Dave Balcom

• Jan-2018
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The 8th Jim Stanton Mystery finds the retired journalist caught in the middle of a three-way intersection between the past, present, and future involving family trees, predictive genetics and political extremism woven in a spiraling story that involv...

• Feb-2016
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Encoding... In this, the 7th Jim Stanton Mystery, the retired journalist is confronted with deciphering a maze of codes, ultimately requiring him to evaluate his personal code of ethics. A long-time friend has gone missing. Jim has been asked to help...

• Sep-2015
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In this, the 6th Jim Stanton mystery, Janice Coldwell Stanton decides to attend her high school class reunion with takes the Stantons back to Jan's tiny hometown of Stoney, Michigan.Jan has become a poised, beautiful, and successful business woman, b...

• Apr-2015
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Wins and losses...When Ed Sweet loses his job of 35 years it is devastating. Two years later, when he wins the American Tribute Sweepstakes Grand Prize worth millions of dollars, everything seems to be coming up roses.When Ed starts receiving calls t...

• Dec-2014
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When state high school track champion Suzanne Czarnopias goes missing her home town is shocked, but as the police find no clues to her fate, that shock turns to anger, first at the Lake City, New York, police, and then, when their newspaper prints le...

• Apr-2014
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Jim Stanton, retired community journalist, finds himself up to his neck in kidnapping mystery as he attempts to find the person who would pay a million dollars for the right to kill him in her own way, in her own time. Jim's interviewing skills lead ...

• Jul-2013
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In this, the second Jim Stanton Mystery, the retired community journalist is confronted by two mysteries, one trivial, the other fatal, but in the end they combine to remind him that even in perfect stories, everything doesn't always "work out" for a...

• May-2013
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When retired journalist Jim Stanton learns of the death of long-lost friend Mickey Buchanan, he is drawn into what he thinks is a nostalgic visit to his roots in Michigan's northern lower peninsula.In reality, this trip forces him to exercise his bes...