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New Jersey. Red Benjamin took a wrong turn and missed the American Dream. Stuck in a dead-end job, constantly butting heads with his father, and tired of being admonished by his doctor brother, the sixty-two-year-old longs for escape. But after years of exploring the Taj Mahal Country from his couch, the Bollywood fanatic stops postponing and flies to New Delhi on a once-in-a-lifetime trip. Landing at the airport with barely more than the clothes on his back, the pale solo traveler gets off to a rough start when an argument at customs reveals his unusual depth of knowledge. And his cockiness turns to horror after he's detained as a suspected terrorist and thrown in a communal cell with a gan...

Multi-genre variety pack of short reads. Includes five books plus Valley Football & The Trop.Neighbors grow together with the help of their friendly, local serial killer. A small town confuses Army training exercises with an alien invasion (based on a true story). Robbing a remote bank full of mob money goes very wrong and then gets worse. A violinist once played so magically they assumed he was pure evil. And a dead convict returns to his dusty hometown on the day his criminal career began. Meanwhile, existentially lost grownups in the suburbs start a midnight tackle football club and a haunted East Hollywood motel becomes home for classic stock characters on the down and out.More info:...

SHORT READ. A dead escaped convict finds himself and his redemption at the hometown robbery that began his criminal career.

From the collection PEOPLE MAKING DANGER (Vol. 1).

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HISTORIC DRAMA SHORT READ. The wicked life of a notorious violinist who played so beautifully and broke so many hearts they assumed he was the devil. In the end, he does confess. But not to that.

From the collection PEOPLE MAKING DANGER (Vol. 1).

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MODERN WESTERN SHORT READ. A reluctant hero only wants to tinker in his desert junk yard, fish for wrecks on the highway and forget his family legacy. A rotten Sheriff, fate and a vault of organized crime loot have another idea.

From the collection PEOPLE MAKING DANGER.

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MID-CENTURY SCI-FI SHORT READ. Near the end of the 1950s, an impressive, highly coordinated Army training exercise goes off without a hitch. Until frightened townsfolk, mistaking experimental communication helmets for alien antennae, launch an improvised defense. Based on a true story.

From the collection PEOPLE MAKING DANGER (Vol. 1)

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SUBURBAN THRILLER SHORT READ. When a young girl goes missing, families fall apart and neighbors grow together with the help of their friendly local serial killer.

From the collection PEOPLE MAKING DANGER (Vol. 1).

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In this cozy mystery, you'll find:A Witty, Relatable Sleuth: A fifty-year-old doctor who knows that diagnosing a financial murder isn't all that different from diagnosing a patient.Small-Town Charm: Quirky locals, fierce baking competitions, and the atmospheric magic of a Northern California coastal village.Feline Forensics: A judgmental, fiercely protective black cat who isn't afraid to take a bite out of crime.Bonus Content: Includes the actual recipe for Hal’s famous Macadamia Nut Cookies!In this cozy mystery, you'll find:A Witty, Relatable Sleuth: A fifty-year-old doctor who knows that diagnosing a financial murder isn't all that different from diagnosing a patient.Small-Town Charm: Qu...

HOUSE RULES: THE CAT WITH A CATNIP SLANT is a 37,600-word small-town medical thriller. It combines the sharp medical suspense of Tess Gerritsen with the small-town secrets and feline-assisted sleuthing of Rita Mae Brown.In misty Ferndale, Dr. Ann McBride spends her days treating geriatric patients. When a ruthless local patriarch drops dead, the police rule it a natural heart attack. However, Ann’s medical expertise points to a calculated poisoning. Teaming up with rugged ex-detective Noah Fletcher, she begins to unravel a dark web of predatory loans that holds the entire town hostage.The danger strikes home when an intruder drugs Ann's fiercely independent cat, House, with a synthetic bak...

He has nine lives, a limp, and zero patience. In the sleepy village of Ferndale, CA.
The local banker has been found dead, poisoned by a mysterious ingredient. The police are baffled, but House, a sarcastic black cat with a catnip dependency and a limp in his back left leg, knows exactly what happened.

Unfortunately, his owner, the kindly Dr. Ann McBride, just wants him to be a "good kitty." Can House expose the killer without getting declawed, or will he just knock a vase off the table to prove a point?

Some secrets are buried too deep to dig up.In the sleepy coastal town of Ferndale, California the fog rolls in thick like an old ghost, hiding a dark history of stolen land and forged Gilded Age fortunes. For Dr. Ann McBride, life is supposed to be about quiet healing—tending to the town's aging population alongside her golden retriever, Stella, and pouring her heart into opening The Nook, a community bakery.But when a gruesome local murder shatters the town's artificial peace, and a century-old diary is unearthed beneath the bakery floorboards, Ann finds herself at the center of a lethal conspiracy. Someone is systematically eliminating Ferndale’s elite using a silent, untraceable poiso...

     At secretive military electronics surveillance station in the Arctic Circle, a lowly fry cook, paradoxically the son of a wealthy and powerful politician, mysteriously dies. A victim of circumstances, FBI agent, Rhett Bradley, in the last month of his career, is hastily dispatched to investigate, to arrive ahead of a Siberian-spawned blizzard and a feared Washington, D.C. political storm.     Bradley must maneuver through guarded, secretive, and complex circumstances, periling his own life while contending with an egotistical FBI supervisor, paranoid intelligence agents, and petty criminals.  His investigation must be conducted in an ali...

For years, stories have circulated around the Superstition Mountains about an old hermit who seems to have been there forever.University of Arizona graduate student Matt Hayden has always been fascinated by the stories, but fascination isn’t enough for a historian. When the opportunity arises to investigate the legend for his final graduate paper, Matt sets out to find out what is fact, what is folklore, and whether the mysterious hermit ever existed at all.He finds the answer sooner than expected. What begins as a simple research project soon becomes something far stranger as the man that Matt talks to shares memories of an Arizona that no longer exists, stories gathered over a lifetime, ...

This is book 2 of the Abbey Roberts series.  Abbey Roberts becomes the Director of Nursing Care at the Toronto Manor and quickly realizes that her residents are not safe.  With the help of a senior retired investigative journalist, Larry, Abbey must identify what is wrong and fix it so her residents are safe and cared for, even at the risk of her health and marriage.

This is the debut novel of the Abbey Roberts series.  It is a medical thriller.  Abbey is an RN who after brain surgery returns to her workplace, the ICU/trauma unit.  As she navigates her new normal she realizes that the meth-addicted neurosurgeon who botched her surgery is now working in her ICU.  She must stop him before he hurts others, even at the risk of her own career.