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PEE WEE: Serial Killer or Homicidal Maniac
A Novelized True Crime Story, Volume II
O. Grady Query
About the Book
Volume II of PEE WEE, Serial Killer or Homicidal Maniac, focuses on the courtroom drama of his several trials and appeals. Readers that enjoy trial strategy, courtroom personalities and the cloakroom maneuvering of the criminal courts will find a plethora of intriguing twists and turns. Seemingly foregone outcomes are reversed by national events or by the local politics of the farmlands of South Carolina that stubbornly resist change. It is replete with excerpts from actual trial transcriptions and transcripts of out of court statements given under oath. Despite his numerous murder convictions Gaskins manages time and again to avoid the death penalty in real life by virtue of unexpected events that could seemingly occur only in fiction. Told by an attorney intimately involved in the cases, there are pithy descriptions of battles fought in and out of the courtroom on the one hand and on the other of the camaraderie between adversaries. Both often lead to unpredictable outcomes. Pee Wee Gaskins describes the murders to which he will plead guilty in his own words. At the same time by either omission or outright lies, he avoids the inclusion of those murders for which he does not want to admit responsibility. Finally, in one of the most incredible crimes imaginable, the tiny killer foils the safeguard systems of a maximum security penitentiary to murder a fellow death row inmate with plastic explosives.About the Author
GRADY QUERY is a practicing attorney in Charleston, South Carolina. He has written the story of Pee Wee Gaskins, based on his years of representation of the diminutive mass murderer. Court appointed to represent Gaskins Query spent hundreds of hours in court, visiting crime scenes, interviewing witnesses and simply listening to his client. This book while fictional is based largely upon those experiences and the direct information gleaned from his time with Gaskins. -
Golden Promise
Richard Malmed
About the Book
Leaving a team dinner at the exclusive Shrewsbury Country Club, attorney Peter Stern heard muffled cries for help coming from behind the berm of the eighteenth hole. Slowly snaking his five iron from the golf bag, he approached to see two men raping a waitress. He buried the first swing into the rib cage of one man. As the second man came at him, he hammered his left hand and sliced open his scalp on the follow through. He would later discover that the entire scene was videotaped by an old acquaintance. He pulled the rainsuit from his bag to cover the nakedness of his new client.About the Author
Richard Malmed has been a lawyer for over fifty years, but now is able to pursue his first love since he was an Honors English Major at Yale. His works have won a few awards. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and spends his spare time thinking creatively while working out at the gym. He holds a world record in the bench press for his age and weight group. He writes historical fiction or lawyer’s adventure novels. -
Iceman of the Apocalypse
Timothy McDonnell
About the Book
Deputy Sloan Wallace participates in a scientific experiment, ingesting a pill that was told would only be temporary. Turned out the pill was a permanent implant, which was part of a radical new experiment performed by a desperate scientist out of time. Scarred by the process, Sloan abruptly left the experiment, hoping to continue with his normal life, until his world was turned upside down by the apocalypse.About the Author
Inspiration is a funny thing… you’ll never know where it will come from. I haven’t watched a lot of TV in my later years, until a show about the zombie apocalypse caught my attention. I would watch the show religiously, and later the show became a part of my life here in Michigan. Most fans would follow their favorite actor or actress. Some fans would even go to a Comicon. It inspired me to write. I never thought I would be writing about the zombie apocalypse, but I could not resist. The ideas just kept flowing and I just kept writing. This journey started in 2015 and you are about to read the conclusion of the first chapter in a new saga. Maybe this is one worth reading. All the readers out there will be the judge. I hope you find this story entertaining. I wish you all the best. — Timothy McDonnell -
The Ride
Domenic Pugiliares
About the Book
Jake, Don and Shelly were inseparable friends. Jake and Don since preschool and Shelly from the moment she entered their lives as a sophomore in college. When Jake lost his dad unexpectedly all he had to remember him was his prized possession, a 1968 blue convertible Oldsmobile 442. That and a small inheritance burning a hole in Jake’s pocket. The three decided as a tribute to Jake’s dad that they would take a road trip from Southern California to Mexico. When the trio arrived at Hotel Lucinda after a long day of driving, events defied all logic and pushed the boundaries of their friendship. As is Pugliares’ trait from his previous novels Famiglia Fabrasia and Brothers Fabrasia there is an ending that no one sees coming!About the Author
“Domenic Pugliares is a serial entrepreneur. He built one of the largest commercial travel companies in the United States before selling it in the late 1990’s. He then went on a start, build, buy, and sell a number of companies while accumulating commercial investment real estate.
