Ohio lawyer, Winston Barchrist III, finds himself out of his league when he flies to Sarasota to save his client's Florida land investment from souring during the "Great Recession." Instead, he discovers the client's partner, a Florida real estate mogul, murdered in his penthouse atop the city's snazziest hotel.
The local cops want to blame him, but Winston comes up with other suspects: 1) the mogul's beautiful, but dishonest, lawyer and lover, who's 25 years his junior; 2) a rival mafia-like developer who's tried to cheat him by encroaching on his deals; and, an ancient Seminole tribal chief well known for his radical tribal advocacy and his naturalist tree-hugging tendencies in the area. Bullets fly when it turns out the mogul's lawyer lover/stands to inherit all his holdings, the mafia boss starts looking like a chief suspect in his murder, and the Seminal chief begins ominously hanging Indian dream catcher talismans from the door frames of every structure built on the dead mogul's land. Of course it doesn't help any that the land is ancient tribal Indian land of great religious significance to all Seminoles. Everyone seems to be getting entangled in the dream catchers, webs with no way out unless Winston can prove who the murderer is. Published by Cozy Cat Press. Purchase the book here!! Coming Soon___ "Closure" Should be coming by July 2022! Ex-Marine, Larry Ehrlich (Ehrlich), is back from Afghanistan erecting steel part-time for his father’s company, Zenith Steel, and studying for a masters degree in criminology, when he falls hard for Marty. A serious #Me Too advocate, she’s the first female iron worker in the county, and she’s a blond bombshell who received her job through the affirmative action apprenticeship program of the United Steelworkers. Each of them is from the “wrong side of the tracks” in the mind of the other. He’s a frustrated rich kid whose failure drove him to join the marines when he flunked the medical boards. Marty, on the other hand, achieved only a high school education. Her grammar is poor. She divorced a plumber who sexually abused her, and now she lives in a trailer with her two young children and her friend Jane, a gay gun enthusiast who owns a 9 millimeter pistol and rides a motorcycle she won in a poker game. The rescue of motorists trapped in a thirty foot deep sink hole under a roadway has thrown Marty and Ehrlich together to shore up the pit with a steel caisson for safety purposes. Trying to save a small child, Marty falls into the hole, landing in the lap of a cadaver rotting in the broken storm sewer beneath it. She’s hospitalized suffering badly from PTSD. Is the PTSD because of her ex-husband’s previous sexual abuse, or because of the horrible fall she’s suffered? Or is it because of something even more foreboding? Stay tuned. |
The Civil War is about to end, but journalist, Harlan Pomeroy, has not accomplished his purpose, which is to kill Abraham Lincoln. In Pomeroy's eyes, Lincoln is a socialist ruining the country by flooding it with German, Irish and Italian immigrants to use as cannon fodder in the Union's army. So he tries to ruin Lincoln with the lie that the President's real reason for fighting the war is to foment a socialist class struggle. A letter signed by Karl Marx congratulating the President for freeing the slaves, found in the stove-pipe hat shot off Lincoln's head during a failed assassination attempt, will be used to spread this fake news.
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