Book 1: Dead or Disappeared A rogue PI is hired to find two missing teens. Then paid not to. He’s going to find them anyway—come hell, high water, drug lords or Russian mob… Available on Amazon. 
Book 3: Respect the Dead Stacie Machado convinces Jack McQueen, a rogue PI to take a trip to her hometown, Newburg to help search for a missing Latina/aboriginal girl. Their investigations lead them toward the slaughterhouse that abuses workers and animals, into a community drug war, and toward discoveries of tragic accidents both present and past. |
Book 2: Dead by the Hands of Other Men
The daughter of a mob boss hires a rogue PI to find her husband’s killer. His search leads to more dead bodies, and many conflicts with ruthless rival mobsters, and an enemy from his past… Available on Amazon 
Book 4: A Place Among the Dead A rogue PI is hired to find two Peruvian university students lost in the Salish Sea. Jack McQueen is not ready to go back to work, but Stacie Machado his business partner convinces him to take the case on Vancouver Island. Alone he pilots his Ranger Tug across the Georgia Strait to Nanaimo where he discovers that there are more mysterious and dangerous things than missing persons. A serial killer is on the loose, and many people for their own reasons want to find the Peruvian students. As usual Jack gets help from his vagabond friend Norton as they trace the maritime footprints further north on the Georgia Strait. As they get closer to the truth, they encounter multiple villains who threaten to kill them, and put his friends and acquaintances in mortal danger. |
After All the Scissor Work is Done is now available
on Amazon through Leaf Press. Copies can also be obtained by direct purchase from Ascent Aspirations Publishing. After All the Scissor Work is Done plays with memory, finds out what's left on the cutting-room floor. David Fraser steers away from linear narrative, edits out connections, allows the reader room. But these are not pretty pieces: the poems scrape at the dark of human experience.
Book 5: Silence Surrounds the Dead Jack McQueen, an undercover PI, consults with the RCMP to investigate a botched, joint-force, stakeout. He is seduced by a female colleague who leads him to discover links to a ten-year-old cold case, as well as more current unsolved murders, and to the world of fentanyl manufacturing, and money laundering. His investigations put himself and those he cares about in mortal danger. |
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BOOK 6: THE DEAD DON'T BURY THEMSELVES
After a series of difficult cases, Jack McQueen and Stacie Machado, private investigators, vacation on Zebella Island where they think no one can find them, but Jack has fears that trouble will come and drag them back. His fears are founded, as a First Nations friend, Douglas Walkus, who is a RCMP Officer-in-Charge of the regional detachment that is under pressure and understaffed convinces them to investigate old active cases. They take the bait. Stacie chooses recent missing women cases on Vancouver Island and Jack investigates the disappearance of two young Tofino men recently returned from Peru. Little did they know that their separate cases would collide threaten their survival, uncover complex plots, and attract dangerous foreign and domestic adversaries. Book 6: The Dead Don't Bury Themselves is available October 2024 on Amazon |