Three businesses. Three robberies. Three murders.Two of the murders were caught on film and all three killers left plenty of DNA evidence behind. So why are these cases so difficult to solve?All three victims are bosses killed by their employees, and yet, the businesses, bosses and employees are unconnected.Or, are they?Two of the businesses have connections to Judah Hammer, now a local crime boss whose good heart leads him to support citize...

Junior is murdering prostitutes and Mama is making him do it.Private Investigator Sam Sharpe is hired to find one of the missing girls, another of whom works for local crime boss, Judah Hammer. The stakes are raised when the Towson mayoral election turns bizarre and violent and Dante's Inferno, a rival crime organization, lays claim to Judah's turf.***Mama's Boy***is book 3 in the Hammer & Sharpe Noir M...

A cop's wife is murdered—and the system investigates itself.Beth Beckett was pregnant when she was stabbed to death in her own kitchen. Days earlier, she'd been confronted at a protest. Now the obvious suspect won't hold—and her husband, a police officer, has an alibi provided by fellow cops.As protests erupt, secrets surface, and loyalties harden, detectives and a private investigator uncover an affair, a cover-up, and a truth no one wants exposed....

From the author of the Book Excellence Finalist The Neighborhood comes the Killer Nashville Best Mystery Finalist Not Today, Dora Ellison Mystery Book 1, with over 200 positive reviews.MYSTERY THRILLER LOVERS! Tragedy forces Dora Ellison to investigate a murder. What she uncovers is a web of breathtaking corruption, violence and killings stretching back decades.Not Today, Dora Ellison Mystery Book 1 is the reader-acclaimed...

A missing child. A bomb in a bank. Two broken men with nothing left to lose.Two days before Halloween, seven-year-old Kyle Robinson vanishes on his way home from school. Desperate, his parents turn to private investigator Sam Sharpe—a man with a cynical streak, a haunted past, and just enough sobriety to stay on the case.Sharpe's search quickly pulls him into the orbit of Wallace North, a ruthless crime boss whose grip on the city runs deep—and whose secret...

Why does an "X" stand for a kiss?Which fruits are in Juicy Fruit® gum?Why do people cry at happy endings?Why do you never see baby pigeons?Pop-culture guru David Feldman demystifies these topics and so much more in Why Don't Cats Like to Swim? -- the unchallenged source of answers to civilization's most perplexing questions. Part of the Imponderables® series, Feldman's book arms readers with information about everyday life -- from science, history, and politics...

Starting where resiliency studies leave off, two psychologists explore the science of remarkable accomplishment in the wake of trauma, revealing the surprising principles that allow people to transform their lives and achieve extraordinary things.Over four billion people worldwide will survive a trauma during their lives. Some will experience severe post-traumatic stress. Most will eventually recover and return to life as normal. But sometimes, survivors do more than bounce back. S...

She buries the past. She collects the trash. And when justice calls, she doesn't back down.Dora Ellison isn't your typical heroine. By day, she's a garbage collector in the sun-bleached streets of Beach City. But beneath her no-nonsense exterior lies a storm of pain, rage—and purpose. A childhood shaped by trauma has left Dora scarred, but also forged into something fierce. Something dangerous.When her lover, police officer Francesca Hart, starts getting an...

BASED ON A TRUE STORYNEW YORK CITY, 1868. They beguiled the suffragists, seduced the millionaires and answered to no one. Spiritualist sisters, VICTORIA WOODHULL and TENNESSEE CLAFLIN were independent, politically progressive free thinkers. The Establishment vowed to destroy them. Based on the true story of the first woman to run for President of the United States, this is the Naked Truth, or Equality, the Forbidden Fruit....

Dinah Hammer has spent her whole life protecting her family — keeping the books, keeping the peace, keeping the past buried. When a charming stranger sweeps her off her feet for the first time in years, she finally lets herself believe she's allowed something good.She's wrong.Across town, her brother Judah is fighting to hold onto everything he's built. A trusted man is murdered and mailed back to him in pieces. A new player is muscling in ...

As the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire nations. In reality, however, water conflicts rarely result in violence and more often lead to collaborative governance, however precarious.In this comprehensive and accessible text, David Feldman introduces readers to the key issues, debates, and challenges in water politics today. Its ten chapters explore the processes that determine ...

When Do Fish Sleep? is the third book in David Feldman’s best-selling Imponderables™ series, packed with answers to perplexing questions and solutions to everyday mysteries, repackaged and featuring a new cumulative index to all ten Imponderables™ books.In his bestselling Imponderables™ series, David Feldman has shown conclusively that there are answers to just about every question that has been baffling the human race in our relentless search for knowledge and self-improvement. No...