Truth Behind the Lie

The suspenseful Swedish thriller, The Truth Behind the Lie, tells the story of shady former journalist Kouplan’s search for missing child Julia. Kouplan, an Iranian illegal resident in Stockholm, places this ad on Swedish Craig’s List. “Private detective. If the police can’t help, call me!” The only response is fromContinue Reading

Tin Badges

Retired NYPD Detective Tank Rizzo is pulled back into duty to solve cold cases with a bunch of misfit (and criminal) friends in the action-filled police procedural, Tin Badges. There are two parallel stories. The first is a (retired) police procedural of how Tank chases the scummy drug kingpin, Gonzo.Continue Reading

Whisper Man

Frank Carter, the Whisper Man, has been in prison twenty years for kidnapping and murdering five young boys in rural Featherbank. His m.o. was whispering through each child’s window before luring them to their death. And now the whispering has begun again… Did Frank have an accomplice all those yearsContinue Reading

The Warehouse

A thinly, really thinly, veiled stab at Amazon is located in The Warehouse. The Black Friday Massacres drive people to shop increasingly online. The Cloud (ahem, Amazon) picks up the slack and becomes the world’s biggest employer. It opens modern factory towns, called MotherClouds, worldwide where workers use their moneyContinue Reading

American Magic

What if magic is real? But kept hidden by a group as mysterious, and rich, as the Illuminati? When one member turns rogue, the lid is off American Magic. Okay, I admit it, the plot sounds lame—except when you are actually reading it. The author manages to do a DanContinue Reading

Polygamy: An Early American History

Beginning with the Spanish Franciscan priests attempting to baptize Native Americans, Polygamy: An Early American History tours polygamist practices in the New World. Not just interested in the what, the author looks into the underlying reasons for the popularity of multi-wife families. In the 1600s, wars cut down many NativeContinue Reading

Savage Appetites

Psychological archetypes and crime fiction are melded in the true crime tales presented in Savage Appetites. The four tales here describe the mother of forensic science, who did not have a formal scientific background. Another tale describes a person fascinated by the Manson cult’s murder of Sharon Tate. The thirdContinue Reading

Old Bones

Parallel stories of the work of a new FBI Agent and the search for the Lost Camp of the Donner Party drive the engaging thriller, Old Bones. Probationary FBI Agent Corrie Swanson is looking into a grave robbery and a recent death as her first real case. She believes thereContinue Reading

Hidden Things

Suspenseful heist thriller where Hidden Things don’t stay hidden forever. When fourteen-year-old Carly is attacked in her house, the police post video from her home’s security system hoping someone will recognize her attacker. While it only takes 44 views to find her assailant, the video has now spread far andContinue Reading