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.”

On his own, with his favorite cousin by his side, the new two-member “gang” devises a takedown of the city’s most infamous biker gang’s clubhouse for a possible huge payday.

The stakes are high—and so is the tension—as Vinnie bets his life on being smarter than the gang, the cops, and his father, the would-be don. And you’re going to love these guys. And tense up. And laugh, and then laugh some more.

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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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Gideon Calhoun is a televangelist who for years has claimed to be “God’s agent here on earth.” When Jerome’s insurance company rejects his claim because the sinkhole was “an act of God,” Jerome—an atheist—decides to sue his agent for damages.

Now the atheist must prove the existence of God to claim recompense, while the evangelist must argue that he is not God’s agent, because God may not even exist! Jerome v. God is an ironic, humanist novel of the two men’s epic battle.

Jeff’s previous novel, Perpetuonics, was released by Pisgah Press in 2024. He is also the author of the acclaimed Denton the Dragon musical play and story. He lives in Black Mountain, NC.

Feisty, streetwise Benny Logan has risen in the union ranks as a product of his gutsy persona and willingness to break from corrupt, old-guard leaders who have sold out the city’s tugboat workers for decades. Seeking allies in his crusade to reform the labor union, Benny recruits his younger brother Jack, newly returned from the war, as a deckhand on the flagship of tugboat magnate Henry McFarland, the leader of a tugboat owners’ coalition. Supported by mob and business associates alike, the powerful and unscrupulous McFarland will stop at nothing to crush the union and protect the interests of the city’s corporate elite.

As these powerful forces collide, Jack works to find a new way forward for labor-management relations, even as he and his wife, a pregnant British war bride, attempt to recover from the emotional trauma of the war.

Feisty, streetwise Benny Logan has risen in the union ranks as a product of his gutsy persona and willingness to break from corrupt, old-guard leaders who have sold out the city’s tugboat workers for decades. Seeking allies in his crusade to reform the labor union, Benny recruits his younger brother Jack, newly returned from the war, as a deckhand on the flagship of tugboat magnate Henry McFarland, the leader of a tugboat owners’ coalition. Supported by mob and business associates alike, the powerful and unscrupulous McFarland will stop at nothing to crush the union and protect the interests of the city’s corporate elite.

As these powerful forces collide, Jack works to find a new way forward for labor-management relations, even as he and his wife, a pregnant British war bride, attempt to recover from the emotional trauma of the war.

These “Digital beINGS”— Dings in shorthand — can theoretically “live” forever. They reside in massive servers, where they communicate with living people with the help of a living Compadore. They are also, of course, subject to rules and restrictions . . . until they begin to discover their own power.

From the evolution of the concept into reality to the devolution and, ultimately, revolution, Perpetuonics  presents an intriguing, disturbing possibility for the future of life on earth.

Written by Jeffrey Melvin Hutchins, Perpetuonics was released Oct. 17, 2024. He is also the author of the acclaimed Denton the Dragon musical play and story. He lives in Black Mountain, NC.

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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