SIMPLE Now Available! A beautiful, talented law student, Cassie Price, has been murdered, and the pollice arrest Cal, a handyman who works in her neighborhood. Soon suspicion turns to her boss, a Pittsburgh golden boy about to run for governor of Pennsylvania. Read more... HIDEOUT Jack and Ryan Rutter are riding wild in their red truck one May night. Ryan is crazy with booze and crack. Jack is trying to calm Ryan when Ryan hits and kills a young mother of two on Pittsburgh's North Side. Read more... PITTSBURGH NOIR Rivers, bridges, parks, hills, and back alleys are the settings for fourteen startling stories set in Pittsburgh neighborhoods...Death and sex, part of any noir tapestry, are to be found here. But so are trickery and toughness.... Read more... THE ODDS The Pittsburgh Homicide Division is upside down—Richard Christie is in the hospital, Artie Dolan is headed away on vacation, John Potocki's life is falling apart, and Colleen Greer is so worried about her boss's health, she can hardly think. Read more... AFTERIMAGE In the humid dog days of a Pittsburgh summer weekend, Richard Christie, Head of Homicide, faces not one, but two mysterious murders. The victims—a polite woman and an angelic child—do not seem to be connected in any obvious way... Read more... FALLEN A Pittsburgh doctor is shot through the heart and his widow's mysterious new neighbor is now watching her. This stranger to the city knows Elizabeth's sorrow... Read more... TAKEN The child was taken in broad daylight, on a warm June morning, in a crowded shopping area in downtown Pittsburgh... Read more... THE MAN IN THE BUICK Short Story Collection                                     Read more...