Hell is Empty: Book 1 of the Detective Tony Pantera Series

Book 2 of the Detective Tony Pantera Series, The Purger, is also now available!When an obsessed man kidnaps high school freshman Samantha Dobson as she walks along a deserted street, Detective Tony Pantera is called upon to solve the case-a case that has virtually no clues.

While Samantha must deal with a depth of evil she never knew existed, her family is disintegrating. Her mother tries to hold the family together, but her father buries himself in his work while her older brother and sister deal with the loss in their own self-destructive ways.

Meanwhile, Pantera, whose last kidnapping case ended with a dead girl and no suspect, does everything possible to find Samantha before her case becomes just another cold case-or worse.

"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." - William Shakespeare, The Tempest.