A massive restaurant fire in the North End of Boston takes down an entire city block. Office buildings. Apartments. The death toll staggering. The suspected cause is arson. While the police and fire department conduct their investigations, the insurance company holding the paper on the restaurant executes a parallel investigation using Lisa Sheed, a private investigator in a small but sought-after firm. Only Lisa’s investigation uncovers much more than possible insurance fraud. The fire in...

Columbia University law professor Linus Hampton has been accused of murdering his wife and New York socialite Ellen Hunt.  The Hunt Family, one of the oldest and wealthiest families in the United States, use their own media conglomerate to expose Hampton daily in an effort to attain justice.  Money must have been his motive.  The prickly law professor stands to inherit hundreds of millions of dollars now that his wife is dead.  Hampton must be sent to prison at all cost...

Henry Devlin was born and raised in a troubled home just outside of Boston, Massachusetts.  The love of his life, Katerine Bradar, lived at the bottom of the same street.  He'd admired her from near and afar, yet life events kept them apart. Kat would go on to pursue a legal career on the opposite side of the country, while Henry's life and legal trajectory went in a different direction. Worlds apart, will the two ever reconnect?  Or will they settle into oth...

The Season For Moths is a work of historical fiction that spans more than eight decades.  Scott Wellinger's compilation of four short stories, The Season For Moths is composed of tangentially interconnected, sequential storylines, set in the years from the end of Prohibition -- 1933 -- to 2016.  Each story is deeply rooted in the times in which they take place, transporting the reader through the news, fashion and music, set as the backdrop for each narrative....

Lara Myhre is a beautiful college senior and about to become the latest world musical sensation.  Her abilities as a guitarist are only surpassed by the beauty of her voice.  The world is about to fall in love with her.  If she can be found. Once they realize she is missing, her parents alert the Massachusetts State Police in Boston, but aren't taken seriously.  College students go missing all of the time, they are told.  They sometimes take a time-out or g...

It was 2004.  Political unrest continues throughout the world three years after September 11th.  American troops in Iraq are suffering heavy losses while Saddam is on trial.  Tension in the United States is building over continued terrorism not only overseas but at home as well. In Boston, Warren Dennihan is a Massachusetts State Police Detective working to eliminate terror in his own city.  The Irish Mob has been conducting business with impunity in Deni's neighb...

A sub-company to the largest pharmaceutical corporation in the world, located in South Carolina, has fallen victim to a serial killer.  Three are dead as they were working to successfully synthesize venoms into drugs that would cure virtually every major human ailment.  Aids, cancer, heart disease, Parkinsons and Alzheimers, to name a few, would go away.  Cured.  The police have a suspect in custody, a Doctor and Professor of Herpetology and Toxicology at the institutio...

Prison isn't someplace that anybody wants to be.  As a New Hampshire criminal defense attorney, Jacob Grantes's job is to ensure his client's freedom.  Charged with Vehicular Manslaughter, he finds himself incarcerated pending his trial.  Grantes's friend and investigator from South Boston, Warren Dennihan, is searching for some piece of evidence that will mitigate the attorney's guilt.  Only Grantes was blackout drunk.  He cannot remember anything about the c...

In February 2015, a plane leaving Boston for Fort Lauderdale crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina. Eight months later, the detritus from the crash and some of the human remains have been scraped off the bottom of the ocean, thus beginning the crux of the various investigations.  In addition to the gaggle of federal agencies that are trying to piece together what happened to flight 4273 mid-flight, taking one hundred ninety-seven passengers and crew t...

The May trial of Chase Bromley grabbed the attention of not only Bostonians, but the entire country as well.  While the Hernandez trial was garnering attention, and certainly the Marathon Bombing case in federal court a few doors down, the rape, torture, and murder of Sloane Nichols was in the national spotlight.  The accused wasn't a professional athlete or on a terrorist watch list.  Chase was, however, the son of the infamous billionaire and property developer Kenneth Bromley, which mad...

Sex didn't scare her…Despite the success of her sultry Red Choo sex blog, it would take serious buzz to put Mercedes Brooks's first book of erotic fantasies on the bestseller list. And that meant agreeing to another showdown with her nemesis, the super-sexy TV pundit Sam Porter. This thing beyond seduction did.This time, though, the on-air innuendos were just a dress rehearsal. What happened later between the sheets was actually the main event. If the tablo...

Rachel Benjamin's life might look glamorous, but she has worked into the early morning on more nights, cancelled more weekend plans and slept in more Holiday Inns in small industrial towns than she cares to count (standard practice in the business of mergers and acquisitions).And that picture of her on the recent cover of Fortune? It inspired a reprise of her grandmother's favorite lecture, the one titled "You don't want to be one of those career gals, do you?" (Other popular hits ...