Blood Coin

A dead father, a hidden fortune, and a son who can't let go.

Tommy's life has finally come together. Divorced, rebuilding, running a small café in Amherst, Massachusetts — he's found peace for the first time in years. Then a police lieutenant walks through his door with news that shatters everything: his father has been found dead in his garage, engine running.

The cops see suicide. Tommy sees a man who had every reason to live.

When he returns to his father's farmhouse, someone is already there — and willing to kill to find what's hidden inside. What Tommy discovers instead will put a target on everyone he loves: a digital wallet containing nearly half a billion dollars in cryptocurrency. Money with no legitimate origin. Money someone will do anything to recover.

With no one to trust and a killer closing in, Tommy must protect his inner circle, unravel his father's secret life, and decide what to do with a fortune that has already cost one life — before it costs more.

Blood Coin is the first book in the Tommy Dalton Mystery series — a character-driven crime thriller set in small-town New England, where loyalty is tested and secrets run deep. Tense suspense with no explicit sex and no gratuitous gore: just an ordinary man, an impossible choice, and the question at its heart — how far will a good man go to protect the people he loves?

A small-town murder. A fortune no one can claim. Suspense built for readers who like it tense and their heroes real.

If you're drawn to the small-town heart of William Kent Krueger, the moral weight of Allen Eskens, or the twist-driven pull of Robert Dugoni, Tommy Dalton is your kind of company.

Some money is earned. Some is stolen. And some is paid for in blood.