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Valerie Webster

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Valerie Webster is a crime fiction author whose 30+ year career was focused developing law enforcement and national security networks. She interlaces her work on real cases throughout her writing and her storytelling leads you through the shadow worlds of the criminal as well as the crime fighters. Driven: A Rita Mars Thriller is her debut novel in the series. Her new book, Objects of Desire, has launched to rave reviews. Valerie makes her home near Boulder, CO. Learn more about Valerie and her work at www.valeriewebster.com ...more

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Valerie Webster On Thursday, June 8, 2006, my uncle, Jacob Wesley Webster, attended a meeting at the Veteran Administration's location in Cambridge, Maryland. He sai…more On Thursday, June 8, 2006, my uncle, Jacob Wesley Webster, attended a meeting at the Veteran Administration's location in Cambridge, Maryland. He said goodby to friends from the meeting. No one ever saw him again.
My family and I worked with the Maryland State Police who handled the case.
As in most cases such as this there was a furious burst of activity. His wife swore he had run off with another woman. Police searched the house, followed the wife, grilled my uncle's buddies about knowledge of any girl friends. Nothing - and hard to believe someone would have skipped without his wallet or vehicle. It was as if my uncle had been plucked from the earth like an alien abduction.
Time ticked by. Leads became dead ends. No new information arose. The family contacted a psychic. Cadaver dogs scoured a wooded area near my uncle's home. Lots of hope but no results.
One day melted into another until we are at the sad milestone of sixteen years. Another cold case to add to the pile of the unsolved. There is little expectation but a shred of hope with Wesley's disappearance with pleas for assistance on multiple missing person sites on the internet.
This is the posting from the National Missing Person's Directory/Maryland: http://bit.ly/3kMpCUc. We are grateful for any help.
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Before There Was Rita

Long before there was a Rita Mars there were The Books.  I read every one of them.  I devoured every Nancy Drew.  I sped through The Hardy Boys.  I veered off occasionally into the horse tales of Marguerite Henry and Anna Sewell and Mary O’Hara.  Every new opportunity to turn the page lit my imagination and as I progressed, so too did that desire to create my own stories.

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Each story in "After The Rain" is like a master cut diamond. Sokal wields the craft 0f language to capture each story's central conflict from every facet. We not only see the main character wrestle with their issues, but experience them from the pers ...more
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Yes. You Can't Hide has just come out. It's a shorter novel collected with some short stories about Annie's consulting. Thanks for your enthusiasm.
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Rachel Byrne has created a masterfully complex world in Predestined that rivals Frank Herbert and Tolkien. The book skillfully encompasses the stealth manipulations of a self-serving State. Dystopian? While the threats are rea
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