Bøger af David Rawson

Frank and Annie move to Dixie City thinking it'll be a nice bucolic place in which to enjoy a quiet retirement. NOT! When they and their friends, Ned and Kate, begin to have strange experiences at the creepy old Dixie Mall, try to get involved in restoring the Hangin' Judge's (haunted?) house, and stake out a bed and breakfast inn that is a plantation with a crematorium, it dawns on them that everything in Dixie City is just a wee bit weird. And thanks to the Village Idiot they also learn the true significance of being "from away." Therein lie the Dixie City tales.

When "'til death do us..." means murder, will justice --- that fluid-like concept --- seek its own level? Nineteen-eighteen was a watershed year for 6-year-old Walter Dunbar and 13-year-old Ruth Wilson. That year's seminal events in their childhoods ultimately bring them together as young adults to share a lifetime --- dedicated to strong moral and family values --- through a half century of shifting societal values and standards. Nineteen-eighteen also marked the birth of Eleanor Riggs whose nature and upbringing combine to create an unprincipled and manipulative self-serving woman --- the embodiment of evil --- who insinuates herself into Walter's life. As it sweeps across the landscapes of eastern New England, New York's Southern Tier, Maryland, and eastern Pennsylvania, the saga of these three individuals' lives is set against a tapestry of historical events and shifting cultural and societal attitudes of 20th Century America. This tale of two families with a slice of history and a slice of mystery will appeal to readers who enjoyed John Steinbeck's East of Eden.

Two adventurous retired couples are on extended vacations when they find themselves being chased by murderous thugs. The couples had met in an alternative existence and, along with a relative, had disrupted a secret government operation designed to do away with anti-administration talk show hosts. When the couples meet again, they discover the government must eliminate Cousin Ralph before he broadcasts information about other such operations, and they set out to warn him. But he's vanished --- off on a new crusade to find the "real" Evangeline in Louisiana's Acadiana and Nova Scotia's Acadia.

David Rawson draws on declassified documents and his own experiences as the initial US observer of the 1993 Rwandan peace talks at Arusha to seek out what led to the Rwandan genocide. The result is a commanding blend of diplomatic history and analysis of the crisis and of what happens generally when conflict resolution and diplomacy fall short.