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The Author, Tom Collins, in Paris

The Mark Rollins Series
By M. Thomas (Tom) Collins

After selling the technology company I founded to a large international corporation and trying retirement for awhile, I ventured into a new career as a mystery/thriller writer with the Mark Rollins Adventures.  The series of adventures features an ex-technology entrepreneur turned amateur sleuth.  He is joined by a host of interesting supporting characters, most notably his colorful cohort Mariko Lee.

We are not talking about great American novels.  My goal is for Mark Rollins' Adventures to be the kind of fast reading experiences I enjoyed on my frequent business trips to just about every major city in this country and several beyond its shores —waiting in airports, passing time at 30,000 feet, and before turning off the lights in hotel rooms.
 
The adventure series begins with my first book, Mark Rollins’ New Career & The Women’s Health Club, published in 2008.  In it, Rollins investigates a missing person against the backdrop of daily life in his fitness club for socially elite, wealthy women of Nashville, Tennessee, and becomes the target of an international crime boss.

Beginning with my second book, Mark Rollins & The Rainmaker, I decided to have the Mark Rollins adventure series deal with a common theme: murder and mayhem in the law firm.  In Mark Rollins & The Rainmaker someone is trying to kill a prominent Nashville attorney.  Rollins and Mariko go undercover and discover that the same seeds that cause many law firms to break up can also provide a motive for murder.  

Mark Rollins and the Puppeteer, the third book in the series, is another story of murder among lawyers. Mark Rollins’ friend, a prominent attorney and rising political figure, is gunned down in Nashville’s notorious Printers Alley—killed by the stray bullet of a drunken reveler’s celebratory shooting spree.  They say the dead man was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.  But Rollins wasn’t buying it!  His search for answers yields a plethora of avenues that could have led someone to commit murder, and there is no shortage of candidates—a CPA weak on principles, a mortgage company CEO facing ruin, a law firm mole, a party-going administrator dipping into the till, an unfaithful wife, a womanizing lawyer with gambling debts, or the dead man’s longtime law firm partner. To unmask the killer, Mark Rollins must unravel the mystery’s strings, twisted and tangled by a scheming puppeteer. While the story is fiction the law firm issues it deals with are real—embezzlement, compensation plans, technology, and surviving during an economic downturn.