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Novelist. Member of The Mystery Writers of America.

Now available! - "Grumpy Old Man."

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PFDL64L

Grumpy Old Man is a satire on present day life in SF East Bay Area. (Think Carl Hiassen writing about California)

When seventy-five-year-old multi-millionaire land owner Ramsay Marshall turns up dead in Lake Tahoe, his daughter Sophia suspects foul play. Sophia contacts Palmer Doyle. Palmer is a recently widowed, disabled Afghan War vet turned private investigator. He is hoping to retire soon, get out of the rat race, move to the mountains, when Sophia and her cancer-stricken father-in-law, show up at his office and ask him to investigate the death.

Sophia and Palmer have history together. Fifteen years ag ...more

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The Psychopath Chronicles

Written like the great Stephen King suspense novels, The Psychopath Chronicles showcases the dark side of human behavior: premeditated murder, revenge killing, OCD, bi-polar depression, ongoing relationships and conversations with the dead, abuse of minor children, adolescent sexual practices, wartime stories from World War 2, deviant behavior by not-very-nice men, devious cross-dressers, Internet

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