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In this new case, Skeen confronts a new kind of nemesis that has been gestating in the Middle East for centuries and is now being enabled by oil companies and careless foreign policies: Islam. While investigating three murders whose savagery is unprecedented in the annals of San Francisco crime, he begins to understand that nemesis and the threat it holds.

This is a story of an Italian family, their trials and tribulations of coming to America, and the struggles they endured building a new life. It is a story of love, laughter, heartache, and passion as the author grew up in North Denver's Little Italy, served in England in WW II, his first love, his wife, and his family. Follow his ancestors and his growth as a young Italian boy in the 1920s, to a soldier in the 40s, and to a husband and father. See how this Old Italian views the world and a generation gone by.

There's been a death in the Cooper family and things will never be the same again. Find out how the family members will cope with their loss and what will become of Cooper Investigations. New private eye cases keep cropping up, but where is the priority during their time of grief?

Matt, Tom, and Elliott (and their wives) are hired by a salvage company to visit the major movie studios and try to buy some of the interior sets from vintage movies. The six of them have a ball going through all that is available and come back with some good finds. However, all is not well back at the salvage company as Matt will soon find out. Meanwhile, Matt makes a bet with his son, Nicky, that he can't retrace one of the original cases that the 1946 Matt handled and do it as efficiently as he did back then.

Chess Hanrahan is the chief of police of Auberley, a university town in Massachusetts. He is a former New York City police detective who resigned after being blamed by a district attorney for the "unnecessary" death of a criminal in a gun fight. Auberley seemed to be a sanctuary from the politics and irrationality of the big city. Hanrahan admits to himself that he accepted the job in Auberley to lick his wounds. It was quiet, sedate, not much of a challenge. But then a philosophy professor is murdered.

This compilation consists of four Cooper short stories, compiled so that it may be turned into an audio book on ACX. It contains Coopers stories number 147 through 150 - "Swan Song," "Standing Tall," "And Then There Were Two" and "Into The Air." Look for the audio book soon on Audible.com and iTunes.com.

This compilation consists of two Cooper short stories, Matt Cooper, L.A.P.D. and Last Door on the Right.

This volume consists of previously published Cooper stories. They are being compiled here so that they can become available in audio format on ACX, Audible, and iTunes. The stories contained in this in this collections include: The Bird, Dressed To Kill, You Snooze, You Lose, The Merchants of Venice, and The entire Cooper Collection consists of 140 stories (so Far).

Mother of Conspiracies is Michael Miller's latest fictional work available on Amazon. Shocking manuscripts buried centuries ago in Israel turn the world upside down when these powerful written words change understanding of the meaning of life, both from scientific and societal perspectives. Opposing forces clash as these writings take foothold. Powerful men and nations, often with radical leanings, seize an unexpected opportunity to gain control.

As a child, Max Furman is abused at the hands of his mother. Numerous times, she tells him she should have smothered him when he was an infant. He is unloved and unwanted. The abuse and neglect deadens his heart. When his sister Katie is born his mother dotes on her the love he craves. His hatred for his mother peaks one afternoon when he is fourteen. As Katie is sleeping, he smothers her. His sister becomes his first kill.

Alexander Brogan, New York Philharmonic violinist and Julliard instructor, could not have imagined that his fiancee Charlotte would be murdered at Lincoln Center, nor could he have fathomed abandoning his elite Manhattan lifestyle and retreating to a small town in upstate, New York. Determined to fade away into a quiet, isolated existence as a high school music teacher, he encounters a wily ten-year-old violin prodigy named Kelly, whom he vainly tries to ignore. But through the arm-twisting antics of her straight-shooting, Louisiana-born grandmother, he agrees to teach the child.

Focusing on 'worn out religious dogma' as one of the leading causes of human strife, the Trilogy turns the mythical world of good vs. evil on its head. Mantrella, a.k.a. Lucifer, is the champion of humanity, while the Archangel Michael fights to suppress human evolution by preventing the physical birth of the biblical Adam. Mantrella's basic view is summed up when he says, "It is not about saving humanity, it never has been." Human destiny is placed squarely on the shoulders of where it belongs: choice; our thoughts create our reality.

World War ll still raged in his part of Europe when the boy finally awakened nearly 7 years after almost dying at birth. He awoke healthy and vibrant, but he wouldn't know anyone or anything of his past. His only need was to leave the confines of his room and begin exploring his surroundings. With the help of an unknown he was able to leave his room.

Remnant consists of three stories within the speculative/science fiction genres. The stories are linked in theme by characters seeking self-truth, redemption, and their moral center. This includes: "All the Fallen Angels," in which a convicted war criminal attempts to make peace with his past; "Enemy, I Know You Not," in which a military officer that was captured and tortured tries to find his loyalty in an abyss of suspected betrayals; and "Remnant", in which the survivor of a global pandemic is confronted with the prospect of making peace with his memories.

Nuzi, Women's Rights and Hurrian Ethnicity And Other Academic Essays is the first book in the Hermit Kingdom Studies in Identity and Society series. The academic research publication series seeks to examine the question of identity and its relation to society. The research publication project promotes creative new approaches to thinking about identity as well as a combination of traditional academic methodologies.

This book contains academic papers by rising scholars trained in the United Kingdom. Those who are interested in biblical studies or New Testament studies will find much that would interest them. Both theologians and laypeople alike would benefit from this collection of academic articles.

Now that Elliott's retired and Nick has abandoned the private-eye business, Matt has no reason to keep the business going, especially since his recent patent had been licensed to the State of California and surrounding states, making him wealthy enough not to work. But life soon gets boring, and Matt decides to buy a motorhome and take his wife and father on the road trip of a lifetime. But Elliott and Matt hadn't counted on Chris getting kidnapped in Arizona....

It is November, 1929. The stock market has crashed. The Roaring Twenties are about to end. But Cyrus Skeen, private detective, is not too concerned. He never bought on margin or gambled on "sure things" to make a quick buck; his wealth is secure. But many businessmen and investors made that mistake and have been bankrupted. Ruined, some have committed suicide. But not all have jumped from their office windows to end it all. Lucian Maxey, president of Maxey Motors in San Francisco, seems to have committed suicide by putting a gun to his head.

Hanrahan solves what he calls "moral paradoxes" that have precipitated or caused murders. Honors Due takes Hanrahan to Hollywood - or rather to the Astoria production studies in New York. After seeing a movie about Galileo that is touted as a drama, he sees that it is a farce, and that a respected historian's name is credited with the screenplay. Hanrahan cannot believe the man had anything to do with the script, because the historian wrote the defining biography of Galileo.

Anton has been on the run for 20 years, one step ahead of Interpol. Italy, Spain, Ireland, and now America. The agents chasing him wouldn't suspect that one of their trusted number is Raven, a ruthless, high-priced assassin. An honest priest with a terrible secret...A slain American president...A trusting young woman whose husband may not be what he seems...Romance, betrayal, and murder are intertwined so tightly that no one can detect the invisible web of circumstances that connects the innocent people to the vicious criminals.