Coldwater Mystery

Bad things happen when a bioresearch research company on the verge of bankruptcy agrees to act as a conduit for anonymous shipments of vials, powders and Petri-dishes in exchange for quick cash. Trouble begins when a poxed corpse floats to the top of a nearby lake and an autopsy reveals it to be riddled with deadly toxin. COLDWATER REVENGE is an atmospheric mystery/thriller that takes place during a ten day period in the Fall of 2002. The setting is a small upstate New York town with a centuries-long tradition of live and let live smuggling across the lake it shares with French Quebec. Murder suspects in a place turned inward by history and geography are of necessity friends, lovers and even family. The brother detectives of COLDWATER REVENGE face difficult moral choices when it appears the killer may be someone close to them. Especially when one begins to suspect the other and the catalyst is an ex-girlfriend they have in common.

Thousands of shoulder-fired missiles vanished from U.S. military bases in the early 1990s. Most ended up in the hands of the Mujahideen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, while military investigators were quietly ordered to look the other way. But at an army base near Coldwater, New York, scores of missiles are diverted, cached, and later sold to the highest bidder. When Coldwater's sole law enforcement officer stumbles onto a clandestine delivery to a domestic terrorist group, he is brutally murdered. In this second book in the Coldwater mystery series, the Morgan brothers again combine skills to investigate a trio of unexplained local deaths, including their sheriff father's. In doing so, they confront difficult moral choices when suspects include their mother, each other, and the newest teacher at Our Lady Of The Lake Elementary School in whom both brothers take a hazardous romantic interest.

Where does obligation end when work is the source of pride and fulfillment and family a quagmire of dysfunction and deceit? Tom Morgan has tried to lose himself in the work and rewards of a high-stakes legal career, putting time and distance between him and his ethically challenged family. But when his sheriff brother is ambushed and left for dead in the woods, and his mother is killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident, Tom returns to his home town to confront an unknown killer and to save his family from itself.