Bøger af Chris Forman

Ian Porthos Wallace, that kilt wearing food writer and photographer from Port City, is involved in another murder mystery when he trips over a body on the beach while on his morning walk. When he looks close he realizes it is the body of Brenda Dexter, his neighbor. Ian helps his friend Detective Jim Halstead solve the murder by looking into Brenda's past and by interviewing his quirky neighbors. There is the stripper, the two old ladies who order products from infomercials and the guy who sits on his porch all day in his bathrobe smoking cigarettes and drinking beer. Join Ian for some mystery, suspense, humor and good eating as he tries to solve a mystery and plan a wedding.

On September eleventh of 2001, Alan Flarke was in a motel with his girlfriend, not in his office, when the planes hit. He took advantage of the situation and killed the girlfriend, then disappeared with five million in company funds. With money and fake identities, his life became a no rules game. When he was spotted jogging in Chicago by a former neighbor, Maria Hart, Chicago's pluckiest red-headed insurance investigator gets called in. The more she investigates, the more she takes the case personally. And, the more she learns about Alan Flarke, the more she realizes he's become a socio-pathic killer.

Ian Porthos Wallace, that kilt wearing food photographer and mystery writer from Port City, North Carolina, has been asked by his friend Demos to help out a mutual friend who has been wrongly accused of murder. Along the way he reconnects with Athena, his on again, off again girlfriend. Join Ian for some mystery, romance, suspense, humor and good eating as he tries to solve a mystery and uncomplicate his love life.

Maria Hart is hot on the trail of a group of shoplifters who set fires to cover their tracks. Next, she solves the mystery of the Body in the Library in Alabama.

Chalk Dust and Chalk Outlines is a Maria Hart Mystery in two parts. Join Maria for some humor, coffee and lunch as she solves a pair of murders. In part one, The Fatal Faculty Meeting, Dan Hart is awaked during a faculty meeting by the thud of the guest speaker falling dead on the floor. Maria gets involved in the case and along the way solves the case of a black widow who killed her husband on their honeymoon. In part two, The CEO is DOA, Maria is called in to investigate the mysterious death of the companies CEO. Her investigation reveals some interesting implications into the financial collapse of 2009.

In her second adventure Maria Hart, Chicago's plucky redhead insurance investigator, is hot on the trail of someone who is killing off the infomercial stars. As she travels from Chicago to Oswego, New York, to Milwaukee, to the Hudson Valley of New York, and finally back to Oswego, she gets the feeling she's climbed down the rabbit hole. Join her as she meets Curiouser and Curiouser characters in her bi-coastal (Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario) adventure. Along the way, she helps her husband with an employment issue, and helps her new friend out of a jam.

The mine fires in Chelsea Brook drove the residents out and attracted two new groups of people. One is a group of moonshiners who look at the village as a place away from the prying eyes of strangers, and the law. The second group is a religious cult whose leader believes they are praying at the gates of Hell. The two groups live in an uneasy peace until Rebecca, the daughter of the cult leader, and Tim, the son of the Moonshiner leader, fall in love. The problem is that another man has eyes on Rebecca, a strange young man named Micah who wants to control the cult.

What can a 1980s elementary school custodian teach us about life in a pandemic / post-pandemic world? A lot, actually...Growing up is a challenge! Especially for an effervescent, full of life, live for the moment curly-haired boy who wants to soak up everything life offers-but whose teachers have other priorities.Hi, I'm Chris Forman. Four decades later, the words above still describe me (minus the hair). I admit, I was a handful. Usually mischievous. Occasionally charming. And nearly always misunderstood.With dozens of adults working at my elementary school, only one understood me. Mr. Clifferd, the school custodian. I often visited his office (the boiler room). He always knew just what to say and how to lift me up. Mr. C.'s lessons shaped my life.Today, we find ourselves in a chaotic world. Social ills run rampant. Climate change threatens our survival. A global pandemic shook the world. And yet the quiet wisdom of a long-retired custodian echoes across the decades with profundity. His message remains more relevant today than ever before.Join me for a joyful journey through my childhood. You'll meet some mean teachers and a bunch of my crazy (and oddly named) classmates. Best of all, you'll meet the amazing Mr. C. and learn from this common man's uncommon wisdom. We'll share a few tears. And have lots of laughs. (Take it from a kid whose antics earned him a permanent home in the principal's office).I can't wait for you to meet Mr. C. You're going to love him. And he just might change your life, too.

How we can harness cutting-edge biology and manufacturing to fight waste and pollution.In Nature, there is little chemical waste; nearly every atom is a resource to be utilized by organisms, ensuring that all the available matter remains in a perpetual cycle. By contrast, human systems of energy production and manufacturing are linear; the end product is waste. In Brave Green World, Chris Forman and Claire Asher show what our linear systems can learn from the efficient circularity of ecosystems. They offer an unblinkered yet realistic and positive vision of a future in which we can combine biology and manufacturing to solve our central problems of waste and pollution.