Bless Me Father

This is a tantalizing mystery driven by friendships and secrets. Maria-Teresa Rivera has no idea what’s in store for her when she arrives at her childhood church in Mesa, Arizona for a routine planning meeting with the hot new priest. The effect the handsome Brazilian priest has on the congregation of the St. Francis de Sales Catholic church is nothing less than murderous.

When a dead body is discovered at the church, Maria-Teresa fails to convince the police that, despite her blood-smeared appearance, she is innocent of the crime. As the body count rises in the church community, Maria-Teresa’s tenacious trio of multiracial girlfriends embark on a thrilling cat and mouse chase with a killer using wit, wisdom, and humor to absolve their friend of murder charges.

Through shudder-inducing twists and turns, these amateur sleuths uncover deep dark secrets about a plethora of suspicious characters. These ladies combine who-dun-it foundations with a contemporary empowering driven approach to crime solving only to leave one secret yet to be revealed.

Broken Designs

In the heart of the city’s art scene, a chilling series of murders unfolds, targeting accomplished women marked with macabre echoes of the three wise monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Despite differing backgrounds, a haunting connection draws each victim to the Vision Gallery.

As detectives delve into the metropolitan undercurrents, they unravel a tapestry of vice – art forgery, illicit drugs, and seduction – all roads leading back to the gallery, a nexus of dark dealings. With every victim, they piece together a puzzle that gradually reveals a sinister portrait of broken designs.

This is no ordinary thriller; it’s a sophisticated narrative of intrigue where every clue is a brushstroke, and each discovery paints a picture steeped in deception and corruption. The detectives navigate through chaos, inching closer to a revelation that promises to be as startling as the crimes themselves.

Conundrum Murders

Detective George McCraken is on a dangerous mission to solve the murder of Hampton socialite Rosalie Stevens, who has been found slumped over the steering wheel of her BMW with roses in her hand and a bullet in her head. McCraken must outsmart a Russian mob henchman while navigating the complex motives behind the murder, which remains a mystery as Rosalie had no enemies and no involvement in criminal activities. The investigation heats up with the potential for a romantic entanglement for McCraken and a connection to a money laundering scheme in the family’s real estate business. The Conundrum Murders will test McCraken’s detective skills as he races to uncover the truth.

Down by the River

Jason and his family were doing well within their community. The kids were growing and were excelling in school and their other activities. Jason’s wife, Alison, was painting up a storm and was preparing for her art show. He finally felt that his work as a counsellor was growing in the direction that he wanted.

But in a moment, it all changed. Jason and his son, Junior, are severely injured. His daughter, Emma, is flown to a special hospital. And Alison is locked in a life-or-death battle against her own wounds.

Jason struggles to find answers. Who wanted to harm his family and how could he stop it from happening again? The family needs to come together and work to find the answers. Community members and other family members came to help in their recovery and their search for answers. But still, they weren’t safe.

Would they be able to find the answers they needed before things deteriorated?

Instar Meditations

Young women around the country are going missing and the only one who seems to care is unlucky FBI agent Nora Hammond. Not even her partner, ladies’ man Jason Carter, thinks it’s worth looking into.

Meanwhile, the TruLove Corporation has a new line of luxury sex dolls that will truly love you back – for a price. When the dolls start attacking their owners, the FBI is called in to investigate and things with Nora and Jason get a little sticky...

Into the Attic Darkly

Tom and Eddie are two young brothers, sons of Dan and Ellen Biggs – a high-powered attorney and his socialite wife – who head a dysfunctional family cobbled together by deceit and a thirst for success. Dulcie is their nanny, a young woman hired to take charge of the two boys, especially Eddie whose behavior is unpredictable at best.

After Eddie is sent away following an exceptionally violent outburst, Ellen falls desperately ill, prompting Dulcie to move into the house at Dan’s request. The two begin a torrid affair, but when Dan turns up dead, Tom is arrested for the murder after he is seen hiding evidence.

