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Watch out for that jellyfish After the death of his fianc e due to medical errors, hospital pharmacist Daniel O' Dwyer escapes to Oak Island, North Carolina. The only things on his mind are fresh sea air, fresh seafood, Fat Tire Amber Ale, and the avoidance of any type of healthcare institution. But fate and jellyfish draw him back, and reluctantly he agrees to go undercover to combat narcotic drug diversion at nearby Boiling Grove Community Hospital. With minimal assistance from Willie, his socially imbalanced sidekick, Daniel must navigate through dangerous situations and wild characters, including a brawny redneck with a Bob Marley tattoo; a foreign physician with bat-like qualities; and a lackluster Human Resources Director with a penchant for Mai Tais and Ebenezer Scrooge.Ripped Tide: A Daniel O'Dwyer Oak Island Adventure is a humorous take on a very serious issue.Ripped Tide is a 2017 McGrath House Indie Book Award Winner in the Humor Category.

Sometimes it takes a village to solve a mystery (or at least the local patrons and owners of No Egrets). One of the regulars, Bobby Portis, has been missing from his barstool at No Egrets for several days. Two others quickly contract mysterious blood diseases. Is there a connection? No Egrets, a quaint bar on Oak Island, North Carolina, is owned by Glenn, a surgeon lured away from the medical field by a swordfish and island life, and his wife Glenda. They join their bar patrons in a search for Bobby and the mystery of the sudden illnesses. "No Egrets: A Glenn and Glenda Oak Island Mystery" has more twists and turns than a small intestine. The crazy characters include Matilda, an ancient barfly who travels the island on a dilapidated Vespa and has a different drink for each day of the week...a psychotic, card-carrying Communist goon named Otto...Richard Crabgrass, a never-say-die bit actor who auditions for every movie and television part in Wilmington...the pungent fish cleaner from the Southport docks, Pinhead Paul...Joshua "Ism" McCarthy, surfer dude rumored to turn into his ancestor, Senator Joe McCarthy if a communist sets foot on Oak Island...and Daniel O'Dwyer, pharmacist hero from "Ripped Tide". Praise for "Ripped Tide" the 2017 McGrath House Indie Award Winner in the Humor Category."Rx, Drugs and Rock n' Roll...a fun, breezy read." - Christy Perry Tuohey, author of "Panther Mountain: Caroline's Story"."...reminds me of the style of writing of Carl Hiaasen and John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series." - Janet Matthews, Amazon.com.

Murder, mystery and comic mayhem in early Hollywood on the set of the original Dracula As the Roaring Twenties give way to a new decade, young Irish immigrant, Finnian O'Dwyer arrives at Ellis Island and finds he is in a strange land. It gets stranger as he travels cross country to Los Angeles where he stumbles into a job at Universal City (Capital of the Film World) and into a woman's body at the bottom of the Main Hall staircase in Castle Dracula. She has two small, round red marks on her neck.By day, Finnian becomes assistant to Count Dracula, the one and only Bela Lugosi; at night he works on the set of the Spanish version of the same film ("Vampiro," they whisper). Trouble swirls around Finnian like a vampire's cape when another body is found on the set. Is the search for a Hungarian treasure map connected?Along the way, Finnian falls for Astrid, a headstrong young girl intent on making it in Hollywood on talent alone, and is joined by Astrid's friends, performers from the Freak Show tent at Venice Pier; LeRunt ("The French Giant "), Blatzie ("The World's Most Beautiful Fat Woman") and Thaddeus ("The World's Puniest Man"). Are the deaths at the movie studio connected? Can Finnian, Bela Lugosi, Astrid and friends solve the mystery?Seamlessly blending suspense, romance, humor and horror, Of Vamps and Vampiros: A Finnian O'Dwyer Universal City Crime Cape(r) weaves its way through the making of a classic film during the period of The Great Depression; Prohibition; a time when Charles Lindbergh is the most famous man in the world.From the author of No Egrets, Mantis Preying and the 2017 McGrath House Indie Book Award Winner in the Humor Category Ripped Tide: A Daniel O'Dwyer Oak Island Adventure.

Watch out for that deadly peacock mantis shrimp Daniel O'Dwyer is back Content to be unemployed and spend his days in the sun and sand of his Oak Island paradise, Daniel is once again drawn back to the local hospital and the mysteries that surround it. Construction on the hospital grounds unearths human remains, which are quickly dismissed as being part of a Native American burial ground. A young, clumsy medical resident who runs into Daniel, thinks otherwise. Meanwhile, Daniel's socially imbalanced sidekick, Willie, has a problem of his own. Willie's landlocked houseboat, the Silent Cow is haunted.Along the way, Daniel becomes involved with a beautiful veterinarian, assisting with a drug diversion problem in her office; a beautiful Amazonian construction forewoman, a yodeler and jammer on the local roller derby team; and a beautiful, deadly peacock mantis shrimp.Will Daniel become ensnared in the mystery of the human remains? Will Willie succeed in getting the Silent Cow exorcised? Will Daniel (gasp) have to go back to work? Will the peacock mantis shrimp break through the glass and run amok through the hospital halls?Loaded with new, quirky characters, "Mantis Preying" is a follow up to "Ripped Tide", a 2017 McGrath House Indie Book Award Winner in the Humor Category.