About The Books
Something Wicked
Leighann Baker, Paige Harper’s roommate, asks Paul Rice to find her cousin, David Baker, who has suddenly disappeared, leaving his two children behind. Paul naturally helps her, but even before he sets out for Falls Corners, Wisconsin, where the disappearance took place, he discovers that the missing man’s wife has also disappeared and the police think Baker had something to do with her disappearance and is hiding from them. Once reaching Falls Corners, Paul finds that the community is enchanted in more ways than one and the area is a hot bed for biped wolf encounters whose ability to change form and look human has enabled them to infiltrate government agencies, including the CIA.
The Devil’s Bible
Paul Rice flies out to California for a lucrative job offer from Ted Blair, an attorney presently cruising along the coast on his yacht. Paul is asked to find a man. Mordecai Reese. It sounded simple enough, so he takes the case on. But later, he learns that there was a whole lot that Blair didn’t tell him — like Blair was acting in behalf of his Catholic Church Cardinal brother who really wants the book Reese took from a Neo-Nazi living in America. A book plundered by the Nazis during World War II, when they were obsessed with the Occult. This particular book was supposedly written by a cloistered monk with the help of the Devil and later printed unknowingly by Gutenberg. Over the centuries, the book stayed in the hands of the Catholic Church until the Nazis took it from them, and now Reese had it. Paul soon discovers that everyone wants to own the book including the Catholic Church, who wanted it back, some Neo-Nazis skinheads, a very attractive woman named Abigail Azazel, who represented the Nephilim, and of course Blair and Reese. The only rub was that those who possessed the book and opened it suddenly died.
The Keepers
Matt Corbin is going through a rough patch in his life, rougher than his time in Vietnam. He finds himself a cuckold, betrayed by a wife of ten years with another man. Returning to his job as a homicide detective after his service time doesn’t help, nor does having a batch of inadequate partners. It only compounds his trouble tenfold, making it that much heavier to carry. If it wouldn’t be for his best friend, Paul Rice, and a new female partner, attractive and feisty, he would have eaten his gun by now. Then along comes a weird murder case where the bones of the victims are all that is left of them. It’s enough to rock Corbin’s boat and set him back a step.
Goodbye Again
After a brief retirement of about a year, Dutch Verlander is asked to return to work to train people on the old letter-sorting machines that have made a comeback of their own. He reluctantly agrees, only because he is asked by one of the few managers he respects, who has put his neck on the line promoting this project. His return is without fanfare as he expected. He didn’t expect the appearance of a Gray Lady and two attractive sisters who not only help him uncover a maze of greed and corruption in the business of dying but also find the identity of a murderer and witness the pain of families who have to say goodbye again to their loved ones.
The Devil’s Tooth
Paul Rice gets a frantic call about his friend Little Bull from the Lakota’s girlfriend, Mary Walking Bear, informing Paul that the Minnesota police are after Little Bull for killing the governor over a planned Indian casino. Paul drops everything and heads for Minnesota, taking Taylor Rawls with him, assuming that Little Bull will be in need of a good attorney. Once the court fight starts and Paul starts digging into things, he finds that some people in the justice system don’t like Indians, and he learns about the Lakota legend of the Devil’s Tooth and the power of the Indian shaman, all of which send a new light as to who killed the governor and why
The Chosen
After helping the police solve the Lanark murders, Paul Rice thought he was finished with the supernatural for good and he and his girlfriend could forget about everything that happened and settle down to living a normal life. But it was not to be, his girlfriend decides to suddenly leave him and four attractive women come into his life as prearranged by someone pulling paranormal strings. There are more murders and Paul later finds that he and the four women knew each other during the Salem Witch Trials in another lifetime.
The Portal
Paul Rice travels with his new girlfriend to meet her family and spend a week in their recently renovated home in Lanark, Wisconsin. Here he finds a town haunted by a history of strange killings and disappearances, a Catholic priest frightened to come out at night, and a teenager who is afraid of his room and sleeps with the light on. By week’s end, Paul comes face to face with a resident evil that is centuries old, very much alive, and only waits to be released from a house that has been its dark shrine for generations.
The Calling
Paul Rice is asked by his friend, Police Chief Clive Thayer, to look into the disappearance of his sister’s grandson. Paul is reluctant to say “yes” because he is not a trained investigator, but Thayer’s strong feelings that there is more involved than the boy’s disappearance persuade him to make the trip up to northern Wisconsin. There, he finds a large town growing into a small city and a female police chief who resents his involvement. His search leads him to a cult of baby murderers and straight to an encounter with an ancient power that is not benign.
The Comeback
Frankie Vane was a hand-me-down kid. After both his parents skipped out on him, he was shuffled off to one unwanting relative to the next until he ran out of relatives at age seventeen and had to spend one year in an orphanage. At age eighteen, he began to have some success until the draft and World War II interfered and cost him three years fighting the Germans. After the war, he resumed his career only to have it end when someone murders him. He comes back from the dead to find out who and why and even manages to find love, which he never had before, along the way.