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The Second Son: Dynastic Disasters and Political Intrigue: England 1660
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Luke, now the King’s special agent is sent to one of the home counties to assess the suitability of the shire’s gentry to represent the King across the county, in Parliament and on the bench. Luke finds a fractured Royalist community divided by family feuds, social class, generational disputes, and bitterness between those who went into exile with the King and those who remained behind and suffered under the Republic. The assessment is sidetracked by an alleged massacre, a disappearing Cromwellian magistrate, ambitious, conniving and predatory women, a vindictive husband, secret societies, the plague, closely kept secrets, man eating animals, and a spate of attempted and successful murders.
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The Malevolent Isle: Murder, Magic and Mystery: Yorkshire 1660
Price range: $3.99 through $23.99Luke’s first mission for the incoming King is to investigate the administration of an aging autocratic peer who is also a purveyor of magic. This marquis is undermined by a rebellious son who openly supports the work of an outlawed Catholic priest-and indulges in shady land deals.
Luke’s investigation confronts a defrocked Anglican vicar, several promiscuous women and a series of murders whose motives may lie in the present, or in the distant past.
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The Spanish Relation: Murder in Cromwellian England
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99Luke, Cromwell’s top agent spends late 1654 and much of 1655 in Somerset inquiring into the murder of an obscure squire. The victim’s family and village are deeply divided revealing a multitude of suspects-feuding relatives, corrupt politicians, Royalist supporters, Spanish agents, religious fanatics, a wanton witch, and a mysterious man in a golden cape
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The Frown of Fortune: A French Affair
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99In 1653 Luke and his deputy Harry are sent to Paris to negotiate secretly with the exiled king. They are separated and pursue independent investigations. Harry, who reaches the royal court attempts to solve the murders of two ladies-in-waiting, while a disabled Luke investigates the death of an aristocrat’s wife. The investigations are complicated by a feisty abbess, hysterical nuns, an unscrupulous courtier, a Canadian adventurer, and a rampaging bear. Thee search for English Catholic treasure focusses everybody’s attention.
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The Irish Fiasco: Stolen Silver in Seventeenth Century Ireland
Price range: $3.99 through $24.99Luke’s murder investigation and search for stolen silver is complicated by intriguing Royalists, Irish rebels, influential women, treacherous comrades, a loveable witch, maladjusted siblings, murderous charcoal burners, and devious priests.
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Divided We Fall
Price range: $3.99 through $18.99What will the American people do when tyranny and political correctness become the law of the land? Where are the George Washingtons and Benjamin Franklins that we need today? Liberal leftist educators deliberately ignore the tyranny of the increasingly socialist movement of government under the guise of political correctness. What freedoms are we willing to surrender? Who of our youth are willing to serve in the armed forces?
Politicians continue to consolidate political power in their hands under the banner of political correctness and socialism, of spreading the wealth for everyone. The tyranny of socialism is being whitewashed by liberal educators who ignore the loss of freedoms it requires. The armed forces are controlled by the politicians which can become tools of repression. Will individual patriots rise to protect the Constitution as written by the Founding Fathers? Where are the George Washingtons and Benjamin Franklins of today?
As the tyranny of political correctness grows to become the law of the land at the expense of individual thought, liberty, and justice, who will abide by it? Who will resist it? As politicians concentrate political power in their own hands, disarming the American people to deny them the means of physical resistance, where will the armed forces, allegedly under civilian control and commanded by the President, stand? What price are we, as individuals, willing to pay for our God-given freedoms?
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Suspicion
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99When Ivan’s Jewish parents smuggle him out of Germany during World War II, they leave him a letter with two pieces of advice: work hard, and be wary of those offering help. Taking this counsel to heart, Ivan studies diligently and becomes an internationally recognized neuroscientist. He marries and has a son, but his intrinsic distrust of others pushes his family away.
When the US government offers him a top-secret assignment working with German and Russian scientists in Iran to develop a new weaponized drug—along with a significant pay raise—Ivan jumps at the opportunity. Soon, however, his suspicious nature forces him to question the work’s real purpose. He discovers the German-Russian team are creating a weapon of mass destruction, and his suspicions are confirmed: the CIA didn’t plant him as a scientist but as a spy.
Meanwhile, Ivan’s son, Michael, has become a member of a US Special Operations team. Michael hasn’t spoken to his estranged father in years, and he never expects them to meet again. When they do, the circumstances will demand that they rediscover their ability to trust in each other. Their lives may depend on it.
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Deacon’s Promise
Price range: $3.99 through $14.99Deacon’s Promise is an action thriller set in South Africa. In the midst of his own crisis of faith, Deacon Adelius receives a letter from a murdered friend, pleading with him to go to South Africa to rescue his children, whose lives are in danger from international drug smugglers led by a villain who is clever, ruthless, and beautiful. What his friend asks from the grave, Deacon must grant. To honor his dying friend’s request, he will have to rely on fellow members of a secret society of Gabrians, of close friends, of a retired colonel of the South African police, and of a unique trio of honorary uncles. Deacon becomes a hunter and hunted, as he weaves his way from Cape Town to Zimbabwe in a trail of violence in which he must call upon all his Chicago street smarts and previous military experience to survive and accomplish his mission.
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Murda Mansion
Price range: $3.99 through $20.99In the darkened basement of an old Mansion lies a mystery; an enigma powerful enough to change the world as we know it today. Young Riley McCaden and best friend Bowdie Pager accidentally stumble upon it and come face to face with the most difficult challenges of their lives.
An old map showing the way to an Ancient City thought only to be myth; becomes the focus of a desperate race against time. Torn from their families and armed only with courage, the boys embark upon a journey like none they have ever known.
