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Frozen Past (A Jaxon Jennings' Detective Mystery Thriller Series, Book 1) by [Richard C Hale]

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Jaxon Jennings. Cop. Homicide detective. Partner. He always had your back and rarely made mistakes.

Until the death of his son. Until the night he couldn’t save him. Until everything he held dear was taken away from him.

Now, a shell of a man, his reckless actions mark him as a burn-out. A Loner. A dangerous man whom many in the Fairfax County Police Department cannot trust. The criminals he pursues in the suburbs of Washington D. C. are nothing more than ways to bide his time until his next drink, next fix, next loss of control. His past haunts him no matter how hard he tries to hide from it.

So, when a boy’s body shows up floating under the ice of a quiet neighborhood pool, Jaxon finds himself immersed in a world where the ghosts of his past feel too close for comfort. A psychopath is using the innocent in ways that appear familiar.

Jaxon’s past is catching up with him. And the anger that seethes below the surface threatens to destroy not only his life, but the lives of a group of kids somehow connected with him. The answers are locked, frozen in the part of his past he refuses to confront. But people are counting on him. And he must do anything to save them.

Anything. Even if it costs him his life.

**The next exciting Jaxon Jennings’ Thriller is now available. You can find CACHE 72 by clicking on the author name above and navigating to Richard C Hale’s Amazon Author page**

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Q - So, what makes the Jaxon Jennings’ Thriller Mystery Series so special?

A – Jaxon’s not your typical hero. He’s flawed, and that makes him entertaining. As a reader, I want to be entertained and thrilled. I’m a fan of the Action & Adventure and Thriller genres, so it was natural for me to write in them. I’m also a lover of things that go bump in the night and I add a little creepiness just to make things interesting.

Not only will you want to keep reading late into the night, the pace and action keeping your nose in the page, but when you finally close the book, you’ll probably keep the light on as well.

“Help me…”

Q – With the main story focusing around two younger characters, is Frozen Past written for adults?

A – It’s definitely an adult book. With a Thriller, a certain amount of violence and adult material is expected, and Frozen Past definitely fits into that category. Younger readers are not the target audience of the Jaxon Jennings’ series.

Jaxon is introduced to the reader in Frozen Past, and though it is not really a prequel, he shares the spotlight with Luke and Ellie, two teenagers who find themselves thrust into a killer’s world for seemingly no reason at all. I feel the divide between the adult world and the kids’ world makes the story that much more enthralling.

Q – Should the series be read in any certain order?

A – Each book is a separate story and I wrote them to be enjoyed in any order. If you find you like to stick to a chronological timeline, I’d suggest following this sequence:

- Frozen Past
- Cache 72
- Father Figure
- Sins of the Daughters
- Eye Strain
- Traffic
- Damaged
- Dead Last
- Viral
- Bone Yard

Jaxon Jennings’ Mystery Thriller Series eBook Categories:

- Crime Thrillers
- Mystery Action
- Mystery Adventure
- Thriller Books
- Detective Thrillers
- Murder Fiction
- Serial Killer Fiction

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Richard C Hale has worn many hats in his lifetime including Greens Keeper, Bartender, Musician, Respiratory Therapist, and Veteran Air Traffic Controller. You can usually find him controlling Air Traffic over the skies of the Southeastern U.S. where he lives with his wife and children. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Three Thirty A.M. Publishing (March 5, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 5, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Richard C Hale has worn many hats in his lifetime including Greens Keeper, Bartender, Musician, Respiratory Therapist, and Veteran Air Traffic Controller. His latest role - that of beloved thriller writer - seems to suit him best. You can usually find him roaming the suburbs of Jacksonville, Florida where he does his best to avoid meals with brussels sprouts, camels that spit, and never-ending shopping trips. He loves movies where the hero wins, historical facts that are not well known, and speaking in the third person - not necessarily in that order.

His father and wife are his heroes and he lives for his daughters, grandchildren, and little buddy, Rudy, the long-haired Chihuahua. Stop by his website and say hello - or grab a free book.

