Jackson Hole County is about to be woken up from its long unsympathetic past. Forensic Psychologist and Investigator T. K. Donovan returns to help his old partners and town when a new serial killer starts dumping young women’s bodies. Fourteen young women have turned up dead in the Sherman’s Forest, near the Sherman Estates, which now involves the old family with its dark scandals past. Donovan and the Jackson Hole Sheriff’s department must follow the clues, which are nearly identical to a case of his father’s, who worked it thirty years ago. But because of old biases and bigotry, as well as backward thinking, it had cost his Father his life and could cost him his too.
In the process, Donovan will dig into old family histories, secrets, and long-dead skeletons, at the same time, inquire into the current dark private sultry side of the community. Will he be able to solve the case before the Sheriff closes it as he did thirty years ago and save his daughters in the process? It could rock the town but, hopefully, not break it and, finally, bring it into the twenty-first century even if it does not want it.
In 1972 the Soviet Union was known as the USSR and consisted of fifteen Soviet republics. East Germany was a satellite state of the USSR, allowing easy access to carry out their main objective, which was to undermine the USA’s presence in West Germany. They wanted America to leave Germany and to dissolve NATO. They wanted to create bad moral among the US soldiers. This was Russia’s main attempt to undermine the United States military’s presence in Europe. Sergeant Bravo was a Vietnam veteran who decided to go back into the army to serve as a sergeant in Germany during this time. Sergeant Bravo quickly learned that the peacetime army he joined in Germany was very different than the army he joined during his service in Vietnam. Sergeant Bravo was still under combat mode, but most of the soldiers around him had never seen combat, which would often cause him to get in trouble. Living as a Mexican American during the height of the civil rights movement he had also faced the same prejudices that African Americans had faced until, and even after the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964. Many of the Anglo soldiers also carried their prejudice over with them in Germany, which also caused many problems for Sergeant Bravo. His mother had passed onto him the instinct on how to get out of trouble. He was a buck sergeant, which was the lowest ranking sergeant in the military, who never thought he would have that much responsibility during his time in Germany, but he ended up helping the NATO community during the Cold War and made the military open their eyes toward race relations.
A lonely tiny teddy bear just wants to go home to a special child for Christmas whom he can love, but he feels he is too tiny for anyone. Follow him from the grocery store to Toys for Tots and into a home of a challenged special child, who loves to share him with her baby sister.
This book is a collection of short stories that consist of fiction and some nonsense, which is to say they are totally fiction. They came directly from my brain, and I had no idea that they were even in my head. They range from a story of a lost puppy to a red eye that follows a woman around for her entire life. When the title says nonsense, that is exactly what it means. The stories get right to the point and end at just the right time. You will waste no time getting bogged down in a long, drawn out story with this book. Some of the stories are humorous and some are realistic. I hope you enjoy my nonsense!
A 1969 prophecy through 2010 regarding political and ecclesiastical politics, including President Barack Obama.
Since he first appeared in the 1887 Beeton’s Christmas
annual A Study in Scarlet, a great deal has been written about
Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary character, the consulting
detective Sherlock Holmes.
Now, for the first time, Raymond G. Farney offers a concise,
case-by-case compendium of these Sherlockian adventures.
In an easy-to-read format, Farney presents a study of each Sherlock Holmes novel and
short story. Each case is broken down in a similar format, covering fast facts on the
publication, the plot, and the outcome of the story itself. The studies include information
such as Characters, Crime, Victim, Crime Scene, Timeline, Evidence & Clues, and, of
course, Holmes’ own Observations & Deductions.
A Study in Sherlock is a comprehensive treasure trove of Holmesian information—and
a must-read for any Holmes aficionado!
RAYMOND G. FARNEY is a retired business owner who designed and built new residential homes at the New Jersey shore and since childhood an avid reader of Sherlock Holmes stories.
Had Jesus really “descended into hell” as the Apostles’ Creed asserts? Was physical death God’s only punishment for first man’s and his wife’s disobedience to Him? What will be the ultimate fate of those who have already died as well as that of all humans still alive? Answers to questions like these begin to take shape at the start of Genesis and fully materialize by the closing of the New Testament, all based on relevant Scriptural verses with detailed studies of the applicable original languages providentially preserved. The thread of the author’s argument, rooted in Genesis 2:17 and 3:4, spans through Matthew 10:28 and 2 Thessalonians 1:9 to Revelation 21:8. The conclusion will have a definite impact on the message of comfort and hope Jesus Christ’s emissaries (Matthew 16:15) seek to spread universally.
Ned Harrison and Kitten Lang are tied together by dreams. Both have seen each other and discover who they both are. They have seen in dreams red floating feathers and flying cardinals, the unhappy dead who have been betrayed, who are pleading for help and justice to be done. All which ties to a murder case. It will take all the skills as a detective and a witch solve the case, but death says, “Danger is at the door.” And Ned Harrison will get the aid of one seen in his dream—the cardinal itself. To fight and outwit the enemy, the little bird will have his say.
Jaxon Bartleight is a police officer with twenty-two years of working on cold-case files. He is a very angry man, struggling with relationships and inner demons. He carried the burden and pain silently, of his fiancée’s murder from many years ago, believing her death was his fault. Her murder, never solved, has left him burdened emotionally. Things changed in his life when a woman named Angela enters unexpectedly. She begins to get involved in his cases, actually helping him and Peter Galbreth, his partner, solve these old cases. Appearing to have information that she shouldn’t be able to have, showing up at the most inopportune/opportune times, and having an emotional effect on everyone she encounters causes Jaxon to be unsure if she is a very good hacker (fraud), a physic, or supernatural. Only time will tell, but it may leave Jaxon questioning his own sanity, desperately wanting an answer to know more.
What started out as a youthful life of innocence in South Central Los Angeles turned into a fight of the fittest, fueled by a life of addictions and wrong decisions. I called all the shots. I was in control of everything. I was the one who caused people to break themselves apart until in the end, I broke apart from the inside out. My second wife and daughters, I always considered my saints; they were the ones who, for years, held me together!
(This is my story. Laugh with a Sinner or Cry with His Saints: Life by the Drop)