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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In Pursuit of a Scandalous Lady (Sons of Scandal Book 4)
All of Society is wondering: Who is the beauty in the scandalous nude portrait hanging in one of London's most fashionable clubs? Is she truly a member of the ton? Who would be so daring, so reckless?
Julian Delane, Earl of Parkhurst, is so certain he knows the truth that he's willing to make a wager on it. But there’s more at stake—clearing the family name from a scandal that claimed his father's life. Julian believes the ravishing model will lead him to answers.
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Wicked Grind (Wicked Nights Book 1)
It feels so damn good to be bad …
Bad boy photographer Wyatt Royce’s career is on the verge of exploding. His sexy, controversial show has everyone buzzing. All he needs is one perfect model to be his centerpiece.
Then Kelsey Draper walks in. Stunning. Vibrant. And far too fragile for a project like this. Wyatt should know—after all, he remembers only too well how their relationship ended all those years ago.
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Young Rhiannon in the Temple of Isis (Wings in the Night Book 24)
I am Rhiannon.
This is my origin story.
My original name was Rhianikki, firstborn of Pharaoh. My bare feet sank into the sands of Egypt when the pyramids were new. My mother was a divine queen who died giving birth to me and they say the walls of the palace trembled when they took me, wailing, from her cold arms.
I was special and not just by virtue of my inherent divinity.
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