Charlie Beach Mystery · Book One
The Tequila Promise
When a local hero dies in what appears to be an accident, Charlie Beach starts asking questions — and finds reasons to doubt the official story.
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John MacGougan
The Charlie Beach Mysteries — gripping crime fiction built around hard questions, buried secrets and a private investigator who refuses to let them stay buried.
The Charlie Beach Mysteries
Three books. One investigator.
Follow private investigator Charlie Beach through a series of murder mysteries where small-town familiarity hides dangerous secrets.
Charlie Beach Mystery · Book Two
Secrets of the Innocent
A grieving mother asks Charlie to revisit her daughter's decade-old murder. What begins as a cold case quickly exposes new suspects, motives and unanswered questions.
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A Charlie Beach Mystery
The Niners
Charlie Beach Mystery · Book Three
The Niners
The third installment in the Charlie Beach murder mystery series. Official cover, synopsis, ISBN and direct purchase link can be added as soon as confirmed.
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A lifelong reader who decided to write the kind of crime fiction he loved.
John MacGougan is a Canadian crime and thriller author and creator of the Charlie Beach Mysteries. His interest in mystery fiction started early with the Hardy Boys and later expanded to writers including Agatha Christie, P.D. James and Robert B. Parker.
After discovering Elmore Leonard's work, MacGougan was inspired to turn a long-standing interest in storytelling into his own murder mystery fiction. That journey began with The Tequila Promise, followed by Secrets of the Innocent and The Niners.
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