Comic Opera

Margaret wakes… A mash of shattered parts on the sidewalk, In a dying city she can’t remember. Margaret’s hydraulic fluid has all but evaporated. Her servo motors grind. Batteries ache for power. Her memory is corrupted beyond repair. Because the Bubble has changed… How will she survive the radiocative dust storms and unbearable heat, while police hunt her through the underbelly of a collapsing city? Margaret’s plight seems hopeless, until she discovers the kindness of a stranger. And a ticket to a destination her neurocircuitry couldn’t imagine… Manufacturing Margaret is the ...

Deep in the bowels of a starship… An android searches for a body. Trapped in her failing mechanical body, Margaret has a dream. She yearns to own hands to toss a salad. To possess fingers to knead the richest chocolate dough. For a tongue to taste the joys of her creations. Margaret longs to cook. First, she’ll have to find the perfect human parts to harvest. But there’s a policeman hunting her through the maintenance tunnels of Anchora. And he’s not going to stop until he finds her. Or dies trying… If you enjoyed the gritty pulse-pounding dystopia of Defragmenting Daniel, ...

Walter Tinner, who considers himself the world's greatest tenor (even if no one else does) comes to visit his cousin, Amber, and discovers to his horror that she wants him to throw in his two cents regarding the amateur opera society's production of Mascagni's "L'amico Fritz." Not only does Walter have to argue with the rather strange members of the society -- all of whom have "operatic" names and some of whom impugn his singing ability -- but it's the last straw when one of them turns up murdered. And then another .. and another. Will Walter be able to solve these ghastly killings before ...

Fingers celebrates his tenth birthday… By killing his older brother. Madrid, 2063. While the world watches the Spanish Bubble activate for the first time, a ten-year-old sociopath grinds glass into his brother’s icing sugar. As the boy bleeds out on a sun-baked rooftop, young Fingers feels a flood of relief. A craving satisfied. But not for long… Fingers’ killing spree is only just beginning. A journey of self-discovery laced with strychnine and nuclear radiation that will alter the Bubble forever. The Bubble, and beyond… If you enjoyed Defragmenting Daniel and Manufacturing ...

A hundred thousand clones. In one room. On a journey to the stars… Crushing dread wakes Aven each morning. Will today be the day? Will he be dragged to phase four, frogmarched to the Pulper, and blended so his body can be used to create another? Is today Aven’s last? Each day is the same torture. Until They arrive… and journey with Aven to worlds bursting with wonders he could never have imagined. If you enjoyed Daniel, Margaret, and Fingers, you’ll love Activating Aven, the eighth book in The Bubble series. You’re about to join Aven on a mind-bending quest 600 years into the ...

Fingers has come a long way since his first murder. Now he’s ready to destroy a starship… Fingers is onboard Anchora, and he’s got the blood itch – Fingers needs to kill. While he hatches a plan to annihilate the crew and take the ship for himself, Margaret sleeps, waiting for just the right moment to flex her hydraulic limbs and pursue her cybernetic dreams… Can Nassas stop them, and save the crew before the ship is torn apart? You’ll love this seventh book in The Bubble series, because your favorite characters clash in a shocking action-packed explosion that will keep you ...

Every detective has that one case—the one that lingers in their mind, unresolved, unsettling. Maybe it was a case they never solved, one where justice slipped away on a technicality, or worse, one where they fear they got it all wrong. For D.T. Giovanni, now chief inspector of the Allemonde Grand-Ducal Police, that case was his very first. Four decades ago, when he was still a traffic cop, Chief Inspector Ansgar Ziegler brought him into the investigation of a suspicious death. Giovanni and Ziegler were certain the victim’s wife had poisoned him—but without proof, the case went cold. ...

Shocking deaths and equally shocking reappearances abound in the latest case challenging the Grand Duchy of Allemonde’s chief inspector, D.T. Giovanni. The grand duke decides that, in the aftermath of the global pandemic, what the world needs is a festival consisting exclusively of comic operas, operettas, and Broadway musicals. Meanwhile, a circus comes to town in an effort to bring even greater merriment to the duchy. But, despite these innovations, the festival nearly comes to a crashing halt when, once again, murders begin to intrude on the gaiety. Hired assassins, an international ...

When a tenor is murdered only days before the annual opera festival is scheduled to begin in the tiny European duchy of Allemonde, it’s up to Chief Inspector D.T. Giovanni to find the culprit. Unfortunately for Giovanni, everyone he meets seems to have a motive and no one thinks he’s up to the challenge. The result is an adventure that’s full of so many twists and turns it proves to be a mystery on an operatic scale.

Karlan's ordinary day is about to take a very surprising turn .... Whilst finishing up a good day’s work in the Earth Interplanetary Administration Office, Karlan Staithley is disturbed by the appearance of a strange alien called Tuluscan Six. Tuluscan tells him that in one year’s time, Earth will make contact with his people, the Lamarians, and unwittingly destroy them due to an anomaly in the planetary time lines. He himself has come back to warn Karlan, partly to save his people and partly as in the real time line Karlan and Tuluscan will become lovers. The two men join forces to try...