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Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Book
Legacy Artifacts: The First of the Warm World Mysteries
Sergio Mishioki is a Peruvian anthropologist who has escaped with a national treasure and brought it to the United States. The treasure is Romeo y Julieta, a pair of adolescent mummies, and must be found as soon as possible.
What the Market Can Bear: The Third Warm World Mystery
During the pandemic when almost everyone is masked, Buck Jasper’s investigative agency is hired by an insurance consortium to recover $100 million worth of art and jewelry stolen in a series of burglaries over six Florida counties.
Rising Tides: Second of the warm world mysteries
The body of Noel Chapman, the manager of the Blue Parrot Apartments, is found floating face down in the king tide flood waters that have flooded the basement laundry. The police call the death an accidental drowning.
Historical or Semiautobiographical novels
Bruised Purple Hearts: Ghosts of the Usa
It is the early sixties as Matt Conklin and his twin brother, Max, graduated from high school amid interesting yet chaotic times that include the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, and the rise of feminism, gay rights, and the use of psychedelic drugs.
Nightmare Enemy, Dream Friend
As Luther Weitgucker grows up Protestant in early 1900s Dresden, he lives a charmed existence near the River Elbe, nursing little creatures and humans back to health.
Long Shot
In a narrative of possibilites after the Civil War, four people head west, struggle to suppress the chaos of the Wild West and bring civilization to the New Mexico Territories.
The NCO
In this historical novel based on my father’s life, a shoeless farm kid Remus graduates from high school in 1929.
Boom!
A novel about a babyboomer’s development to early adolescence and how he became rebellious. Told in two voices: a third person narrator and a first person narrator.
Poetry Books
Tanka Time
Tanka poems based on my memories from when I was a child in Japan.
Weaponized Poetry
Poetry from the 21st century.
Monsters in a Half-way House
Early poetry about a variety of topics from love to nature to the artistic life, but all revolving around monsters of some kind.
Short Fiction Collections
A Collection of Nickel-Plated Angels
Short stories about American sub-heroes.
Touch Me
Blanton’s second collection of short fiction–14 stories of life and love and death; conquest and capture; escape and release.
A God Who Believes in Me
This collection is one American’s view of America in a global society.
Blog Collections
First Writing Rite: 2010 Blog
Publishing a blog as a book is experimental. Many of the blogs are items that were previously published in other forms.
Second Writing Rite: 2011
Second Wrting Write: 2011 is a collection of my blog written during 2011. The poetry, essays, short stories, and novel are my own.
Interplanetary Secrete Agent Books
Science Fiction/Fantasy Novels
Interplanetary Secret Agent: Book One: Putkwyz
Earthling Malcom Talbot is marooned on a moon in the Za System, rescued by the mysterious Mawgri Qampoq, and the two of them, on separate missions, have adventures throughout the star system, which is inhabited by strange, but intriguing, creatures.
Interplanetary Secret Agent: Book Two: Huppof
Malcolm Talbot and his space traveling companions go to Huppof, the moon of Putkwyz, where live intelligent catlike creatures. Malcolm falls in love, but a terrorist army tries to take over.
Interplanetary Secret Agent: Book Three: Aasheen
The earthling Malcolm Talbot is taken by Mawgri Qampoq on a mission to end illegal mining on the plant Aasheen, inhabited by intelligent amphibians.
Interplanetary Secret Agent: Book Four: Stuwkrik
Malcolm Talbot, earthling, is taken by his savior and friend, Mawgri Qampoq, to the planet Stuwkrik, to deposit his newly won fortune.
The Outlaw and the Warrior Nun
A nun decapitates the lord of a province which prompts barbarians, empires, criminals, and other monarchies to take advantage of the rudderless province.
Interplanetary Secret Agent: Book Five: Myncu
In the final book of the Apha Centauri Pentalogy, Malcolm follows Mawgri to the planet Mynçu, a terra-forming frontier planet on which the Sheehee hordes have established hives.
Evensong
The Lord of Santa Isabel Province has been beheaded in his castle by a nun, and the locals know she was a sister from the Santa Isabel Convent.
The Buck Jaspers Mysteries
Mystery Novels
Book One: Tontine
Buck is hired by members of tontine to find out why so many of them are dying. The investigation takes Buck to Martinique and Belize.
Book Two: Encomienda
Buck is hired by a wealthy Mexican to find his son who disappeared during the break after the fall semester at Miami University.
Book Three: Trust
Buck is hired by a wealthy widow to find the daughter she gave up for adoption decades ago.
Book Four: A Meeting of Minds
A serial killer dares Buck to stop him from killing. He and the police enter the chase, but Buck has to call on his crew of operatives to help find the elusive killer and puts the one he loves in danger.
Book Five: Severance
A defense attorney hires Buck to clear his client for murdering the boss that fired him,even though the evidence is stacked againt the client. Buck untangles a web of greed, corruption and lies.
Book Six: Possesion
Buck is hired by a Vietnam vet to recover his sailboat that his buddy from ‘Nam took on an unauthorized cruise. Buck finds the craft, but it has already been seized by a sinister gang. He gets the boat, but then he is in for a running battle from Hispaniola to Florida.
Book Seven: Raiders
The detective Buck Jaspers is hired by a wealthy televison celebrity to find out who raided her home and to recover the stolen items. She’s a fox, and Buck finds himself involved in more than he was hired for.
Book Eight: Deletion
The Miami DA calls Buck in to solve a murder that is baffling the police. An average family has been destroyed by assassination. The quest for the truth gets Buck on the road with criminals and musicians.
Book Nine: Silent Partner
A former celebrity hires Buck to prove that her ex-husband killed her executive assistant almost twenty years before. Buck must locate the corpse to unravel a web of deceptions that hides the truth.
Book Ten: Windfall
Buck is coerced into helping two criminals recover their missing property. However, the property has been taken by several people, so Buck has to work hard to get it all without crossing the line into illegality.
Book Eleven: Secret Partner
Buck Jaspers is hired by wealthy recluse Isaac Bramble to solve three deaths that have occurred on the Bramble Estate during the past year.
Book Twelve: Duplication
Buck’s client is a young songwriter accused of killing her father and robbing a bank. Eyewitnesses have identified her, but Buck believes she is innocent.
Book Thirteen: Accounts Receivable
A local celebrity Leidy Grace has been murdered, and her adult children that hardly anyone knows about hire Buck to find the killer and the reason for the murder.
Book Fourteenth: Volatility
Seven mysterious deaths have occurred in the small town of Raquel, Pennsylvania, over the past ten years.
The Author
JERRY C. BLANTON has taught high school English, managed a bookstore, served as an academic dean, and worked as a copywriter, proofreader, English professor, and writer. He has written more than twenty books that include mysteries, sci-fi novels, and poetry collections. Jerry currently resides in Homestead, Florida.
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