In the Wake of Captain Lord.
A Tony Flaner Mystery
Winner of a SILVER QUILL for Best Novel
Old flames and cold murder sailing the Inside Passage
Tony doesn't know why he did it. He just went. Forgetting to even call Allie, he boarded a plane and then a cruise ship to Alaska. While he's trying to figure out what is wrong with him, he has to figure out how an old college crush can get out of a murder charge when she admits to stabbing her millionaire husband.
Tony Flaner is back, and his newest case is his coldest and most complicated yet. Can he avoid the all-you-can-eat buffet along with the bullets shot at him? Eh, no. Of course he can't.
Tourism, murder and blame aboard an Alaskan Cruise Ship full of multi-level marketers, comedians, and killers and all bound for trouble.
Impulsive, sarcastic, Tony Flaner takes a trip down denial when he joins a luxury cruise without telling anyone until he’s gone. Responsibility has never been one of his strong points, but this is one for the books.
Aboard the Royal Danish Cruise line ship Success, Tony wrestles with his failings while murder is afoot. As fate would have it, an old flame is on board, along with a multitude of multi-level marketers – The Pod People. When the flame’s S.O. turns up D.O.A, it’s S.O.S for Tony to break a complex web of mayhem and murder in the short time it takes to binge on butter buffets and bear brawls, pondering personality problems along the Alaskan coastline.
I'm ecstatic to have won a Silver Quill for IN THE WAKE CAPTAIN LORD in the best novel category in the League of Utah Writers Quills Published Book Contest. Art is subjective and full of rejection. Validation, especially among one's peers, is a powerful balm that soothes the soul and justifies the risk of sharing one's work. I am truly grateful and honored.
IN THE WAKE OF CAPTAIN LORD
Genre: Detective Mystery/Comedy
Words: 134,000
Status: Now available at Amazon from Rough Edges Press.