Refusing to finger who he believes is the real killer, Tom is brought to trial. But as the drama unfolds, the identity of the murderer becomes increasingly unclear, even to Tom who is left to fear for his own life. It is in the attic where all scores are settled, and so is the killer’s identity… once and for all.

Medicine Park

Medicine Park is a compelling small-town murder mystery that takes place in southwestern Oklahoma in the historically pivotal year of 1963.

As the town’s high-school history teacher reminds us: “People have lived here all their lives, but they have no idea what goes on beneath the surface.”

Medicine Park uniquely blends engaging characters, humor, romance, suspense, and Native American tribal culture – with a splash of metaphysics, a dash of the macabre, and an onslaught of surprising twists and turns.

Buckle up!

Memories in Poetry

This book of poetry, in two parts, is by widely published author, London Fell, whose previous publications include 12 academic volumes and three novels. This poetry book centers on the state of New Jersey and its many historical sights and scenic views and the town and campus of Princeton, New Jersey.

Part I focuses on many historical places and many beautiful sights throughout the state and Part II also focuses on the sights, views and structures in the town of Princeton as well as the Princeton campus.

The many accompanying illustrations are designed to entice the readers into the worlds and words of history as well as the poetic scenes appropriate to the subject. Many of the structures in the state and the campus have voices in the poetry. Can you hear your voice in the poetry? Whose memories in the poems are being depicted and what central symbols of the Jersey shore are recognizable? What voices do you hear and can you as the reader visualize your own memories in this poetry? The many mysteries of poetry can give extra flights of imagination.

Murder and the Fairchild Legacy

When billionaire Houston socialite Richard Fairchild is found dead under suspicious circumstances, his wife Mariah refuses to accept the police verdict of suicide. Desperate for answers, she recruits small-town radio owners Delilah Morgan and Norma Davis to investigate. She offers the struggling entrepreneurs compensation they can’t refuse – $20,000 each, a bailout for their failing station, and an all-expenses paid trip to Mariah’s Hill Country resort.

At first reluctant, Delilah and Norma soon find themselves embroiled in the glitzy Houston elite circles the Fairchilds inhabited. With a list of suspects who had motive to kill Richard, the duo follow a trail of lies, affairs, and shady business deals. The stakes grow ever higher as it becomes clear the Fairchild legacy – and their own lives – are in danger. From Texas hill country horse ranches to slick Houston high-rises, Delilah and Norma uncover adultery, blackmail, rivalry… and murder. But will the radio sleuths solve the mystery before the killer silences them too?

Murders in the Cascades

During a lucid moment, an Alzheimer’s patient tells amateur sleuth Biodina d’Angelo that 40 years ago he killed his lumberyard partner in the Cascades of Washington state. Biodina begins searching historical records, and a clever fraud scheme is uncovered, along with news articles about a missing lumberyard owner. Along the way, her intuitive nature and nosiness helps her uncover another murder of a well-respected record producer. Will the murderess be a starstruck performer, a jealous wife, or a vindictive assistant?

Ordinary Kate

Kate, an ordinary woman, finds her world turned upside down when she becomes a widow and loses the comfortable life she’s always known. Suddenly, she’s faced with questions she never imagined: Did her husband have a second wife? Where did the money in his account come from? Is it hers? And who stole her identity?

As Kate searches for answers, she is befriended by a handsome US Customs Officer and an unorthodox neighbor. Her adventure takes unexpected twists and turns, leading her to a final choice that challenges her honor and integrity.

Playing Through the Break

In the early 1980s, young Chicago architect Phil Ashley and his live-in girlfriend, TV newscaster Alison Knight, find themselves locked in an unlikely love triangle with a neighboring temptress whose undraped window appearances trigger untimely, unfinished spiritual and emotional issues left over from the psychedelic sixties.

When Phil is offered an unusual architectural project set in the countercultural West Coast waterfront community of Samsara, the pair agree to temporarily part ways in hopes that a break will do them good.

Little did they suspect that their romantic recess would soon turn chaotic when Samsara’s pirate broadcast featuring aqua goddess Pearl explodes into international headlines. Could the untimely uproar help reunite the troubled couple… or bring a dramatic end to their relationship?