Books

Ray Dan Parker’s third novel takes us on a high-speed chase through some of Atlanta’s most colorful neighborhoods. Suburban homemaker Allison Embry believes she has gotten away with killing her young boyfriend… until she gets a call from his drug supplier with a proposition that threatens to destroy her family and the comfortable life she has built. Atlanta police lieutenant Paxton Davis, nearing retirement, must find the Midtown Murderer before he strikes again. For Davis, this case is all too reminiscent of the 1979-1980 child murders that marked the beginning of his career. Widowed newspaper writer Tom Williams plans to pursue his lifelong dream, to travel the US and chronicle his experiences. Then Tom receives word that an unknown assailant has killed a third lawyer nearby. As he ponders what else can go wrong, his daughter, a criminal defense attorney, calls to say she’s leaving her husband and moving home...

Dina Savage has escaped a life of poverty and abuse in a rural trailer park to become the woman she has always dreamed of. Brilliant and well-educated, she builds a successful career and a personal fortune on her two greatest talents, a photographic memory and the ability to hack into computers anywhere in the world. She carries with her, though, a dark secret from her childhood, a night of sheer terror and a mutilated corpse discovered deep in the woods. The one thing missing in Dina’s life, she believes, is a romantic relationship, someone rich and famous. Tall and boyishly handsome, talented artist Liam Sanstrom seems to fit the bill. An enjoyable evening of music and wine with friends, however, leads to an excess of drugs and alcohol, accusations of sexual assault, and a flood of repressed memories that carry Dina to the brink of self-destruction. Tom Williams first meets...

In April 1968 twenty-six-year-old newspaper reporter Tom Williams travels to Atlanta to cover the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King. Inspired by this experience, he returns to his hometown of Monrovia, Florida seeking justice in the lynching of a childhood friend, a young Black man falsely accused of rape and murder.  For Tom this is an odyssey into a past marked by the sudden and mysterious deaths of his parents when he was eleven years old and the tragic end of a relationship with an unhappily married woman. Along the way he runs afoul of local law enforcement and international drug smugglers as he uncovers the buried secrets of some of the most important people in his life.  He discovers much about himself and his community he would rather not have known.  In time he comes to realize that, in the words of a close friend, “the truth just might...