A man, bored with the literary affectations of his girlfriend and her friends, finds his mind wandering and wondering about the other "cats" surrounding him at an open mic night in the Cafe 575. Whether it's the caffeine or influence of the haiku, his curious imaginings lead him to believe that a game of cat and mouse is happening between two men. As one leaves and the other follows, he tails both through the dark alleyways where he finds himself not only a witness to a murder, but also th...

Mom may be gone but her daughter is carrying on the legacy of Mom's Diner, a place where people can relax and have their problems solved between refills. Befriending a new customer, she senses he has a few dark secrets to hide, and before he gets the bill he'll learn that just because you get a nice smile from a pretty face in a cozy diner doesn't mean there aren't deeper things afoot.

Trace is out to find a murderer, not an unusual task for a private eye. There's only one problem: he was the victim. Now he wanders the streets searching for his killer, hampered by the additional task of helping a young Hispanic girl out of the life of drugs and prostitution into which she has fallen. This he tends to, grudgingly, but his true desire is to reconnect with his family and be the husband and father in death that he wasn't in life. As his search continues, he finds the safe wo...

Two men working construction in San Diego are given the job of remodeling a La Jolla home once owned by mystery writer Raymond Chandler. When the story of Chandler's supposedly buried money resurfaces, their interest changes into finding out if those rumors were true, though neither have any intention of sharing what is found. And as one man suspects the other of sleeping with his girl friend, he plots to not only get the treasure, but at the same time get rid of the competition.

A man is waiting on his wife hand and foot, as he has done for decades. But the years have brought sickness and the possibility of death, which also brings guilt at a future finally free from constant servitude. But that freedom comes in a way he had never foreseen.

Hollywood star and icon Cole Carpenter is returning to Newbury, the home of his youth, to be , honored. Among those awaiting his arrival is Bob, his best friend and biggest fan, who always saw the star Cole would become. Along with Laurie, the girl up the street, they forged a bond of friendship that lasted summer after summer. But it's been fifteen summers since Laurie disappeared, the very day Cole left Newbury, and Bob is determined to confront him with the horrible secret he's been car...

If you find the bible to be slow, boring and hard to understand...maybe it's just you. Or maybe you haven't found the right commentary. Until you do, buy Humor of the Gospels and you'll soon find your spirits rise and money raptured as biblical mysteries are unveiled with such wonder you will anxiously await the Second Coming or volume two. This book is a light-headed and light-hearted look at the lives of Jesus and the apostles, as we take a chronological trip through the four gospels.

You're a rookie detective, and your grizzled veteran partner isn't thrilled at having to change your diapers after every murder. Nevertheless, he's walking you through your first case, like a children's primer, and it's up to you to keep your ears open, eyes wide, and mouth shut! Maybe, if you're worth the time and money the department's put into you, you'll solve the case. But no one's taking bets.

Thadeus Cochran is led to the small Connecticut town of Newbury, driven by words on the wind from a voice he has learned to trust. And whether the townspeople view the events to come as calling, clairvoyance or coincidence, the end result is the same: someone, soon, will be murdered, and it will be up to him to find the killer.As he meanders the maze, faces fall into his path as if puzzle pieces. Amy Emerson, an attractive widow who stirs feelings of his past loss, his present longi...

Artists Becker, Giles and Sugiyama began their journeys together, but time and talent have taken them on separate paths. "Sugi" has been hailed as a genius, Giles his equally-famous critic, Becker content to remain the peacemaker.As Sugi's projects become more ostentatious, stretching for miles in the sky and ocean and desert, so much more does Giles seek to keep him grounded. But the vicious critiques only serve to push Sugi to greater visions. Equally irritating to Giles are Sugi...

Zach Law is suffering not only because of an unseasonal San Diego heatwave, but also due to Brock the Parrot's inappropriate squawking and his young assistant Allie's tempting body. When a flirtatious divorcee hires him to find her homeless and heroin-addicted son, he recruits his brother, Mitch, a reckless body-building ex-rocker, to scour the streets. Mitch soon lives up to his wild reputation by luring Allie along and getting stabbed during an encounter. When the man who attacked him tu...

Brian Holloway was a star of the stage, until Claudia Graves came out of the darkness one night. Now he's a hollow shell of the man he was, bed-ridden and seemingly at death's door, or death's roommate. Yet never happier, for in his diminishing health, Claudia has risen, as if taking his talent as her own, to become the toast, and taste, of Broadway. But an old friend of Brian's has come from LA to see him. As he discovers the ungodly hold Claudia has over Brian, he sees he must risk his l...