A LOCKED-ROOM YOUNG ADULT WHODUNIT IN THE CLASSIC TRADITION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES A VIEW OF HISTORY REVEALED THROUGH A MYSTERY JUNE 1860 -- A new locomotive christened A Southern Breeze steams across the Carolina countryside carrying seventeen-year-old Jeb Bennett and his twin sister Rachel Leigh to the exhilarating promise of a summer in Charleston. While storm clouds gather over the landscape, fiercer storms rage inside the passenger cars. The tensions between North and South rapidly escalate until one traveler's journey abruptly and brutally ends. Who was the murderer? Was the victim the real...

Praise for Mark de Castrique..."Comparable to James Lee Burke and Margaret Maron." -Library Journal starred review of Fatal Undertaking When his wife dies of ovarian cancer, Russell Mullins quits the Secret Service and joins a Washington, D.C. private protection company assigned to guard Paul Luguire, a Federal Reserve executive. They become friends, so when word comes in the middle of the night that Luguire has committed suicide, Mullins doesn't buy it. His doubts are reinforced by the discovery of a suspicious financial transaction initiated by Luguire only days before his death. Soon...

Ex-Secret Service agent Russell Mullins follows a conspiratorial trail of killing and kidnapping that leads from a shadowy mastermind to the possible destruction of America's financial system. In an age of Wall Street meltdowns and downgrading of the U.S. credit rating, the Federal Reserve has a pivotal role. Twelve targets are known. The clock is ticking. What, or who, is the 13th?

Gene Adamson thought he knew the answers.
He thought he'd cracked the conspiracy wide open.
He was so wrong.
As a young girl's life hangs in the balance, seventeen-year-old Gene Adamson stumbles into a conspiracy so deadly the very knowledge of its existence marks him for death. . . . . . The suspense builds to a brilliant conclusion ... This work is storytelling at its best totally drawing you into every event happening ... a great read and I give it a high recommendation. --Shirley Johnson, Senior Reviewer, MidWest Book Review

When old Birdie Campbell dies, many in the NC mountain town of Ridgetop are not particularly sorrowed by her passing. But McAdams & Son Funeral Home still has to plan a service and find someone willing to say good things about the dearly departed. Birdie's death unleashes a string of events that threaten to destroy not only the civility of her service, but the funeral home itself. Stage Play presented as part of The New Plays in America and New Voices of the South series.