Acclaimed author Harry Shannon makes his mystery debut with the hard-boiled novel, "Memorial Day," featuring an unlikely amateur detective who has as many problems of his own as the people he's investigating. Psychologist Mick Callahan was a television star until women, booze, and his own ego bro...
Psychologist Mick Callahan, flawed hero of Harry Shannon's taut thriller 'Memorial Day', wants to escape his violent past. He's finally back in the game, with a successful radio show, a new girlfriend and money in the bank. And then along comes Mary, the young drug addict who saved his life in Dr...
For some reason, I just couldn't walk up and start talking. Then I just called your show." "I think I remember. You asked a family question." "Anyway, that suddenly seemed like the wrong place and time." "You hung up." "Finally, I just called you for an appointment. I figured I could bring it up ...
We were in the motel office. He had multi-colored wires trailing everywhere and an old printer was grinding out pages. I closed the door and dropped onto the well-worn couch. "What?" "That dude Mex is an ex-felon named Jose Rodriguez, originally from the El Paso area. He did three years for burgl...
"Please, man, let me go!" The terrified girl with the runny nose could have been any age between twenty and forty. Her name was Pearl, or so she claimed. She was skeletal; with badly pocked skin and stringy brown hair. Pearl wore a man's blue work shirt, filthy jeans and tennis shoes with no sock...
She was a pallid, pimpled white teenager wearing heavy jewelry, torn cut-off jeans, and an egregiously padded bra. She spat on the ground, turned on her slightly wobbly high heels and strode away. I motioned for Jerry to stop filming. "Somehow I think you need to come up with a warmer, more effec...