“Arlen’s Gun” centers on an alienated and angry young man from the worst streets of Baltimore. The Vietnam War is raging and, virtually certain to be drafted, he’s persuaded by a friend to avoid that fate by volunteering for the Air Force. Both end up in Vietnam, his friend in a comfortable administrative job while he becomes a gunner on an AC-47 gunship. His attitude isolates him from the crew members, and the nature of the gunship’s mission isolates him from the reality of war itself unt...

George and Grace O'Bannion retired to Virginia's rural Northern Neck, a rolling land laced with many creeks and small rivers. Grace is a retired Army Intelligence officer and George a retired history professor and author of a successful series of historical novels. A very old man, last of a Virginia family tracing back to the 1600s is found murdered in his two century old plantation home. George, doing research for a second historical fiction series, becomes involved when it appears a pote...

THE CHIMERA introduces a pair of amateur detectives, Grace and George O'Bannion. Grace is a retired Army Intelligence officer and George a retired history professor. The story is set in eastern part of Virginia's Northern Neck, a largely rural economy of farming, fishing, oystering, crabbing, tourism and a multitude of small businesses but also hosting a population of comfortable to wealthy retirees, thanks to its hundreds of miles of waterfront. In turn, they help enable a rich cultural l...

THE CHIMERA introduces a pair of amateur detectives, Grace and George O'Bannion. Grace is a retired Army Intelligence officer and George a retired history professor. The story is set in eastern part of Virginia's Northern Neck, a largely rural economy of farming, fishing, oystering, crabbing, tourism and a multitude of small businesses but also hosting a population of comfortable to wealthy retirees, thanks to its hundreds of miles of waterfront. In turn, they help enable a rich cultural l...

"Arlen's Gun" centers on an alienated and angry young man from the worst streets of Baltimore. The Vietnam War is raging and certain to be drafted, he's persuaded by a friend to avoid that fate by volunteering for the Air Force. They escape the draft but both end up in Vietnam, his friend in an administrative job while he is assigned as a gunner on an AC-47 gunship. His attitude isolates him from other crew members, and the nature of the gunship's mission keeps the harsh realities of war r...

George and Grace O'Bannion are comfortably retired in Virginia's very rural Northern Neck, a rolling land laced with many creeks and small rivers. Grace is a retired Army Intelligence officer and George is a retired history professor. Author of a successful series of historical novels, George is working on a second series. Grace is involved in the local community. They become involved in murder when, late one night, alerted by their burglar alarm, they find young Cameron Trilby dripping we...