CLARA AND HER FAMILY MUST STOP A MESMERIZING MURDERER Women in 1886 San Francisco are killing their husbands. Attorney detective Clara Foltz uses an eighteen-year-old clairvoyant to track down the mysterious man using the powers of sexual magnetism and mesmerism to turn abused women into murderers. This becomes a family mystery, as Clara's two oldest children get involved. Clara's assistant, Ah...
"If Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer) wrote fantasies, this is what he would have written. Shocking and alive with truth. Can't wait for the next episode." New Fantasy Reviews. Vetted and sold through the American Library Association's auspices. "Magnificent folklore metaphor for the independent woman of today! Perfect mixture of urban fantasy and ribald art." "Narratively, the story juxtaposes...
First Place Winner of the 2013 Chanticleer Book Award for Best Historical Mystery. Finalist in the Best Digital Fiction Award, New Generation Book Awards, 2014. In post Civil War New York City, Detective Pat O'Malley is living inside Poe's Cottage in the Bronx. O'Malley is haunted by Poe one night, and the detective finds a strange note. As a result, O'Malley decides to prove that Edgar Allan...
The Stockton Insane Asylum Murder A Portia of the Pacific Best-Selling and Award-Winning Historical Mystery Volume 3 "Madness can be seen as an intuitive probing into true reality."–R. D. Laing Women were, among others, misdiagnosed as insane by alienists in the 1800s. A female child has been institutionalized in 1887, but the aunt of this child comes to Clara Foltz to say she believes the...
Two rooms with the same number. Both events on the same day. Both events change history in different ways. A story about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from a veteran who had his own story about Room 306.
Dark Stories for Readers with Surreal and Deep Tastes Silver Medal Winner of the 2021 Reader's Favorite International Contest for Best Adult Anthology A B.R.A.G.Medallion Honoree, 2021 9.25 overall Evaluation at BookLife, Publishers Weekly Hollywood and Broadway are icons of the American Dream. But what happens to those who feed off that dream? Just as drug cartels have many underlings, who...
An urban legend in San Diego that there are secret laboratories beneath a sidewalk's panes of thick glass. They are creating super soldiers using the homeless population.
The First Woman Attorney in California Fights the Patriarchy of the Nineteenth Century in this best-selling and award-winning series Clara Shortridge Foltz faces a patriarchal nemesis in 1884 San Francisco. When a white prostitute is murdered and flayed down to a skeleton, Clara is hired by the Six Companies of Chinatown to defend the sixteen males who are swept-up by the Chinatown Squad. This...