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Cortez Law III

Gripping Narrative, But Excessive

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 5, 2017

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Well, well, well, Richard C. Hale’s Frozen Past. I won’t detail every twist, but here's what I will avow. The book states it’s a Jaxon Jennings Thriller, but he wasn't the first story focus. Teenager Luke Harrison and his friends Jimmy and John Besner and Ellie and Patrick Pemberton, get the ball rolling with the story setup. Ellie holds a special place in Luke's heart: She's his sweetheart and he'll do anything to protect his Goofy Goober. But the sudden abduction of a boy during Halloween in 1984 sets Frozen Past on its frightening track.

Now, present-day Fairfax County, Virginia. Ellie finds her beloved dog, Bentley, mutilated. That’s just the start. The 1984 child and a second neighborhood kid in the present named Paul Bannon are both asphyxiated with their remains frozen. Enter Fairfax County PD Detective Jaxon Jennings. His profile is he hates to give death notifications, he drinks heavily when stressed, he still suffers from a divorce from ex-wife Victoria, now an FBI Agent, and the murder of their only son Michael still haunts him. A former FCPD cop, Victoria quits after blaming Jaxon for Michael’s death and joins the Bureau. She’s since moved on and starts a relationship with an Agent Emory Holt.

Jaxon teams up with Detective Sally Winston and they investigate the Bannon boy case. His demise occurred at the community swimming pool area that points at Luke and his friends as potential culprits due to certain evidence. Neighbor Mr. Lolly’s surveillance cam captures someone BIG tossing a body over the pool fence. The Medical Examiner’s office determines the 1984 little boy named Steward or Stewy Littleton was frozen for about 10-20 years. Some time later, local pets disappear and the neighborhood residents find them mangled. A gruesome pattern develops here: Butchered children and pets are found frozen in death. Jaxon and Sally have a murderer the media dub, The Swimming Pool Killer, working in the neighborhood.

The UnSub or Unknown Subject remains several steps ahead of the investigators that now includes Victoria and Emory. Via a series of Facebook messages/cell phone texts, Luke, Ellie, Jimmy, John, and another neighborhood boy in a family of suspect character, Quentin Jenson or Q, tracks the UnSub’s cell locales with a computer program. This sets up a parallel investigation by professional and amateur sleuths alike in efforts to box in the serial killer. These computer phone hacks put the kids squarely in the crosshairs of a crafty and brutal villain. They also open a painful chapter in some of the characters’ lives that have yet to heal.

The multiple state search for the UnSub results in horrific events as the killer mocks the professionals and amateurs every logical move. They just can’t get a grasp on the killer’s next steps and that leads to devastation. As pieces of the investigation finally do coalesce, including the identity of the UnSub and the bonus of Jaxon's relationship with Victoria rekindling, a very personal attack on him and the grotesque humiliation of a kid leaves him so depleted of investigative energy, he quits the case and the FCPD.

With Victoria deciding to leave Holt and stick by her ex-husband, the now can I say KnSub (my term) or Known Subject taunts Jaxon, Victoria, and the authorities with a brazen and disgusting display for the world to see. THAT fires up Jaxon to end this maniacal reign of terror by this serial killer but time isn't Jaxon’s friend.

The resolution hits the reader with revelation upon revelation like a tsunami upon a helpless island. The emotions of the people within this horrific tale and those that read it boiled and will boil over until the slam-bang conclusion including a little ‘bonus’ scenario that I sensed was coming in some manifestation but I just didn’t know when or how. Tragic. Simply tragic.

At first, I didn’t find Jaxon Jennings of great interest because Luke, Ellie and their friends drove the narrative at the start. But Jaxon became more interesting as his backstory unfolded. Nothing unfamiliar or shocking for we all have past hurts. A reader needs to root for the protagonist and I did both on and off the case. Same with the kids especially Luke and Ellie. However, I question if today’s youth would be so bold or might a better word be stupid. I say the same for the parents. If a crazed killer's loose, why have your children outdoors so late? I know kids can manipulate but come on. Who's the adult here? Maybe author Hale tipped his hand in his story construct so the events fit his thrilling narrative. I don’t know. I wouldn’t let my kids leave my sight.

However, this I do know. Frozen Past isn't for the faint of heart. It's one nasty R-rated thriller with liberal doses of profanity, animal, and child cruelty. It’s heartbreaking to know that such monsters do live among us and subject their victims to these various tortures and I suppose that’s the or a point of the story too. Hale set out to create a compelling thriller and he accomplished just that. I praise his craftsmanship, but can I say I enjoyed it? Not sure I’d go that far. I write crime stories as well so I’m no shrinking violet when it comes to these dark places where we live and dark spaces where we think. But I’m not sure I’d read Hale again despite his immense talent for crafting such an intense and horrifying thriller. Mostly too much language for me. Hale's a skilled storyteller and boy it’s on display with Frozen Past. I just don’t recommend eating before reading it.

