This fascinating memoir recounts Timothy Ian Mitchell’s boyhood dream of becoming a RCMP officer and the first five years of his service as a Mountie on the Canadian Prairies. Deeply honest, often moving, and intermittently funny, the anecdotes at the core of this book vividly detail Mitchell’s experiences and encounters with other members of the Force, perpetrators and victims of crime, and a variety of other people and places that impacted his early career and influenced his entire life. Whether he was enforcing traffic regulations, investigating a robbery, or marching on Red Serge duty, Mitchell was honoured and grateful to be recognized as a Canadian Mountie.

Thomas Clayton Gurley loses his mother, father, and sister to a tragic car accident when he is only fifteen. With no family to care for him, hes forced to live with the dreaded Bastard Boats, his fathers half brother. Boats seems to have a vendetta against young T. C., and it goes back to T. C.s parents, although T. C. isnt sure why. In a new town, at a new school, under a hostile roof, T. C. has to fight to survive. He joins up with the high school football team just to get out of the house. He makes friends and begins to experience new thingsnotably drugs, music, and girls. All the time, though, Boats is on his back. Theres a light at the end of the tunnel when T. C. is taken in by Buck and Rosie Hagan, a local foreman and his wife. Even so, T. C. is haunted by the loss of his family and the oppressive Boats. Something criminal is going down in their tiny Oklahoma town, and Boats is at the center of it. As T. C. grows into a man, he begins to realize the danger Boats could bring upon the Hagans and T. C.s group of friends. Boatss involvement with a corrupt business cartel could cost lives, and T. C.once an innocentwill have to stand strong to protect the people he has come to love.

“He was normal” is the only description witnesses can provide to offbeat detective Felix Fortea, as he questions them about a shocking daylight murder in Madrid. How do you stop a killer who could be anyone? What does it mean to be normal? As the clock ticks, a colorful cast of not-so-normal characters unite to hunt down a criminal who is so normal he can disappear from sight—even when you’re looking right at him. In this dark thriller, R. López-Herrero casts a critical eye on the concept of normality which is so prevalent in today’s society. With a sharp wit and a deft pen, he plunges readers into a fascinating hunt for an invisible killer, along the way exploring notions of human individuality and the suffocating social pressures to be normal.

Jane is a Mensa genius, stunning and wealthy. A tall, quirky, queer girl. She’s a weapons and martial arts expert, and though vicious and troubled, she’s got a heart of gold. Jettisoning a life of East Coast privilege to become a PI/Bounty hunter in dangerous N. Las Vegas, she’s dedicated her life to fighting for the LGBTQ world. She takes down violent men and woman – in this case two violent butch females, sadists along the eco system of the private sex and fetish scene in Vegas. When an ex drug-addicted show girl’s young daughter goes missing, Jane must move into the depraved bowels of the Vegas underground, into BDSM and Goth sex clubs as she hunts her prey. There sex, lots of it, and violence too, among the private, dangerous and honest club scene. There’s death and, hopefully, laughter and a few tears along the way. If you’re looking for the usual watered down erotica, the Prince saves the princess kind of pabulum, well this novel is not for you – unless you might be interested in something NEW and unusual. I have been told my work is like a bath of acid, stripping reality to the bone. The first novel in a series of novels.

" ... confronts race and ethnicity in segregated Chicago in the late 1940s. The book follows two boys--one black, one white--lost in the city together and exploring with innocent enthusiasm while their families tear each other apart in fear. Racial tensions thread through the novel and personal choices are made with a shattering clarity against the pressures of the city"--Back cover.