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CAFE SERIES

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Dessert at the All Night Café

The empty booths along the front windows are upholstered in red and white Naugahyde. Twelve stools in a row sport the same fabric while in the corner is a Wurlitzer juke box with a full inventory of 1950's-1960's rock and roll hits.

Those who patronize the All Night Café meet the same man. He resembles the bald-headed man in the Mr. Clean TV commercials. He has a kind face with a friendly smile and each person drawn into the café receives a free meal or piece of pie and coffee.

The twelve in this story are regular people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances. It might be a minor affair or a life and death situation, but it is a major tribulation at the moment in these people's lives. Each person who leaves the café, takes with them, for good or bad, a resolution.

In the end, the twelve meet as a group. They vow to remain friends and to meet at the diner every on the same night. They turn around for one last look at the diner and are shaken to their very core.

Genre: Mystery

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Dessert at the All-Night Café - A Second Helping

The second part of the title of the book was suggested by my neighbor as I was trying to wrap my head around words like Part 2 or Revisited. And that's what happens.

Twelve more troubled, tormented, and beaten-down people find their guiding angel in the form of a bald-headed man dressed all in white. His kind eyes, friendly disposition, and sage advice are all served with a slice of pie and a cup of hot coffee. In the end, they all return to tell hoe the best dessert in life is never on a plate.

Genre: Mystery

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Dessert at the All-Night Café - Closing Time

Remember the characters from the very first two ‘Dessert’ books. They are back for the last time revealing how they’ve prospered since we last met. There’s been a death, a wedding, and everyone has experienced life-altering events as a consequence of coming to the diner. Someone asked, did they accidently stumble into the diner or were they drawn. I’m not telling.

The characters do learn there is a consequence or duty that accompanies those who prosper. Those who go willingly receive the greatest of all possible lifetime gifts. The reluctant ones benefit who go also benefit. Why me, is an often question asked, and sometimes they are asked in turn: Why not you?

The pie is hot, and the coffee is hot. The diner is crowded  and the building seems to have grown in size to accommodate everyone. Now is the time to learn the rest of the story.

Genre: Mystery

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Ghost at the Roadkill Café

People in the northern Arizona community still talk about how the peace and harmony of Seligman were almost destroyed forever. At the time, nobody knew that the ghostly presence lurked just below the earth's surface waiting for the opportunity to exact revenge.

It started innocently enough, a broken tray of glasses and some soiled sheets. When the media ran the story, the Roadkill Café nearly teetered on the brink of financial ruin. Customers stayed away in droves. Fixed expenses continued. Actions of spirit resulted in expensive repairs to costly equipment.

The owner, Debbie Mejia, enlists the aid of her staff, while her husband works the problem in sweat lodge with some old army cronies and the town historian.

Genre: Adult Paranormal

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The Lonely Widow

Lucy Forbes, a recent widow is so despondent and lonely that suicide is viewed as an acceptable alternative to getting out of bed in the mornings. After much consideration, she decides that drowning in the irrigation canal behind her house offers the best promise of a successful suicide. She only needs to select the perfect jumping-off location. One day on her search she encounters Simon who always seems to be sitting on a wall near her "perfect" spot. Lucy and Simon develop an unusual relationship to the point that she almost feels like his mother. The boy is evasive about his home and his mother. In the end, Lucy goes to the cemetery to visit her husband's grave only to receive the greatest surprise of her life and to question the existence of angels.

Genre: Mystery

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Interview with a Zombie

Samantha Strong is a recent graduate of Arizona State University where she learned very definite ideas of the role of print media.  She learned that journalists not only report the news but even make the news all backed by her mantra:  The public has a right to know.  Consequences mean little as long as the story gets out.  In her desire to propel herself out of the backwaters of Arizona to the bright lights of New York or some other major new media market, she needs THE story to garner national attention.  She finds just the story as she follows up on the killing of an escaped felon and partially eaten wild animals, and surprise of all surprises, she meets a man claiming to be a zombie.  He claims his affliction came about as a result of this study of voodoo.  In Sam's investigations, she locates a voodoo Bokor houngan, and a U.F.O.  Follow Samantha as she matures as a woman and struggles with what is just and morally right and the difference between truth and fact.  As in all good stories, love trumps all. 

