Fiction

Title: Chocolate Soup
Author: Del Staecker
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: Joyce Faulkner

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1934980579

Ledge Trabue—Gulf War veteran, sleuth, and adventurer—is finally home and comfortably ensconced at the Colonnade hotel in New Orleans, enjoying his peculiarly unique lifestyle and his eclectic group of friends. Since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans—with its citizens striving to become a revitalized Chocolate City—has failed to regain all it lost because of an onslaught of political greed and deceit. When the Colonnade’s manager, Mrs. K, threatens to bring down the powerful political machine, she unknowingly launches an avalanche of evil more personally devastating than any storm.

Title: Shaved Ice
Author: Del Staecker
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: Joyce Faulkner

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1934980137

Ledge Trabue—Gulf War veteran, sleuth, and adventurer—is finally home and comfortably ensconced at the Colonnade hotel in New Orleans, enjoying his peculiarly unique lifestyle and his eclectic group of friends. Since Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans—with its citizens striving to become a revitalized Chocolate City—has failed to regain all it lost because of an onslaught of political greed and deceit. When the Colonnade’s manager, Mrs. K, threatens to bring down the powerful political machine, she unknowingly launches an avalanche of evil more personally devastating than any storm.

Title: Muted Mermaid
Author: Del Staecker
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: Joyce Faulkner

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0979949467

Del Staecker's awesome literary skills are revealed with our release of The Muted Mermaid. Set in Nashville, the murder mystery introduces recurring characters in the Ledge Trabue Mystery Series while captivating readers with a fast-paced story that's impossible to put down.

Title: Dangerous Past
Author: A. F. Ebbers
Genre: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller
Reviewer: Stephen Phillips

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0978948238

This is a contemporary story of Airline Captain Frank Braden, a former Vietnam pilot, who is being stalked by unknown assassins who must arrange his death to look like a suicide or an accident before a specific deadline. And Braden has no clue as to why people would want to kill him.

Soon after the assassins arrive in Austin, Texas, the airliner Braden is flying undergoes a terrifying and deadly decompression explosion. Braden is suspended from his flying job and is suspected of being unstable since the FBI is led to believe he caused the airliner explosion in a suicide attempt.

Little by little Braden and his wife are pulled deeper and deeper into a dangerous web of intrigue that will eventually rock the highest levels of Washington.

Several attempts are made on his life and even his wife and children are threatened with death. And when Braden turns to the local police for help, they do not believe his stories since they think he is schizophrenic and suicidal, exactly what his assailants want the authorities to believe.

Title: Internal Conflicts
Author: Flint Whitlock
Genre: Fiction, Literary
Reviewer: Joyce Faulkner

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1934980692

The novel follows the life of Peter Luton, a young, idealistic Army officer in the mid-1960s caught up by the events of the Vietnam War and desperately seeking a path to manhood. Stationed in West Germany where he is enjoying the hedonistic good life, he is fearful of being sent to Vietnam. At last the inevitable happens and he finds himself in the war zone. He comes to the conclusion that manhood can only be won on the battlefield--a realization that leads to a shattering climax on a South Vietnamese highway.