The Matthias Jones Mysteries (lol)
"The Matthias Jones Series will bring you murder, mayhem, and monkey business."
-R.P. Fitton
The Matthias Jones Mysteries (lol)
"The Matthias Jones Series will bring you murder, mayhem, and monkey business."
-R.P. Fitton
-R.P. Fitton
His father was an investigator who was murdered. Matthias Jones became an athlete and coach, but he solved his father’s murder. Hamilton
College on the coast of New Hampshire hired him to coach sports, but
getting into murder investigations remains his passion. He knows the
cops and the district attorney Herbert Lane hates his guts. He's best
buds with Cocoa Stefani a major under world character and a good friend
of parish priest, Father Jim Gallagher. Jones's persistence gains
him the upper hand over the cops and the DA-and the murderer.
His father was an investigator who was murdered. Matthias Jones became an athlete and coach, but he solved his father’s murder. Hamilton
College on the coast of New Hampshire hired him to coach sports, but
getting into murder investigations remains his passion. He knows the
cops and the district attorney Herbert Lane hates his guts. He's best
buds with Cocoa Stefani a major under world character and a good friend
of parish priest, Father Jim Gallagher. Jones's persistence gains
him the upper hand over the cops and the DA-and the murderer.
FIRST BOOK IN the Matthias Jones Series.
R.I.P. Bill Jones
The beginning of the series. Jones wins the national high school championship and is recruited by Cocoa Stefani to coach at Hamilton College. But there's a glitch. His dad, a veteran investigator is murdered and left in his truck at the river's edge. Jones and Cocoa become friends tracking down Bill Jones's killer. Their efforts are thwarted by Lester Larsen, son of the retiring bumbling coach Lark Larsen as he attempts to prevent Jones from replacing his father as coach.
SECOND BOOK in the Matthias Jones Series.
The Prince William Slasher
Four women are brutally murdered
in six weeks by a killer wielding a razor’s deadly blade. Matthias
Jones, just taking the reins of coaching at Hamilton College learns
tangentially of the Prince William Slasher. He is introduced at a
Hamilton College trustees meeting and catches the eyes of the retired
model Pia. Jones and Cocoa are witness to a fifth gruesome murder and
Jones begins the pursuit of the killer. Jones must deal with the antics
of the irascible Arnie Dewars and his goofy friend Muddy Jacobs. The
slasher attempts yet another murder and begins taunting Jones on the
phone. Pia and Jones begin dating but Pia has grand designs on the
Hamilton College coach. As Jones’s basketball team begins winning, the
killer threatens him directly with murder.
THIRD BOOK in the Matthias Jones Series
Brad Davis was a brilliant genetic researcher
working for Hamilton Fletcher and Hamilton College. But Davis’s wild
life of parties, booze, drugs and sex made him many enemies. When he is
murdered a Hamilton College student Amy Pollard is found with her
personally owned handgun, the gun that killed Brad Davis. Just that
afternoon Davis bloodied his benefactor, Hamilton Fletcher’s nose.
Lurking in the background is Davis’s mob connection to Albert Fiore in
Boston. A Hamilton College professor, Zoey Wilmont is suspiciously in the lake house area. The Fletchers reach out to Matthias
Jones to protect the college’s interest and find the murderer. Jones
ends up with his nefarious friend Cocoa Stefani in Boston eventually
confronts the murderer directly.
FOURTH BOOK in the Matthias Jones Series
Club Max, owned by Jones's friend and underworld character Cocoa Stefani, is a cauldron for risky behavior. Jones's star football player is arrested for the murder of a Club Max hooker. Jones jumps into the case, irritated by a Sherlock Holmes buff trying to solve the crime. Mobsters and students are all suspects and it is only in the hair raising final scene where the true killer is revealed.
The Club Max Murder
Club Max, owned by Jones's friend and underworld character Cocoa Stefani, is a cauldron for risky behavior. Jones's star football player is arrested for the murder of a Club Max hooker. Jones jumps into the case, irritated by a Sherlock Holmes buff trying to solve the crime. Mobsters and students are all suspects and it is only in the hair raising final scene where the true killer is revealed.
FIFTH BOOK in the Matthias Jones Series
The Strange Death of Dr. Povitch
Did Father Jim Gallagher murder Dr. Sergi Povitch? The police think so.
Povitch dies at his observatory from poison at Gallagher’s dinner table.
Now Gallagher is on the run.
Matthias Jones tries to exonerate the priest, but he also suspects his star player who confided drug use to Dr. Povitch. A
Povitch colleague has stolen vital notes from the doctor's notebook for
a book deal. And was Povitch's companion, Elsie McIntire, after his
money?
