One Big Itch
One Big Itch is set in Honolulu, a playful city that is also haunted, as John Spyer P.I. well knows. Too bad Spyer is a hapa haole (ha-pa how-lee), a half white, and so pays only half attention when Madam Pele herself warns him off the Randolph Haverhill case. No decent Hawaiian ever says no to and old friend, which makes Spyer the quintessential soft-boiled P.I. Spyer investigates the death of his childhood pal Randy Haverhill, opening his own psychic wounds in the process. Trouble is, Randy, now a celebrity scholar, became too popular with the ladies for his own good. It appears that one of Randy’s crazed lovers shot Randy on his own doorstep. So why do the police persist
in the notion that Randy was murdered by his own son?
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The Serenoa Scandal
A prominent South Florida rancher is murdered in cold blood in his wife’s arms. The DEA raids her beloved Serenoa Ranch and seizes her property. The harassing phone calls start–again.
Puttnam Jorgenson, the editor of the local newspaper in the small town of Sabal Springs comes to the rescue, inviting his close friend and former DEA agent John Spyer, originally from Maui Hawaii, to join him on a twisting and turning investigation into conspiracy, political corruption and murder–all designed to conceal a deadly secret that could tear the local community and an entire state apart.
This strongly character-driven page-turner is sure to delight all true mystery-suspense aficionados. Sara Williams’ characters leap off the page and into your hearts. Her intricate story is woven from the threads of the true-crimes and scandals she investigated as a journalist.
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The don juan con
This complex and ever-twisting thriller is torn from the headlines of actual events, an all-too-common crime that often goes unreported and unpunished. In The Don Juan Con a flamboyant swindler calling himself Anthony Abruzzi wines and dines unsuspecting women from one end of the country to the other, seducing them into marrying him within days of meeting him. Yet just before the lavish whirlwind weddings are to take place, he disappears, absconding with whatever assets, meager or mighty, his victims possessed.
Yet when he makes the mistake of jilting and bankrupting Angie Reynolds, a designer living in DeLeon, FL, his fortunes are about to be reversed. With the help of police detective Joe Vensure, Angie meticulously hunts Anthony down, following his trail of broken-hearted and devastated victims. She is further shocked to discover that not all of his marks were merely jilted — some are dead. It becomes a race against time itself when she discovers that her own mother may be his next victim. And nothing can prepare her for learning the mysterious secret of her own past that started it all.
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Millie McCall's Full Moon Poker Night: Tales from the San Juan Islands and the Pacific Northwest
Millie McCall is an exuberant, Harley-riding character who hosts scandalous poker parties for the local fellows wearing her red negligee. Young Jim Halprin is a stand-in at the party, forewarned to flee the moment the last card slaps the table. A swaggering Harley rider himself, Jim bonds with Mrs. McCall instead, as she absorbs lunar energy, shedding her disheveled appearance, becoming a tantalizing beauty. Jim rescues Millie’s flashy Harley from destruction by juvenile predators but Millie laughs off the pranksters and leads Jim off on a wild chase in the wrong direction over the twisting roads of Orcas, the most rugged and dangerous of the San Juan Islands. Millie is evading her keepers and tormenting her husband, or so Jim soon learns. He finds himself on a mad ride on the night of the full moon, terrified to learn that Mrs. McCall’s freedom ride is meant to last forever.
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Effects of alcohol abuse on adolescent brain development
Alcohol use entails high medical, social, and economic costs for our society. Despite laws restricting the age of alcohol users, alcohol use is young. Alcohol consumption among adolescents is characterized by frequent drinking and drinking in high quantities. At the same time, during adolescence, the brain undergoes many developmental changes. Alcohol use can cause brain damage and long-term detrimental neurocognitive effects, such as executive functioning, memory, and learning abilities. Moreover, evidence suggests that early-onset and high-risk alcohol use among adolescents increase the risk for later alcohol abuse and addiction.
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