Jeffrey Birch: 13 books

Conflagration is the fourth Chance Colter Mystery by Jeffrey Birch. A massive truck bomb blows up Chance and Tika Colter's business in Savannah GA. Miraculously, they are the sole survivors but Tika is gravely injured. Ninety-three people die in the explosion. Colter's first thought is to protect his...

E.R. physician Hanford Morgan meets the stunningly beautiful actress Lola Leigh when she invites him to her table at a swanky new Charleston restaurant he’s wanted to try. The meeting begins a torrid love affair that leaves him powerless to deny her bidding that begins with coercing him to confront...

Blue Mesa Arizona police chief, Les Poole is unexpectedly called first to a nearby Apache Indian reservation to be informed that a meth lab was discovered on a remote part of their land. A white man was seen leaving the area by tribal members and is likely a Blue Mesa resident. Tribal chairman, Charlie...

After retired ex cop Chance Colter gets a call from another ex cop buddy to help manage his bar and restaurant in Key West Florida, Colter gladly abandons the miserable winter in Minneapolis; but soon after his arrival, Colter's new business partner is found brutally murdered in his office. With the...

After a visit from two FBI agents, retired Minneapolis policeman, Chance Colter learns that a mysterious assassin has targeted him and Anna Partanza for death. It is the same assassin he thought he had eliminated in Key West, Florida. To save his and Anna's lives, Colter needs to find Anna, protect her...

Ex-cop Chance Colter meets with a mysterious and beautiful woman banker in Montreal. She implores him to find her missing brother who has disappeared from Minneapolis. With a deadline of six days before an important bank merger meeting at which the brother is required, Colter begins the search. Unbeknownst...

Chance Colter is again called upon to locate a missing man but in the wilds of northeast Montana. He feels unsuited to searching in the Montana badlands but accepts the assignment for the money offered. With a half Indian guide, he sets out to locate the amateur paleontologist, Ray Walker on the rugged...

When Hollywood B actor Dirk Greylocke’s career falters, he turns to robbery as a means to survive. Perpetually hopeful a movie part will appear he pesters his agent who finally drops him. In despair, he sees no alternative but to continue with a life a crime. A history of insanity in his family weighs...

After Chance Colter receives a disturbing call from Maria Orlov that Anna Partanza's half-sister and ward Bernadette Colliard had been kidnapped in Zurich, Switzerland, Colter leave the next day to help in the child's recovery. The hunt sends him across Europe in pursuit of the villain responsible...

College professor, Dr. Martin York arrives in rural Rock Valley Tennessee after learning his uncle mysteriously fell ninety feet to his death behind the house that overlooked the broad, verdant valley. Martin arrives at the family home after the funeral to be spellbound by its many secrets that it gives...

Faded Flowers And Other Stories includes nineteen stories and one novella as the last offering. While the stories differ markedly and are in random order, they predominantly deal with families and relationships. The stories and novella have been written within the last ten years. The story titled Justice...

Giacomo's Letters is a coming of age tale of a young girl living on a farm in southern Minnesota whose life is turned upside down with the appearance of an uncle she didn't know she had. She discovers his imminent arrival in a letter he sent to her mother left for her to find. Compounding her concern...

Chance Colter is unexpectedly approached by his FBI friend Charles Dumont in Rome. Colter and Tika are on their first vacation and Colter doesn’t want company. Dumont has been contacted by the CIA and enlists a reluctant Colter to help the agency in its search for Irina Petrova, and American ex-pat...