Genre: Mystery

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Something About Samantha

Samantha Strong is a recent graduate of Arizona State University where she learned very definite ideas of the role of print media.  She learned that journalists not only report the news but even make the news all backed by her mantra:  The public has a right to know.  Consequences mean little as long as the story gets out.  In her desire to propel herself out of the backwaters of Arizona to the bright lights of New York or some other major new media market, she needs THE story to garner national attention.  She finds just the story as she follows up on the killing of an escaped felon and partially eaten wild animals, and surprise of all surprises, she meets a man claiming to be a zombie.  He claims his affliction came about as a result of this study of voodoo.  In Sam's investigations, she locates a voodoo Bokor houngan, and a U.F.O.  Follow Samantha as she matures as a woman and struggles with what is just and morally right and the difference between truth and fact.  As in all good stories, love trumps all. 

Genre: Mystery

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It's a New Day Tomorrow

After discharge from the air force, Jacob received a small inheritance. The money enabled him to build and found his own non-denominational church. Located in the central Ozark Mountains in Missouri. Life is good without adventure.

Then one day he believes God tells him to warn the world of the end of times. Jacob makes an announcement, and the world comes to his door. He is filled with pride, vanity, and egotism. As the "chosen one" he feels immune to criticism because, after all, he has been called by God. Him, an obscure clergyman from a small community in rural Missouri, had been selected to speak for God on earth.

His church falls apart. Five families are featured in this volume, and we witness how their crises play out in their lives. Meanwhile, Russian and the U.S. are continuing to test nuclear weapons. China invades India, and missile launchers are discovered in Cuba. Russia backs down on the 28th of October. On 29th Jacob realizes he's been duped and becomes a pariah.

Genre: Religious Mystery

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The Crystal Skull

It is not every day you unearth a crystal skull while puttering around in your garden. The odds of finding a crystal skull buried three feet below the surface of the earth in a remote part of the Peruvian jungle are astronomical. Then there is the possiblity that the skull's time had come and it wanted to be found.

Professor Xavier Pennypacker of England's Oxford University was the unwilling supervisor of the dig. He was not interested in subtle or esoteric thoughts. The man desired to be his department's dean, and the skull is taken to England.

In time, the skull and other artifacts are placed on an international tour and make their way to the Phoenix Museum. A young couple encounter the skull, find it mesmerizing, spend hours in its presence, and experience real change in their lives.

Did the skull cause this?

Genre: Romance

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Rock-a-Bye Baby

Little did Marcus Coffee know that August morning that events of the day would alter his life beyond his wildest fantasies. Not even being deployed to Viet Nam were his values and skills so rigorously tested.

A special angel protected Marcus all his life. Growing up was tough in the projects, and yet, when he went into the army, he never had a fight. The gangs ignored him. They must have thought he wasn't worth the trouble.

Two tours in Viet Nam, and he never fired a shot in anger. In face, he was rarely armed with anything heavier than a Beretta 9mm semi-automatic pistol. As the driver for a three-star general, life was great, promotions regular, the show was hot, and his room was cool.

Now retirement loomed and promised a life of ease and travel to foreign ports. His job as Maintenance Chief of the Luhrs Building in downtown Phoenix would end soon allowing him and his wife Sophie to rekindle their passion.

In one day, meeting Precious Gordon changed everything.

Genre: Adult Suspense

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Ghost Train

The year is 1929 and a few places in America hadn’t heard the news of The Depression or that there were no jobs in big cities. From one of those rural places came Sharon Carlton and Wesley Blake who planned to elope. The local freight would provide transportation to opportunity, happiness, and new beginnings.

The train that our young couple takes is not like most trains. It has a caboose where clothing can be found, it caters to hot coffee and rolls, and basic comfort. It never makes it to the big city. The train delivers the couple where they are most needed to assist people with problems greater than their own, and oh yes, it has no engineer, fireman, no conductor—there’s no crew.

In the short time it takes the train to make its circuit, the young couple learns life lessons more important than landing the perfect job. For example, sometimes you get a second chance to make a fresh start.

Genre: Mystery

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Blood on Blackrock Mountain

Ann Dee is the sole survivor of an Indian raiding party. Found clinging to her mother, the child winds up in an orphanage. It is there she learns skills and attitudes about right and wrong and being real all the time.

Ben Foley, a self-styled doctor sells his snake oil across the west. He is an all-around fraud, a drunkard, and a bully. Ann or Andy is adopted by Foley. He teaches her how to blend his vile nostrum and to feel the sting of his whip.

Along comes the Bill Larson, bachelor farmer/rancher, who takes Andy on as a ranch hand and eventual part owner. Their relationship grows and Bill officially adopts Andy as his daughter and heir.

