About Stone Cold Crime Stories
Bringing to life what we discover about crime and police work for our Tom Stone Detective novels
Our newest with a follow-up in the works
Kill Shot is available on Kindle for Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, paperback, hardcover.
No one likes crime, but we do like crime, thriller and suspense stories where the good guys throttle injustice.
Stone Cold Crime Stories is the place for eye-opening discovery, facing personal experiences that are positive, unsavory and downright deadly.
Support our crime publication here through purchasing one or more of our gripping crime-thriller novels listed below and available on Amazon.
Each one is easily read as a stand-alone or together with the others in the series.
As Lon Casler Bixby and I dig into notes and reality for our Tom Stone Detective Stories we wanted to share them with you, shaping them in ways that will shed light on society and even our own behaviors.
Stay tuned and check back often for updates and new ideas expressed.
If you want “fast-paced crime stories” that reminded one reader of James Patterson’s Detective Alex Cross then browse through our novels and short story.
Join the adventure by jumping in to our Detective Tom Stone Reading Group.
The series below builds but each story can be read stand-alone. Read a bit about each one of our five novels and then click on the title to read a preview on Amazon.
Book 1 Tom Stone: A Nitty Gritty Christmas
Tainted candy leads LAPD Detective Tom Stone and his partner Jake Sharpe on the chase for a wanna-be drug lord Anthony Angelino.
Stone also befriends a boy in a foster care group home as he and Jake are handing out Christmas presents.
He gets help from a quirky woman in the neighborhood who keeps a close eye on Angelino.
“I felt like I was stepping into the Los Angeles underbelly and living the life of an L.A. police detective. Simkovich and Bixby have created a great character in Tom Stone.”
Book 2 Tom Stone: Sweltering Summer Nights
Legal pot dispensaries as legit business or a front for harder drugs? Anthony Angelino returns in this thriller, taunting Detective Tom Stone while trying to keep the mob from muscling in and controlling his plan to open a series of legal marijuana dispensaries.
As the crime syndicate entraps Angelino, Stone has strong reason to suspect cocaine trafficking. Double-cross, murder and a fight for what’s right ignite this tale of Angelino’s hopes and woes.
Stone gets a surprise when he falls for Angelino’s assertive defense attorney, a woman with plenty of experience handling tough guys.
“There is plenty of action, double-crossing, betrayal and murder. It all moves at a high speed and is both well written and well researched.”
Book 3 Tom Stone: Day of the Dead
This is it. Anthony Angelino is furious that Frank DeVito’s syndicate won’t let him be, so he finds a way to screw DeVito from an incoming shipment of cocaine, escape Detective Stone’s torment and launch the empire he’s been dreaming of.
But in a heart-wrenching scene, Angelino’s girlfriend makes it clear she wants him out of the lifestyle.
“This book had a great pace and it took me straight off on a brilliant ride to the fantastic ending!”
Book 4 Tom Stone: One Shot, One Kill
A sniper with extraordinary skill takes twisted revenge on the wealthy in Los Angeles who finance the shipment of drugs.
As Stone investigates, the sniper’s personal vendetta creates a power vacuum and leads to an explosive clash between mob boss Frank DeVito and the Ojos Negros drug cartel.
Stone, Jake Sharpe call on their colleague, ex-military sniper Detective Brian Kilbraide, to find every lead and bring the bloodshed to a halt.
A sleeper release new to the crime fiction and thriller public.
“Couldn’t put it down as I wanted to find out who this sniper was reeking havoc on the drug lords of LA.”
Book 5 Tom Stone: Subterfuge
Stone and Jake are called to investigate a survivor, Luis Delgado, who washed ashore on a Malibu beach, just north of Los Angeles.
Delgado’s story and fight for justice launches the detectives on a chase to stop an international drug smuggling ring using narco-subs.
Frank DeVito’s own future is threatened by a powerful Ojos Negros cartel who makes him an offer that he dare not refuse.
The intense actions weaves to an explosive finale.
“I was gripped by this book from start to finish and on the edge of my seat throughout. The story hit the ground running and maintained a fairly fast pace throughout.”