Books with author Danielle Adams

It’s Halloween, and Stanley could not be more excited! Halloween is his favourite time of year because he can be himself without frightening anyone. Stanley and Spook head to town for the Halloween festivities, but things don’t go quite as planned and they find themselves faced with a few decisions that could change an awful lot. Join Stanley and Spook on their journey, and find out how a few simple acts of kindness end up changing both of their lives forever!

In this introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals, young children explain why they identify with different creatures such as a deer, beaver or moose. Delightful illustrations show the children wearing masks representing their chosen animal, while the few lines of text on each page work as a series of simple poems throughout the book.In a brief author’s note, Danielle Daniel explains the importance of totem animals in Anishinaabe culture and how they can also act as animal guides for young children seeking to understand themselves and others.

It’s Halloween, and Stanley could not be more excited! Halloween is his favourite time of year because he can be himself without frightening anyone. Stanley and Spook head to town for the Halloween festivities, but things don’t go quite as planned and they find themselves faced with a few decisions that could change an awful lot. Join Stanley and Spook on their journey, and find out how a few simple acts of kindness end up changing both of their lives forever!

When Troy Barclay and Amber Neilson, two ATF agents, accidentally save the President's life during an assassination attempt, he is so impressed with their skills that he asks them to investigate a cunning and deadly killer who has murdered several women who were close to him. While the Secret Service protects the President, Troy and Amber start searching for clues that will help them catch the murderer. But nothing works the way it is planned and Troy saves the President from a second assassination attempt launched by the determined assassin who uses an Abrams tank in his attack. Completely frazzled by the Secret Service's inability to protect him, the President secretly takes Air Force One to a secret location and then orders Troy and Amber to join him and to continue their investigation. With the help of a half-dozen experienced but wacky investigators, Troy and Amber close in on the killer but the bodies keep piling up until they find his main stash of over 100 bodies. Realizing they have stumbled on a murderous monster, Troy and Amber go all in and take big chances to stop the killer. While Troy is in LA to check out a body there, Amber goes on a date with the President--a date that ends in a huge shootout that pits Amber against the assassin--a shootout that Amber wins. The LA body turns out to be alive and the woman who survived the murder attempt was lucky enough to hang on to the murder weapon--a woman's belt. When Troy sees it, he knows he has seen one like it before, but he can't remember where. Back with the investigative team at the President's secret location, Troy learns that he has been invited to dine with the President on a docked aircraft carrier. Turns out Amber and two other women were invited as well. But as Troy boards the aircraft carrier, he sees the three women tied up in chairs on the carrier deck. Troy realizes too late that the trap is for the President but before he can react, the killer raises a pistol and tells Troy goodbye.

While vacationing at the Grand Canyon, and completely surrounded by Secret Service agents, Trace Sawyer, the President of the United States's son, goes around a corner and disappears into thin air. With every minute counting, the Secret Service pulls out all stops and blankets the South Rim of the Canyon with men but seven hours later, they don't have a single clue as to what happened to him. Desperate, the First Lady has the President call Troy Barclay to assist in the search but as an Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agent, he and his partner, Amber Neilson, are as welcome as a bad case of flu. By themselves they go to the location where Trace went missing and five minutes later, Troy figures it out. When he tells the President and First Lady how their son was kidnapped, they are amazed and the President orders the two ATF agents to go after the kidnappers and rescue their son. Just as Troy and Amber are about to hike into the Grand Canyon, three Secret Service agents intercept them and beg to go on the hunt. Amber and Troy agree but with the stipulation that it is Troy and Amber's case and they will give the orders.After a quick ride down into the Canyon in a sight-seeing helicopter, the five lawmen start looking for the kidnappers' trail. It takes them a while but they finally find the kidnappers' trail and set off after them. Unluckily, the kidnappers spot them on their trail and have two men set up an ambush while the others move on. But Troy breaks up the ambush and captures the kidnappers and sends them back to the South Rim with one of the Secret Service agents. The three have been gone for an hour when a gigantic explosion sounds from the direction they were headed. A drone-fired Hellfire missile killed the agent and his two prisoners.Troy and Amber realize they must capture the kidnappers before they can escape into the vast Navajo Reservation where the odds are good they will never be caught. Later, they catch up with, and confront the kidnappers but find they have been tricked into following the wrong group of kidnappers. After killing two black ops guys Troy and Amber realize the kidnapping is the tip of a government conspiracy iceberg. Turns out the CIA is involved and want the kidnappers dead and are willing to accept collateral damage that includes Trace Sawyer.From the Grand Canyon they venture to Las Vegas where they are involved in a huge shootout that sends them to South Carolina to talk to a witness, and on to Alexandria, Virginia where they discover the GRU (Russian military intelligence) is also hunting the kidnappers. With a lot of lives on the line, and rogue CIA agents gunning for them, Amber and Troy must outwit and outgun the GRU, the CIA and the kidnappers to save the President's son and bring to justice an escaped mass murderer responsible for the deaths of 8,000 Bosnians.

