It here! Cleansed By Fire is out - both in paperback and in Kindle editions. You can see the cover here, but on Amazon, you can even look inside. I'm very pleased with both editions, although the cover on Kindle it is only in black and white.

Cleansed by Fire is a murder mystery, and is propelled by church burnings. A small east Texas town is in turmoil as two churches are burned by arsonists within a ten day period. Father Frank learns that another church will be torched, but he hears this in the confessional, so he can't tell anybody, not even the police. He knows he can't sit still and let another church burn, so he has to try to find out who is behind this, why are they doing it, and which church is in danger.

He finds there are a number of people he can consider as suspects: the new man in town who seems to be connected to the drug scene; the young man, obviously into drugs; the burly man who burns a paper cross to taunt Father Frank and suggests maybe the churches deserve what they got.

And as he investigates, he becomes a target himself. Can he save another church? Can he even keep himself alive?

To read Chapter 1, just click on the "Chapter 1" button on the upper left. To view a book trailer on Cleansed by Fire, click here.

Cleansed by Fire is out and available from Amazon in paperback by clicking here, or by clicking on the "order" button on the upper left of this page. For a Kindle edition, click here .

The other book published this spring is Murder a Cappella and you can visit its website by clicking here. We just got the trailer for it.

To see a book trailer on
Murder a Cappella, click here.

It's a mystery, set during the International Competition of the Sweet Adelines (women who sing barbershop harmony). James wrote this book with one of his daughters, who has sung with the Sweet Adelines. Her name is Diane Bailey and she is an accomplished writer with many books published, primarily non-fiction. Click on the "Links" button to the left and visit her website.