Carl Brookins

A misplaced letter, a brass engine plate and an unplanned murder launch Tanner and Mary Whitney into an adventure which takes place on and under the icy waters of Lake Superior, in the corporate halls of Duluth, and in the brawling streets of Chicago, at the dawn of the Twentieth Century.

Sean Sean arrives home one day to find his block swarming with police. It seems that a nursing home resident has been blown up in his wheelchair directly across from Sean's driveway. Sean notices two men watching the scene from a blue Audi parked down the street. Could they have triggered the bomb that killed Gus Molinaro? A long-time resident at the nursing home, Gus shared a suite with Martin Levy. Levy vanished from the home moments after Molinaro's...

Lake Superior has called Mary Whitney once more to its shores. While her husband, Michael Tanner, finishes several projects in Seattle, Mary flies alone to settle in to her chartered sailboat in Bayfield, Wisconsin. She is looking forward to a relaxing solo sail and a few days communing with the lake. Neither she nor Michael are aware that Edwin Tobias, a wealthy and determined hedge fund operator and corporate raider - not to mention Mary's twisted...

A small group of investors has purchased lots on a mountain on the outskirts of Grand Lac in northern Idaho. One dark night one of the investors, Jack Ketchum, gets drunk, climbs aboard a large bulldozer and carves a raw track of destruction down the mountainside though the property of each of the other owners. Days later Ketchum is found dead in a ravine, a large-caliber bullet hole in his chest. When a local day trader, young Sam Black, is jailed...

When ordinary folks gather for a high school class reunion, they don't expect to become murder targets. In early spring, Jack Marston and his companion Lori Jacobs are still finding their way into their relationship, while Jack is learning more of the idiosyncrasies of his position at City College. A letter arrives with a fateful invitation. Classmates in the town of Riverview are organizing a major reunion of Lori's high school graduating class....