When Troy Barclay and Amber Neilson discover that a New York Police Department homicide detective has an impossible murder that could only be the work of the master killer, the Invisible Man, they go to New York City to match wits with the deadly, elusive killer. While working on the Invisible Man case, they learn that the homicide detective’s wife, an NYPD detective, was killed four years earlier in a Bedford/Stuyvesant drug house and the case has never been solved. Troy and Amber come down hard on several drug dealers who witnessed the murder and get a description of the killer. As they track down the Invisible Man, he learns of their investigation and tries to kill them. As they turn up the heat on both investigations, both killers make mistakes and Troy and Amber capitalize on them and close in on the killers. In a marathon gut-wrenching firefight, the two ATF agents shoot it out with the Invisible Man’s mercenaries but a twist of fate brings them face to face with the master killer.The next day, when the NYPD homicide detective comes to work, he finds a hooded man sitting at his desk. A sign on the man’s back says, ‘I killed your wife.” With their work in New York done, Troy and Amber start back to Phoenix but a call from the detective sends them to the Empire State Building.

This is the 3rd book in a series of four books in a miniseries that starts with The Kidnapped Corpse, then Silent Death Down, then The Man With Death In His Eyes and lastly the unnamed book to be completed February 2019. Each book is a stand-alone story but you will enjoy them much more if you read them in order.In ‘The Man With Death In His Eyes’, Book Three in the Titan Duplantier Mystery Series, Titan, aka Titus Dufrain, meets Amber Neilson Barclay who is in New York City to look for her husband, Troy Barclay, who was kidnapped by mercenaries for their long-time nemesis, the Invisible Man.While keeping his heavy caseload of murder investigations active, Titus begins working with Amber to track down the elusive Invisible Man whose hired guns are having an extremely difficult time keeping Troy from escaping.After being shot in Atlantic City, the Invisible Man has retreated to a palatial home near Glen Island on the Long Island Sound. While he recovered from his wounds, he tries to figure out how Amber and the police have been able to track him even though he leaves no clues behind.With his partner, Leo Freeman’s help, Titus rules out several remote abandoned properties as places where the Invisible Man’s mercenaries might be holding Troy.In the meantime, they investigate a mob boss whose incompetent hitmen killed a man but were never able to dispose of the body.In the middle of mob wars, old murders and hitmen killing hitmen, Titus and Leo find the Invisible Man and force him to leave his house and take to the road.

While vacationing at the Grand Canyon, Trace Sawyer, the President of the United State's son, with his Secret Service detail following, walks around a corner and disappears into thin air. The Secret Service blankets the South Rim with agents, but seven hours later, they don't have a single clue as to what happened to him. In desperation, the First Lady has the President call ATF agents Troy Barclay and Amber Neilson for help. Within ten minutes of their arrival, they figure out how Trace was kidnapped and pursue the kidnappers deep into the Grand Canyon where in a series of firefights, they manage to snatch Trace from the kidnappers, but there's a twist that sends them on a midnight race across the Grand Canyon to find the rest of the kidnappers who have another hostage. They find the kidnappers are trying to avenge the killings of 8,000 Bosnians and are trying to find the soldier who orchestrated the massacre. In a cross-country race against time, Troy and Amber find the killer but they must fight Russians, Serbians and mercenaries to bring him DOWN!