Richard Wolkomir

• Jun-2014
• / Fantasy
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In this whimsical fantasy novella, Flin, son of a Snikian pear farmer, travels to the big city with Bobby Shortlegs, a smallish dog, colored honey-and-white, with perked-up ears and no tail, and highly intelligent eyes. At birth, all Snikians are ass...

• Oct-2014
• / Epic Fantasy
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"Come," said the cat. "It is time." It shamed him, speaking with animals. "They summon you," she said. He guessed who those summoners must be. "No," he said. But imperial constables hunted him. He didn't know why. He fled upriver, terrified, into the...

• Nov-2014
• / General Fiction
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Tom Fox, a New Jersey foster-care youth, faces a judge -- breaking and entering.

It’s not his first dust-up with the law.

I’d never steal anything, he tells the judge. I just wanted to see if I could do it, get down through that sk...

• Jan-2015
• / Fantasy
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An alien visitor gets sloppy drunk on Diet Pepsi. At the OK Corral, old-west spellslingers fire off incantations. Ancients from the Cretaceous emerge from Manhattan's subways. A scientist riles a Florida swamp shaman, and never sees the magic coming....

• Mar-2015
• / Fantasy
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He's just a boy-he doesn't tell us his name, only that he's lame-but he's first to see the witches approach. They come across the frozen steppe, astride dire wolves, herding saber-toothed cats. Afterwards, the boy's no longer just a boy. And the town...

• Nov-2016
• / Police Procedural
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Night. Rain. Through Cooper North's window--a shot. She's just retired as a Vermont prosecutor. She'd planned to watch birds, read. But now she's back investigating. And this time it's personal. Who wants her dead?...

• Aug-2018
• / Thriller
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On Caliban Island, something’s about to be born. It shouldn’t be!

Caliban’s new owner: a Silicon-Valley whiz-kid. He blacks out the island. Access denied. So Intelligence agency eyebrows go up. They send in an operative, undercover.
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• Apr-2020
• / Police Procedural
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Cooper North just retired as a prosecutor, but she's determined to protect this child, although he tells her nothing. He trusts no one. He speaks only to Cooper's corgi, because the dog won't reveal his secrets. They murdered his mother. Now they hun...

• Oct-2021
• / Mystery
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When new renters move in down the street, they try to intimidate Emmeline Pinski. Scammers, she thinks, and she starts watching them, gathering evidence. Problem: she could get herself killed.Emmeline's had bad weather in her head, ever since her...

• Dec-2023
• / Police Procedural
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Cooper North is back as Allen County prosecutor, called out of retirement-a wave of bizarre crimes has everyone on edge. This town's in the Green Mountains, a thousand miles north of the subtropics-yet, an alligator waddles along Main Street, scaring...