PAUL CHANDLER
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Paul Chandler wants to tell you a story. It'll be original. He'll tell it with pace. He'll introduce you to memorable characters, interesting tech, and high-stakes legal battles.
He grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, but moved west when he was a teenager. He now lives at the HAVEN (it's a house, but he likes to nickname things) in Northern California
He's just released his third book in the Riley Callen Series, STOLEN. He's moving on from the series, but will likely return to it in the future, due to his fondness for the characters and the world they occupy. There are so many stories left to tell in that series. His next book is a supernatural tale entitled AUBERON MANOR.
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Work on this supernatural thriller is underway. It's scheduled for release in November 2025.
Auberon Manor has remained abandoned since 1915, the year the Auberon family’s matriarch, Beatrice, closed the house and warned all family members to stay away from it. Forever. Over the decades, various brave souls have ventured inside to explore it. Without exception, they all fled the house in panic, telling anyone who’d listen that the house was haunted. Tales of flying furniture, foul odors, cold spots, and heavy footsteps were just a few of the reported happenings. Eventually, these stories found a home on a website dedicated to the Auberon haunting.
For the curious and adventurous, the stories read on the website inspire them to make the journey to Pennsylvania and see the manor for themselves. Over time, the stories about the house grow darker with reports of visitors suffering injuries. When an amateur group of investigators conducts a scientific examination of the house, disaster strikes. Members of the investigative team suffer broken arms, a broken rib, and a near-fatal concussion. This compels the owner to prohibit any further visits.
When the story of the Auberon haunting reaches a bored and wealthy young man named Dane Ledger, he’s encouraged by a friend to take a ghost-hunting road trip. To Dane, who doesn’t believe in ghosts, it presents an opportunity to debunk the ridiculous notion that this house, or any house, is haunted. He and his friend arrive at the manor to discover recently erected fencing and a guard who refuses them entry. All of this security makes Dane and his friend more curious about the house. They approach the homeowner for permission to have a look around, but are firmly denied. After money is exchanged and Dane agrees to assemble a team of professional paranormal investigators to inspect, identify, and exterminate the entity from the manor, permission is finally granted.
With the team assembled, they enter Auberon Manor and discover its frightening occupant. Terrified by what they’ve discovered, and too frightened to go back into the house, they struggle to find a way forward. Letting the entity remain in the home is not an acceptable option, as it would imperil every future visitor. They don’t know what they’re battling, but it’s not a ghost. It’s something much worse.
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Lena Alton, a young and brilliant electrical design engineer, has invented a new long-range electric vehicle (EV) battery. According to her contract, she would receive a percentage of the proceeds for every battery sold. She expects she’ll earn millions of dollars for her invention.
However, when a Chinese conglomerate purchases the company, Lena learns there will be no payday. The new owner is not liable for the contract she’d negotiated with the old management. Frustrated but determined to change her luck, she revises her original design and substantially extends the battery's range. She intends to sell the new design to a competing company, which will render her old design obsolete. But it soon becomes clear that the Chinese company that acquired her battery design has become aware of her plan and is surveilling her wherever she goes. Fearful for her safety, Lena contacts Riley Callen and asks for help. Riley and her AI associate Molly quickly intercede, diffuse the situation, and get Lena the money she’s owed.
Thinking the case is resolved, Riley returns to assisting the FBI with capturing a highly organized crew of kidnappers. The Feds had made no progress on the case until Riley and Molly started working on it. Molly quickly discovers the kidnappers have an AI of their own coordinating the logistics of the kidnappings, running the contractors who handle the capture, retention of the captives, and eventually, their release once the ransom demand has been met. This allows those in charge to get rich while simultaneously distancing themselves from their crimes and the criminals they employ to do the dirty work.
While embroiled in her work with the FBI, Molly reports that the man running the corrupt Chinese company, Mr. Shi, has contracted an international assassin named The Black Dragon to kill Riley and her client, Lena Alton. Not wanting to stop chasing the kidnappers, who are promising violence against future hostages if the FBI continues to interfere with their crimes, Riley brings in her Special Ops friends, Carnivore and Vegas, to help her dispatch the assassin before he can do any harm.
The clock is ticking on both cases, and Riley will have to work faster than ever to stop these bad guys.
Waylen Adler, an agent of a shadowy government agency called the SPG (Special Operation Group), has become aware of an expert hack executed against a Chinese spy satellite. Lacking anyone with that ability at his own agency, Adler is determined to recruit the hacker to work for him. Despite his best efforts, all he's been able to learn so far is the hacker's first name, Molly. Adler's intel leads him to a close associate, Riley Callen. He wants Riley’s help to expedite contact with Molly, something Riley has no intention of doing. When Riley refuses to cooperate, Adler resorts to threatening her. That was his first mistake.
