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Dying to Ski
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When the co-founder of a pharmaceutical giant is found dead on the slopes of Jackson Hole, his partner is accused of murder and hires Mary MacIntosh to defend him. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the community. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Mac battles to save her client’s freedom; yet, betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her client but also for her life. When Michael O’Connor, the co-founder of a pharmaceutical giant, is indicted for the murder of his business partner, he hires Mary MacIntosh to defend him in what Michael claims to be a skiing accident on the slopes of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. When the autopsy report reveals that Preston Parker was intentionally poisoned, Mac risks her life trying to prove Michael’s innocence, but when she learns that Michael was secretly in love with Preston’s wife and that Michael’s wife mysteriously died a few years earlier, Mac starts to question her convictions regarding her client’s story. Complicating matters, Preston was having an affair with an exotic Balinese beauty and his wife forced Preston to end the affair, leaving two scorned women who may have wanted Preston dead.
Snake River Secret
When Mary MacIntosh’s legal secretary goes missing, a frantic search through the white water torrents of the Snake River reveals clues a manic drug dealer leaves behind. Ceremonial Shoshone sweat lodge chants lead Mac to the secret Popo Agie cave where she unburies an unimaginable web of conspiracy and betrayal shocking enough to rip apart long-time family ties in this thrilling and epically haunting novel.
PANDEMIC PREDATOR
A serial killer is on the loose using the deadly strain of the H5N1 virus as a murder weapon. His selected targets are young, beautiful women with a connection to a European sex trade. His signature is a strange, hand-drawn tattoo on each woman’s inner thigh which taken together, lead Mary MacIntosh and the FBI to clues of sacred burial grounds around the world. As the lethal strain of the virus spreads across the globe, pharmaceutical giants scramble to mass produce a vaccination to stop the pandemic. The hunter becomes the hunted in this thrilling and epically haunting novel.
Poisoned by Proxy
MARY MACINTOSH dreaded the Landers file the moment it landed on her desk; this large case had become famous in the small town of Sheridan, Wyoming, and she knew it had the power to ruin more than just her 10-year-old client’s life. The prosecution believed the Landers file was a case of Munchausen’s by Proxy, which is a form of child abuse in which a parent with deep psychological problems induces symptoms of illness in his or her child. Mac finds it hard to believe that Levi’s affluent parents could be so malicious to their own son. Dr. Luke Landers is a dashing and suave OB-GYN with a successful medical practice, and his gorgeous wife Evelyn is the picture of high society. Their four children are well known in the tight-knit community; the three eldest are high-achieving scholars and athletes who are frequently featured in the papers for their accomplishments. Mac struggles to comprehend the accusations against Levi’s parents; yet must grapple over the cause of Levi’s illnesses, which range from flu-induced leukemia to “failure to thrive.” As Mac delves deeper into the dynamics of the Landers family, she is horrified by the web of conspiracy and betrayal that a love triangle can weave. As the courtroom drama unfolds, Mac vows to protect at all costs, including her own life.
Powder River Poison
A brutal struggle in the cutthroat oil and gas industry in a quaint Wyoming town between ranch owner Butch Anderson, a born-in-the-saddle cowboy world famous on the rodeo circuit vs. a coalbed methane gas company. When sludge oozes from the “Well from Hell” contaminating the groundwater, destroying rangeland, and poisoning the Powder River Basin, Mary MacIntosh champions a toxic crusade.
The Five
The sixth book in the author’s Mary MacIntosh murder mystery series centers around a serial killer (Chandler Craig) who commenced his murderous rampage before the ripe of age 12, but due to a loophole in the law, is released from juvenile detention at age 21. “Mac” hosts a reunion for her four college roommates at her family cabin in the Colorado Rockies. Within months of his release from jail, Chandler shows up at the cabin and captures each of the five with means of force, violence and torture, telling them that “one of their husbands hired him to kill one of them, and it was up to each to convince him that she was not it.” Each friend struggles with the notion that her husband wants her dead, soul searching the past, present and future of the bonds of marriage and friendship. Chandler’s mayhem and means of torture stem from his abusive and tumultuous childhood and with each act of violence committed against THE FIVE, he reveals the depths of his hatred and sorrow. Mac’s search for the truth behind Chandler’s motive to kill is entangled with the revelation of infidelity, betrayal, and conspiracy stemming from Chandler’s true birth father and a husband’s fall from professional sports grace – into a league of crime involving performance enhancement drugs that, if discovered, will certainly derail dozens of high-profile athlete’s careers. The grisly killings and complexity of plot make this sixth novel in the series a “Jeffrey Dahmer meets Scott Turow,” as the courtroom drama unfolds.
60 Dates in Six Months (with a Broken Neck)
60 Dates in Six Months (with a Broken Neck) is a nonfiction book surrounding a personal experience attempting to date at age 58. It didn’t start out as a goal to write a book in a new genre, but it’s a numbers game requiring note-taking to keep it straight. Upon review over dinner with a girlfriend, it dawned on me that this was funny. In the middle of this journey, I fell and broke my neck and it was serious. Decisions had to be made. I decided to keep dating by writing about it. And so it goes. “60 Dates in Six Months (with a Broken Neck)” is nonfiction satire and hysterically funny but honest.
