Mystery/Thrillers

Tom Mcardelle walked to the beach and took a seat on the bulkhead, relaxed and lit a cigarette. As he watched the young people enjoy water sports, something out of the corner of his eye caught his attention. His curiosity aroused, he decided to investigate the something.

The something was a man’s body floating in the small stream flowing between the marshland and the bay. When he saw the body move, he hoped the man was still alive, but when he turned the body over, he realized the man was dead and that the deceased was one of his neighbors.

The autopsy did not reveal the exact cause of death so further analysis was needed. A sample of an unidentified substance found in the deceased was sent to the CDC.

The popular theory that prevailed among the public was that the dead man was poisoned.

The police chief and the district attorney were under heavy pressure to find a murderer. After discussions between the two, they agreed that guilt pointed in only one direction.

The prosecution pulled a fast one on the defense by calling a surprise witness. The defense countered by calling a surprise witness of its own and when it did, the only thing the district attorney could do was raise an objection.

After both the prosecution and the defense met in the judge’s chamber, everyone returned to the courtroom and the district attorney addressed the court with his final surprise.

Mike and Jessica had no idea their lives would be changed forever by a simple photograph. Accused of murdering his best friends when they disappeared five years before, Mike takes Jessica on a hiking trip to the scene of the alleged crime, a pond along Destiny Creek. What Mike discovers is beyond comprehension. The surface of the water is a portal into the past where his friends are alive in a very different world. The pond becomes the source of heartbreak and eternal hope as Mike is unwillingly pulled back to a time before meeting Jessica, condemning him to a lonely life without her. Searching for the truth, Jessica is determined to raise their unborn son alone as she presses the sheriff to admit what really happened. Through the strangest of circumstances and the intervention of an unlikely savior, their future together is sealed once again along Destiny Creek.

While searching the Central-American rainforest for a priceless artifact, anthropologist Stephen Shaw is haunted by dark secrets from the past.

A coed disappears during an archeological expedition. Classified experiments are being surreptitiously conducted in the desert. Bizarre aberrations appear in a close colleague’s genes. Stephen is being followed.

Ancient mythology, emerging technology. Mysteries compounded by universal passions: greed, envy, desire, sex. The developing situation becomes critical, requiring immediate action.

Who will ultimately gain control of a cutting-edge technique for manipulating the subatomic structure of physical matter?

The demonstrators were jubilant as they recalled the damage done by their heroes on 9/11. They made speeches condemning the Great Satan, promised holy war and burned the flag of our country. Most of the city’s population was unaware of the event, but others were very aware of it and were preparing reprisals.

Young FBI agent, Kurt Muller, decided to take himself out for lunch one day, a wise decision. He fell madly in love with the waitress, Deena. He returned for a second lunch which did not go well because neither Kurt nor Deena could find the courage of commitment. Kurt did not return for a third time but Deena sets out to track him down. She succeeds in her search and a wonderful romance begins.

Kurt’s training officer at the NYPD is Kim Kahn who has been informed, by a friend at the CIA, that there is evidence of a planned terrorist attack against the city. As Kim works to prevent the attack, she learns that Deena may be affiliated with the terrorist that are planning the attack. Things go badly for Deena.

It is confirmed that the planning for the attack is underway and Kim needs to learn the how, when and where of the attack if she is to foil it. For reasons known only to herself, Deena decides to help Kim in her battle with the terrorists.

The success or failure of the attack is not the end of the story. Life for those involved takes some unusual turns.

The Nile Queen is a story involving two of the world’s greatest universities – the world’s oldest Al Azhar of Cairo, Egypt, and one of America’s greatest universities, the University of Chicago. The United States Department of State under the direction of Mrs. Clinton initiated a cultural exchange between the two great universities to enhance the relations between the two countries. America is not popular with the Egyptian people, with polls indicating that 65percent of Egyptians do not look favorably upon the United States. Mrs. Clinton is using this approach to create a better understanding between the two cultures.

The Egyptian contingent is headed by a brother and sister team – Amana and Moese Krafar. They each received their MD degrees from Oxford, the great English University.

