Mark Randolph Conte has published fiction, poetry, articles, interviews and Guest Columns in 67 publications. Including Yankee, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry International, Potomac Review, The Greenfield Review and other publications. A quiet Room won first prize in the Barbwire Theater awards. Six Days wom Honorable mention in the PEN American awards. He was appointed Master Poet by the Florida Council on the Arts.
A decaying body of a young womanl is found near a sand dune on the Navarre-Pensacola Beach road. The law enforcement officers soon discover she was actually the second victim and the terror begins in Northwest Florida. Although every precaution is taken by parents and school officials, the killings continue. There is fear in the streets, in the schools, in the playgrounds and in every home. The Sheriff departments of four counties, the FDLE and the FBI seem powerless to stop it. FBI agent Jodie Murphy, who has a law degree and had been working in the office her first six months is given her on her first street case and she teams up with her father's ex partner, ex homicide detective Joe Carlucci, who wrote the book on catching serial killers and they try to track down and stop The Ghost from his murderous rampage.
A short story collection from the final chapter of the great Sherlock Holmes tales to the after l ife of a billionaire who commits suicide and wakes up in the office of The Recorder of Time, where things are not quite what he expects to the romances of Moonlight & Roses, Fall Semester and Magic and the old love of two seniors and of course, The Easter Lamb story. This is a book you will read again & again.
