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After leaving the big city following the tragic death of his fiancé, Jeremy Pendelton motors to a small town in Louisiana where he takes a room in the Come On Inn, a room where John Flannery was recently found dead in his bed. Jeremy is soon befriended by a reporter for the town’s newspaper who suspects foul play in Flannery’s demise, and seeks...

Warren Dillon, the CEO of the Capitol Raceway, where greyhounds run, is found dead lying in a pool of blood on the asphalt of the Raceway’s parking lot. Jeremy Pendelton, new reporter for the weekly False River Review, is assigned the story. Besides reporting the news, he persuades his publisher to allow him to conduct a sub rosa investigation...

Ted Freed, new resident of the area and applicant for membership in the men’s only Pheasant Hollow Golf Club in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is shot dead on the fourteenth tee during a complimentary round of golf offered all applicants. Jeremy Pendelton, newly employed reporter for the weekly False River Review, is on the case. He conducts an...

CROOKED LAKE

Chicago attorney Roy Dennison’s venture into infidelity with junior partner Allison Jameson leads to her tragic death in the Northwoods. Dennison panics and undertakes a flawed cover-up. He is about to lose everything, his wife, children, fortune, law license and even his freedom.

Follow Dennison's character arc from great success to...

Shortly after reaching puberty Martin Clevenger realizes he is unable to maintain an erection. This is painfully affirmed in a visit to a house of prostitution with his friend Adam and others while he was in high school, and again when seduced by a
drugstore clerk while in college. Those humiliations are emotionally devastating. He vows not to...