Historical Thrillers and Suspense
A RECKONING IN BELVOIR – A NOVEL
Set near the end of the Civil War, this suspense novel written in the literary tradition uses superstition, betrayal, and vengeance to conjure a world where the evils of man survive death, and the consequences of war collide with everyday living.
By the early fall of 1863, most of Belvoir’s townsfolk had gotten used to soldiers coming and going, food supplies dwindling to almost nothing, and runaway slaves leaving to join the Union army. What they hadn’t gotten used to was the serial killer roaming the Randolph farm on the outskirts of town. Two women, one a slave and the other, the wife of a slave owner, find themselves linked to the killer in BELVOIR.
Martha mourns the life she had before the war. With someone murdering her family’s slaves, she not only fears she might lose her farm to the Yankees, but now also worries that the killer will come for her sons and grandsons next. Ethel is rearing a mute son who is just reaching the crossroads of manhood. She should be envisioning freedom and the life that she and her son will soon have. But she can’t. The killer is the first thing she thinks of in the morning and her last thought at night.
Martha and Ethel are bound to a tragedy that began ten years earlier when one of the Randolph slaves tried to run away. Neither of them knew it at the time, but they each played a part in a doomed and enduring legacy. They now have to decide how to face the consequences of their actions and determine if there is anything they can do to end the killing at the farm.
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HOWLING RAIL - A NOVELLA
They thought the Underground Railroad was their passage to a new life. They thought it was an opportunity to live as free men and women. They were wrong.
The woods they travelled through held a different fate for them, one they never would have imagined or wanted.
Something howled around them as they made their way through. If they survived, they might be free, but they would never be men or women again.
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THE WHITE KING – A NOVELLA
The White King is a novella set during the civil rights movement. It is still being drafted. I don’t expect it to be ready until Summer 2013. My earlier estimation of 2012 was a bit aggressive. So I’ve had to back track on this and set a new timeline, especially since most of the story is still in my head rather than on paper or inside the inner workings of my computer.
I’m not quite ready to tell you what it’s about. You can bet, though, that it will be a mix of history, dark suspense, and horror set in the South and filled with the goings on one demented man…a man with his eye on the Civil Rights Movement.
RELEASE DATE: Fall 2013
THE SUSQUEHANNA REPORT
At 4:00:36 on the morning of March 29, 1979, two events changed the history of the United States’ nuclear energy program. The first event was the partial core meltdown at Three Mile Island. The second event was what the government didn’t tell you about the meltdown.
The Susquehanna Report, a recently released classified report, is the public’s first opportunity in almost thirty years to go beyond the official information supplied about the accident. It includes details from previously documented eyewitness accounts given by people living across the Susquehanna River opposite Three Mile Island. What these witnesses saw will change your mind about nuclear power.
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Short Stories from The Dead Songs Collection - Available Now at Amazon only 0.99
One day demonstrates the tragic aftermath of an
apocalyptic viral epidemic and the types of fires that rage afterward.
Something comes to visit when the power goes
out. What does it want?
To escape the Vietnam War draft, a man and his
wife take a road trip to Canada
The death of birds sends the world spinning
toward societal meltdown.
Instead of living the game of life, a mother
finds that lives are controlled instead by strings.
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