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To save his future, C.T. Ferguson must confront his past. A young woman wants C.T. to find her long-missing father. Unraveling his disappearance isn’t easy. Despite the difficulty—and the efforts of a few enforcers trying to stop him—he eventually locates the man most of the way across the country. Meanwhile, an old adversary plots revenge. C.T. is blindsided by the latest threat but knows he must meet it head-on. Realizing his loved ones are targets, he wants them far away from the hostilities . . . but he’s soon concerned not everyone got out of town in time. Did C.T.’s warning ...

C.T. Ferguson nearly died. Now, he’s investigating a brutal murder. What could go wrong? C.T. Ferguson is back to work a few short months after being shot. He’s working on his own and taking cases he would’ve declined before. So when a woman comes into C.T’s office and asks him to investigate her sister’s savage killing, he jumps at the chance. He has no trouble finding suspects. When the confrontations turn physical, though, C.T. Is unsure of himself for the first time in his life. His physical wounds may have healed, but the mental ones are still in progress. Murder cases ...

Pretty blonde girls are disappearing across Maryland. PI C.T. Ferguson is on the case, but even he might be in over his head. Ashleigh vanished from her friend’s house. No one knows where she is. The police have no leads. C.T. agrees to help her distraught parents. Soon, he learns Ashleigh wasn’t the first girl to go missing. And she isn’t the last. Nothing besides similar looks seems to connect the young women. When they start turning up dead, C.T. must race against the clock to find a vicious and unknown killer. He's desperate to save Ashleigh and the other girls, but can he do it ...

A dangerous killer targets criminals released on technicalities. Then, he sets his sights on C.T. Ferguson. Explosions rock the city of Baltimore. Bomb blasts kill criminals convicted of terrible offenses but released on legal technicalities. The police are either unable or unwilling to identify a culprit. When another private investigator looking into the matter ends up dead, the case falls to C.T. and his intrepid assistant T.J. It doesn’t take them long to wind up on the murderer’s radar. As C.T. and T.J. struggle to puzzle out a maniac’s identity and motive, the killer raises the ...

For someone who never got along well with the cops, C.T. Ferguson finds himself in a good place. His relationship with the Baltimore police is as solid as it's been. He and his detective cousin Rich are almost friends.

Two dead bodies. Many rumors. One confounding case for C.T. Ferguson. When a prominent Baltimore County councilman is found dead next to the body of a woman who is not his wife, questions abound. The politician’s family hires private investigator C.T. Ferguson to figure out what really happened. He was an upstanding man, and they claim it must be the dirtiest kind of political setup. The other corpse belongs to an educator who just won Teacher of the Year. Her shattered husband doesn’t understand what happened. When armed men try to keep C.T. and his assistant T.J. from investigating ...

C.T. Ferguson puts Baltimore’s worst criminals away. All the while, an unexpected enemy bides his time . . . Smart, fast-paced, and full of sharp dialogue and sharper wits, this collection of three standalone mysteries in the C.T. Ferguson series will keep you reading well into the night. Inside Cut (#7): College hoops star Calvin Murray leads his team into the tournament. His mother hires C.T. because she fears her son has fallen in with the wrong people. She’s right. But the problem goes way beyond basketball, and it just might swallow up Calvin and C.T. both. The Next Girl (#8): ...

C.T. Ferguson wishes his parents would get off his case. Forced to use his brilliant hacking skills to play detective, he hopes that each investigation is a cinch. But a body near a Baltimore chapel is only the beginning, and the better the rich kid gets at his job, the more dangerous his work becomes….

A troubled girl has disappeared. Finding her may cost him his life. When you’re a sought-after PI like C.T. Ferguson, there’s no such thing as a day off. So his romantic Hawaiian getaway is interrupted when a frantic woman calls, desperate to locate her missing niece. But when he learns of the girl’s involvement with drugs and escort work, he fears his investigation may already be over. Following the clues from the pimp-ridden neighborhoods of Baltimore to rural Maryland, C.T. uncovers a sordid trail of exploitation and corruption. And when the justice system ignores a twisted cabal ...