Currently, he is the owner of Dunegrass Country Club in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, where he is diligently working on his golf game, as well as his writing skills. -
The Islands Tell Of It
Patty Fischer
About the Book
At dusk in a Midwestern provincial city, college professor Melanie Rossen ventures off for an evening run. Under a pinkish-orange sky slowly taken over by an indigo darkness in Shadyside Park, this simple run turns into a nightmarish attack to defy the most wildly spoken of experiences.
Detectives Glenda McMahan and Luther Charles are ordered to interview the severely injured victim at a hospital on the south side. Seasoned detective McMahan finds it difficult to swallow the woman’s account—of a man turned into some hideous creature who performs a bloody ritual shouting out the word, “Balut”.
In the next few weeks more attacks occur following Detective Charles’s theory of the assailant cursed by some ancient myth from the annals of Lower Mythology from the islands of the Philippines. One attack in the back nine of a local golf course, Glenda’s doubts wash away when the victim is revealed to be Luther’s pregnant fiancé. This incident happens at the same time four FBI agents from the Chicago office are recruited by the detectives’ sergeant.
While Luther takes a leave of absence to watch over the recovery of his fiancé, Glenda befriends Agent Wyla Stark. Agent Stark possesses a strong connection to this legend where both law enforcement officers learn this creature has a name. Glenda and Wyla get closer to a suspect tied closely to the Big Pharma family, the Rathbones in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The depth of the legend’s origin brings Luther and his fiancé to meet a shaman in Algiers, across the river from New Orleans. The shaman gives them instructions on how to capture the culprit, then break the curse. Soon as a group forms, all realize to capture and take this suspect to justice they need to go off the grid of normal police procedure.
The suspect is revealed to be Amora Rathbone as the curse of “Aswang” is broken in the evening hours at Shadyside Park in front of everyone—an injured Glenda, Wyla, Luther, the three agents called Paul, George, and John. Another aspect of Aswang comes forth as Amora is able to escape her cell—dark workings of witchcraft. With her escape, the importance of the Rathbone butler comes into play.
The Rathbone butler becomes sole heir to the Rathbone fortune. Before he leaves Indiana, he plans a beguiling dinner to destroy Amora. Glenda knowing the butler’s disappearance is significant sets on a search to find him alone.
Glenda ventures out West, leaving Detective Charles and APD Detective Division behind. In the midst of the beauty of Big Sur in Central California, her discoveries bring her to such a state—madness invades her analytical makeup. This legend has taken over her mind, her psyche to such a place she doubts her usefulness as a competent officer of the law.About the Author
I started becoming a writer later in life. When my sons were in the process of going out on their own, I took up writing in journals. I wrote topics on news issues I was interested in. I also began forming short stories. One such short story I began researching for found me discovering the strange and mysterious Legend Of Aswang. Using tidbits of what I read, I wrote the short story. I showed it to my youngest son then in college. He said there was definitely something unique about the story, but I needed to think bigger.In the next few years going back to this legend, I wrote two novellas. I had them published but found my writing wasn’t refined enough. The readership was not good. I continued writing short essays, short stories, and larger works of fiction. Two years ago, my short essays and short stories were being published. Terror House Magazine, 34 Parallel Magazine published my short essays and short stories. One year ago I rewrote the book on Aswang, “”The Wind Whistles Wicked””. Now with seventeen years of writing in full concentration, this revision possessed a strength I felt would get the attention of an agent or publisher. With the third draft of this ancient myth, I developed, “”The Islands Tell Of It””.
