Bøger af Alan Zacher

Since September of this year, 2036, six women and three men have gone missing in St. Louis. Thirty-six-year-old Homicide Detective Amanda Warner has been assigned to the case. It is four days before Christmas, and all attempts up to now to solve this case have been futile.Amanda comes to realize that this case involves vampires. Since she was eleven years old, her adopted uncle, private investigator, James Hurts, has trained her to combat vampires. But Hurts, and all of her family and friends have all died or have moved away. Amanda has never fought vampires alone-but now she must! Can she do it?

Mrs. Madeline Reed is a 68-year-old woman who has done nothing with her life other than getting married after high school graduation and work as a cafeteria-aid until she retired.She always believed that she could have achieved more, but, sadly, it never happened. A shy person, she always loved reading, especially detective novels, such as Miss Marple, and often played with the idea of becoming a private investigator.When her next-door neighbor's daughter and son-in-law died in a house-fire, Mrs. Gluck hires Madeline to find out if that no-good son-in-law of hers was still cheating on her daughter at the time of the accident.What Madeline finds out is shocking-it's murder! Murder most foul!

The Thirteenth Hour is the hour after midnight on All Hallows Eve, when Satan and his minions are most powerful-and dangerous!Thirteen teenage vampires kidnap a thirteen-year-old-girl, Emily, and are planning to sacrifice her to Satan during The Thirteenth Hour. A successful sacrifice would increase their powers thirteen-fold. Emily's friend, Amanda, finds out their gruesome plan, but she knows she can't fight the vampires alone. With the help of Hurts, a worn-out, old, private detective, they must find Emily before The Thirteenth Hour.Will they find her? Can they save her?

Private investigator mysteryTom Mayor is a 56-year-old unemployed alcoholic who still lives with his mother. It is Christmas time and Tom Mayor has just played a joke on his eighty-six-year-old mother, Lill. Tom, who still lives at home and hasn't worked in years, announces he is going into the private detective business.To prove his newfound skill, Tom discloses the killer in advance of the end of a Thin Man movie, impressing his elderly mother. Tom thought all of this was funny, especially since his mother cannot remember the end of the movie, she has seen countless times.Yet, the whole scheme backfires on Tom. The next morning, his mother finds Tom his first client, Claire Peterson, a dying elderly woman next door. Claire wants to know the truth about her great-granddaughter's murder and Tom is just the man for the case. Failure, frustration, and near-death do not deter Tom as he solves the case, in Thin Man style.

Murder, Vampires and Leprechauns is a novel of three short stories of suspense, action and murder-and, yes, all of them have much humor. In Burgermen, Tom Mayors-a fifty-six-year-old man who still lives at home and hates work of any kind-unbeknownst to his mother quits yet another job, a clerk in a grocery-store. The manager is so angry with him for quitting without giving notice that he threatens to kill him and begins stalking him by phone every night. In the second story, Damn Leprechauns, Tom-because of his mother's constant pestering-has joined the detective agency of cranky, retired, Homicide Detective James Hurts. They take a case of helping a young man and woman in trouble, only to find out that this young couple is in trouble because they have stolen the pot of gold from some leprechauns. Because of Tom and Jim's own greed and wanting to keep the gold, the leprechauns kidnap Tom's mother, Lill. Tom and Jim must come up with a sharp plan to rescue Tom's mother. In the third story, Hurts' Christmas Present, Tom has quit the agency and Hurts is on his own. It's a few days before Christmas, and Hurts takes the case of very precocious, stubborn eleven-year-old girl, Amanda, whose Mother has been arrested for stealing $20,000.00 from her place of employment. During the investigation, Hurts discovers that the mother was framed by three of the six board-members of the company. All the board-members are vampires. Hurts must do battle with the three board-members to free Amanda's mother from jail.

This book is three "spooky" tales. The first one is of a burned-out, old, police detective who almost becomes a victim himself of a demon that whispers into its victim's ear of his/her innermost fears. The second story is of a second virgin birth in our time. Jesus bowed down to Satan the first time, and that changed our whole world. The world is ruled by Satan, and God gives man a chance with this new Mary. This story is full of giants, sword fights and man's salvation. The final story is a comedy of a very inept, wannbe private eye who while trying to save a girl's life, becomes involved with the Mafia of vampires and keeps peeing in his pants when scared--which is often.