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Cattle Capers

by Dawn M. Kravagna Lured out of early retirement, master detective Adam Steer partners with the cops of Precinct 13 1/2 to solve the kidnapping of newspaper publisher, ostrich Madam Griselda Portentsky. But the ransom demand may be impossible to meet by the Sunday deadline: deliver the fabled MooMoo Pearl or the bird gets plucked. [...]

Dead End

by Carol W. Hazelwood All Patty Harkin has left in the world is her father's new truck. Without any hope of getting work as a mechanic in northern Minnesota, she accepts the job of driving Josh, a mysterious blindman, and his trailer to Arizona. Along the way she learns Josh is trying to prevent a [...]

Alive Again

by John Class Shakespeare said, "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." The resurrection will make the evil that men do live much longer and pose more difficulty than was ever imagined. The good that men do will return with them as a medal of honor to [...]

From Ashes to Beauty

by John Class John Class had a lifelong fascination with stories, especially biblical stories. Stories somehow always ended at the grave. The promise of the resurrection of the dead would change this, and he envisioned stories in another dimension. Yes, it is electrifying to realize every story is going to be taken up again in the [...]

Web of Obsessions

by Carol W. Hazelwood Greed, environmental conflict, and ulterior motives result in murder in the wild-river setting of Canada's Northwest Territory during a canoe expedition. When a wolf trapper attempts to destroy evidence, long-kept secrets are divulged. Some seek a diamond lode, others try to locate radioactive debris from a downed Russian spy satellite, while [...]

A Bet Turned Deadly

by Alice Zogg Jacob Barrstein and his friend, James Eaton, have a $1000 bet going. James claims that a group of 21st Century people cannot last a week without smartphones, computers, tablets, GPS's, and the like, while Jacob aims to prove him wrong. They organize a camping trip with 12 people, heading to the Angeles National [...]

The Guardian of Detritus

by Chuck Snearly Following your dreams? Don't turn left at the Fist. Something snaps when failed rock musician and disgraced reporter Will Harkanen reads an obituary for an old friend who died in a car crash in Detroit. On the far side of middle age and the brink of divorce, Will quits his boring job to [...]

The Medium who Baffled Houdini

by Elaine M. Kuzmeskus "Houdini the Magician Stumped," proclaimed the Boston Herald in 1924. Who was this medium who baffled Houdini? None other than Margery Crandon, the wife of a prominent Boston surgeon. "Margery the Medium" made headlines throughout the 1920s. She captivated not only Harvard professors, but the editors of Scientific American with her [...]

Shadow on the Hill

by Diana Staresinic-Deane It was the most brutal murder in the history of Coffey County, Kansas. On May 30, 1925, Florence Knoblock, a farmer's wife and the mother of a young boy, was found slaughtered on her kitchen floor. Several innocent men were taken into custody before the victim's husband, John, was accused of the crime. [...]

Villisca

by Roy Marshall In 1912 what was arguably the most violent crime, the darkest mystery, in Midwest history took place. Law enforcement officers encountered a scene of unimagined violence: eight victims, six of them children, bludgeoned to death with an ax while they slept. Everywhere there were clues. But inexperienced investigators failed, and private detectives took [...]

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