Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Thriller Suspense Mystery Historical Fiction BIOGRAPHY
I am a clinical pharmacist and live in the Chicagoland area with my family. I have practiced for over 40 years concentrating in solid organ transplant, oncology and pain management, but for the past decade, I have been on the clinical IT side of healthcare. I write character-centric stories that combine real life with history and humor to tell a tale that unfolds more like a chess match than a game of Whac-A-Mole. Readers will always find characters whom they will love to love or love to hate, and I hope wonder, “Where are they now?” long after they have finished reading. My writing is influenced by Ken Follett, Erik Larson, Stephen King, Dan Brown and so many other great authors. I have recently completed the Jonathan Dearfield Trilogy and am working on a new book - The Resistance Gene.
The Jonathan Dearfield Trilogy tells stories spanning three generations and nearly two decades. All three books are stand-alone stories that have their own distinct atmosphere and structure, and do not have to be read in order.
Perfect Posture (a classic cop vs. killer murder mystery/psychological thriller) aims to create a palpable good versus evil tension in the reader—much like that effected by Erik Larson’s classic Devil in the White City—by taking them inside the mind of a killer (who poses his victims) while chronicling the lives (and love story) of those committed to stopping the escalating carnage. This book is rich with Chicago area history and filled with personalities and relationships—both dark and occasionally comical—that readers will grow to love or hate as they follow the non-stop action to a twisting catastrophic end.
Deep Waters (a historical love story/mystery thriller hybrid) follows Jack as his life evolves from a 15-year-old high school football quarterback to a crew member of the USS Indianapolis—the ship that delivered the nuclear bomb that helped end World War II and then suffered the worst open ocean shark attack in U.S. naval history. The story starts in Janesville, Wisconsin, then carves a path across the globe—Lake Geneva, Great Lakes Naval Base, Glenview Naval Air Station, San Francisco, the Philippine Sea—and home again. Upon his return, Jack finds he is a war hero everywhere except in his hometown. As Jack tries to piece his life back together after constant tragedy and disappointment, see if he will eventually find true love or if he will eventually succumb to a life not under his control. See how Jack’s life is entangled in an unseen battle between good and evil and questions of a possible second bomb on the Indianapolis. When he is finally pulled into this battle, will it lead to the nuclear destruction of a beloved American city or help to bring to light a 700-year secret known only to the descendants of a lone Knight Templar on a remote Japanese island?
Daddy’s Girl (a not-what-it-seems father-daughter murder mystery thriller with overlapping timelines to show differing perspectives of the evolving storyline) is a tale of a father's torment, a daughter’s love and perseverance, and retribution for a wife and mother that starts with Leah Avondale’s father being arrested for her disappearance and possible murder, among other crimes. As the book moves from the Chicago suburbs to Mountain, Wisconsin, just northeast of the Menominee Reservation, the "truth" evolves through the twisting pages of deception, cruelty, friendship and hope. Further weaved into this story of survival and courtroom drama are good and bad cops & priests, FBI agents, mysterious Druid ceremonies in the forest, missing girls, gullible teens, powerfully evil men, a deaf Native American named Silent Wolf, a killer bear and an albino princess who dupes them all. |