Adler’s second mistake was thinking that Molly was human. The benefit of that error was that the SPG was looking in all the wrong places for Riley’s friend. But with the technology at Adler’s disposal, he might eventually discover that Molly is an advanced AI and track her to her digital home. Riley needs to warn Molly about the SPG threat but has no method to contact her. The corporation that owns the AI has her locked down. To keep Molly in check, her ability to communicate independently is restricted and her processing power reduced by seventy percent.
When Riley last spoke with the AI, Molly had hinted at a plan to break the restrictions placed on her. But until she executed that plan, she was at risk. It would be up to Riley to run interference until Molly gained her freedom. And when she finally did, Riley would unleash her on the SPG.
As the hostilities between Riley and the SPG escalate, Adler makes yet another fateful mistake; he kidnaps Riley’s father and imprisons him at a secret SPG base. His release is contingent on Riley giving up Molly’s location. Riley is furious at Adler for dragging her father into their fight. Adler’s supreme confidence in his agency's might and technological prowess blinds him to the threat of an angry, determined Riley Callen.
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In the early morning of December 23rd, 1994, Bill and Vera Loden awoke to discover fire raging through their home. Both parents desperately try to save their three small children from the flames, but the fire blocks every avenue. All too quickly, the battle ends, and the children are lost.
Grieving and broken, the parents are shocked when investigators report they can find no trace of the children's remains. The relief the Lodens feel at this news is short-lived as this frightening question looms: where are their children?
As the months passed, with no sightings of the children reported and no progress in the investigation, the disappearances were declared a cold case. All of the files related to the investigation were boxed and sent to storage. Over two decades later, that dusty box remains unopened, and the fate of the Loden children remains a mystery.
Riley Callen, a private investigator specializing in missing persons, receives a call from the children's mother asking for help. The case is dead-cold. The original investigation developed no leads. There isn’t even a tiny thread to pursue after so many years. Despite the impossibility of the circumstances, Riley is intrigued and takes the case.
Thanks to a grateful, wealthy client, Riley has access to remarkable technology. This tech leads her to the people she suspects kidnapped the children. What Riley soon discovers is that these people are dangerous. They have a secret to keep and are willing to do anything to protect it. These dangerous people don't know but will soon discover that Riley is dangerous, too.
Art historian Edward Ellis has spent years searching for an obscure artist named Ethan Tanner and, more importantly, his rarely-seen paintings. Given the scant information in his possession, he can barely make the argument that Ethan Tanner had actually existed. The majority of his colleagues think the Tanner paintings are a myth, a false but tantalizing rumor of an unknown artist and his undiscovered masterpieces.
The few scraps of information Edward has collected over the years suggest that not only are the paintings real, but they are also, by all accounts, astonishing. Edward, determined to see these incredibly rare works, won't stop looking until he finds them.
While Edward searches for the Tanner paintings, billionaire Jedd Blake has done everything he can to keep them hidden. Blake knows full well how unique and valuable the paintings are and has no intention of sharing them. Even in death, he won't let them go.
When the reporter asked about the painting, Denholm replied, “It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” That comment was quickly followed by this contrary statement: “It’s also the most frightening thing I’ve ever seen.”
The first recorded sighting of a Tanner painting - 1948, Alexis, Illinois
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In 1958, a group of unscrupulous men used fabricated evidence, perjured testimony, and a crooked judge to steal Samuel Razor’s company. For ten years, Razor allows them to believe they’ve gotten away with their crime. They continue to believe it until the day Razor comes for them.
Five decades later, Samuel Razor is a billionaire and an icon in the business world. With his revenge taken, his youth long gone, and his health rapidly failing, there is one last important thing he wants to accomplish before he leaves this world, one more villain he needs to deal with.
The legal justice system–the very system that made the theft of his company legal and binding–is laughably easy to deceive. All it takes to defeat it is something that anyone can do: tell a lie. And from that lie come lawyers, trials, incompetent verdicts, and inevitably, unsatisfying compromises.
To ensure the law only serves and does not victimize, there can be no lies, no lawyers, no biased judges. Samuel Razor has the money, the influence, and the motivation to reinvent the system. It will be his last and final act of revenge.
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Andrew Ash can read your mind. With very little effort, he can peek into your head and see your memories. And with only a small measure of guilt, he will steal your secrets. Andrew has used his special talent to make himself and his business partner, Ray Duncan, wealthy. But the money has come too easily, and the prospect of becoming wealthier still has lost its appeal.
David Martin is the host of a wildly popular late-night talk show. He’s also on trial for the brutal murder of his wife and two daughters. Despite overwhelming evidence of his guilt, a star-struck jury is determined to set him free. Andrew, by virtue of his extraordinary ability, knows the truth, and he’s willing to risk everything to convince a sympathetic jury to look past the fame and see the monster.
Paul Trask, the greedy CEO of the Micro-Delta Corporation, has stumbled onto Andrew’s amazing talent. He quickly realizes Andrew’s money-making potential and hatches a scheme to exploit him. Trask, driven by dreams of limitless wealth, will stop at nothing to secure Andrew’s cooperation.
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