In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, an assassin's bullet strikes James Styles just two weeks before the Democratic Party names his spouse Vice President Harriet Styles its candidate for the Presidency. The task of apprehending the shooter falls to Richard Thatcher, the Director of the FBI, and Thatcher dispatches his protege Barbara Collins to Paris to lead the investigation. Barbara's quest takes her to the edge of the Arabian Peninsula then back to Paris where she uncovers evidence that suggests a domestic American plot. Candidate Harriet Styles mounts a bitter campaign that condemns the FBI...

A tropical storm named Jason transforms Chief Deputy Conor Gifford's peaceful October evening into a veritable hell. Jason unleases hurricane strength winds and horizontal rain on an unprepared Loudoun County. Under the cover of Jason's wrath, a killer strikes five times in six short hours. His victims include a world famous billionaire, a high tech millionaire, a local developer, a simple realtor and the Chairman of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. Gifford, the Chief of the Loudoun Sheriff Department's Investigative Division, and his ten man detective squad confront a serial killer...

In this mystery, the second in a series, curiosity about an old flame leads interim Sheriff Conor Gifford to accept an invitation to participate in a Richmond conference which in turn ensnares him in a dubious investigation at the behest of a lame duck governor. Avaricious speculators, ambitious politicians, conniving bureaucrats and a mysterious internal affairs investigator independently contrive self-serving schemes that merge in a maze of conflicting chaos. Gifford, intent on avoiding the political morass, diligently pursues the killer of a seemingly innocent low-level civil servant and...

Confronted by an election campaign for which he has no heart, Sheriff Conor Gifford moves to Richmond where he joins two old friends, Governor Graham Martin and Attorney General Samantha Darrow. On the very day that he assumes command of his new organization, the Office of Special Investigations, an assassin's bullet kills Martin and Darrow. Shunted aside by the Commander of the State Police who resents the very existence of Gifford's peculiar new organization, Gifford conducts a parallel investigation that leads him into the depths of Virginia politics where he finds himself besieged by...

In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, an assassin's bullet strikes James Styles just two weeks before the Democratic Party names his spouse Vice President Harriet Styles its candidate for the Presidency. The task of apprehending the shooter falls to Richard Thatcher, the Director of the FBI, and Thatcher dispatches his protege Barbara Collins to Paris to lead the investigation. Barbara's quest takes her to the edge of the Arabian Peninsula then back to Paris where she uncovers evidence that suggests a domestic American plot. Candidate Harriet Styles mounts a bitter campaign that condemns the FBI...

A tropical storm named Jason transforms Chief Deputy Conor Gifford's peaceful October evening into a veritable hell. Jason unleases hurricane strength winds and horizontal rain on an unprepared Loudoun County. Under the cover of Jason's wrath, a killer strikes five times in six short hours. His victims include a world famous billionaire, a high tech millionaire, a local developer, a simple realtor and the Chairman of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. Gifford, the Chief of the Loudoun Sheriff Department's Investigative Division, and his ten man detective squad confront a serial killer...

In this mystery, the second in a series, curiosity about an old flame leads interim Sheriff Conor Gifford to accept an invitation to participate in a Richmond conference which in turn ensnares him in a dubious investigation at the behest of a lame duck governor. Avaricious speculators, ambitious politicians, conniving bureaucrats and a mysterious internal affairs investigator independently contrive self-serving schemes that merge in a maze of conflicting chaos. Gifford, intent on avoiding the political morass, diligently pursues the killer of a seemingly innocent low-level civil servant and...

Confronted by an election campaign for which he has no heart, Sheriff Conor Gifford moves to Richmond where he joins two old friends, Governor Graham Martin and Attorney General Samantha Darrow. On the very day that he assumes command of his new organization, the Office of Special Investigations, an assassin's bullet kills Martin and Darrow. Shunted aside by the Commander of the State Police who resents the very existence of Gifford's peculiar new organization, Gifford conducts a parallel investigation that leads him into the depths of Virginia politics where he finds himself besieged by...