Disclaimer: I tend to assume that any literary or cinematographic work that involves vampires is not suited for adults. For me, vampires, zombies, witches, etc. belong in children's books. There has been one exception to my blanket disdain for the vampire genre: the movie "Let the Right One In", ...
In the American heartland, someone is killing cops.The ambush exploded in an Iowa marijuana field. The weapons were high caliber. The pot was high grade. And the reporters said afterward: "We have two known dead...."Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman knew the dead all right: One was a small-time doper,...
A killer is placing his cross hairs over the American heartland....The pair of frozen corpses were found under a tarp in the machine shed of an empty farmhouse. Two males -- brothers -- both killed by bullets from a Russian automatic fired at close range. The cops have a suspect: a man Deputy She...
The “get organized” meeting would follow supper. In the meantime, we broke up into groups. Art, Hal, and I went into the back office with Detective Bill Saperstein. We three Iowa people were all about six to eight inches taller than Saperstein, who was about five five. As we shut the office door,...
I ASKED HESTER. She nodded, then spoke very deliberately. “How many grenades do you think they have left?” She shook her head, reached inside her coat, and pulled out a bottle of water. She took a swig, tilted her head toward the wounded side, and let the water do its work. She turned away, spit,...