As the snow falls across Baltimore, the bodies of local women fall along with it. Winter dawns in Charm City, and the police are puzzled by the seemingly random murder of a young woman. Her family hires PI C.T. Ferguson to investigate. But as the freeze deepens, the killings continue with no apparent rhyme or reason. The crimes garner local and national attention while C.T. and the police remain stymied. C.T.’s assistant T.J. offers to go undercover as bait—a plan he immediately rejects. But she’s seen this kind of violence against women before and may decide to risk it all and act on...

When a true crime podcaster asks PI C.T. Ferguson to help review an old murder case, he accepts. It turns out his cousin Rich was the investigating officer . . . And C.T. thinks Rich got it wrong. Now a homicide lieutenant, Rich remembers the case. He says he got it right. But when C.T. shows him the results of a new investigation, Rich comes around to the idea that the wrong person could be in jail. It means a very guilty man is walking free. Now, Rich and C.T. have to figure out who killed a man eight years ago. As they dig deeper, the murderer sets his sights on them. Can C.T. and his ...

Listen to each 5 Minute Mystery carefully, and select which clues either incriminate or exonerate each suspect. Select the guilty suspect from the list once you've found all of the clues.

Listen to each 5 Minute Mystery carefully and select which clues either incriminate or exonerate each suspect. Select the guilty suspect from the list once you've found all of the clues. Collect all the 5 Minute Mysteries, including the following: (1) The Crusader’s Robe, (2) A Dream of Old Salem, (3) The Great Musket Mystery, (4) The Liberty Gun, (5) The Hidden Messenger, (6) Death at Andersonville, (7) Mr. Patrick’s History Class, and (8) The Battle of the Bulge.

Erma Johnson lives in a rough part of Baltimore. Gangs are a fact of life. She lost her daughter and grandson to their violence. She's convinced, however, that her grandson wasn't in a gang. Hacker turned private investigator C.T. Ferguson takes her case. The more he looks around, the more he thinks she's right.

Hacker-turned-private investigator C.T. Ferguson is new to the job. He's learning the ropes. He wants an easy case. Instead he gets Ernie, a publicity-hungry blogger. He injected himself into a murder case and is now the prime suspect. Near a Baltimore church, a man is found murdered, stabbed a dozen times in the chest. C.T. uncovers the victim's history of abuse by priests—including the one stationed at the church where his body was discovered. He also learns of plans to build a new church...plans that could be threatened by a corpse turning up.

The paintings are ugly, but the crime scenes are grisly. When a local restauranteur hires private investigator C.T. Ferguson to look into a couple of art thefts, he’s confused. The missing paintings are hideous. Even the owner agrees. The thief, however, is willing to kill to keep C.T. off his trail.

Hacker-turned-private investigator C.T. Ferguson gets a client he never expected: his police detective cousin Rich. In rural Western Maryland, Rich's old army friend, Jim, died in an apparent suicide. Jim got help from a charity called Land of the Brave. He had a job and a purpose again, and he was happy. Jim's heartbroken widow doesn't believe he killed himself. As C.T. and Rich investigate, they come to doubt the suicide angle but can't prove anything. When C.T. makes a shocking discovery, he and Rich attract the wrong kind of attention.

Listen to each 5 Minute Mystery carefully and select which clues either incriminate or exonerate each suspect. Select the guilty suspect from the list once you've found all of the clues. Collect all the 5 Minute Mysteries, including the following: (1) The Crusader’s Robe, (2) A Dream of Old Salem, (3) The Great Musket Mystery, (4) The Liberty Gun, (5) The Hidden Messenger, (6) Death at Andersonville, (7) Mr. Patrick’s History Class, and (8) The Battle of the Bulge.