Deal : Mystery

FIVE STAR PBR BOOK REVIEW... Snowden impresses with his exceptional collection of eight deeply poignant stories in his latest. A decades-old unsavory act sets the stage for a hard-edged businessman’s transformation into a sympathetic person weighed down with guilt and shame in “Yesterday’s Giant.” Snowden’s prose is assured as he takes readers into a long-dead artisan glassmaker’s quest to fulfilling his wish in “Snowfall in Venice.” In “Never in Time,” a time travel tale with a dash of paranormal, Snowden traces a computer repair shop owner’s journey of longing and mystery as he sets on to free a beautiful, young...

Richard Kurtz is a surgeon with a growing practice, a luxury apartment on the East Side of Manhattan and a beautiful girlfriend. Lew Barent is a police detective. He has chronic migraine headaches, a son-in-law he can barely stand and a job that he's looking forward to leaving. Kurtz and Barent have solved two improbable murders at Easton Medical Center and neither of them are expecting a third, but when elderly philanthropist Eleanor Herbert dreams that she's witnessed a murder and a young hospital administrator is found strangled, Kurtz and Barent are drawn into a twisted tale of greed, conspiracy...

Richart Kurtz has the typical surgeon’s deep-seated mania for control and right now, too many things are happening, none of which make sense. His most recent patient, an undercover cop, has had his brain scrambled by a sniper’s bullet. Another patient is dying because an incompetent colleague made one mistake too many. A third patient got hit by a car after OD’ing on a new, unknown narcotic, and Steven Hayward and his wife, both drug dealers, were found dead in bed with their detached heads propped up on the kitchen counter. Not that any of this is Kurtz’ business. Kurtz...

Buyer beware. To create excitement, Ruger, a shady dealer at the annual rendezvous flea market, puts up for auction a locked Civil War trunk with contents to be sold sight unseen! That night, the highest bidder, Zeke Jones, is found stabbed to death beside the trunk. Sheriff Jeff McQuede believes Jones has interrupted a robbery in progress. Several people had offered to buy old coins, photos, and medals from him, which indicates to McQuede that Jones had already sold what the robber had been after. Acts of vandalism follow as the thief continues his ruthless search. Baffled, McQuede must beat...