BOOKS
The genre is historical fiction. Exciting reading of America's early years from colonial times to the present. No history is as intriguing and entertaining with tough, determined men and women and their endeavors forging this great nation!
HISTORICAL FICTION
LAMPLIGHT (available in hardcover & paperback)
The War Between the States had taken a turn. The Confederacy, after victory upon victory against the might of the Union, was beginning to fall. President Lincoln’s aggressive generals and massive manpower were now turning back the proud men in gray. General Sherman’s ruthless march to the sea devastated the southern countryside pillaging the lands as well as crushing morale. There would have to be a successful plan to turn the tide.
New York City, the empire city, was torn also. Large numbers of “Copperheads”, southern sympathizers, were growing impatient with the war dragging on and mostly the fear of freed blacks coming up to the city to take their jobs. A Union officer, disenchanted with the handling of the war and its fighting men, resigns his commission as a cavalryman to take a job as a detective with the Metropolitan Police Force in the island of Manhattan. Hired to catch the killer of a police captain, he stumbles into attempts to destroy the great city, unaware that a larger, more hideous plan lurks.
The “circle” of his investigation revolves around a young spiritualist. Gaining notoriety with New York’s upper class, she preys on the misfortunes of others by communicating with the dead. Is she involved in the murder? She is also in with a group of ruthless people determined to take the city with the help of Confederate spies who will stop at nothing to succeed.
What terrible plan awaits this great city? Can it be stopped?
GREYCOURT (Available in hardcover & paperback)
In the last days of the Civil War. Allan Pinkerton, chief of the Secret Service, is questioning a supposed Confederate spy about to be hanged for trying to blow up both President Lincoln and his cabinet. Colt Greycourt spins out a tale that begins with his heroic service battling the Yankee invader but soon turns murky. This is a well-told tale, filled with fully drawn characters who confront a believable series of crises. The historical aspects are woven into the narrative with skill and ring true to life. But what finally makes the plot both suspenseful and engaging is what we as readers know and what the characters do not: The interrogation in the basement of the President's House takes place just scant hours before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR:
The Forties Gals
Engaging book about the movie
starlets of a bygone era.
JUST RELEASED:
BAD GUY'S CLOTHES
Broadway in the 1890's New York City is in havoc with star actors being murdered.
Assigned to hunt down the serial killer is Detective Sergeant Dan Lane of the New York Metropolitan Police Department. With hardly any clues to go on, he is at a dead end with no suspects. Complicating his work is his personal hatred for crime boss Grism, the boss of a ruthless criminal gang corrupting the city. His mentor, Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, charges him to destroy the gang. Lane, of Italian descent, fights prejudice as well, even in his own department. What leads him to the suspected killer? Can he bust up the gang choking the city?
This hard boiled historical fiction novel brings the rough and raucous streets and the blossoming entertainment business together in sheer excitement.