Mystery Crime & Suspense

As a girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales.

As a consultant to law enforcement, Portia confronts stark evidence of a rich young man’s crime: the mounted head of a massive herbivorous Wintonotitan. A winner.

A dinosaur the company never granted a permit for hunting.

Journeying to the bottom of the world in the sunless week of latewinter, Portia and a policeman must unravel a web of sins and lies to build an airtight case.

And survive the desperate acts of the guilty.

Enter an alternate history, where in 1916, the guns of
the Great War fell silent.

Now, in the 1920s, a veteran of the trenches struggles to
build a lasting peace…

…while against him scheme the merchants of
death.

A Writers of the Future semi-finalist

A multi-millionaire heiress commits suicide after a biotech company implants an experimental treatment device in her brain. Her grieving, lawyer husband sued the company for millions more.

In comes a private investigator, ex-cop Albert Jimenez. Hired by the biotech company to dig up dirt on the "grieving" husband. He expected the usual: greed, a mistress, emotional manipulation, a marriage on the rocks.

Instead he found something far more sinister. Questions of brain chemicals and free will. Questions of what it means to be human.

Three young men. One telekinetic power. How far will they push their luck?

Amer earned a very lucrative living by protecting large corporations from terrorist attacks... and investing wisely, through short sales and put options, on companies that failed to heed his offered "protection."

But Amer's success brought challenges...

One bitterly cold Iowa night, an assailant slits the throats of twenty genetically modified pigs. Pressured by a giant biotechnology company and the county's power brokers, Deputy Matt Schaffer must untangle a web of clues to find the assailant--and bring justice to a desperate small town.

President Archer faced an imminent war in the Middle East.

The audio-visual recording crew following his every public move limited how he could resolve the crisis.

Or did they?