A DEATH ON CROOKED LAKE is the story of the murder of a wealthy and arrogant man who has moved to a peaceful lake in upstate New York as owner of one of the regions premier wineries. His arrival quickly upsets the lives of many of the lakes residents. The question facing a vacationing college professor who discovers the body and the young woman new to her job as local sheriff is who among the victims many enemies hated him enough to kill him.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are considered kindred religions-holding ancestral heritages and monotheistic belief in common-but there are definitive distinctions between these "Abrahamic" peoples. Shared Stories, Rival Tellings explores the early exchanges of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and argues that their interactions were dominated by debates over the meanings of certain stories sacred to all three communities. Robert C. Gregg shows how Jewish, Christian, and Muslim int...

A Haunting and Unforgettable Story of Survival, Secrets, and Brotherhood Set against the breathtaking yet unforgiving backdrop of the Canadian North, Moonshadows: Only The Most Cunning Will Survive by Robert B. Gregg is a gripping tale of friendship, self-discovery, and survival at its rawest. Narrated with gripping intensity by Sonny Swinhart, Produced and Published by Audiobook Publishing Services

The boys who broke into the old decaying mansion on the hill above Crooked Lake did not take its reputation as a haunted house seriously. Not, that is, until they stumbled upon a skeletonized body in the attic. The local sheriff faces the challenge of reconstructing the life of this long dead woman, determining whether she committed suicide or was murdered, and identifying suspects who might have had a reason for wishing her dead. In her effort to bring the case to closure, the sheriff must d...

Summer residents return to Crooked Lake after a long, cold winter and are horrified to find the body of a beautiful young woman in the cellar of their cottage. The sheriff identifies her as an exchange student from Sweden who went missing back in January. But how did her body come to be in a cottage which had been closed and locked up since the previous September? The sheriff and her partner soon find themselves in search of the person who had both a reason to kill the young woman and a key w...

The scarecrow guarding the vineyard on Crooked Lake is not the usual strawman but the body of a man nobody seems to know. Before the sheriff can catch his killer, she must first find out who he really is and who might want him dead. Her investigation leads to a small town church in New England, a gambling casino in upstate New York, and the cool cellars of the Random Harvest winery above Crooked Lake. Was it anger, greed, or fear that led to the murder of this quiet little man with secrets in...

A small pontoon plane crashes into the waters of Crooked Lake one beautiful summer morning. The pilot is dead, and the sheriff turns the case over to a federal agency that rules the pilot died of a heart attack. But the sheriff is puzzled by the strange behavior of the people mourning his death. In the course of their investigation, Carol and Kevin discover that the pilots medications have been mysteriously switched, that his survivors are engaged in a nasty fight over a will, and that his do...

Set in the breathtaking yet unforgiving Canadian North, Moonshadows is a powerful tale of friendship, survival, and self-discovery. Five lifelong friends embark on what was supposed to be a routine fishing trip to the remote Albany River. But as nature begins to turn on them - with unpredictable weather, wild terrain, and the haunting silence of the wilderness - the men find themselves facing not only the elements, but their own buried truths.What begins as a time-honored tradition...

The Holy Grail: More Than a Legend is the original Grail story complete, and made more understandable for the reader.The novel chronicles the journeys of Percival, the greatest Knight of the Round Table, and interweaves the adventures of Lancelot and Gawain as they also rescue beautiful damsels and confront evil knights to attain the Holy Grail.The legend never lets you down, as the knights travel through dark forests, visit mysterious castles, joust in tournaments...

Four Iraq veterans take a fly-in fishing trip to a remote area of Northern Canada to help heal old wounds left from the war.During this retreat from civilization, and under the tutelage of their Indian guide, they are forced to survive a disaster and overcome a life or death situation.Following a whitewater accident in which one of the expedition dies and another is seriously injured, and trapped in a setting where there is no escape, the men must rely on one another once m...

The Man Who Wasnt Beckham begins on a cold spring day when two young boys discover the body of a woman at the bottom of a steep bank in a ravine above Crooked Lake. Who is she? Did she fall, or was she pushed? In their search for the truth, the sheriff and her partner, a vacationing college professor, must follow a trail of calculated deception beginning in December with a casual encounter in Chicago and culminating in July on the shores of Crooked Lake.

Setting the Stage for Murder tells the story of a brutal murder that cuts short a plan to bring opera to the shores of Crooked Lake. On the day of the dress rehearsal, the leading man is found strangled to death on stage. In true operatic fashion, the cast is a veritable hothouse of passions. Several members of the cast have a motive for murder, and no one has an iron-clad alibi. A vacationing professor of music who had been directing the ill-fated opera joins forces with the local sheriff to...