During a blistering 1903 summer, Portland’s steam laundry women are working ten hellish hours a day. Exhausted and ill, they demand a nine hour workday. Sage Adair, and his mother, Mae, join their fight until the women begin disappearing. Desperately searching for the missing women, Sage and Mae face grave danger midst suffragettes, prostitutes, social workers, white slavers. arsonists and heartless bosses. Inspired by actual historical events, this is the sixth book in the award-winning S...

Progressive History with a Mystery TwistArson, murder, kidnapping and false accusations abound in this seventh book of the Sage Adair series which crafts its early twentieth century stories around actual historical events and people. In Slow Burn what begins as a simple assignment--helping the city's firefighters unionize, catapults Sage into firefighting's front lines and into solving the deeper mystery of who is burning down the city and why..This fast-paced action myste...

Progessive History With a Mystery TwistThe eight Sage Adair Mysteries are set in 1902, Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. These adventure stories highlight the positive changes made by that era’s progressives at a time when wealth and power were concentrated in the hands of a few. One reviewer wrote: “Authentic and well-researched, these historical mysteries show a colorful and corrupt city full of complex and shady characters. Sage Adair is a secret operative who works on...

Progressive History with a Mystery TwistArson, murder, kidnapping and false accusations abound in this seventh book of the Sage Adair series which crafts its early twentieth century stories around actual historical events and people. In Slow Burn what begins as a simple assignment--helping the city's firefighters unionize, catapults Sage into firefighting's front lines and into solving the deeper mystery of who is burning down the city and why..This fast-paced action myste...

During a blistering 1903 summer, Portland’s steam laundry women are working ten hellish hours a day. Exhausted and ill, they demand a nine hour workday. Sage Adair, and his mother, Mae, join their fight until the women begin disappearing. Desperately searching for the missing women, Sage and Mae face grave danger midst suffragettes, prostitutes, social workers, white slavers. arsonists and heartless bosses. Inspired by actual historical events, this is the sixth book in the award-winning S...

Progessive History With a Mystery TwistThe eight Sage Adair Mysteries are set in 1902, Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. These adventure stories highlight the positive changes made by that era’s progressives at a time when wealth and power were concentrated in the hands of a few. One reviewer wrote: “Authentic and well-researched, these historical mysteries show a colorful and corrupt city full of complex and shady characters. Sage Adair is a secret operative who works on...

This mystery – set in 1902 Portland – shows a colorful but corrupt city.If you were a single man strolling in Portland's Old Town a century ago, you might have been clubbed, drugged and dragged onto a schooner bound for China or a worm-riddled whaler headed for the Bering Straits. It didn't pay to complain too much–that is, if you didn't want to get thrown into the sea.The practice was called "shanghaiing" and it was common on the West Coast, with Portland as a key center.

This fifth book in the series thrusts Sage Adair into an unfamiliar landscape and social milieu - a situation that challenges his skills and endangers his life. It's 1903 and a range war is brewing in Central Oregon. An enemy's extortion sends Sage on a wild stagecoach ride into the Crooked River country's deep canyons and parched valleys. There he finds cowboys blazing dead lines across the rangeland that sheepmen and their animals dare not cross. The threat is real. Already two shepherds...

Repercussion is a current-day murder mystery. The protagonist Maggie Kubiac, is a middle-aged, single mom. She works as a counselor to abused women and as a part-time college adjunct in the university's graduate school of social work.One of Maggie's clients, Gabriella, a Chilean woman, is accused of murdering her husband. He was the manager of a factory in Portland, Oregon and was abusive to both his wife and his workers. Maggie believes in Gabriella's innocence and is det...

Bitter Cry is the eighth novel in the Sage Adair historical mystery series set in the early 1900's. Once again, we have an action-packed mystery that uses actual historical facts of social concern. Sage Adair, an undercover operative for the labor movement, is waiting to learn his next assignment when a young newsboy crosses his path. What follows is a journey into the dark corners of Sage's own past and into a present that includes, kidnapping, murder, and greed.When his heart get...

Slow Burn had its impetus in a one-paragraph, 1903 news article, reporting that the city council had voted to plank or gravel Powell Blvd and Milwaukie Ave. after being warned by the Fire Insurance Underwriter's Board that the city's continued failure to make the two roads passable during wet weather would result in all structures in that area being uninsurable. This organization's impact in this instance triggered the author's research into both the firefighters' working conditions and th...

Sage Adair and his multi-ethnic companions discover, in their fight for social justice, that what you eat might kill and has. Their effort to stop the poisoning takes the reader on a wild ride alongside the story characters who cross international borders, are shanghaied aboard a doomed whaler, imprisoned dark cellars, and locked inside an insane asylum. Along the way, their mission is eagerly joined by angry doctors, bold women, and noble farmers. This 10th book of the Sage Adair Mystery ...