Filled with danger, risks and daring, they travel into the past and down the road of high adventure; where along the way they meet up with the kind of people who change your life forever! MURDA MANSION… the dream of a life time! -
The Toy Store Murders: A Jolene Mystery, Book 2
Price range: $3.99 through $21.99Owner of several Toy Stores which he built from scratch suddenly dies and his wife too. After careful investigation it was ruled murder. Then Several of the store managers begin to die also. They were killed or fired from their position as managers. Jolene is asked by the FBI to join them again to help close this 10-year cold case.
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Little Spiders Big Web
Price range: $3.99 through $10.99When Bill Robinson agreed to help the beautiful Stephanie to find who had ordered the kill shot on her father twenty-five years ago, he knew it was much more than a cold case. What he didn’t know, was how hot it would get deeper he dug into the past, or the danger that awaits him and everyone he talked to.
Jill Benoit was retired from law enforcement and had every intention of staying that way. She had put in her twenty-five years and was more than ready to become a contented Vermont recluse, if only her neighbor would let her be. And then there were those annoying calls from that guy Robinson – and soon Jill was drawn into the same web of treachery and conspiracy that would lead her and Bill to the brink of death.
Will the quiet Vermont landscape and mountains of Washington State hide their secrets for another half century? Will the truth of a decade old crime come to light – and will anyone have proof? Can anyone really break the web of fear and hate and destroy the spiders that weave it?
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Boys of Babylon
Price range: $3.99 through $10.30There is a small tourist trap in the Northern Midwest. A trap may be exactly what it is. People go for the fudge, but is it good enough to risk their lives for? In Midwestern fashion, dark secrets are covered up and disguised as quaint diners, candy shops, and beautiful vacation homes. During the summer of 2004, like every year, tourists make their way into town. However, this year, six pubescent boys take advantage of several unsuspecting vacationers, sending them to a watery grave on a popular recreational river. This rite of passage turns on the town when tragedy strikes one of their own. The children’s parents are forced to come face to face with the sadistic games of their once “sweet angels.” But how does one handle a child without coming to terms with such a twisted reality in a place where no one wants to confront their demons?
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The Lighter Side of Darkness
Price range: $3.99 through $19.99The LSD is a supernatural thriller based on actions taken by GOD to extinguish evil for evermore. In this story ironically GOD commission sinners to rid Hell of Satan by answering the final prayer of Protagonist, (Dimitrius Steele, aka The Redeemer) an Ex- Marine now condemned death row prisoner; by sending him to Hell to save the souls of his family. Unlike (Dante’s Inferno or What Dreams May come) In order to do this, Dimitrius must recruit the souls of the damned; who wish to be redeemed, which causes a rebellion in Hell. While forming a Divine Militia to lead out of the depths of Hell and delivering them to the Kingdom of Heaven, they are faced with the unorthodox complexities only sinners may frequent. Thus, their faith is tested as the destruction of Hell commence. Meanwhile back in the Material World Protagonist, (Father Gabriel) frequently plagued by unexplainable premonitions of the Crucifixion must organize the (New Disciples), together their mission is to unite the 12 Tribes of Israel and the various religions of true believers into 1 prayer in order for GOD to send us his true blessing: The return of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, the true Redeemer. This in turn may prove not to be an easy task due to unforeseen dark forces plotting against Gabriel’s path. Although the two men are fighting different battles, they realize that they are fighting the same war in different places, space and time…. In retaliation, fully aware of the Redeemer’s quest; Antagonist, (Belial, aka Satan) welcomes the challenge by unveiling his powers to destroy the Material World via the unleashing of his Army of Demons causing the beginning of the Apocalypse and the final battle: Armageddon. It’s a requiem of our FAITH, Good vs. Evil and Heaven vs. Hell.
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Unknown Evil
Price range: $3.99 through $12.99Two NYPD Detectives get involved in a murder case that turns out to be the strangest case that Lt. Clancy and Lt. Rizzo ever tried to solve. There is a romance between Lt. Clancy and a woman named Susan Roselle who happens to be Lt. Rizzo’s cousins. The case takes the three of them on a strange chase above and below the City of New York.
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Scheldestroom: A Century of Sailing Adventure in Resilience, Courage, Fun and Determination
Price range: $3.99 through $9.99Keith Paulusse, is a Dutch-born Australian writer with a background in social psychology. Paulusse’s passion lies in social justice and helping
disadvantaged people. For the past ten years, he has operated a tuition-free School of Languages, an English language course for migrant learners, refugees and Australians with literacy handicaps.
In 2015 he published his first book Vertrek a journey of his and other Dutch families in Postwar Australia. Followed by ‘ Big Bunches At the
Jamfactory’ a vibrant chronicle of activism, spirit and perseverance during the heady days of HIV/AIDS. His best selling book India Through
Virgin Eyes, was published in 2020.
Keith Paulusse, een in Nederland geboren Australische schrijver met een achtergrond in sociale psychologie. Paulusse’s passie ligt in sociale rechtvaardigheid en het helpen van kansarme mensen. De afgelopen tien jaar heeft hij een collegegeldvrije School of Languages beheerd, een Engelse taalcursus voor migrantenleerlingen, vluchtelingen en Australiërs met alfabetiseringsproblemen.
In 2015 publiceerde hij zijn eerste boek Vertrek een odyssee van zijn en andere Nederlandse gezinnen in het naoorlogse Australië. Het werd gevolgd door ‘Big Bunches At the Jamfactory’, een levendige kroniek over activisme, geest en doorzettingsvermogen tijdens de onstuimige dagen van hiv / aids. Zijn bestverkopende boek India Through Virgin Eyes verscheen in 2020.
