In a gripping debut novel that combines power, politics, and the press, John Luciew introduces a rogue reporter whose new lease on life may be the end of him....

Obituary writer Lenny Holcomb has reached a dead end. Burned-out and uninspired, he knows life in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has nothing left to offer. Until the secrets of the dead begin to reveal themselves in his work -- sending Lenny back into the streets armed with a shrewd mind and a recharged sense of purpose.

Lenny is hot on the trail of a popular governor with presidential ambitions who may have had a role in the...

READ JOHN LUCIEW'S RUNAWAY BESTSELLER A serial killer known as "The Reader" is murdering journalists in the manner of their most famous stories. Dubbed the "Media Murders" by the press, the killings baffle authorities, turn once-aggressive reporters into prey and shock the country in what soon becomes a national story. The cunning killer's first strike is cleverly disguised as a political assassination, mirroring John Hinckley's attempt on Ronald Reagan. As it turns out, the fallen reporter had covered Reagan's shooting. It's the first of several bizarre killings with eerie similarities to...

DON'T MISS JOHN LUCIEW'S ALL-NEW, FULL-LENGTH POLICE PROCEDURAL MYSTERY A brutal crime. A dogged detective. And 34 years of unreasonable doubt. It's 1978 and acclaimed horror director George A. Romero is gearing up to shoot his zombie cult classic "Dawn of the Dead" in the Monroeville Mall, just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On Halloween night, a 12-year-old girl dressed as Olivia Newton-John's character from "Grease" is slashed to death in a brutal, bloody crime. Her mutilated, blood-soaked corpse is found on the back patio of her broken, unhappy steelworker's home on the outskirts of...

A young mind is a terrible thing to corrupt... When a kid commits a crime in Pittsburgh, the trouble is just beginning. That's because the teen-age criminals end up doing time in the River County Reform Camp for Boys. Rehabilitation isn't what the manipulative colonel running the military-style boot camp has in mind for some. He sees his chance to control one of the most lethal and fearless forces there is -- teen criminals. Col. Henry Hogan has spent his life working in the juvenile justice system. After all this time, he knows he can do one thing well - manipulate kids. At the isolated camp...

A Lenny Holcomb Mystery In the streets of Harrisburg, a man is killed in what appears to be a straightforward hit-and-run - until the victim turns out to have no identity whatsoever. Obituary writer Lenny Holcomb's ability to glimpse the secrets of his column's subjects leads him to suspect that his old friend, ex-congressman George Packard, may have had a hand in the "accident." But if so, why do all the clues point to Packard's slick political rival? With the help of ambitious reporter Jacqueline Towers, Lenny follows a trail of political spin and corruption to the highest levels of...

TWO FULL-LENGTH MYSTERIES, ONE BLOCKBUSTER SERIES. When Lenny Holcomb is on the beat, death is only the beginning of the story... Reporter Lenny Holcomb speaks for the dead. He tells their final stories. He writes their obituaries. After decades on the obit desk, Lenny has learned to uncover something else - the dying secrets of the deceased. This sends him back into the streets with a shrewd mind and a recharged sense of purpose - namely, to take down the politically connected power brokers in Pennsylvania's crooked capital city. With the help of ambitious reporter Jacquelyn "Jack" Towers,...

High Stakes. Huge Money. No Prisoners. A start-up technology company is headed for a gigantic payday in the form of a white-hot initial public offering. The firm's super-charged stock is being fueled by a break-through project developed by fast-rising executive Amanda Creed and her dedicated team. But to cross the finish line, the divorced mother of two has been forced to sacrifice her family -- and her social life. By the time her project hits the big time, Amanda is ready to celebrate with abandon. But her wild, one-night tryst turns to corporate treason, as a spy uses her indiscretion...

AMANDA CREED IS BACK AND SHE NEARLY HAS IT ALL. NOW, SHE COULD LOSE EVERYTHING... Can anyone ever have everything? There was a time Amanda Creed might have believed such things were possible. Not anymore. Yet, she never expected to gain so much, only to lose what she holds most dear. Amid the opulence and insulation of her new corporate lifestyle, the takers have come for Amanda Creed. And along with plotting to strip away her wealth, power, position and control, they have come to claim their pound of flesh, too. Having watched as precious things are nearly ripped from her, Amanda rises to...

IS AMANDA CREED'S CORPORATE EMPIRE UNRAVELING? It has been a cut-throat climb for Amanda Creed. And corporate success has come at a very personal cost. Yet now she sits at the pinnacle as a successful CEO of a vast, global corporate empire. But for how long? Power comes in many forms. Wealth is just one of them. This time, Amanda will face the even dirtier - and far deadlier -worlds of politics, the mafia and a corrupt justice system as she tries to launch her latest money-minting business. The balance sheet goes far beyond dollars and sense. The costs of doing business in these worlds might...

WOUNDED HEART is being hailed and the next THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Only, the fault in these two young lovers' stars is a suffering soldier's PTSD... Jake Tyler is a wounded warrior with a terrible secret. He has returned home to Pennsylvania, looking to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. Tessa Knight, a sheltered college freshman from Pittsburgh, is aching to begin hers. They meet-cute amid the idyllic grandeur of central Pennsylvania's Old State University. And from the very beginning, one seems to heal the other's broken places. But it's a cruel, dangerous world and theirs is fragile...