John Shepphird

• Mar-2014
• / Thriller
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Struggling actress Jane Innes is seduced by a handsome new arrival in her acting class. He makes a proposition. He admits he's a con man and needs Jane to pose as a rich, carefree heiress to fulfill her part in his intricate scam. Would you agree? Or...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Her role in the con game was to be the shill before the scam exploded in bloody violence. Discarded, sacrificed like a pawn, Jane’s left holding the bag. The swindlers left a murderous trail and millions of dollars are missing. The problem; Jane kn...

• Aug-2016
• / General Fiction
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Nominated for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best Novella Life can turn on a dime against the jagged cliffs of California’s Central Coast...Bruised, battered, but determined, Jane Innes must navigate a tangled web of deception, depravity and murder, an...

• Apr-2018
• / Mystery
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A page-turning whodunit set in the wilds of a remote movie ranch, BOTTOM FEEDERS describes the hapless Hollywood cast and crew that eke out a living working on low-budget fare. Their ambitious TV movie needs to be made fast and cheap, but a brutal...

• Apr-2024
• / Mystery
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Reformed-swindler-turned-private-eye Jack O’Shea investigates a strange death at a shadowy Northern California mountain college—a “visa mill” with close ties to Silicon Valley. Accompanied by his retired racing greyhound, Jack...

• / General Fiction
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Nominated for the 2017 Anthony Award for Best Novella

Life can turn on a dime against the jagged cliffs of California’s Central Coast...

Bruised, battered, but determined, Jane Innes must navigate a tangled web of deception, depravi...