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Drs. JoAnn and Jim Carland

Meet the two halves of the writing team of JoAnn and Jim Carland. Scholar-Entrepreneurs, the Drs. Carland have written more than a dozen textbooks, more than 200 scholarly articles, started more than a dozen businesses, and are internationally known in the entrepreneurship literature. Formerly licensed private investigators in North Carolina, their fiction writing began with a mystery and detective series featuring two career weary college professors and focusing on plots evolved from actual cases which they investigated. The Carson family series begins with Hidden Malice. They branched out into international thrillers with Prometheus Unleashed, and its sequel, Killing in the Market, both fast paced, edge of your seat action dramas. Life partners since 1971, the Drs. Carland actually began their relationship in the first grade, when at the age of 6, Jim was caught shooting spit balls at JoAnn and had to spend the rest of the day standing in the corner. JoAnn likes to joke that their marriage actually meant that Jim did not have to pay back all the typing paper he borrowed during high school. When they trundled off to the University of Georgia to work on Ph.D. degrees, they had two sons, aged 2 and 4 at the time, and had to swap the boys in the parking lot as one or the other dashed off to class. That was more than a dozen ventures ago, spanning software development to forensic investigation, and their many experiences have enriched their story telling. You may visit them at their personal website, www.TheDrsCarland.com. Their most popular textbooks are available, as well, click here for the list of Entrepreneurship Books.

Prometheus Unleashed JoAnn and Jim Carland Paperback 402 pages: $10.95 Kindle Edition: $5.99 ePub Edition: $5.99 Star crossed lovers, Tory and Jace, find themselves drawn into a world wide conspiracy to literally take control of the United States government. The assassination of the Vice President and the initiation of a war in the far east, are the opening moves in a series of events which are intricately planned to cascade a puppet president into office. Tory and Jace, the nation's most gifted operating systems specialists, are thrown together and charged with cutting off the billions in funding flowing into the coffers of the conspiracy. This international thriller leap frogs the Atlantic as professional assassins seek to destroy the couple before they can chop the last head from the hydra. It is a race against time as the puppet sweeps into office on a tide of public sentiment and prepares to initiate the Agenda of the Prometheus Foundation. [Authors' Note: This is an international thriller with a complex, twisting plot. The underlying romance sweetens the interest, but this is an adult book, and not suitable for children.]

A Killing in the Market JoAnn and Jim Carland Paperback 232 pages: $8.95 Kindle Edition: $4.99 ePub Edition: $4.99 The murder of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve sends the stock market into a tailspin and creates the opportunity for a group of conspirators to reap a vast fortune from the market collapse. In the midst of the backlash, the true threat to the Nation emerges as the instigators move to take control of the economy itself. The President forms a task force to find the killer and appoints Tory and Jace to the select team. As the chase intensifies,  the team begins to unravel the plot. The conspirators, busily trying to cement control of the economy, cannot risk exposure and mark the team for death. Tory and Jace think they have identified who is using the millions to lead the team on a world wide chase. But the pursued becomes the pursuer, and the enormity of the conspiracy bursts onto the scene and sweeps away all that Tory and Jace thought they knew. [Authors' Note: This is the sequel to Prometheus, but is a stand alone novel. Again, this thriller has a complex, twisting plot, and again, this is an adult book, and not suitable for children.]

Hidden Malice JoAnn and Jim Carland Paperback 308 pages: $8.95 Kindle Edition: $4.99 ePub Edition: $4.99 Career weary college professors, Trace and Whitney Carson, accept a routine, forensic accounting engagement from a former student, but make a great mistake. They actually find the embezzlement, and that's when people begin to die. Try as they might, the couple cannot extract themselves from the nightmare as the malice of the hidden embezzler targets their two sons. When their family is threatened, the mild mannered professors shed their personae and bend all their considerable talents to finding and destroying the mind behind the murders. The chase becomes international as they find the bulk of the embezzled money stashed in an off shore bank. But just when they think they have the conspiracy in hand, everything comes full circle and they are forced to face the final foe in their very own back yard. [Authors' Note: This is a mystery with appealing characters and plot surprises. There are mature themes but no explicit scenes. It is intense in places and may frighten children.]

Case of the Junk Yard Dog JoAnn and Jim Carland Paperback 132 pages: $4.25 Kindle Edition: $2.99 ePub Edition: $2.99 In this continuation of the Carson Family detective series, Kit and Jace go under cover in a junk yard to try to prove that the owner is skimming vast sums which prevents his wife from reaping her fair share of the business during their very nasty divorce. Not only do they get a lesson in what it means to truly be dirty, they find the junk yard owner much dirtier than the grease in the cars could possibly create. Suddenly, what seemed like a couple of hundred thousand in graft has become several million and the danger from the dogs guarding the junk yard is nothing compared to the threat from their human masters. Whitney and Trace move to pull their sons out of the assignment when people begin to die, but the only way to tame the beasts is to pull their fangs. That means finding the money and eliminating the threat at its source. [Authors' Note: This is a sequel to Hidden Malice, but can be read alone. It is a funny, light hearted mystery and is entirely suitable for young readers.]

Reaping the Whirlwind JoAnn and Jim Carland Paperback 186 pages: $7.95 Kindle Edition: $4.99 ePub Edition: $4.99 "They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the Whirlwind." Whitney discovers that her mother, aunts, uncles and cousins did indeed sow the wind 50 years ago. The great family mystery explodes on the scene as the Carson family comes face to face with evil. This fast moving tale set in the remote Blue Ridge mountains explodes with the very public murder of a septuagenarian serial killer who was standing beside his own fifty year old, empty grave. The murder threatens the very culture of these reclusive and clannish people. As the whirlwind emerges from the earth,  killers from both generations move to protect their guilty secrets. The Carsons must solve the fifty year old murder in order to solve the current murder. Whitney, the educated and aloof ex-patriot scion of the hills, is forced to rip the secret from her own mother's heart to protect her children. [Authors' Note: The third book in the Carson family saga, this is a brooding, intense mystery. It is steeped in the clannish culture and dialog of Appalachia. It is not suitable for children.]