H. Terrell Griffin

This time, Matt Royal’s not just looking for the truth. He’s looking to settle the score.   Wyatt’s Revenge is a hard-hitting, action-packed tale about good versus evil, justice versus revenge, murder, and redemption.  Available November 16, 2009 in fine book stores nationwide.

On balance, retired trial lawyer turned beach bum Matt Royal is a pretty laid-back fellow.  But when Laurence Wyatt, one of Matt’s best friends, is taken out by a professional hitman, Matt trades in his easygoing ways for a hard-hitting quest for revenge. 

Matt knows the Longboat Key police will do their job investigating, but for Matt, finding Wyatt’s killer isn’t a job; it’s personal.

Who would’ve wanted to kill Laurence Wyatt, the once fierce soldier who’d morphed into a gentle professor?  The only clue into this senseless act is Wyatt’s missing laptop.

Determined to do whatever it takes to solve Wyatt’s murder, Matt takes matters into his own hands and embarks on a clandestine investigation.  Soon, Matt finds himself in hot pursuit of a cadre of remorseless criminals and trained killers. But the tables turn and Matt becomes the pursued. Faced with mounting danger, Matt calls for backup from his buddies Jock Algren and Logan Hamilton. 

As Matt and his buddies uncover the truth about Wyatt’s death one fact at a time, they’ll find an evil larger in scope than anything they ever could have imagined.  And danger lurks everywhere—from a fast-paced European city, to the quiet island Matt calls home, and everywhere in between.

Matt Royal would go to the ends of the earth to exact revenge for Wyatt’s murder, but will he go outside the law?

Expect the unexpected in this wild and dangerous ride from Longboat Key, Florida, to Frankfurt, Germany, because hell hath no fury like Matt Royal scorned.

Welcome to my website. I appreciate your taking the time to seek it out, and I hope it will give you a little insight into my books, my island, and me. Not incidentally, I’d like to sell you a book.

There is a link on this site to my appearances at book signings and speaking engagements. I hope you can make it to one of these. I love to meet fellow book-lovers, so be sure you stop and say hello. I encourage you to email me with any comments, thoughts, criticisms, or just to say hello. There’s an email link on this website, and I assure you I read them all.

Although I’m a rookie at this writing game, I’ve been an avid reader since I first learned to comprehend the written word. I see my job as an author as one of bringing readers a little happiness, as so many authors have done for me over the years. Some of my best hours have been spent curled up with a good book. I hope you’ll find a few hours of enjoyment from my scribbles.

It has been my privilege to live in Florida for most of my life. I practiced law in Orlando, but spent as much time as possible at my home on Longboat Key, an island paradise that is one of several barrier islands off the Southwest coast of Florida between Tampa and Naples. I decided to set the Matt Royal series on these coastal islands because of their beauty, their people, and their laid-back lifestyles. I'm convinced that those who inhabit Longboat Key and the nearby islands are among the best folks in the world. I hope I do them justice in my books because I know if I don't they'll let me hear about it. And isn't that what friends are all about?

Longboat Key seems to have about one homicide every ten years on average, so I had to manufacture some murders and create some bad people. It’s been fun, and as much as I enjoyed the practice of law, this is better. I invite you to come along with Matt Royal as he lives, loves, fishes and solves mysteries in his idea of paradise. Meet Matt's buddies, Logan Hamilton and Jock Algren, who are always ready to lend a hand in bringing down the bad guys. I hope you’ll enjoy the ride.