As we remember that awful day, September 11, 2001, and honor those who perished and celebrate those survived, including all the heroic first responders and their ongoing profound issues, we also celebrate that our great nation can survive such catastrophes with honor, and that life goes on despite such violence.
Now, celebrate with me as I’m finally able to offer my latest project to you.
Plundered Innocence: No More Secrets is now available in both paperback and Kindle editions! Pre-order response has been positive. For that, I thank you!
Get your copy NOW!
If you’re not yet an Aubrey Greigh Mystery fan, what are you waiting for? If you’re not sure, try out the Kindle edition for a few bucks. But don’t cheat yourself from real paper.
Like all my books, they are Ai-free! In fact, I’m considering inserting the following text into all of my books’ copyright pages:
What do you think?
I’m now slaving away on the audiobook edition, but that’ll be a while. To do it right (without using those “computer voices”) takes time.
Hey, if you’re like me, a good mystery is a blissful way to fall asleep at night. My mind wrestles with twists, turns, clues, motives, suspects, and thinking about why characters behave the way they do, and to each other.
Some of those in the story are lovable but quirky. Others, however? Oh, man. They turn my stomach. But for you? I punish them all by thrusting them into impossible conflict, both within themselves and with others. Some scenes will keep you scratching your head until tomorrow night’s bedtime read!
The Kindle edition costs just five bucks. Order this provocative new novel HERE. Soon to be on all digital stores worldwide if you’d prefer to patronize a store other than Amazon. The paperback costs a bit more ($15), but you’re gonna love this one. Yeah, I’m biased and proud.
“I love your characters and how their skills and worries drive the story. I was worried whether reading this book before the other three in this series would be a mistake. It wasn’t. But now I’m going to read the other three.”
“I’m hooked!”
“I was propelled along, wanting to read ‘just one more chapter.'”
“I’ve read your entire series. Nine-year-old Shane adds a wonderful family dynamic to the Greigh household.”
“I love how the sub-plots converge on the surprise ending.”
“Your best mystery yet!”
“Some of the scenes shocked me. The gritty reality of human trafficking hit me hard. At the same time, I found the story utterly heartwarming.”
“Shane Greigh is one complex kid. Scary smart, but vulnerable, too! And he’s a heck of a detective, even at nine. You make him so believable!”
“Oh my. This is a gripping story.”
“The characters have evolved from previous books, and new characters added. I really enjoyed it!”
“Quirky. Hook-worthy!”
Nine-year-old Shane Greigh is “bloody brilliant” as Aubrey (“just Greigh”), his Scottish adoptive father might say.
Shane is a Romany boy who’s traveled with a troupe of dubious “gypsies” across Eastern Europe his entire young life before being adopted by the Greighs in Chicago, more than a few decades from now.
As I’ve shared with you before, Shane is unique in all the world. Born with a condition called hyperthymesia, this is also known as HSAM, or Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory. There are less than a hundred people in the real world diagnosed with this condition.
Plus, Shane’s complex heritage threatens to lead him toward a dubious future due to what he calls dark genetics. But this condition, combined with his superb intuition, stellar powers of deduction, and heightened observational abilities, conspire to make him a brilliant young detective; that is, if all of this doesn’t drive him mad.
His new mom, Detective McQuillan—Q—struggles with taking in a child she thinks of as a “human lie detector” with a fragile emotional complexion. All of this creates endearing but awkward and humorous situations you won’t want to miss.
You just gotta meet this kid, y’all. And what he and his few unusual new elementary school friends discover—their fellow students call them the Freak Squad? I won’t spoil the magnitude of the plot they root out. Yet it all somehow seems entirely feasible.
“I love telling lies for a living!” Wait, did I just say that ‘out loud’? I mean, I love writing fiction. I credit my friend Judy Howard for this provocative quote.
Help out a starving author by ordering NOW! I truly appreciate your patronage. And after you read Plundered Innocence: No More Secrets, do let me know what you think!
