Book 2 of the Jake Fisher Mysteries— Badger Investigations–is underway and the rough draft is currently about half complete. A late spring publication is anticipated–hopefully just in time for Summer readers.
The second of Jake’s first-person narration crime drama stories begins in September, with Jake fresh off of his first case (in 2023’s Hit & Run–published last Fall) and walking with a confident swagger. Classes are about to begin for the first time since the war, and Jake is warming up to his new position as Security Officer at Hunter’s Run High School. Soon he is approached by a colleague, Kelly Fryer, who needs Jake to do a rush snoop job and get pictures of her philandering husband so that she can file for divorce before Maryland’s no fault divorce laws go into effect. Jake begrudgingly accepts the job, only to find out that Kelly’s husband, Ken, is in much deeper trouble than previously imagined. Jake must avoid getting entangled in Ken’s issues with a biker gang and an Eastern European mobster while somehow getting incriminating pictures of Ken’s adulterous relationship under a tight deadline.
In addition to his troublesome case, Jake finds leaping over obstacles at his new job equally demanding. HRHS Principal Chris Lash warns Jake to keep his private investigation business far away from campus, and later an altercation with a problem student leads to his temporary suspension. With his two worlds crashing in around him, Jake must find a way to keep it all together before he loses everything.
Badger Investigations is the second in what hopes to be a long line of Jake Fisher Mysteries, all set in the rolling northern hills of Maryland’s Frederick County. Stay tuned and look for them on Amazon!
Writing with Jay Vielle 