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Scary from Beginning to End, this suspense thriller is a winner!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 9, 2012

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Don't read this book before you fall asleep or you will have nightmares. In the prologue, a 12-yr-old is nabbed while trick or treating, so the scene has been set for a terrifying tale. In a friendly suburb of DC, families feel safe about their children gathering in the dusky evenings for a game of kick the can. But that will soon change.

Richard Hale puts the pieces in place with chilling deliberation. Ellie's little dog goes missing, and it is only later, in the midst of a snowball fight that his headless corpse is found in a snow drift. Her closest friend, Luke, ineffectively tries to console her. The two each get a facebook friend request and unthinkingly, accept and open the attached message, a photo of her dog's head. At that moment, they realize that they are somehow being targeted by a very sick individual. He cautions them in his messages to tell no one, or serious harm will result. The two kids find mutual comfort, and in that raw moment reveal their attraction for one another and their innocent love begins to grow.

Ellie and Luke and a couple of friends, John and Jimmy, find ways to pass time when small-town life becomes tedious. One night they come up with a plot to put together a manequin and sink it beneath the iced over surface of the community swimming pool. They figured their hoax would go undiscovered until Spring, but it is only a short time before the court is lit up by emergency response vehicles and the kids watch, afraid that their spontaneous prank will get them into trouble. The "dummy" is pulled out of the pool, and they watch as EMT's begin CPR. Baffled, they notice that a real child's hand protrudes from the sleeve of the jacket they had stuffed. The killer steps up his contacts - he has their cellphone numbers and seems to know everything about their every action. In the ways of foolish teens, they make a pact to keep the messages secret, since the killer has told them they will be next if they reveal anything.

A neighborhood friend is the next victim, found floating in the same pool. Detectives Jaxon and Sally know the kids are hiding something, but their efforts to coax the kids into telling what they know are to no avail. Jaxon gets a lead that takes him o FBI headquarters where he runs into his estranged wife, Victoria. Jaxon and Victoria had a son, Michael, who was taken by a serial killer while the two were on the investigation. His death was too much for their marriage to survive. They are awaiting the execution of his killer, who resides on death row. The Pool Killer gives Jaxon a "gift", Michael's ears, and they reason that the wrong man was tried for the death of their son.

The investigation is personal now, and Victoria and Jaxon will stop at nothing to find the Pool Killer, while the kids realize they are up against a psychopath who manages to elude and defeat law enforcement at every turn. Childhood innocence gives way to nightmares and horror that no child should face.

This book is a bit disturbing, but if you like a good "Criminal Minds" type of investigation, you will enjoy this read. I couldn't put it down once I began, and yes, I ignored my own advice and read long into the night.

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Definitely not a Young Adult genre

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 14, 2015

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I had reservations about reading this mainly because the description made it sound a bit like young adult genre but it was free and had good reviews so I had nothing to lose.

I was gripped from the start. The initial characters are teenagers (definitely not of the famous five variety) with Jaxon being introduced later. The story works very well the teenagers are an important component of the book they bring so much to the story, young love and the IT guru aspect that could only work with young adults who were brought up with technology.

It is definitely an adult thriller the killer being a very believable, definitely evil person. The book as a whole is so believable it is something you would easily find on the news very realistic characters and not all surviving the ordeal.

This is a must read for anyone who likes thrillers I found it very difficult to put down. It is also very well written I didn't find any typos or bad grammer that is usually evident in free kindle books.

Richard is now among my favourite authors I will definitely be downloading the next book.

