Ventus Publishing

Ventus Publishing, LLC  is an independent publishing house, named for the Latin word for "Wind", created in 2011 by A. James Kolar. The need to publish the truth about his experiences working to resolve the case of JonBenét Ramsey without the editorial restrictions of mainstream publishing houses was resolved by his take-charge, courageous, adventurous spirit.  

Ventus Publishing will serve as the platform for the release of additional works of true crime and fiction in the coming months. However, we are currently not entertaining submissions for fiction or non-fiction manuscripts. Join our mailing list below to stay current with our latest news and publication updates.
In the faces of our children we are granted the opportunity to glimpse the future and the untimely death of one irrevocably changes us all.
~ A. James Kolar

Biography of A. James Kolar
James Kolar began his law enforcement career with the Boulder, Colorado Police Department in 1976 as a reserve police officer. Over the course of his career, Kolar would serve as a patrol officer, detective, detective sergeant, supervisor of the department’s narcotic and intelligence unit and as a sergeant in the uniformed patrol division. He received an official commendation from the Denver U.S. Attorney’s Office Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force for his investigative work on several national, and international narcotic smuggling and distribution cases that involved organizations operating out of Boulder.

In collateral duties, he served as an assistant commander for the SWAT team, the coordinator for the department’s gang unit, and as a supervisor for the recruit officer Field Training & Evaluation Program (FTEP). He has instructed nationwide on the topic of the FTEP for over a decade.

​Kolar left the Boulder Police Department in 1993 to take the chief’s position in the mountain resort community of Telluride, Colorado. He eventually returned to Denver’s Front Range to fill an investigator’s position with the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office in 2004 and was subsequently asked to take the lead role in the murder investigation of JonBenét Ramsey. Troubled by the conscious decision not to pursue probative leads that he had developed in the case, Kolar ultimately resigned his position in the spring of 2006 and returned to the chief's position in Telluride.

A 45 year veteran of law enforcement, Kolar retired as the chief of the Telluride Marshal’s Department. Though living in the land-locked state of Colorado at nearly 10,000 feet above sea level, his passion is sailing and he makes sure to find his way to the sea with his family whenever he can.