Tony Sattill has retired a Captain from the NYPD Manhattan Crime Analysis Team (CAT). He lives well with his wife, Melissa, and their three children in the penthouse of his wife's former husband. He lectures on the value of CAT to out-of-town police departments. With the killing of a former CAT member, Tony jumps back into his familiar aggressive police mode. Over the course of the next weeks, there are several seemingly unrelated murders. Working with the remaining members of his CAT, Ton...

Question EverythingThen Dig Deeper In the Presidential election year, David Drummer, Senior Analyst in Charge of Interagency Communications in the F.B.I.s Kansas City office, is planning his retirement to Eleuthera with his lover, Rachel. Suddenly, he is confronted by a scandal of far reaching consequences within the Bureau, two apparently unrelated police killings three thousand miles apart, and grass roots rallies designed to rile the voting populace against a foreign force. Whi...

Bob "Bric" Bricsonn, hardware store owner in Duluth, Minnesota and his friends, a civil engineer and a foreman at the local food plant come to realize that the tumultuous economic environment will soon crush and discard them. They decide there is only one way out of their financial traps. Three couples agree that desperate times call for desperate measures. The amateurs enter into the professional world of crime; a robbery, a drug buy, and drug resale down state. From the beginning the six...

Jacob Baker is trying to rebuild the relationship with his teenage son, Gene, and come to grips with the horrific drug-related death of his ex-wife, Heather. The new District Attorney in Tampa, Jack Flaherty, has reopened a two-year old murder case of drug dealers. He is re-interviewing all those who were involved; suspects, witnesses, and those who suffered collateral damage like Jacob. Because Flaherty sees this as the first step to national recognition, he stretches the protocol of his ...

Lieutenant Anthony Sattill, head of Manhattans Crime Analysis Team, is assigned to investigate murders at the Neighborhood Financial & Legal Services. The case is very personal to Sattill because the wife of his best friend is one of the victims. The investigation starts with the murders at the storefront and wends its way to a rave, a street gang, the murder of a policewoman, a federal drug bust, and a beacon of hope to the downtrodden. Why do Sattills superiors allow his team to be lead ...

When evil walks the land, Michaels idyllic life as a farm teenager is hurtled into confusion and fear. The landscape and farm animals fall prey to forces beyond his ken. Are these events random or connected? An expert tries to explain the remnants of unearthly visits. Who is he, really? Teenage friends are not who they appear to be. Violence escalates. Children die. The church is in disarray. Michaels mother becomes mysteriously ill. The historical family bible hints at the significance of...

Elizabeth Kimble is a widowed mother of two young teens and a detective in the good old boy Tampa, Florida Police Department. Her collateral investigation to a previous case generates numerous, divergent, and dead end leads. The murders of several former street gang members represent extraneous chatter to her investigation, while a friend in the department uncovers evidence pointing to a bizarre twist. The two seek the aid of the new Assistant District Attorney. The arduous process of conn...

The telemarketing of vacation packages is a distasteful and unethical job, but the pay can be good some weeks. The telemarketer faces two forms of intense pressure; company pressure to separate the customer from his or her credit card number and caller pressure to keep the number secret. Jerry Kermasic is one of the best at scamming callers and getting their numbers. He sees no financial future in his job. One night an opportunity to get out of his financial quagmire appears. He becomes a ...

The telephone call from Eugene Bentons sister, Mary, announcing the murder of her daughter at the high school, signals his emersion into a world he never knew; the cyber world of chat rooms, half truths, and bullying. From her ComRoom, Mary scans and parses the news tapes of the slaughter, and discovers people and activity that are out of order. She continues to dig, study, and uncover more sinister connections as the murders occur in small towns throughout the country. Mary introduces Gen...

In failing health, widowed patriarch, Joe Bickham looks forward to opening his family’s summer cottage and spending the Memorial Day weekend catching-up with his sons, Michael and Gabriel, and their broods. Over his breakfast the morning of departure, his reverie is interrupted by the crashing of a massive roiling storm. Regardless, he thinks how everyone will enjoy the cook-out dinners, lake fishing, holiday fireworks, and the traditional croquet tournament. During the drive to the cottag...

Detective First Grade Tony Sattill, of the NYPD, is assigned the gruesome ritualistic murders, dubbed the Handyman Murders. Tony is asked to dig into the past of Detective Elija Washington. He uncovers uncommonly large cash flows in Elijas past. While at the shooting range, Tony meets his lover from a different lifetime, Margaret Myers. They begin to re-examine their relationship; a relationship that will destroy his long-standing affair with Connie Wilhaus. Tony, the investigator, is now ...

James Buchanan McCaa exists on a conflicted high wire. Suspended between heaven and earth, Jimmy B tries to maintain a dangerous balance between right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and evil. He strives to retain the love of his teenage son, Two, while recapturing a long-lost moment of his youth. He loves women who are generations apart. He has benefitted from ill-gotten gains and a respected job. He drifts on the fringe of acceptable society. Not in and not out. He is known to power-b...