Stephen DeLuca

Detective Hank Dooley is an average cop endowed with unique powers of intuition. Dooley battles insidious forces that threaten to tear apart the fabric of civilization that protects his great City from the chaos lurking beneath. Tirelessly investigating the most brutal crimes, his unconventional methods yield astonishing results. Armed with massive quantities of potent coffee, Dooley discovers guilt in unexpected places, extracting confessions from the least likely suspects through the use of guile and a special telltale itch, and doing his part to clean up the town while bedding a bewildering variety of voracious females. An all-out mob war puts Dooley in the epicenter of the action. Will he succeed in getting the syndicate's secret Big Boss? Or will this elusive ruler get him? Or both? Hank Dooley: The Life and Love of a Big-City Cop delivers what you've always dreamed about police work-in your worst nightmares.

Set in 1970, we follow Sparky Donnelly, a ten-year-old boy whose superficially idyllic home life is about to shatter. Sparky is aware that something is wrong-a feeling which he experiences as an vague dissatisfaction and naively believes that other people are living far more fun and exciting lives. This idea obsesses Sparky and triggers an extraordinary dream of an entire day, during which he sets out through the neighborhoods of his city-at first, in a vain attempt to find his classmates, and later just to get home. Armed with a special camera that purportedly reveals the true essence of things, Sparky gets a taste of a wide spectrum of dysfunctional and perverse adults in his travels. The conversations that ensue from these encounters serve up slyly ironic and raunchy humor, including some unwittingly sardonic observations by Sparky himself. Sparky is given the opportunity to learn that adulthood has its own limitations and frustrations and that the fun and exciting life comes at a cost.

From the Highbridge Morning Star: Opening arguments are expected today in the long-awaited trial of alleged murderer, Mark Pitt, who is accused of killing his live-in girlfriend, Evelyn Averdantis, adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Averdantis. Judge Abner Tuilgy will preside. Representing the defendant, who is a well-regarded artist, will be Dick Bright of the public defender's office. Heading up the prosecution team is Ambrose Wynn, well-known Assistant District Attorney and husband of nightclub singer, Lynn Maguire. Pitt faces the possibility of life in prison, if convicted. Pitt has steadfastly maintained his innocence throughout the investigation and pleaded not guilty at his hearing. Police and the prosecution have made no statement regarding the means by which Pitt may have dispatched Miss Averdantis. However it came out in Grand Jury testimony that Pitt cannot account for his whereabouts at the victim's time of death. The victim was found nude in the bathtub of the loft she shared with Pitt.

Sparky and the Waarheid Camera is a darkly comic tale of oddballs, subterfuge, selfishness and disappointment, which contrast with the title character's charming innocence. The novel follows Sparky Donnelly, a ten-year-old boy whose superficially idyllic home life is about to shatter. Sparky is aware that something is wrong-a feeling which he experiences as a vague, indefinable dissatisfaction and naively attributes to his television-fueled perception that other people are living far more fun and exciting lives than he is. This idea obsesses Sparky and triggers an extraordinary dream of an entire day. Armed with several hundred dollars and a special camera that purportedly reveals the true essence of things rather than their outward appearance, Sparky gets a taste of a wide spectrum of dysfunctional and perverse adults in his travels. The conversations that ensue from these surreal encounters serve up slyly ironic and raunchy humor, including some unwittingly sardonic observations by Sparky himself.