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About David C. Burton

David C. BurtonDavid Burton has been a boat builder, sailor, and custom cabinetmaker and has traveled by thumb, motorcycle, and sailboat. Upon returning from sailing in the South Pacific, he turned to writing. His first published book was a mystery, Manmade for Murder (Write Way Publishing, 1997. Paperback, Worldwide Mysteries, 2000). It was a selection of the Detective Book Club. Hell Cop (Silver Lake Publishing, 2004), a supernatural adventure story, was his second published novel and won 3rd place at the 1998 Colorado Gold Writers Conference. The ebook version was a finalist for the EPPIE awards. Blood on the Mountain, the fourth in the Blood Justice Series, was published by By Light Unseen Media in 2023.

David's most recent novel, Sneaker: Relentless was released in 2024. The fifth book in the Blood Justice Series is in progress.

He has also written screenplays, including an adaptation of his Hell Cop and Fear Killer novels. The screenplay adaptation of Hell Cop won 1st place at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference in 2002. Another screenplay, Time For Love, took 1st place at Pikes Peak in 2001. David now lives with his wife in Southern California and is working on more stories and characters that pass thorough his life and brain in both novel and screenplay form.

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David Burton may be contacted at dcburtonjr [at] gmail [dot] com

Blood Justice
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Blood on the Water
Blood on the Water
Blood on the Bayou
Blood on the Bayou
Blood on the Mountain
Blood on the Mountain