What is a story about? What are the events its characters experience during the course of the story? Do those events flow in a logical, easy-to-follow sequence? These are the kinds of questions Theme, Plot, and Structure examines in detail, especially when there are problems. In this book, long-time critique group leader Ross Lampert (a.k.a. […]

Arriving early one morning to open for business, the baker’s wife walks into a bloody scene, a body, and a missing husband. Later that afternoon, a beloved town patriarch and sapphire dealer is found hanging from the balcony in his historic mansion. On first observation, it looks like suicide. An autopsy points to murder. Further […]

Every hero’s journey starts with a punch! Seventeen-year-old Kevin Jason starts his first day at his new school by unintentionally punching the local bully through the cafeteria wall. When Kevin’s father, a legendary superhero, learns of this, he insists on training Kevin to master his new powers, though Kevin finds his father’s training methods a […]

In 1988 California, a drifting bartender and the woman he loves accidentally kill a crooked cop and flee toward Baja, triggering a relentless manhunt that forces him to confront a violent legacy tied to a ring he’s had since birth, and to the Angel of Death who wears the same ring.

Forget Scandi-noir. Welcome to Derry-noir. DI Liam McLaughlin leads a scrappy crew in the Major Investigation Team of the Police Service of Northern Ireland: DS Nancy D’Arcy, a sharp-edged upstart with something to prove; DC Tom Lyons, a self-styled ladies’ man running on charm and denial; DC Fern Hawkins, a tech savant who sees what […]

A high speed car accident and the bombing of his wife’s car convinces FBI SSA Tucker Petrie that he is the target of a killer. Discovering who the person is before another attempt is made becomes the focus of Tucker’s life. With his former partner and best friend, Kella Calloway, by his side, Tucker and […]