Blocking Jones's investigation is a bumbling security
cop, Bucky Driscoll. Driscoll clumsily destroys vital evidence and his
constant stupidity annoys Jones' temperamental close friend-a sly
underworld figure named Cocoa Stefani.
Then-a second murder-one
of Jones's cheerleaders. While at the funeral in her hometown, Jones
finds the evidence he needs to confront the murderer.
SIXTH BOOK in the Matthias Jones Series
Funeral March for the Maestro
In Funeral March for the Maestro,
the conductor of the Prince William Symphony is murdered with a single
bullet, yet two shots were fired - a minute apart. Beloved coach Lark
Larsen has tested positive for firing a gun. With the help of the wacky
locals in Hamilton, New Hampshire, Matthias Jones zeroes in on the real
murderer - someone who knew the maestro very well.
SEVENTH Book in the Matthias Jones Series
Murder at the Applegate
Mathias Jones’s longtime friend Leo Crowley is found dead under a
concrete foundation at the Applegate Development in Hamilton, New
Hampshire. Bonner Development’s unsavory owner Bobby Bonner becomes an
immediate suspect because of his activities around the time of Leo’s
murder. The belligerent attitude of Bonner’s construction superintendent
Scott Gleason begins confronting Jones and Cocoa Stefani as they delve
into the murder. Dennis Cruchek, who lured Leo out to the site, has
disappeared and Kim Rose, a tall blonde seemingly is deeply involved in
the development. Watching over the development is the pugnacious Red
Kroc a Bonner worker on the site who will instantly pick a fight with
anyone. As always District Attorney Herbert Lane tries to block Jones's
efforts. Jones finds love with his friend Frannie McShane but needs
counseling from Father Gallagher when fate takes a turn for the worse.
EIGHTH BOOK in the Matthias Jones Series
Anthony's Story
What became of Anthony Stefani, who disappeared five years ago? Within the humor of the wacky characters of Hamilton, New Hampshire
Matthias Jones begins a murder investigation after a bizarre murder in
Hamilton. Events turn serious when Jones tracks the killer to New York
City and a violent international gang. The investigation crosses the
cold case trail of Anthony Stefani. Jones risks his life in a tense
confrontation with the gang. The answer to the Hamilton murder yields
the secret of the disappearance of Anthony Stefani.
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NINTH BOOK in the Matthias Jones Series
A collision of Lark Larsen’s new boat with “the Maintenance Free” in Hamilton Bay leads to the murder of local handyman Webster Howard. Lark hires an intelligence operative, Detective Clyde Hooper whose antics annoy and frustrate Matthias Jones’s investigation of the murder. Cocoa Stefani falls in love with a beautiful but innocent brunette, Janet Boudreaux, but J.B. soon becomes a Jones suspect. Trooper Banastre O’Connell appears to have been romantically involved with the overspending Mabel Howard, Webster’s wife. In the middle of the investigation is Reverend John Paul Bricker and” his church.” From a bar on Cape Cod Jones and Cocoa track the killer, while shadowed by Clyde Hooper and his helper, the ever-bumbling Bucky Driscoll.
The Handyman's Secret
A collision of Lark Larsen’s new boat with “the Maintenance Free” in Hamilton Bay leads to the murder of local handyman Webster Howard. Lark hires an intelligence operative, Detective Clyde Hooper whose antics annoy and frustrate Matthias Jones’s investigation of the murder. Cocoa Stefani falls in love with a beautiful but innocent brunette, Janet Boudreaux, but J.B. soon becomes a Jones suspect. Trooper Banastre O’Connell appears to have been romantically involved with the overspending Mabel Howard, Webster’s wife. In the middle of the investigation is Reverend John Paul Bricker and” his church.” From a bar on Cape Cod Jones and Cocoa track the killer, while shadowed by Clyde Hooper and his helper, the ever-bumbling Bucky Driscoll.
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TENTH BOOK in the Matthias Jones Series
Deader than Dead
Hamilton Fletcher leader in the town, industry, and patriarch is
murdered in his study. His money grubbing daughter was on the Fletcher
Estate in the carriage house. A gun toting neighbor lurked in the
shadows. The company controller may have wanted more power. And the
fired groundskeeper was upset with Hamilton Fletcher. Matthias Jones
finds Hamilton dead at his computer with a mystery file called Jersey
imports on the screen. After being shot at on numerous occasions,
threatened and targeted for murder, Matthias Jones locates the accused.
Of course the local yokels impede and help him solve the murder-all with
much (lol).
