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Daniel Summerhill gets up one day and walks out of his college class. This novel takes place in the chaotic year of 1970 in Greenwich Village. Daniel is confused. He has to face the draft, angry parents, newly-liberated girlfriends, and total uncertainty about his future. Carefully, he decides to explore being a writer. He gets advice and meets a variety of famous and rebellious people. There is the painter who lives in a treehouse, figures in the music business, writers among the Beatniks and others. Trying to find his self and be true to it, Daniel struggles to write, to find love, and to...

Exiles is set in Paris in 1925. The protagonist, Daniel Levin, heads there to become a writer. He must solve a murder among the famous Lost Generation writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein. He is aided by Sylvia Beach, the sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued owner of the famed bookstore Shakespeare and Company. Daniel must also deal with the hidden wounds he suffered as a soldier in the First World War and his fatal attraction to one of suspects in the murder.

A murder. A young detective hired by a woman about to be nominated to be the President of the United States. And then another murder. It is New York City in the explosive year of 1968. Walker West puts his life in danger to discover if a famous Senator is a killer. THE CORPSE THAT WOULDN’T SHUT UP is a mystery thriller filled with nail-biting suspense and twists. Walker’s love gets involved with another man. His beloved aunt is being blackmailed. And through it all, Walker must confront a dangerous villain who frames others and knows how to hide. Wandering through Greenwich Village’s ...

New York City private detective Jack Ryder must deal with a murder and a woman he might love. Except she has a husband who is missing. It is 1943 and the Nazis are also after Ryder. He wanders the dark streets of Greenwich Village trying to save his own life and the lives of those he is supposed to protect.

Ethan Brady had a romance with a woman forty years ago. Now she has been murdered, and he must solve her killing. Set in New York and New Orleans in 1963, this suspenseful thriller deals with unique ways of murder and an unusual romance.

Matt Cresson, a 16 year old with learning disabilities, has learned a lot from reading mysteries. He meets Robert Burnside, a famous author. Together, this unlikely pair set out to solve a murder. Set in 1963 in Sag Harbor, a small town near the Hamptons on Long Island, the novel is aimed at young adults but is suitable for adults as well. Matt not only learns from Burnside how to find a killer but how to deal with adults, including Matt’s first feelings of love.

Walker West is in trouble. Caught in a dangerous explosion, he saves a woman from death, only later to discover that she is under arrest for murder. Determined to help her, West faces danger, the challenging control of his wealthy Aunt Agatha, and a group of suspects who are even more angry at him than his friends and family. Walker gets help from a mysterious protector and an attractive assistant his aunt hires. Traveling around New York City in 1968, Walker struggles to identify the killer and stay alive.

It is the first week of December 1941. Charlie Singer is desperately seeking his father’s killer as he also deals with the case of witnesses to a bank robbery being systematically murdered. His partner, Katie Walker, must master the art of confidence games to help in these efforts. Together, Charlie and Katie confront Murder Incorporated, the horrifying prospect of a Japanese attack on America, and wounding personal secrets that hinder their investigation and their romance. Their efforts to solve the cases take them to such places as Sing Sing prison, inside a radio studio, the Copacabana...

The little girl had to run. She had just seen her parents murdered. And the murderer had seen her. Saved by the sound of police sirens, six year old Jennifer ran to a neighbor because he had helped her before. She had been hurt, and Danny Ryle gave her what she believed was a magical band aid. Desperate, she begged Danny not to let her be sent to a strange home. Impressed by the girl's intelligence and kindness, Danny and his friends determined to protect her by finding the killer and hiding her from the world. Aided by Ari Eilat, who had hunted terrorists in Israel, and Betsy Revere, a ...

After a little girl has gone missing in 1930 London, Agatha Christie and other writers as well as director Alfred Hitchcock hire Daniel Levin to find the girl. Levin discovers his efforts include confronting a secret group that wants to rid society of the weak and undesirable. He must confront his antagonist, a brutal killer sent by the growing Nazi party in Germany to help the secret group. Daniel must also deal with the hidden wounds he suffered as a soldier in the First World War and the emotional roadblocks to love. The principal subplot of the novel takes place in contemporary times. ...

