This book is about John's wedding. Everybody came out for it. Then tragedy strikes and we have to figure out what is going on with one person who was uninvited. The most fun part of reading it is reading about the wedding day itself. Robert and Norman make special arrangements for a few surprises. This is the author's 7th novel.

Located just north of Boston, Nashua, New Hampshire, is known as a quiet cityuntil a series of violent murders makes front page news just before Memorial Day weekend. The brutal killings leave citizens terrified, and the NH State Police respond by bringing in an experienced investigator. Detective Sergeant John Osborne is an abrasive but competent state trooper from the major crimes unit. Osborne immediately butts heads with Detective David Boyle,...

Kelly Katz is a Kindergarten Teacher who believes her life is boring and is craving adventure. She is longing to find her Mr. Right to come and sweep her off her feet. Her most recent interest does not measure up to what Kelly wants. Right now Kellys focus is making sure that her best friend Casey is calm and not overwhelmed by her upcoming wedding. After meeting Valentino (the father of one of her students) during Open School Night, Kelly starts...

This is a story about a boy growing into manhood. It describes a way of life of challenges that are before him. One of the challenges involved a preachers daughter, and another was the daughter of his fathers friend while in the service. This high school boy and girl were having a picnic on the river and were nearly captured by three escaped prisoners. This was their first date. With his help, a circus in town provided their facilities for the senior...

Ryan Frankovic and his best friend, eight-foot-nine giant Luther Brightwell, live in a small midwestern town in the late fifties, surrounded by basketball enthusiasts. In the otherwise ordinary summer of 1956, Ryan and Luther witness the discordant relationship of Ryans neighbors, Sidney and Claire McMillan, but think nothing of it. But several weeks later, Mrs. McMillan goes missing, and her disappearance leads to months of speculation and even suspicion...

December 1939. Nighttime Manhattan. Snow mixed with rain. Two shots ring out in an alley. Max Grant, private investigator, two double bourbons under his belt, enters the alley to investigate. A man, two bullets in his chest, dying, paws at his coat pocket. His only words are, "Find the nude on the cigarette case." Grant removes the cigarette case, looks at the picture, pockets it, then calls to bystanders to get the police. Curiosity, even without...

Eight short stories that will delight you. Love, romance, witchcraft, and a couple of true stories that you will love and will have a lot of fun reading. When you reach the story of Aldosave it for last. No, no when you reach the story of The Sicilian Malandrinosave that one for last. No, no oh, what the heck ENJOY!

After twenty years in Los Angeles, Ed Loy has come home to bury his mother. But hers is only the first dead body he encounters after crossing an ocean. The city Loy once knew is an unrecognizable place, filled with gangsters, seducers, hucksters, and crazies, each with a scheme and an angle. But he can't refuse the sexy former schoolmate who asks him to find her missing husband-or the old pal-turned-small time criminal who shows up on Loy's doorstep...

Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories. Widow Joyce Lambert is poor and out of work. So fond is she of her little half-blind aging terrier, Terry-a gift from her late husband-that she will do just about anything to keep him.

Dylan Scott vowed never to return to the dreary town of Dawson's Clough. But one visit from a beautiful ex-lover and he's back in Lancashire, investigating a possible murder. The police think Prue Murphy died during a burglary gone wrong, but her sister isn't so sure, and neither is Dylan. After all, the killer overlooked the only valuable thing in Prue's flat. So who could have wanted the quirky young woman dead, and why? Dylan's search for answers...