All the while, Jason Danby, a man with a checkered past, plots a way to steal Larson’s ranch. The final result, is Blood on Blackrock Mountain – just a few miles north east of Tucson.

Genre: Western Mystery

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Ghost of Blackrock Mountain

Ann Dee (Andy) Larson’s life has taken a pleasant turn.

She’s rebuilding her home to be the showplace of the county when she meets a handsome, blond haired stranger who announces he will be the new sheriff. Little does she know that malevolent forces are preparing to descend on her resulting in changes to everyone’s lives.

A bogus mining engineer will use murder, extortion and blackmail to gain access to the gold rich Blackrock Stream that begins its run to the sea from an artesian well on Andy’s land. Destructive water cannon will be used to violate the riparian integrity which ultimately devastates the stream banks. The evil psychic energy awakens Andy’s guardian angel who sets about putting to right the awful mayhem visited upon the community and eventually is rewarded with eternal peace and rest.

Genre: Western Mystery

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Blackrock City Murders

Corporal David Alan Burns, Jr., U.S. Army is a baker who delights in exposing ‘his’ troops to the finest bread and pastries his talent enables him to provide. He stays connected to his father who is mayor of a small city outside of Tucson, Arizona.

His world is rocked when the American Red Cross informs him that dad is at death’s door and that his humanitarian discharge is in the works. Baffled, having spoken with his father just the day before, David is perplexed when no one will tell him what’s going on.

In a manner of days, David becomes police chief in a town where city department heads are being murdered and an international terrorist group has opened a branch office just outside the city limits. When the local hooker is discovered murdered in a city building, David must work with a dysfunctional police force to return the town to order.

And then there’s Sam.

Genre: Murder Mystery

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Murder on Combs Hill

by Fannie Price

Annabelle Ford, a wealthy spinster, and daughter of the late Colonel Tiberius, is dying. Her doctor expects her to pass in the next week or two. Her life has been one of meanness, duplicity, rudeness, and heavy-handedness. There is no reason to kill the old woman since she’s about to die anyway, but that’s what happened.

Suspects abound. Why did the nurse suddenly leave Arizona? Why did Annabelle’s nephew assume immediate control of the estate? How much influence did the butler hold over his mistress? What is the secret her doctor holds that he would kill to suppress? What is the significance of the fountain pen by the bed?

Genre: Mystery

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Murder in the First Degree

One day, Master Mason and secretary of Pilgrim Lodge No. 18, Peter D. Queen (PDQ) finds his comfort zone in shambles. This time it isn’t his father causing confusion and mayhem. Mystery and murder land on his doorstep. He must either accept the fact that he may become a murder suspect or assist a lodge brother and deputy sheriff in solving a murder.

The tale begins near Cartagena, Columbia when Michael Tomelli defects to the United States. The defector is placed in the witness protection program and makes his way across country to Phoenix, Arizona. In an attempt to hide the witness in obscurity until the trial, the defector is placed in the most extraordinary and unlikely of locations. Despite the best efforts of the FBI, the witness is murdered anyway.

Suspects abound. There’s the South American hit team, the resort reception clerk, the bookkeeper, and others. The deputy and PDQ are hampered because people are not who they pretend. There is a murderer loose in Wickenburg, Arizona and the clock is ticking.

About the Author:

One time master and lodge secretary crafts another tale where murder and mystery lie under the surface in some of the most extraordinary places. The author loves a good mystery and has some thoughts about the greatest mystery of all—this thing we call life. Mysteries make life interesting. Through it all, love is the greatest mystery of all.

Genre: Murder Mystery

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Murder in the Third Degree

Peter D Queen (Q to his friends) is the secretary of a Masonic Lodge in Glendale, Arizona. He enjoys a rather sedate and secure life as a bachelor who lives with his elderly father. His world becomes complicated when he gets chatted up by a woman and then the murder of a prominent Mason and member of his lodge.

The Grand Master of all Arizona Masons enlists Q's help to determine whether or not the murder could have been committed by a Freemason. Q wends his way through the hijinks of his father and a love life that gets complicated at every turn. At one point, he is considered a suspect himself in the crime and then finds himself the possible victim after two more people are viciously killed. Added to the mix is a ghost that walks the lodge room and communicates with Q.

In the end, Q and his girlfriend must sift through an entangled web of suspicion and intrigue mixed with Masonic ritual and humor.

Genre: Murder Mystery

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