“It was 1984. Prince ruled the airways. The Los Angeles Olympics had come and gone, taking with it a spotlight that had shone harshly on the city’s night crawlers and left them thankful for the shadows. AIDS was spreading its dark, black, wings over us all, and I was a happy guy. At least I thought I was, until things took a sudden turn for the deadly.” – Marshall JamesIt’s been over a year since Marshall James first became intimately familiar with murder. He’s six months sober now...

Manhattan’s Katherine Pride Gallery becomes the center of high art and low death in Pride and Perilous, the second of the Kyle Callahan Mysteries. Amateur photographer Kyle is about to have his first photo exhibit at the gallery, just as someone begins killing people connected to it. Bodies start to fall and Kyle realizes somebody wants this gallery closed forever. Joining Kyle and Danny are several of the characters from Murder at Pride Lodge: Kyle's down-but-never-out TV reporter boss, I...

When the world's survival depends on the struggle between good and evil, only one can triumph. The victor will preserve for humankind what makes life worth living, or he will rule atop a mound of skulls, served by the souls he defeated.I, Warlock tells the story of Julius Tide, born part-vampire, destined to be all warlock. Julius is an almost accidental warlock, born into a family of witches. He meets the beautiful Charlotte one day at a country fair, and proceeds to dedi...

In Black Cat White Paws, recently widowed Maggie Dahl finds herself faced with challenges on all fronts: life alone in a new town, running a business she and her husband had dreamed of and started together, and now pursuing a killer. Her sister Gerri moves from Philadelphia to Lambertville, New Jersey, to support her sister and start a new life of her own. Together the women search for a murderer, helped in critical ways by their neighbor’s cat. A black cat with white paws. A cat ...

The year is closer than you think. The world has collapsed under the weight of its own insatiable needs, leaving shattered cities where those who still have anything fight to keep it that way, and those who don’t are a constant threat. It’s a danger that must be contained through a tightly controlled society where everyone is observed and everything is kept in its place.Harry Hellerman and his twin brother, Elliot, enter this world three minutes apart. By the time they’re teenagers...

In this Second Edition of Dreamshaping: On Shaping Reality and Living Our Dreams, we find a collection of writings about our ability to shape the lives we live, the dreams we live. These words of advice and experience, presented in easy-to-read short chapters, are more essential than ever as we navigate the dreamscape of our everyday world. Quotes and commentary add to the suggestions made in this simple dreamer's guide, and everything is presented in a way that makes it possible for anyon...

A House in the Woods 2: The Devil's Due picks up where A House in the Woods left off. Laurel Calloway is still in the mysterious town of Strickland, New Jersey, where nothing is as it appears to be. Two years have gone by, and they’ve been good to the Calloways. Laurel and her husband Jeremy have a new house, and a new family with baby Isabel about to celebrate her first birthday. Everything seems perfect, until Laurel begins to have dreams. Bad dreams. Something tells he...

Now in one volume! A House in the Woods, and its sequel, A House in the Woods 2, bring the story of Laurel and Jeremy Calloway full circle. The couple decide to trade their life in New York City for something much quieter, calmer, and ultimately terrifying. In A House in the Woods, they happen upon a small, charming house on A New Jersey back road, almost hidden by the trees. They think it could be the house of their dreams, only to discover that it’s the house of their n...

Tundra gathers together the best of the author's short stories written over a 20-plus-year span, beginning in 2000 and concluding with the most recent (Paper Hearts) written in 2022. In this collection we meet a dizzying array of characters, each deeply human and often deeply flawed.In Push, we meet a man who has devoted his life to pleasing others, and who now finds himself unable to do any of it over.In The Cat in the Window, we're introduced to...

Three times the danger: In this three-book collection, the Marshall James Thrillers come to life in one volume. Murder at the Paisley Parrot, Beautiful Corpse, and Final Audition bring Marshall and his story full circle, from the murders he'd been involved in against his better judgement back in 1980s Los Angeles, to his present life in New York City and how the past has never really left him. He longs to find the love of his life, LAPD homicide detective Mac McElroy, and inevitably begins...

Maggie Dahl returns in ‘Open Secrets.’ It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved, and a year since her beloved husband David died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then one morning a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.Soon a body is discovered on a rural New Jersey road. A body Maggie is sure belongs to a local author whose next book was rumored to reveal secrets not everyone wanted known. But were they enough to k...

One Thing or Another is a collection of humor columns that take a look at life, aging, and the absurdities of it all. From our culture's refusal to use the word 'old,' to the sometimes comical consequences of aging in body and mind, if not always in spirit. Collected from the author's personal columns, these short essays will make you chuckle, recognize yourself, and sometimes grimace at the not-always-funny price we pay for simply staying alive.