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On the same evening that a body is found in Picketsville’s urgent care clinic, a mysterious break-in occurs at the house of one of Callend University’s faculty.

The year is 29 C.E., and Jerusalem chafes under the Roman Empire’s continued presence and oppressive rule. But in spite of that unpleasant fact of life, life goes on, but not for everyone.

The World Cup, which arrives in June, has ripple effects on all South Africa’s neighbors.

Waldo Templeton was, at best, a mediocre organist.

The elderly Jonathan Lydell III is proud of his family history. He is related to the Virginia Lees (both Light Horse Harry and Robert E.

Frank Smith, famed writer of murder mysteries, boards Southwest Airlines heading from Phoenix to Baltimore.

Nick Reynolds, his pilot’s rating barely a month old, drops off the radar at night over the Chesapeake Bay. Investigating agencies call it another tragic pilot error accident.

Ruth Harris, Sherriff Ike Schwartz’s fiancée, is involved in a near fatal automobile accident. But Ike is convinced the crash was rigged.

Boy Judas Iscariot struggles to understand his mother’s god. Despairing, he becomes a survivor in the streets of the first century Roman empire.

When A.P. political reporter Lorena Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D.

Leo Painter is the CEO of Earth Global, a large energy, mining and real-estate development firm.

It’s the bleak midwinter and the Shenandoah Valley is poised on the brink of an unusually icy and snowy season. Alexei Kamarov’s body is discovered in a forest within the Picketsville town limits.

Ike Schwartz thought he could return to his hometown and ditch the demons that pursue him.

The Eighth Veil is a mystery set in the year 28 C.E. in Jerusalem during the feast of Tabernacles. A murdered servant girl is found in the palace of King Herod Antipas.

Ike Schwartz and Ruth Harris had to delay a vacation in Las Vegas because at the last moment, Ruth was required to go to Scone Island, Maine to settle an estate.