Today’s Story As the news director for a New York TV station, Clare Carlson is years away from her role as a newspaper journalist. She misses it from time to time, the place where she won her Pulitzer Prize for the story of Lucy, missing at 11-years old. Fifteen years later there is a new lead and as always,…
Moving forward Moving on? When I last wrote about Melissa Yi’s wonderful character Dr. Hope Sze, she was in dire circumstances in Stockholm Syndrome. The aftermath of this has resulted in PTSD. Currently living in Ottawa, Sze is set for a rotation at a lab for stem cell research. Scoping out the lab the evening before her first work day, she finds a body in the snow. The…
Deer hunter, dart player Retired detective, PI FATHER Frank Rath leads a quiet life with his daughter Rachel who is enrolled in university. Life as a single father, with a bad back and retired badge are his “now”. His world is somewhat solitary, but not unhappy. His daughter is everything to him. Being asked by the local…
Insane asylum Two inmates: One Escape Former medical student Dan Greenberg’s life is an endless round of medications, dull food and listless, and at times, violent companions. Pretty much the norm for living in an insane asylum. He’s not supposed to be there, a victim of a set-up when he came close to exposing medical intrusion, by unknown parties, for obscure reasons.…
Opposing forces April 1st Release Andrew Case brings us into the world of New York’s Department to Investigate Misconduct and Corruption (DIMAC) and it’s new head, Leonard Mitchell. The opening chapter of his book brings us aboard a strangely silent cargo ship where things go wrong for Detective Ralph Mulino. An undercover cop is killed and Mulino is…
Off to adventure in South America… Back in a few weeks
Caffeinated probing: Dark resolve Finn Harding wonders when exactly he crossed the line. It’s as ambiguous to the reader as to him but it’s a line which he straddles and a line which he leaps-over as circumstances necessitate. This is in keeping with a PI who has lost his license but continues to accept shady commissions’ off-book. Bishop…
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