Amana is a beautiful lady, popularly referred to by her adoring public as the “Nile Queen”. She and Moese are active teaching in their profession within the Al Azhar University.

The FBI is alarmed in knowing of the agreement between the two universities, fearing that the Egyptian delegation may be infiltrated with radical Islamic members, who may wish to use this exchange to plot injury to the United States within the Great Lake area of Chicago.

The story deals with this possibility, and what the FBI used to counter this danger.

It Begins: Part 1/ Book 3 - Ponytails And Promises

Delena McKay is both beautiful and the Public Defender. Parker is hired by McKay’s husband and has McKay under surveillance when it appears she has been abducted. Or has she? Things might not be what they seem with the McKays.

Meanwhile, Lt. Pete Boston is working a homicide case where the victim was apparently given a haircut. Something’s funny about that.

But there is nothing funny about loner Tom Selby who attacks the very woman who would normally be defending him.

You’re glued to your seat as the story unfolds.

***** It Continues: Part 2/ Book 4 - Jude Brothers

Gina Deangelo is called for jury duty against the one person she definitely knows is deadly. Will she go?

An unexpected betrayal has you at a momentary loss for words. Ever the professional, Parker keeps her head up and her gun ready. She’s busy finding a cheating husband and closing down a child porn ring, among other things.

Her heart ends up right where it belongs. Right where it has always belonged. She figures out her heart just in time to be pushed to her death. Will she live to say ‘I love you’?

***** Note: 30% of all profits the author receives from this book’s sale in 2012 will be donated to the K-9 Police Dog Fund of the Fruitland Police Department, Fruitland, Maryland. An additional 10% of profits the author receives from this book’s sale in 2012 will be donated to a local hound dog rescue.

This is a story about Sylvia Ellis, a former private investigator who thought that she had seen it all where male/female relationships are concerned. Sylvia’s life is in turmoil. After a tearful lunch with her only niece Mandy, she mysteriously disappeared. Sylvia reared Mandy as her own after cancer took her mother’s life. Mandy filled the void after Sylvia lost her baby and any hope of motherhood after a confrontation with her husband’s mistress. While desperately searching to find her niece, she fights urges to take out revenge on Mandy’s husband whom she believes is responsible for her niece’s disappearance, unaware that her own life is in danger. Adultery, lies, deceit, murder and suicide permeates the lives of these characters when love goes awry.

None of their friends appreciated Hidden Island. That was something Caroline and Scott learned early on. Caroline’s school friend, Althea, attempted to define the uneasy feeling that came over her each time she visited the cabin. “I want to like it, for your sake, but... it’s eerie Caroline,” she whispered, shivering a little. “There’s a feeling of sinister possibilities here.” She turned to Caroline, and with her usual drama-queen style narrowed her eyes and warned, “Always be very careful here.”

Hidden Island is a tale of murder and mystery that will engulf the reader from the very first page. This is a book the reader will never forget...

When Kristyn, a young widow with a small son, moved back into her childhood home, a two hundred year old Victorian farm house, she expected nothing less than to be happy there. She wanted to raise her son, Nathan, five, as her grandparents had raised her after the unfortunate deaths of both of her parents when she was quite young. This proved not to be the case. From the beginning young Nathan was being enticed by entities to venture into the attic which was always locked except when he was near. An innocent game ends in the disappearance of Nathan. The legend of the Dudu-Mtu intertwines with the events in the house. Shadows and light are combatants in a battle for control of the attic. What mysteries lay within its dark interior? Intrigue, unsolved murders and a new love for Kristyn weave together a fascinating tale of the paranormal.

She was a beautiful Brooklyn born native who was raised by her father, the “Biggest Drug Dealer” in New York City; after witnessing the death of her mother and sister by the hands of her father’s brother over drug money. With the killing of her father by a lesbian butch who molested her as a child; she grew up loving feminine women and living the drug dealing life observed by growing up in her father’s shadow. After being locked up because of one of her snitching girlfriends; she turned to her first boyfriend who fathered her child and ended up taking her life in the end!