Vincent Panettiere

An Hmong “story cloth,” the Gadsden flag, forged Picassos and a Russian drug dealer. How these disparate elements are linked, is Mike Hegan’s latest challenge in The Scopas Factor. Now on sabbatical from the Chicago Police Department, Hegan will travel from Chicago to California – where he’ll “me...

Hours after a thoroughbred racehorse collapses and dies after finishing last in a race he was favored to win, his trainer—a young woman with a promising career—is found dead on a suburban Chicago beach. To the police, it's a simple case of murder-suicide. But Mike Hegan, veteran police detective,...

Success does not usually equate with death. Unless you happen to be novelist Charlie Forte. When Charlie receives the largest book advance of his career, he comes to two conclusions: He is a shit, and he is going to kill himself. But, a stone garden wall and twenty-four women thwart his plans. ...

Frank DioGuardia, a New Jersey college professor, always feared the onset of autumn. A chill in the air and rainy skies took him back to the day his father died decades ago. It was a memory that each year caused Frank to start counting the days until he reached the milestone of having spent more...