Bøger af Cort Fernald

This collection of nine short stories that run the fictional gamut from thriller, sentimental, crime, to hard-boiled and sunny side up.

This second edition of the popular Voices from the Plains anthology features the work of more than sixty writers from the Nebraska Writers Guild showcasing their talent writing short stories, poems, essays, novel excerpts, scripts, and nonfiction biography.

This international thriller has journalist Richard Rice standing before a grand jury facing a possible indictment for murder. The death penalty is automatic if he is found guilty of murder. He is not the murderer and goes in pursuit of Russian Mafia members halfway around the world, from Omaha, Nebraska to India and Odessa, the Ukraine.

Richard Rice, investigative reporter, is nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his exposes on Russian Mafia prostitution and human trafficking in the Chicago area. Harassing phone calls, slashed tires and an attempted break-in at his house don't stop Rich's investigation. But when a sniper's bullet nearly kills him, police advise Rich to leave Chicago. He goes off-the-grid hiding out at The Ordinary, a bar in ethnically diverse South Omaha. The Russians look for Rich bent on silencing him forever. Rich thinks he has the protection of the FBI, but it may just be an ambitious young agent who sees a chance to advance his career by dangling Rich in front of the Russians. It all comes to a head in a terrifying gunfight, from which only one person emerges.

When Royce Partridge learns his boyhood pal Toby Bergman is dying of cancer he returns to the small town of Algonquin, Illinois on the Fox River where they grew up. Royce left Algonquin 40 years ago. Progress, with traffic, subdivisions and shopping malls, has changed the once bucolic river town. Royce surprises Toby in the hospital, he is slipping fast. Royce stays in Algonquin at a quaint Victorian bed & breakfast. Despite the heavy hand of progress Royce can see the small town he and Toby raced mopeds around as teenagers. But it is down on the banks of the Fox River that Royce relives the wild adventure he, Toby and two other friends had the summer of 1964 before they started high school.

Still emotionally shattered after six months, Mike Smith grieves for his beloved wife Becky after her rape, mutilation and murder. At his class reunion, Mike finds out Grace, a girl he dated in high school, and her younger sister Chastity, were abducted and raped. Like those who raped Mike's wife, the girls' rapists were never caught. Fixated, Mike is bent on bringing to justice the criminals who raped Grace and her sister. His investigation leads him to members of his high school baseball team and all the way up to a powerful state politician. To expose the rapists Mike will have to put his life on the line. Set in Park Forest, Illinois, the model of a post-World War II suburb, Sisters' Secret shows the dark side of the perfect, planned community.

KEEPER Coup de Grace follows Rich's return to the United States. Grieving for his wife Gisele, Rich wants only to be left alone. But through an Omaha Police CCTV video Rich learns his vengeance is not yet fulfilled.