Detective Stories

Christmas Eve - 2012 The predicted Apocalypse of 12/21/12 never occurred. Those who believed breathed a sigh of relief. While families all over the world gather to celebrate Christmas, a group of misfits gather to ward off the loneliness, and sorrows of wasted lives, in an out of the way diner, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and witness the beginning....

Four a.m., awake in my bed, waiting for the familiar call over the bedside monitor. It would come soon, as it did every night.

The world of Darvin Carpenter, a PI in Albuquerque, NM
Darvin takes a bodyguard job - a woman's ex-husband is threatening her. It begins to get exciting...

The world of Darvin Carpenter, a PI in Albuquerque, NM
One of Darvin's friends apparently commits suicide, but Darvin knows it was murder. Proving it, though, becomes an obsession which threatens his marriage.

The world of Darvin Carpenter, a PI in Albuquerque, NM
After someone whose case he'd turned down becomes a murder victim right under Darvin Carpenter's office window, he sets out to find out who did it.

An old story that is quite gloomy and has no redeeming features.