When UC San Diego professor Marcus George discovers a colleague’s body in his office, he immediately falls under suspicion. But his partner of nearly twenty years, defense attorney Bob Abramson, faces his own personal grief, leading the couple to navigate love, loyalty, and resilience under pressure.

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“In most mysteries, the tension revolves around the central question: whodunnit? In H.N. Hirsch’s latest book, Winter, the suspense runs deeper. While a campus murder sets the stage, the true intrigue lies in whether a decades-long relationship can endure grief, professional pressures, and the relentless passage of time.”

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Fault Line is the second in H. N. Hirsch’s Bob & Marcus Mystery series.

In the second of the Bob & Marcus Mystery series, newly minted 25-year-old lawyer Bob Abramson joins the DA’s office in San Diego. He soon finds himself leading an investigation into the politically charged murder of the mayor’s husband, a wealthy developer with far too many secrets for his wife’s political ambitions.

Bob’s first encounter with murder occurred four years previously, when his roommate, the scion of an old Boston family, was murdered and the case was investigated by the victim’s Harvard professor, Marcus George. As the investigation developed, Bob and Marcus, naturally, fell in love.

Now, Bob has completed law school and landed a job as an Assistant District Attorney in San Diego, and Marcus has accepted a new position at UC San Diego. As they settle in to their new home, they’re thrust into the investigation and its political ramifications, and they find that a gay subculture roils much of southern California’s placidly straight surface.

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RF Wilson’s Rick Ryder Mystery series exposes the dark, gritty underside of life. Set in Asheville and the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains that Wilson calls home, one-armed attorney and sometime private investigator Rick Ryder struggles to balance a challenging job, personal demons, and a loving but difficult marriage.

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Its protagonist is a young, gay Harvard faculty member striving to find his footing in the Ivy League in the face of the publish-or-perish standards of academia, the strictures of life in exclusive enclaves in Boston and Kennebunkport, and the gay subculture along the New England coast circa 1985.

Here Professor Marcus George, already beset by the tense, competitive world of Ivy League politics, is drawn into investigating the murder of one of his former students, the son of an elite Massachusetts family. As he investigates the murder, Marcus stumbles across academic and financial corruption that could ruin several lives—even as he falls into a tender and heartwarming love affair that will change his own.

Shade is a beautifully realized, gripping tale in the classic style of an endlessly surprising, twist-and-turn murder mystery. Imagine a book like Dorothy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night set in Harvard Yard, Boston’s elite Louisburg Square, and Miller’s Cove, a fictional Maine coastal resort reminiscent of the famous Ogunquit.

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Earlier in his life, Loewer himself worked as the editor of a small-town newspaper, and he drew on his experiences there to create the novel.

As the publishing trade begins its transition from traditional cold-type to electronic publishing, The Last of the Swindlers captures the magic of story-gathering and small-town politics as it evolves into tracking down a double murderer, a smuggling ring, and fraud. The protagonist, Oliver Swindler, risks his own life and that of his new-found girlfriend and coworker, Adrian Knapp, to solve the many layers of mystery that beset Fernglade, NC.

The novel also previews, in an unexpected way, the current phenomenon of wealthy big-city residents’ flight to smaller, less urbanized areas of the country. Although today’s migration is to escape the Covid-19 pandemic, the book paints a wry picture of self-indulgent rich people’s search for an “undiscovered paradise” (with, of course, all the comforts of the metropolis).

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RF Wilson’s Rick Ryder Mystery series exposes the dark, gritty underside of life. Set in Asheville and the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains that Wilson calls home, one-armed attorney and sometime private investigator Rick Ryder struggles to balance a challenging job, personal demons, and a loving but difficult marriage.

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It’s 1913, and Lanky is a 6-foot, 4-inch tall rascal, full of energy, charm, and a determination to follow the timeless advice to “go and find out!” His curiosity has landed him in trouble before, but his motives are never in question. It’s just that being 13 years old means that doing the right thing sometimes entails going about it in the wrong way.

Woodrow is there to spend the summer in Claggett Cove, and at first the two boys get off on the wrong foot. But soon they feel compelled to investigate some strange goings-on, beginning with a “WANTED” poster appearing in the window of the village store. Lanky’s imagination is stimulated — and when the poster disappears soon after a mysterious stranger arrives in town, he is determined to find out why. Soon enough, suspicion falls on one man and then another, as the story of a $10,000 dollar bracelet stolen from a museum in faraway Boston, Massachusetts gets around town.

Lanky and Woodrow are determined to find out the whole story. Little do they know that the desperate thief will do anything to keep from being found out, and their lives are put in danger more than once as they pursue clue after clue to solve the mystery.

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Set in Asheville and the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains that Wilson calls home, one-armed attorney and sometime private investigator Rick Ryder struggles to balance a challenging job, personal demons, and a loving but difficult marriage.

Deadly Dancing, released in May 2016, brings one-armed, alcoholic lawyer and detective Rick Ryder up against foes who will stop at nothing to escape justice–including framing him for murder. When he discovers unexpected links between illegal tree-cutting on National Forest land and a tawdry nightclub, Ryder finds himself drawn into an underworld rife with corruption, illicit drugs, and death. A family timber operation, exotic dancers, even a United States senator are threatened as Ryder is accused of murder, his investigations go into overtime, and he struggles to root out the true source of corruption–and clear his own name.

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Set in Asheville and the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains that Wilson calls home, one-armed attorney and sometime private investigator Rick Ryder struggles to balance a challenging job, personal demons, and a loving but difficult marriage.

In Killer Weed, Wilson’s debut novel published in 2014, Ryder came up against murder, a secret marijuana-growing operation, and a dangerous conspiracy to take thousands of acres of valuable mountain land from its rightful owner. Killer Weed is a fast-paced, finely wrought story that weaves together professional and personal relationships that sometimes shed unpleasant light on human nature.

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