Books by
Collings MacCrae
The Ruin of the Watcher
On paper, Detective Fox Argall is a hero: handsome, wildly over-educated, eccentric, adoring his wife with epic passion. When a string of broken children arrive on his doorstep like offerings, Fox is forced to follow the breadcrumbs to a showdown with an old and dangerous enemy. The last time they met, the detective ran for his life. This time, it’s not just his life on the line. It’s the innocent children. It’s his family. This time, he can’t run.
The Ruin of the Watcher Ruin was listed in the Top Fave by readers every week during Amazon’s launch of the Kindle Vella platform. It has a five-star rating and sets the stage for the Fox Argall Mystery Series—an exciting and fast-paced introduction to the main character that reveals just how he winds up dragged into the world of crime-solving genius.
The Sweater Case
When a torn piece of a bloody sweater is displayed on the historic Jupiter Inlet Light, the detective finds himself racing to solve the mystery before his trusted partner, John Tickman, is arrested for murder. Along the way, he sets a spark to a liquid meth-fueled powder keg that will burn from a south Florida farm all the way across the country, leaving a trail of not-so-innocent bodies.
Fox will find the only swampland more dangerous than the Everglades is the District of Columbia. He’ll need everything he knows to win this fight, or risk losing Tick, his wingman and partner forever.
The Sweater Case is Book 2 in the Fox Argall Mysteries, and takes place some years after the events in The Ruin of the Watcher. It’s a five-star story that has been thumbs-upped over 3,5oo times and is listed in the Kindle Vella Mystery Top 50.
The Case of the Reluctant Whistleblower
Dr. Fox Argall is the most over-educated detective in the history of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Violent Crimes division.
When Fox goes home for Christmas, he learns his cousin is tangled up in a dangerous mess at the DC-based biotech company where she works.
Soon, the detective is pulled into a web of complex science, high finance and dead bodies that threaten everyone around him.
Sounds like just his kind of trouble.
The Case of the Reluctant Whistle-Blower is a five-star mystery, and Book Three in the Fox Argall Mystery Series by Collings MacCrae. Originally published along with The Sweater Case, this story has consistently ranked in the Kindle Vella Mystery Top 50.
Resurrection of the Ruby Skull
On paper, Detective Fox Argall is a hero: handsome, wildly over-educated, eccentric, adoring his wife with epic passion. His reality is more complicated.
In The Resurrection of the Ruby Skull, Fox finds himself in hot metal inside a handmade art glass shop, with a serial killer stoking the fires of the furnaces.
When the skull of a young woman is found imbedded in dark red ruby glass at a local glassmaker, the detective dives into his most complex, fascinating and dangerous case yet.
It sounds like just his kind of trouble.
Resurrection of the Ruby Skull is the fourth book published in the Fox Argall Mysteries. It’s a five-star read that’s been thumbs-upped over 2,100 times.
Mad Dog Elegy
The matriarch of a generational south Floridian crime family has demanded Dr. Fox Argall lead the investigation into the murder of her son and heir, setting up a dark new case.
With a five-star rating and over 2,300 thumbs-ups on Kindle Vella, the fifth book released in the Fox Argall Mystery Series does not disappoint.
Indecent Ink
In Indecent Ink, a world-famous children’s author reports the theft of handwritten manuscripts leading to blackmail and inevitably, murder. It’s up to Fox Argall to step a little out of his own comfort zone if he has any chance of seeing justice done.
This work is a Top Fave on Kindle Vella, with nearly 3,000 thumbs ups and counting. It’s a great mystery that pushes our beloved neurodiverse main character, Fox Argall, outside of his comfort zone.
The Bio-Fake of Bronze John
A bloody trail leads into the sun-soaked haven of the luxurious Pink Pearl Resort. When the body of a world-renowned bio-geneticist is discovered at a medical research conference, the first threads in a poisoned web of secrecy and deceit surrounding his death tighten around Dr. Fox Argall and his partner, Lieutenant John Tickman.
The partners plunge headfirst into a world of fabricated studies, phantom results, and unchecked ambition, where truth and lies twist in a merciless match of high-stakes bio-faking.
It’s the ultimate chess game, and Fox Argall is forced to make his most dangerous move.
Read Collings MacCrae’s latest work on Kindle Vella. Started in May 2023, it’s already a Top Fave with over 500 thumbs ups.
