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Two brutal murders and a dead end. Veteran homicide detective Frank Clemente has little to go on but clings to some tenuous threads that take the reader from Nazi Germany, and its Holocaust horrors, to 20th century St. Louis and a reaffirmation that time does not heal all wounds.

Barry White is a retired police detective, a "dick" in the jargon of the business. He looks for missing persons, unfaithful spouses and runaways. He's asked to investigate drug use at an exclusive school for boys and finds himself in the middle of a teenage sex orgy. And, he has the photographs to prove it. That unleashes a multi-million dollar blackmail scheme and murder. After an especially close call a friend says he is "one lucky dick."

Good friends from high school meet for their 35-th class reunion. One begins to ask questions about a popular classmate who disappeared on graduation night. Answers are hard to come by. Does one of them know the answer to a 35 year old secret?

A child is awakened by the nighttime screams of a neighbor reliving the worst of the war that has just ended. Twenty-five years later, the two meet again in a world that has changed. But, have they? The wounds we suffer are often unseen. Some are wounded by humiliation and animosity simply because they are deemed to be different. Others are wounded by the trauma from events over which they had no control. This is a story of both.

Spies, assassins and secret agents operated in Europe’s shadows in the early 1960’s. Young reporter Hank Tollar finds himself in the middle of it, in love with a woman with mysterious motives, and challenged by an American consular official who is not exactly what he claims to be.

Radio was called “theater of the mind.” Listeners were limited in what they saw only by their imaginations. Burton McGraw took it one step farther. He was a regular visitor to “Radioland.” It was there he saw the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese surrender. It was there he watched the sound effects created for Fibber McGee's closet, and discovered that the Lone Ranger's Tonto was actually a "fat white guy." It was there he saw JFK die, and the carnage at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He saw it all. Or did he?

People often choose their local television station because of the friendly people they see every evening. WBWB-TV was a ratings powerhouse. Then Alex Menteur joined the staff. You may not watch television news the same ever again. What would happen if the audience really got to know the people they invite into their living rooms every night?

The vast majority of police officers in this country are dedicated public servants and adhere to the motto “Protect and Serve.” Some are not, as far too many headlines have told us over the years. So, what if technological breakthroughs, designed in part to assist police, are misused and abused by the police themselves? Imagine the kinds of things that could lead to. Or read, Seeing is Believing.

Passages is the story of two people whose disparate lives began at the same time, thousands of miles apart. She survived a Nazi mass execution. He dodged mobster hitmen. But time, circumstance, and danger brought their lives together to face the dangers from the past.

An alarming number of female television personalities across the country are victims of what appear to be random killings. But the similarities in these cases are striking. Are they connected? If so, who is doing it and why? Two police officers from separate cities, and a reporter working with them, set out on a multi-state investigation seeking to answer the questions. At what point does the hunter become the hunted? The mystery is taking place as women are striving to play a more equitable role in a male centric medium

This is a humorous look at aging. While getting old isn't for sissies....it is for everyone. In spite of all the aches and pains, the high cost of medication, the manner in which older people are often treated dismissively, and the occasional loss of dignity, getting old does have its humorous side. The author has tried to look at the process through a largely humorous lens, and also offers important advice for recognizing life for what it is.

Forty years ago Gary Fergus bailed out of a hijacked commercial airliner with a million dollars in cash. He landed in the New Mexico desert and was arrested two days later. But the cash was gone perplexing authorities. Was it blowing around the desert, or had Fergus somehow stashed it? If so, would it still be in a desert hiding place after he served a long prison sentence? And, if he retrieved it, could he spend it? Was it still traceable and too hot to handle. Fergus's dilemma is complicated with the appearance of a woman who is either his daughter or his sister, and later by the ...