Based on a true story, "Truth Be Told" tells of a woman's fight against sexual harassment and discrimination at a top-fifty U.S. law school. Julia Borden is a Norman Rockwell version of today's healthy-minded and successful American woman. A former J...
It was the normally quiet late Sunday morning. Then gun shots rang out. Journalist David Skye dove for cover. There were more shots and suddenly a stabbing pain in his leg. He was one of the lucky ones. In the hospital, he met Nurse Lucy Balfour. The...
What if a huge American oil cartel was sitting on key discoveries in the development of solar power? That's what anchorman Geoff Lance learns from an acclaimed physicist, only days before the scientist's death. Geoff looks into the man's credentials ...
John Dough didn't need the money. He'd made piles of it as a hedge fund manager. But he jumped out at age thirty and decided it was time for a new life, one that would be more exciting, more challenging, and would give him the chance to make a differ...
Now you're here, now you're not. And not only that, but where are you? Omigod, it looks a lot a scene from Heaven Can Wait. You're not dead, are you? That's a tough question. You feel all right. And you're talking with people who look like people, al...
Francie LeVillard is the great-granddaughter of Francois Le Villard, the renowned detective with the Deuxieme Bureau in Paris who worked closely with Sherlock Holmes a century earlier. Francie got her professional start on the East Coast, working in ...
Francie LeVillard is the great-granddaughter of Francois Le Villard, the renowned detective with the Deuxieme Bureau in Paris who worked closely with Sherlock Holmes a century earlier. Francie got her professional start on the East Coast, working in ...
Francie (Francine) LeVillard is the great-granddaughter of François Le Villard, the renowned detective who was with the Deuxième Bureau in Paris and who worked closely with Sherlock Holmes a century earlier. (The space in the last name was dropped ...
Francie LeVillard is the great-granddaughter of François Le Villard, the renowned detective with the Deuxième Bureau in Paris who worked closely with Sherlock Holmes a century earlier. Francie got her professional start on the East Coast, working i...
Francie LeVillard is the great-granddaughter of Francois Le Villard, the renowned detective with the Deuxieme Bureau in Paris who worked closely with Sherlock Holmes a century earlier. Francie got her professional start on the East Coast, working in ...
Phillip Hewes left a good teaching job in a wealthy area on the Maryland Eastern Shore because it was too comfortable. He accepted a position teaching English Lit at Lassen Community College in Redding at the northern end of the Sacramento Valley. He...
This is the sixth volume of mysteries featuring Franice LeVillard, the world's finest consulting detective since Sherlock Holmes. In these stories, Francie deals with an editor whose ego knows no bounds, a pair of terrorists in the witness protection...
When acclaimed photographer David Thoreau returns to Northampton, Massachusetts to visit his parents and autograph books, he is in a time of transition in his life. That transition is accelerated when out of the corner of his eye, he spots Lauren Sta...
In The Omega Crystal, Geoff Lance was the top-rated television anchor in Sacramento, but he was getting weary of the struggle with his bosses over their dumbing down of the news. His life took a sudden turn when he met an aging French physicist who t...
This seventh volume in the series of Francie LeVillard Mysteries features stories of pet-napping, political corruption, a manipulated grand jury, and "A flame in moth country." These latest case histories further reveal the scope of the talents of th...
Sherlock Holmes is one of the most important fictional characters in all of literature, the world around. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a giant of thought whose intellectual range extended well beyond his role as a detective. As a member for thirty ...
I was lying on my bed when suddenly the doorbell rang. Maybe it's the FedEx guy, I wishfully thought, bringing a positive reply to one of the myriad resumes I'd sent out. How was it possible that all those skills and that brilliance could go to waste...
Anyone who has worked in radio will recognize the people in this story. Radio is a strange animal in that it attracts people who are weird but figure that they can hide out behind their voices. Tony Seton has spent a lot of time in radio, network and...
Three new stories about Francie LeVillard, the finest consulting detective since Sherlock Holmes. In "The Return of Francois Le Villard" she connects historically with her great-grandfather who actually worked with Holmes. In "Justice Above the Law" ...
With all the money we spend on military preparedness, our military wasn’t prepared for this. Twelve alien spaceships took up positions over the United States. It was a silent alarm. When there were no communications from the aliens, the Pentagon se...
Dustin Propper was in a slow downward spiral. Ever since the love of his life was killed by a drunk driver. He’d taken a buy-out from the news network, but unable to let go of the news, he’d taken a reporter’s job at a local station in a major ...
Francie LeVillard is the finest consulting detective since Sherlock Holmes. In this, the ninth volume of her case stories, In "The Storage Locker," her friend overhears a strange conversation in a neighboring storage unit that could be criminal. In "...
In Volume X of The Francie LeVillard Mysteries, the world’s finest consulting detective since Sherlock Holmes applies her brilliance and her powerful intuition to the solving of four fascinating cases. But brains aren’t enough when she’s up aga...
While more than 40 Francie LeVillard Mysteries have been published since 2013, she was actually born from the pen in 1986. Back then she lived in Mill Valley in a world without cellphones and wifi. Now seven of her original cases - plus a bemusing sh...
On September 1, 1983, a Korean Airlines jet en route from New York to Seoul strayed off course and over a military-sensitive area of the Soviet Union. The jet refused to respond to warnings by a Soviet fighter jet. The pilot of the fighter was ordere...
After Brett Whitson got his second covid vaccination, he felt good, very good; better than he could remember. This despite the fact that he had been fired from his anchorman position at the local television for refusing to talk about Trump's cures fo...
You think what you've about the hospitals and covid is terrible, in fact the truth is a lot worse. Nurse Lucy Balfour was ready to quit. But first her partner, journalist David Skye, goes undercover at her hospital to report on the chaos and confusio...