Richard C. Trice -- Author

  Hearts of the Earth  A Trent Carter Novel (due to be published this fall, 2023) "Hearts of the Earth" is an historical novel that spans over a century as we follow close knit brothers José and James Carter (the sons of Jonathon and Maria, Trent Carter's ancestors from the previous novel, "Land of My Sojourn") from the WWI battlefields of France and Belgium, on through the worst U.S. coal mining disaster of the early 20th Century, and finally to current day Colfax County, where Trent is once again called upon to solve a multi-generational murder mystery centered at the ruins of the same abandoned coal mines near the ghost town of Dawson, New Mexico.  "Hearts of the Earth," the final novel of the Trent Carter trilogy, will be published later this year. Stay tuned!  https://www.amazon.com/author/richardtrice

  Cover art photo for the novel, ACT OF CONTRITION. Photo (c) 2017, Richard C. Trice, all rights reserved.                 Brokenness, it is said, is the first step to healing.                Right.             But Trent had discovered, after all this time, that there exists a level of "broken" that refuses to be repaired, that remains untouchable, untreatable . . . unhealable. A brokenness which eludes every skill of the physician's hand. A brokenness born of having once had such a perfect sweetness wrap itself around the heart that waves of wholeness had begun to radiate outward, flooding the entire being, manifesting itself in positive energies, from the mundane to the majestic, in everything you did in every single day. But then only to awaken one of the those days to find that this radiance, this completeness, had been brutally ripped right out...

Photo "Maine Coast at Dusk" (c) 2022, Richard C. Trice, all rights reserved Light Out of Darkness Wind-whipped and tattered, my sails flogged and torn,  I drift aimless through terror, this night,  and fleeing ahead of these shadows, these storms, I pray to at last drift from darkness to Light.  (c) 2016, Richard C. Trice and TriceTunes, all rights reserved.

  A great big "thanks" to the 227 worldwide Kindle readers out there who took advantage of my recent six day special and downloaded book #1 of my New Mexico trilogy!  I am humbled and honored by your interest.  Check out my other works, or leave a review, at my page on Amazon:   https://www.amazon.com/author/richardtrice  Thanks again!  Richard Trice 

The first two historical novels in my “Trent Carter” series, set in Northern New Mexico, are available now, through Amazon.com. Trent Carter is a sixty-something, washed up veteran and retired cop recuperating from injuries physical, mental, and emotional. He blames himself for his wife’s death, drinks and smokes too much, and lives with a mangy orange tomcat while trying to avoid the advances of an attractive local widow. He finds himself suddenly pulled out of retirement to investigate several seemingly unrelated “cold case” murders, including the discovery of skeletal remains buried under an old theater, escaped German POWs, and a cryptic old journal from WWII that may tie them all together. As if that isn’t enough, Trent is inexplicably receiving ghostly visits from his deceased wife. In the newly published LAND OF MY SOJOURN, Carter is back; this time Trent is swept into a convoluted mystery involving political assassination, a secret paramilitary o...

Here's the "blurb" that describes my new book, and which will appear on the back cover. A good blurb is supposed to make someone want to buy the book instead of putting it back on the shelf. So what do you think? Following the events detailed in ACT OF CONTRITION (the first book of his story), Trent Carter, former Colfax County deputy sheriff, has finally retired to peacefully live out the remainder of his days with his new wife, Maggie, on her horse ranch east of Raton, NM—or so he thinks. But when he responds to an urgent call for assistance from his former boss Ben Ferguson, who is investigating an unusual murder at the ruins of a stagecoach stop on the old Santa Fe Trail, Trent is swept into a convoluted mystery involving political assassinations, a secret paramilitary organization, a missing helicopter, two missing girls, and the inexplicable presence of a ghostly Ute Indian warrior. LAND OF MY SOJOURN spans 150 years, from the Civil War...