It is 1943. New York City private detective Jack Ryder gets an urgent request from the FBI. Ryder is supposed to kill a dangerous Nazi. He also must help a client who fell in love with a woman he saw on a train platform. The client doesn't know her name but has a clue in the jacket she was wearing. Ryder aids an emotionally damaged veteran, but the two of them are in love with the waitress Ruth. Only one of them can win her heart.

It's New Year's Eve, and a special day for Danny Ryle. Danny is a political fixer. He and his friends help all people in trouble. One friend really needs his help. The friend's wife has been killed. Danny faces a wily and tricky opponent as he relentlessly follows the clues.

A New York City private detective in 1943 must figure out how a murder and a suicide are connected to a menace by Nazi spies. This historical thriller tells the story of Jack Ryder, who calls himself a fixer. A lonely widower, Ryder is driven to help people but struggles to help himself, especially when he is arrested for murder. Ryder’s world is filled with suspense, death, and the dark shadows of Greenwich Village. Can Ryder figure out who the Nazis plan to assassinate?

It is 1944. New York City private detective Jack Ryder is given a difficult assignment to trick the Nazis as the allies prepare to attack. Ryder also helps a woman whose husband is on Death Row in Sing Sing awaiting execution for a murder. He claims he is innocent, and Ryder must find out. Ryder's helper in the diner where he has an office is viciously attacked. Ryder will stop at nothing to discover and punish the attacker. On the dark streets of Greenwich Village, Ryder is trying to save his own life and the lives of those he is supposed to protect.

Daniel Levin is sent by the U.S. government on a mission to Hitler’s Berlin in 1934. Levin’s task is to rescue a mysterious boy held by the Nazis. Coming face-to-face with Hitler and other leaders, Levin must solve a murder for the Nazis in order to save the child. But Levin, aided by a German criminal investigator deeply unhappy about his country, develops a daring plan that will test him to his limits.

It is the Spring of 1943. Jack Ryder, a New York City private detective. gets a surprising request—from a nun. Ryder must solve a murder to help save Jewish children in Europe from the Nazis. Confronting a vicious Nazi killer who has come to America, Ryder finds himself trying to rescue some children himself. This historical thriller also probes Ryder’s personal struggles. A lonely widower, Ryder is driven to help people but struggles to help himself. Ryder’s world is filled with suspense, death, and the dark shadows of Greenwich Village.

It is 1941. The country is on the edge of war. In New York, three men are murdered. The detective Charlie Singer is drawn into the case after rescuing a young woman being attacked in Central Park. With Katie Walker, his partner, Charlie deals with a famous gossip columnist, an organization devoted to fighting Hitler, and a violent group of haters. As Charlie uncovers the lies and secrets, he discovers a blossoming relationship with Katie who is undergoing a major life change.

Danny Ryle is a political fixer on Long Island. When the Congressman he works for is blackmailed, Danny investigates only to walk into the middle of a murder. Aided by his father, a retired hit man, a well-connected member of the D.A.’s office, and his team of a former terrorist fighter and a woman ex-cop, Danny struggles to do good while living in a world that makes that difficult. Facing a former love who returns to start again, suspects with troubling alibis, and a wily killer, Danny is back to fix his troubled world.

It is early in 1942. The war with Germany has just begun. Jack Ryder, who calls himself a fixer rather than a detective, wanders the darkest nights to his office in a back booth at an all-night diner. Ryder is famous for killing members of the mob who have crossed their bosses by hurting innocent people. Ryder also helps ordinary people in trouble. An enemy—a homicide detective—comes to hire Ryder to find the detective’s missing sister. Ryder also gets involved in going up against some Nazis in New York and saving a woman on the run from gangsters.

Danny Cresson tries to solve a murder to comfort a widow in mourning. Danny is soon drawn into a major conspiracy involving his arch enemy Litani. It is a tense political assassination with high stakes that pits these two against each other.