Bøger af Gus Leodas

"Deanna, vote for the legislation or die.' So begins Deanna Layne's nightmare. Pregnant with twins, she needs to survive a killer in an environment sated with unusual alliances, lethal relationships, and solutions. Police and Mitchell Pappas come together again to try to save Deanna in a devious and perplexing revenge thriller filled with love and hate that also turns Mitchell into a primary target to force him to search for answers among twins and shadows to save Deanna...and himself.

'My dearest Johanna, I pray you never have to read this letter while your father and I are alive.' So begins Magda's letter to her daughter urging her to change identity, and to run and hide. Unable to decipher her mother's warning letter after surviving an assault in Switzerland, a wounded Johanna Wagner returns home to uncover the family mystery. Johanna and Michael Warner, the doomed and surviving children of the condemned families, find each other and unite against pursuing killers as they run and hide to unravel the deadly mystery.

Attorney Victoria Nelson-Lee retaliates against a conspiracy of powerful politicians and rogue state troopers who kill her husband then deceives local police to help her revenge via clever clues and notes from Greek mythology signed Artemis, the Greek goddess of hunting. Police and investigative author Mitchell Pappas team up again to solve this baffling and elusive revenge thriller. "...and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice

Madge's husband and daughter share secrets that exclude her. Exempt from the family mystery she is an outcast, ignored, and a houseplant thirsty for water. Madge's daughter is on trial for killing her rapist in self-defense. Madge's husband is a United States senator. The daughter's truth will destroy the senator's career and send the daughter to prison. Her lawyer abandons her trial. The daughter's new attorney asks Investigator Mitchell Pappas to help with a case filled with obsessive love and hate that surge the plot to its unexpected conclusion. Part of the AWARD WINNING Mitchell Pappas mystery/thrillers and other novels by Gus Leodas

A Romance Mystery - Harry Stone begs his investigator friend Mitchell Pappas to help him solve a personal crisis because he does not want the police involved. Harry needs to protect his family dilemma from public exposure. After Harry explains the problem, Mitchell needs to help, but has no idea where to begin to find a solution to the baffling mystery. He searches for answers that hide in the Cayman Islands, Florida, England, Switzerland, Egypt, and Greece. Mitchell and Harry are in constant life-threatening danger as they travel in a world of lies and deception from unexpected sources to lead to the solution and dramatic conclusion. Along the way, and surprisingly, they find that the answers lie within classical Plato's writings.

Several determined and concerned women in influential positions at the United Nations unite to help solve hunger and poverty in their countries. What they encounter, what happens to each in the service of their country was unplanned. Theme: A revenge thriller of women confronting adversity. "Aphrodite spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and in it desire and in it blandishing persuasion which steals the mind even of the wise." Homer, The Iliad. Ah, yes! As Lord Byron wrote - Revenge is sweet especially to women.

At an exclusive Long Island yacht club, a police lieutenant and his investigator are trapped in a web of disappearances and deaths that link club members to Washington, the Coast Guard, and the underworld. (An Investigator Mitchell Pappas mystery.)

"If you don't believe in miracles, you will after you read this modern day novel." Forerunners is timely in today's world events with the increased focus on religion and terrorism in the Middle East and elsewhere, and is based on the Second Coming prophesies in the Bible, referencing Matthew, Mark, and The Revelation to John. All the major religions expect a messiah, or a son, or a messenger, or an avatar, or some bodily manifestation of God. Included are a United States ambassador, a priest, a psychic, an Olympic champion, and the temptress Pandora. By a series of mysterious Biblical events, the ambassador and priest learn of the arrival of the Anti-Christ forerunner. Bible prophesies say that disruption in natural disasters, international economic recessions, terrorism of religious men and women who serve God, and destruction of religious institutions are preludes to the coming of the Anti-Christ. All are happening today. The ambassador and priest's search to find that forerunner and the forerunner for Christ takes them to Turkey, Greece, India, Japan, Washington, Los Angeles and to the United Nations where the ambassador gives a stirring speech on peace after they expose the Anti-Christ forerunner in New Delhi, India at a meeting of all the world's religions.

What was the deadly secret of Shuller's Land? The last crop on the Long Island farm was planted in 1942, the year the land died from the horror of that one long night. Decades later, the abandoned weathered barn that leaned precariously from old age still waited for a strong wind to complete the collapse before someone discovered its horrible secret. Investigator Mitchell Pappas found artifacts at the farm belonging to World War II German spies. So began his mission to unravel the mystery of the forgotten farm and the disappearance of the spies and the farmer's teenage daughter, Melissa.