A KNIFE IN THE FOG
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Jack the Ripper meets Sherlock Holmes’ Arthur Conan Doyle Crime/Mystery Fiction
WINNER – 2019 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion for Best Mystery Novel FINALIST – 2019 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Wards for Best First Novel by an American Author
Physician Arthur Conan Doyle is invited to take a break from his practice to assist London police in tracking down Jack the Ripper. Doyle agrees, with the stipulation his old professor of surgery, Dr. Joseph Bell––Doyle’s inspiration for Sherlock Holmes––agrees to work with him. Soon the two are joined by Margaret Harkness, an author who knows how to use a Derringer as well as she knows the dank alleys and courtyards of the East End where she resides. Pursuing leads through London and Whitechapel becomes infinitely more dangerous for the trio when the hunters become the hunted in this adventurous debut novel and series starter.
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The adventure continues with Margaret Harkness racing to save the Queen of England herself.
Spring, 1897. London. A letter arrives from Margaret Harkness from her old friend Professor Bell, her old comrade in the hunt for Jack the Ripper and the real-life inspiration for Sherlock Homes. Bell invites her to join him in Germany on a mysterious mission for the German government involving the loss of state secrets to Anarchists. The resolution of this commission leads to Margaret being stalked through the streets of London by a vengeful man armed with a powerful and nearly silent air rifle who has both Margaret and Queen Victoria in his sights. The hunt is on, but who is the hunter, and who the hunted as the day approaches for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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Would you give up your soul to the dragon to stop the next murder…?
Women are dying in Baltimore, but Detectives Mankiller and Ruiz’s only lead is a washed-up ex-boxer rambling incoherently about a dragon. How far can they—should they—push the old man to find out what he thinks he saw while in the cocoon of a bottle? The paths of the witness, the cops, and the murderer will inevitably collide if what is right stands in the way of saving the next life. Set in the streets and around the waters of Baltimore and perfect for fans of James Patterson, Stuart MacBride, and Michael Connelly, this atmospheric police procedural thriller posits how far the ends should justify the means.
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A compilation of four short stories. Coyote, which was sold to the Strand Magazine, is about a Baltimore plainclothes detective who has twelve hours to save a kidnap victim from a spiritual nemesis called Coyote. Homeward Bound, is a flash fiction piece about two soldiers trying to evade the enemy and a pending air bombardment to make it to safety. Catrina is a personal essay on a death scene investigation performed as a pathology resident in the Army. This also includes a brief excerpt of A Knife in the Fog.
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