When the dead whisper, he listens.Once a brilliant forensic investigator, Brian now works with an unearthly gift—an "obsession" that lets the murdered speak through him. Each case drags him deeper into the shadows, where truth is never clean and justice comes at a cost. But when the corpses start demanding more than answers, Brian must decide if he serves the living… or the dead.

This is a story about redemption. A grown man, Francis hangs out at home doing drugs. His mother Elizabeth kicks him out. Twenty years later, he comes home to ask her for help rebuilding his life. Despite his age, he is like a fledgling bird that can't yet fly. Elizabeth re-discovers that she loves him when he proves that he's the same honorable son that he always was. Length: about 200 pages.

The depth, intensity, and long-standing nature of the disagreements between differing schools of social thought renders more critical than ever the treatment of dialectical reasoning and its relationship to the social sciences. The nature of these disagreements are deeply rooted in fundamentally differing beliefs regarding, among many things: (1) the nature of man, (2) the role of theory versus data in constructing social theories, (3) the place and function of values versus facts in inqui...