A New Title

I am pleased to report the Kindle publication of a new title, The Homicidal Saint, a mystery written under my pseudonym Axel Brand. This is the first I've written in a long while, and my first since turning eighty a few weeks ago. It is heartening to me that I am able to write a story that I think is competent and marketable. Following some medical disasters last year, I doubted that this day would ever come again.

The Axel Brand stories are set in mid-century Milwaukee, and feature Lieutenant Joe Sonntag, who heads the police investigations bureau. The first two of these were published as Five Star mysteries, and got good reviews.

I have chosen Milwaukee because of its ethnic ambiance, and because I grew up there. It was an industrial town, filled with work-weary first and second-generation Americans. In my stories, it is a place where people used public transportation, a place where weary men gave up their streetcar seats to weary women, and hung onto the straps that allowed them to stand safely as the orange streetcars toiled along their routes.

This story begins shockingly, when a man kills his wife at a church potluck supper, and claims he did it because she had destroyed the family's children. It becomes Sonntag's task to check all that out, and what he finds is disconcerting.

You will find The Homicidal Saint on Amazon, as a Kindle e-book. It sells for one buck, along with all the Axel Brand mysteries, because I want to increase readership of the series.