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Violets in the Dust
Peggy Lockwood
About the Book
Not too long ago, Rachel received a letter telling her that she had inherited a property in a small village outside Boston: The Warren House. Now, she has finally arrived in what seemed to be a pretty village to start a new life.
Days after her arrival, however, strange things start to happen. Little did Rachel know this village has a dark past now being slowly unraveled by her presence.
And with this, the villagers knew, Blakesville would never be the same again.About the Author
Peggy Lockwood was born and educated in Ontario Canada and has worked as an editor for a newspaper and a production assistant for a radio program. Books published to date, Tales for Tots with Vantage Press, The Forgotten Manager and Christmas with Clarence with Homestead Studios, Tiny Tales for Tots with Xlibris and Winter Tale for Tots with Printer Paul. The last two written in rhyme. She has written several Christmas and Easter musicals performed in a various churches in the area.
Peggy is a widow living in Peterborough and has been inducted into the Pathway of Fame for Dramatic Arts and is now concentrating on writing for adult readers. -
In an Enemy’s Country
Jim Fraiser
About the Book
Liberty if fleeting; terrorism is eternal!” Or so learns Assistant U.S. Attorney and widower John Ferguson as he struggles to handle the news of an impending pandemic as well as a perplexing new case, all the while rearing a precocious four-year-old son and bright but troubled teenage daughter. But when he discovers that the Occupy the Park protester he’s prosecuting for assault on a federal marshal may be linked to a terrorist organization seemingly intent on wreaking havoc in his Jackson, Mississippi hometown, and a mysterious new love interest practically appears on his doorstep, he soon finds himself locked in a life and death struggle with a brilliant but demented revolutionist dedicated to the destruction of everyone Ferguson loves and, upon success, the eventual eradication of the American way of life.
About the Author
Jim Fraiser is the author of five works of fiction and eleven nonfiction books about the history, architecture and culture of thef Deep South. He is a federal administrative law judge in New Orleans, a former adjunct law professor, who pens freelance book reviews for Mississippi newspapers and magazines. He lives in Pass Christian with son Paul and feline Oreo.
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HOUSE ON THE CORNER:
TALKING WALLS, WALKING SINS
Linda Quillian
About the Book
She had to come to from the cocktail’s spell soon. He had to make her think that she had slept off the Cognac cocktail, rather than his odiously prepared sedative. If she doubted his veracity, should there be residual evidence like blood smear, Armstrong knew he had to make her believe that her period came on that afternoon. “I’m not worried,” he consoled himself. “I have no prison record. Colleagues consider me a pillar of the community.” His marriage had saved him from charges for Kandi’s statutory rape at fifteen, and child support had been accepted for his seduction of Junie at the same age. Successful circumvention of criminal charges fed his sense of insidious invincibility. Total control and facile stealth in his deed gave him insatiable satisfaction like a child stealing the cookie, a thrill he would not have enjoyed if it had been handed to him outright. The thrill of his game was everything. The charm in the chase was an undeniable chasm whose slippery periphery was a round of Jeopardy.About the Author
Atlanta, Georgia was her launching pad. Taking flight as Traffic Assistant for Ted Turner at Channel 17 landed Dr. Linda Quillian at a number of stops on the way: On-Air Personality for Georgia Radio Reading Service; Executive Assistant for D.C. Public Schools; and professorial employment at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Howard University in D.C., University of the District of Columbia, Bowie State University in Md., and Benedict College in S.C., where flight touched down and coasted to the runway of Chair and Dean. “Whatever your passion, it has to resonate like a party within. A passion like writing makes you forget about the time you spend dancing with it. Even when the party music stops playing, you never want to leave. I sometimes do not choreograph the words. Angels visit and show me the Plie’, Ballotte’, Arabesque, or Tendu, while ancestors teach the Gwara Gwara, Stanky Leg, Mambo, and Bachata. Writing is a dance with the reader whose partnership is unimpeachable. -
