Books by Jerry Snodgrass

At sixty-six, Jake Walker thinks he’s ready for some peace and quiet. He’s a Vietnam veteran, former POW, recent widower, and retired SWAT team commander with the Houston Police Department, so he looks for a new life of leisure in the small town of Rockriver, Texas. But adventure finds him even when he’s not looking for it. Before he knows it, a forty-year-old cold case murder catches his attention, and he is on the trail of crime and corruption—and something more. Camy Jo Parker is a divorcée who seems to be interested in more than Jake’s abilities as a detective. Will Jake find a new career and lease on life in what seemed to be a sleepy small town?While Justice Sleeps: Secrets in a Small Town is Jerry Snodgrass’s twelfth novel. While Justice Sleeps not only fictionalizes Snodgrass’s experiences with the military but also preserves stories of the small-town life, as one by one small-town police departments are shut down. 

Le Havre, France-WW II 1943: Galveston, Texas native, U.S. Navy Lieutenant Percy Ward meets French beauty 18-year-old Gabriella Roux in a city park while his Navy ship was in the Le Havre port to assist in repairing the port facilities and civilian houses destroyed during heavy bombing by Allied aircraft. The two strike up a conversation and decide to see each other when Percy's ship returns to Le Havre. Percy is the commander of a joint commando team that fights the Germans along with a team of French Resistance fighters. A love affair develops between Percy and Gabriella that lasted for over 50 years. Between the war and long absences after the war, he searches and finds Gabriella, and their love affairs expanded. Eventually, illness and the death of Percy he asks a young former U.S. Marine and friend, Harley Masters to fly to Le Havre, France and search for his long-lost love. Follow the war years with Percy engaging in battles fighting alongside his French Resistance fighter friends and the search for Percy's long lost love, Gabriella. During the search, Harley discovers that Percy has a hidden secret journal documenting hidden events during WW II and post-war adventures.

Kurt's secret past as a Navy SEAL, CIA operative and mercenary soon catches up with him and his life with Norma drastically changes. Follow him as he gets wrapped up helping a former Navy SEAL friend, turned Police Chief investigate a string of bizarre serial murders in the small town of Woodcrest, Iowa. Who is the real killer...or killers?