Push You Away
Push You Away is the sequel to 60 Dates in Six Months (with a Broken Neck) and is a non-fiction book surrounding other people’s personal experiences attempting to date on dating apps. It highlights the frustrations of others experiencing rejection while trying to find love.
Let Me Be
LET ME BE is the sequel to 60 Dates in Six Months (with a Broken Neck) and Push You Away and is a non-fiction book surrounding other people’s personal experiences attempting to date on dating apps It highlights the frustrations of others experiencing rejection while trying to find love. It demonstrates the challenges and difficulties one faces on dating apps due to the unanimity and ability to post ancient pictures that misrepresent what a person looks like presently and/or other misrepresentations of careers or other personal goals and aspirations.
Rodeo
“Rodeo, a Mary Macintosh novel” is a fictional account of a female serial killer who preys on teenagers during the Sheridan WYO Rodeo in 2024. This novel delves into the history of Wyoming and professional rodeos in a fast-paced, gripping thrill ride with Mary Macintosh (“Mac”) as the prosecuting attorney to Wyoming’s first female serial killer.
Set in the picturesque backdrop of Sheridan, Wyoming, this novel is gripping and informative at the same time.
Deputy Dawg or D.B. Cooper
Deputy Dawg or D. B. Cooper, a Mary MacIntosh novel, follows two true crimes that occurred within months of one another in 1971. Deputy Dawg was a lawless hippie in the late ’60s and early ’70s in Boulder and Nederland, Colorado, and he shot and killed Sheriff Guy Howard Gaughnor in Nederland in 1971. It was a senseless crime. D. B. Cooper was the hijacker of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle on November 24, 1971. He somehow managed to have his ransom demands met in Seattle and instructed the captain to fly the Boeing 727 at 10,000 feet with a flight plan to Mexico City. Somewhere near the Washington/Oregon border, he lowered the aft stairs and parachuted out into the dark rainy night with $200,000 strapped to his torso. He was never seen or heard from again, and the mystery remains unsolved. It is the only unsolved hijacking on U. S. soil. Mary MacIntosh (Mac) is the prosecuting attorney in Sheridan, Wyoming, and when Sheriff Kane is shot and killed leaving the Last Chance Saloon in Bighorn, Wyoming, she is faced with deciphering who the killer is. Deputy Dawg? D. B. Cooper? One must read this gripping novel to find out what happened.
Pumpkin Buttes
Consider the notion that three true crimes converge in the Pumpkin Buttes region of Wyoming. One true crime involves three men who escape prison. Another involves two men recently charged with the illegal export of uranium from the United States to Russia. The third true crime involves the extraction of rare earth elements that are critical to technological advances in radar, cellular, and magnetic devices. When these merge into one crime in the Pumpkin Buttes, Mary MacIntosh and Sheriff Burgess are targets after Mac prosecuted the second crime in Sheridan, Wyoming. Burg informs Mac of what he has learned to be possibly the third crime, and when they team up to investigate this, there is a lot at stake for both the criminals and Mac and Burg. The Pumpkin Buttes are as remote as the Hole in the Wall in Wyoming, and most folks know that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were successful at hiding out there!
Prison Break
Mary MacIntosh is drawn into investigating the convergence of unsolved crimes involving a 1910 baseball game that turned deadly at the Wyoming State Penitentiary, a plane crash in the Big Horn mountains where one of the survivors escaped on foot in the snow, a ruthless killer who recently escaped from the state prison and was lurking in her town of Sheridan, Wyoming, together linked by a shadowy conspiracy involving a secret society that spans generations.
The society’s origins date back to the early 20th century, and its members have been manipulating events through history. The crash survivor holds vital information that Mac needs to stop a new generation of conspirators.
This convergence of circumstances intertwines the mystery, suspense, and historical aspects of old crimes meeting new ones.
Red Hands
The Red Hands symbolize the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States, particularly among Native American communities. The red handprint is often seen painted across the mouth of those advocating for this movement, representing the silenced voices of these women who have been victims of violence, kidnapping, or murder, often without proper investigation or justice. This crisis is rooted in a long history of systemic marginalization, lack of proper law enforcement response, and jurisdictional challenges. In this novel, add the unsolved serial killer known as the Zodiac Killer, and this murderer could be involved in the ongoing crisis of the missing and murdered Indigenous women in the Native communities. This Zodiac Killer leaves behind clues in the form of letters and ciphers regarding these missing and murdered Native women and in the case of one murdered Native woman who is killed in Sheridan County, Wyoming, where Mary MacIntosh is left prosecuting the case. Who is the infamous Zodiac Killer and is it really him from the late 1960s and early 1970s, or is it a copycat killer? Mac must solve this puzzle before another Indigenous woman is killed.
Dating Game
Rodney Alcala and Ted Bundy had a lot in common. They also did not. Both were avid serial killers, and they were both executed for their avid appetite for killing young, beautiful, vivacious women. They were also both charming, good looking, and could blend into society, which allowed them to deceive victims and avoid suspicion. Charisma was part of their allure, helping them gain trust and manipulate people into vulnerable situations. In this case, they also had in common two other sidekicks. The Zodiac Killer and the Red Hands Killer, and this foursome were too much. Introducing one too many to the DATING GAME, a Mary MacIntosh novel.