Aqua Haze
Harry L. Barok
About the Book
Ginger Holt, a gorgeous writer, discovers a handsome stranger, washed up on a St. Thomas beach! After reviving him, she calls the police, but he vanishes! Our handsome one returns, but he’s lost his memory! Nicknamed Rob Wilson, by Ginger, the duo uses the internet and their guile to track down Rob’s identity. They also search for Rob’s attackers, as he has a gash on his forehead! Clues are revealed in Drake’s Passage and the Virgin Islands. In Miami, the two discover Rob’s true identity! Rob and his buddies than remodel a boat, and seek revenge upon his enemies!About the Author
Mr. Barok was raised in Cherry Hill, NJ. As a young child, Harry had some early learning difficulties, including a speech defect. He was bullied in school, somewhat. However, he always felt his angels were with him. In fact, he would talk with them, even though he couldn’t always see them. Harry participated in the Woodland United Methodist Church, Little League, and Cub Scouts. His child study team predicted that he could never attend college. However, Mr. Barok would obtain 3 different degrees, the last, an MSW. (social work), from Rutgers. Later, Harry would use his intuition and that of professional psychics to battle a corrupt place of work and defeat cancer. Mr. Barok is also an actor, comedian/impressionist (video), singer (2 CDs), skier, clairvoyant, and kayaker.
The author’s book of “Untrained Psychic” was his first. There was also a revised version. This was followed by “Aqua Haze.” Currently, the author is typing “Downward Facing Dog!” “Faux Star” is his 4th or arguably 5th book.
The author can be reached at [email protected]. His phone number is 856-985-6172. The mailing address is 20504 Eagle Row, Marlton, NJ. 08053. -
Guideless The Rivers’ Course
Stefano Duetagli
About the Book
“Stefano Duetagli’s debut novel is an ambitious exploration of an array of issues including gender identity, bigotry, hypocrisy, wrongful incarceration, and ultimately, hope.“Guideless the Rivers’ Course” follows the story of Stuart Walker Purloin. Given the name Margarite at birth, Stuart lives into early adulthood feeling uncomfortable in his woman’s body. After enduring the prejudice of a small southern town full of people who judge his “transvestite” lifestyle, Stuart completes gender reassignment surgery in Holland.
Upon returning to his hometown, Stuart becomes a convenient solution to a murder for which he is falsely accused; he lands in Florida’s largest maximum-security prison. In prison, Stuart begins a journey through hell much like the saga of Dante’s Inferno. Like Dante who had Virgil to guide him through hell, Stuart meets three Virgil-like saviors who guide him through the hell of prison.
When Stuart is finally released, he devises a plan to confront his false accuser. Stuart plots to commit the same heinous crime for which he was once imprisoned.
“Guideless the Rivers’ Course” tells a story of self-exploration, resolution, and redemption for a good man who lived inside a good woman. Along the way, Margarite and Stuart discover that not only are there many shades of gray between good and evil, but sometimes the differences between the two are indecipherable.
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About the Author
Stefano Duetagli, which translates from Italian to English as “Stephen Two-Edged,” is the penname chosen by this first-time author, a professor of psychology turned university administrator.Duetagli is an eighth-generation Floridian who has lived a varied life—aside from his current vocation, he has co-owned a bar, been a colonel in the Virginia Militia, waited tables, and spent time as an itinerant professor for the Department of Defense in Western Europe.
In the writing of “Guideless the Rivers’ Course,” Duetagli draws on his three years’ experience teaching college courses to inmates in the Florida prison system.
More information about the author and his work is available at StefanoDuetagli.com.
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