Martin Hill Ortiz, a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a professor at the Ponce University of Health Sciences in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where he lives.
Hill Ortiz has three novels: A Predatory Mind (Loose Leaves Publishing), Never Kill A Friend, (Ransom Note Press), A Predator’s Game (Rook’s Page) and a novella, Dead Man’s Trail (Seven Archons Press).
Over fifty of his short stories have appeared in journals and anthologies including Mystery Magazine, Miami Accent, Belanger Books’ Sherlock Holmes anthologies, and Over My Dead Body.
An award winning poet, in addition to his scientific background, he has worked in theater, having operated a comedy troupe in South Florida.
Floor 24
"From the mob underworld to the tops of new skyscrapers, Floor 24 is a heart-thumping New York 1920’s historical mystery!” — Holly Newman, bestselling author of the Chance inquiry mystery series
Manhattan, 1926.
A pen falls from a high rise and shatters at the feet of New York World reporter and World War vet Alan Priest. Its broken barrel bears the name and office of Fritch Designs on the 24th floor. On a whim, he investigates. As he reaches floor 24, he finds a window open and a corpse on the sidewalk below.
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Featured Books
Highland Dove (Holiday Knights Book 4)
New Year at the castle!
Not even imprisonment can keep him from breaking his New Year's promise to his betrothed.
The Bride-To-Be:
Mari Stewart has been betrothed to Duncan MacLean, preparing to wed him on Hogmanay, New Year's Eve. Before that happens, Duncan leaves to fight the English giving her two turtle doves as his promise of his return. To her horror, when Duncan goes missing, Mari is betrothed to another man of the clan.
Love Lessons
Sometimes A + B doesn’t = C when it comes to the logic of love.
Amanda Renee Winters is a ridiculously smart mathematician at Dreamers University in upstate New York. But when a secret admirer starts sending her gifts, she can’t put two and two together to figure it out.
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A stunning conclusion to the Guardians of the Stone series!
Betrayed. Sorcha dún Scoti has known her entire life that she is different. Now, the future of her clan is in doubt, and Una, their beloved seer is gone. The youngest dún Scoti inherits Una's scrying stane—and with it, the gift of sight. Here, now, the truth of her birth is revealed. Betrayed by her kinsmen and seeking answers, she must journey to a remote Island in the Outer Hebrides, where she hopes to reunite with Una. But despite her gift of sight, the truth holds perils Sorcha cannot foresee...
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