Cactus Island

Stan is called out to Possum Kingdom Lake in central Texas where two boy scouts have driven off a cliff in a Jeep. The driver, Steven Caldwell, survives unscathed but the passenger dies. It appears to be just another tragic auto accident until the sheriff discovers Steven and the victim were in love with the same girl. When Steven is charged with murder he asks Stan to defend him, but Stan is reluctant to do so because Steven claims he ran off the road when he saw a spacecraft hovering overhead. In order to prove Steven's innocence he'd have to prove that aliens had visited Possum Kingdom Lake!

William Manchee grew up in Ventura, California in the 60s. After obtaining his BA from UCLA in 1965 he and his family moved to Texas in 1970 where Manchee attended law school at SMU. He began his legal career in Dallas as a sole practitioner in 1976 and currently practices with his son Jim. A resident of Plano, Texas he and his wife Janet have been married 38 years and raised four children. Inspired by twenty years of true life experiences as an attorney, Manchee discovered his passion for writing in 1995. Since then he has written a dozen books and plans to write a book a year for the rest of his life. In addition to the Stan Turner Mysteries, Manchee is the author of the Rich Coleman Novel series, and has written a non-fiction work, Yes, We're Open, a book designed to help small businesses improve their chances of survival.