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How can there be serious crime on this small island in 1952? Too hard to escape with only a ferry and besides, everyone knows everyone else. Gossip makes every secret common knowledge in minutes. Yet, Carl Jenson is found in bed with a knife sticking out of his chest. Big city detective Mattie Carlyle is sent out to help laid back Cal Lockhart investigate the murder. From the start, they are at loggerheads. Mattie is shocked to find Cal spending significant time helping half a dozen needy families instead of concentrating on more typical police duties. Cal views his job as protecting the ...

Can a deaf, introverted girl and musical, extroverted boy find common interests? Does each provide strengths to cover the other’s weaknesses? Despite Emma’s reservations, John drags them into a political controversy that turns vicious, destroys their successful business and marriage, even threatens their lives. Emma’s strength of character and resilience is tested beyond what anyone should have to endure. She and their child prodigy son fight for the family’s lives and future. Living with them will take you on an emotional rollercoaster, both heart-wrenching and heart-warming, while...

How does a scrawny child from a poor family cope with incessant bullying? What support is needed to rise above it and soar to heroic heights? How does a beautiful, yet quiet girl spur him on? How do Delbert and Sylvia each survive tragic events and persevere when driven apart with both lives shattered? This emotion packed story will have you pulling for them through heart-wrenching ordeals to the very end. Along the way, you will live life in the 1950’s and see what Canada lost in the infamous Avro Arrow supersonic fighter program cancellation.

This is a memoir of an introverted Canadian engineer who contributed in many ways to the advancement of civil aviation during the evolution into digital avionics and flight management. Retirement opened the door to a new world of creative writing as a novelist. All in all, a full and varied life--in fact, a quiet rampage.

Eight years after “adopting” Cynthia, she graduates from medical school. Sylvia has become a Public Health Nurse and Delbert provides her with air taxi service to remote coastal villages on the north half of Vancouver Island and on up the coast. Sound placid? It is anything but, with rugged terrain, isolation, strained relationships, and vicious killers on the loose. Adventure and suspense make this emotion packed volume hard to put down.

Now a grounded test pilot, Delbert feels he is only half a man. Sylvia persuaded him to marry her and now must convince him to carry on with what life has dealt them. Together, they search for a new mission in life and find not one but two. Can they rise to the challenge, given their disabilities? How far from normal will their marriage become? Will he ever fly again? Caring behavior is contrasted with immorality, courage with lust, ingenuity with violence in heart-grabbing emotional episodes