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Ashrae

Frozen Past

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 14, 2016

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I am a bit ashamed of the amount of time I have had this book on my Kindle waiting to be read. Once I eventually started it, I whizzed through it at a veritable rate of knots. I then proceeded to read the next two books back to back (more on them on their own pages) but if all that doesn't tell you I loved it, I don't know what will!
We have a killer targeting a neighbourhood, going after kids. Not only is he killing them, he is also stalking them. Threatening them. He appears to know a lot about Luke and Eliana and draws them into his evil plot. Enter Jaxson Jennings, he is your typical damaged cop. He's definitely been through the wringer and then some but he still does his best in his job. He is a bit concerned with the ubiquity of Luke in his investigations but cracks on and, as we near the end of the book and things ramp up, he really comes into his own.
Oh, I've found a new book crush. I love Jaxson. He is someone who, although going through some quite bad personal turmoil, you would really want in your corner in a fight. He is brilliantly written and so was easy for me to connect to / emote with. Other characters are just as well described, especially the children. I often think it must be hard to write children convincingly. Age appropriate everything, attitude, language, etc etc, but here, the author has done a cracking job.
I also really gelled with this author's writing style. Even though this was the first book of his I had read, it really didn't feel like it. Often I take a while to get into a new author's style but here, I went straight in with that comfortable, familiar feeling.
Plot-wise, we had plenty of the usual twists and turns, leading the reader along with the cops down dead ends. Misdirection too made for an interesting read. I also loved that the kids were investigating as well as the cops - the book did remind me a little of Stephen King's It in that way but kids and kid-killers aside, the two books differed greatly thereafter. I did guess a few things right - yay me - but on the whole I just let the book lead me. All the way to a crescendo of a thrilling ending that left me breathless and satisfied. I would say on to book 2, but I have already read that, and book 3, so I guess book 4 now awaits!

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Lynda Stevens

Good new debut for horror-tinged detective thriller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 6, 2016

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At first Frozen Past starts out seemingly more of a story for young adults, as the main characters
are kids - and where the junior sleuths get to outwit the bumbling grownups. As we encounter the adult detective. Jaxon however, with hints of past tragedy in his personal life, we soon discover that Jaxon is too rounded out to be part of a novel targeted purely at kids. Having said that, the author does seem to 'get' teens with how they feel and react...

It all starts with a dog. Ellie's puppy is lured to his death by a vicious psychopath and beheaded. Ellie and her boyfriend soon realise they are being stalked, after a schoolboy prank involving bodies in the river yields a real dead body. Of a boy who had vanished three decades ago.

So too is Detective Jaxon being stalked. But what can the connection with all these murders be?

The adversary has a grim agenda indeed as the plot involves and a common agenda through various twists and turns, is finally revealed. And things get no less traumatic for Ellie and her young boyfriend.......

The plot is ingenious, involving the dark side of the cyber world too. The plot is possibly not that credible but here you will still encounter an effective page turner with plenty of surprise twists. And there are more Jaxon mysteries to encounter, though it does seem as though his characters are not to be envied....

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Lucan Blue Nose

Why is Jaxon spelt with an X ?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 13, 2016

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A very enjoyable read. Characters very likable, the villain is just that and is portrayed brilliantly by the author. The book moves at a good pace with plenty of twists & turns to keep you interested. I liked the character of Jaxon Jennings, is dedicated to his work but has his flaws. I'm not too sure who the intended audience is for this character. As the storyline was centered around a group of teenagers are teenagers the intended audience? I left my teenage years behind me many years ago but still enjoyed the story. I would like to think that I would revisit Jaxon Jennings again in the future. One negative for me and it's not aimed at this book particularly but is also recurring in many crime novels: why do so many of the lead crime fighters have a tendency to drink heavily when the going gets tough? It just glamourizes the intake of alcohol and misleads the younger readers into thinking that heavy drinking is ok & can solve problems which we all know is far from the truth. (Rant over), very enjoyable book, recommended.

Lletyderw

Good story but needs more depth to main characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 29, 2015

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This was a free download and I wasn't expecting much, however there was a lot of suspense and drama in this book which could easily have been extended to make more of a lot of the characters background. As lot of the information and characterisation was too superficial for my liking - for instance the reader was left to make the leap of "why" the killer did what he did. It required at least one more chapter I think to flesh out the background of the killer to give some context to why and how he did what he did, why he did it and when - timing being an important part of the story (wont say anymore as this could spoil the plot). Also why did the killer leave his father-in-law alone when it was clear his father in law had tried very hard to kill him.

Teenage romance/angst is really not one of my things and the underlying theme and relationship was based on this - how our heroine was ever expected to get over everything that happened to her family on an individual basis and live "happily every after" is another of life's great mysteries. Could be she will be so warped she will be the protagonist in a future serial killing book !

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