Journalist Sebastian Wren is about to interview retired judge Aaron Meckler, only to learn that he has been found hanged. The police suspect suicide. His daughter Adrianne thinks not. Adrianne's art gallery is vandalized. Stranger Elizabeth Brown shows up at Judge Meckler's memorial service and reveals her husband was recently found hanged, they all suspect a connection. A third hanging opens the door to a possible link with a new "fat pill." Suicides? Murders? Vandalism? Sebastian and his friends uncover the truth in this fast-paced new mystery novel.

Chuck Gray, a 40-something family man whose worked at a paper supply house for nearly two decades can't help but be attracted to Felicia Tafoya, a beautiful Latina coworker more than 20 years his junior. In danger of missing an international flight after missing her bus, Chuck offers Felicia a ride. The next morning detectives ask Chuck some questions about the rape and murder of a woman matching Felicia's description, and before he realizes what's happening, Chuck is arrested.
Innocent Bystander explores the ordeal that one man faces when considered a suspect in a violent sex crime,...

A late night knock sends writer SEBASTIAN WREN mentally back 30-some years because the woman at the door resembles his former lover, MORGAN O'CONNOR. It is Morgan's born-out-of-wedlock daughter CHELSEA. She came to solicit Sebastian's help to get back her kidnapped mother. Sebastian realizes Chelsea could not be his daughter, but the twin mysteries of her parentage and her mother's abduction, along with a scant clue on a cell phone, send the pair to L.A. The couple trek north only to face kidnappers that manage to pull a switch; Morgan is free, but Chelsea becomes captive, and a plot more...