a desperate Jenny turns to Marcus to use his experience to preserve the crime scene. Marcus refuses at first, unwilling to have anything to do with police work that might force him to relive recent events. Finally, he gives in to her pleas and agrees to supervise the crime scene just until the Chief can take over. Despite himself, Marcus is drawn deeper into the investigation. When a witness identifies a youth camp chaperone as the last person to be with the victim before her death, Marcus believes the man’s story of innocence. Marcus is proven correct when the elderly housekeeper who helped raise him is left for dead in his own house and the historic mansion set on fire. The attack provides a personal aspect to the case that drives him to narrow down the suspects. Marcus’s single-minded pursuit of the killer while fighting his personal demons might cost him his own life!
©2017 James Kevin Earp (P)2019 James Kevin Earp