Bøger af G D Baum

[Point and Shoot has been named a Finalist in the Mystery category of the 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Awards.] Point and Shoot is a detective murder mystery with a twist. Private Investigator, former cop and bodyguard Lock Tourmaline's personal life is a mess. He continually tries to help both his present wife, Janice, who is dying of cancer, and his ex-wife, Lori, who is on a self-destructive path of drug use and shacking up with the wrong men. Neither woman is impressed with Lock's attempt to help. His wife begins to withdraw, while his ex-wife demands his help even though she finds him contemptible. The story opens with the assassination of a Korean drug lord during a meeting with a rival. The mystery is in finding who is responsible for the murder - and the list of suspects is extensive. The plot is often mixed up with Lock's private struggles. When Lock's investigation into the murder points to people in his personal life, the story becomes explosive. The anchor in his roiling sea of troubles is Lock's martial arts mentor, known only as Grandfather. Oddly, Grandfather's sole means of support is working as a bouncer for a local BDSM dungeon. It is there that he meets a young mistress less than half his age who becomes the love of his life. Grandfather holds the key to smoothing out Lock's messy life and seeks to bring him to a more spiritual use of his martial arts training. The main story line and the numerous subplots weave together in the end to a logical, though unexpected, resolution.

[Sleeping to Death has been named (i) a Finalist in the Mystery category of the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards; (ii) a Finalist in the Crime Fiction category of the 2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards; and (iii) a 2015 Top Summer Read by IndieReader.] The head of the drug trade in northern New Jersey is assassinated in a prison controlled by a rival. Private Investigator Lock Tourmaline is hired by the family to solve the murder. The timing is not good. Lock's ex-wife was taped in flagrante delicto without her knowledge. The video is now being sold by that same rival drug lord as pornography, and she is hell bent on stopping him by any means necessary. Lock reluctantly places himself in the line of fire to protect her from the very man he is investigating as a suspect. At the same time, Lock is confronting the harsh truth that his martial arts mentor, known only as "Grandfather", is dying. This makes no sense to Grandfather's young wife, April, a mistress at a local BDSM dungeon. She is the mother of Grandfather's four year old child and knows her husband to be in better than perfect health. However, as Lock explains, "This is not death. It is overliving. He's growing too substantial for the world." In their confusion and grief, she and Lock develop a deep emotional bond that blossoms into love. It is complicated by the fact that April is married to Grandfather and works for Lock's current lover, the prima donna of the dungeon. Lock has to choose between committing himself to the spiritual growth and insight that is almost within his grasp or pursuing the gritty, day-to-day struggle to find the killer. Will the killer go free because Lock Tourmaline has issues?