Kirjahaku

An escaped lunatic murders two prostitutes at Lovland Lodge. Delilah and Annabelle have inherited the raggedy old lodge, and business is dead. They don't have the money for repairs, much less for the balloon payment, soon due, to pay off their fat mortgage. They face foreclosure. The recession has cost Sam his job. His two fishing buddies, wounded in Iraq, try to convince him he should start a bed and breakfast. He says they're crazy. When the lodge becomes Samson and Delilah's Haunted Bed and Breakfast, its new name pulls in gobs of guests. The weird lights and noises at night give fun to everybody, believers and skeptics alike, even if they're not too sure of what's going on. They all pitch in to help solve the mystery. A more realistic problem smacks them: Annabelle's dirty rotten ex-husband, Percy. She has kicked him out and filed for divorce, but he keeps trying to steal the property. He kidnaps her and piles a $100,000 ransom on top of the $280,000 mortgage payment.

Dr. Mike MacDougal joins a group of scientists and theologians on their way to investigate the work of a mad doctor who claims she will soon transplant human brains. Mike's mother, sent to interview her, disappears. In a cannibal village deep in the mountains of the Philippines, Mike learns what has happened to her.

From San Francisco, Molly Malone has trapped herself in a small town in the middle of Iowa's cornfields where she teaches high school. She hungers for the West--and the chance for romance, perhaps even a husband. Her ad "for correspondence" lands her in trouble with the school board, but it produces results.

Casey Carpenter has three goals: Pass the bar exam before he turns 21; Gain revenge against a crooked district attorney; and third, find Ed Cooper's son who has run off to avoid prosecution for a crime he did not commit.

This book has important Biblical figures with some of the major events in their lives, and because it is often colored with imagination, one might call it Historical Fiction or Fictional History. It shows them at their best and at their worst, without the sugar-coating that many readers apply when they read about Biblical Heroes.

The first of two books, Another Fine Mess, tells how Pete Erickson takes a rich widow as a paying passenger when he sails to Alaska. Her son has been involved with Pete's old schoolmate, who sets out to sink him. In this book, Another Fine Mess II, Pete admits that he wishes Mrs. Helgesen had gone on the trip with him. She's the wife of the minister in their watery town on Puget Sound, where fish, boats, and gossip are the chief industries. The business partners of Pete's old schoolmate want revenge and infiltrate his sleepy little town. It's another fine mess.