News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #47…

#258: New book release! You’ve already seen the excerpt (last Monday). Watch for the release—real soon now. With Teeter-Totter between Lust and Murder, I continue the “Detectives Chen and Castilblanco Series.” The sleuths of The Midas Bomb and Angels Need Not Apply will embroil you in action and suspense yet again. As a mystery novel (my first), it is a dark probing into the nexus the crime underworld sometimes enjoys with the rich and powerful.

Chen is arrested for the murder of a senator in...