The Gold Dragon Caper

 A missing boy. A stolen nugget. A shocking revelation.

Derek Turpin is set on revenge, and no one is safe, least of all Damien and Millie. Yet, duty and friendship call, pulling the detective duo in opposite directions. While Damien is engaged in a race against time to rescue young Artie Sutherland, Millie goes to the aid of a sister-in-law she has never met.

From the author:

The Gold Dragon Caper is the fourth book in the Damien Dickens Mysteries series.  

The Gold Dragon Caper was both the easiest and the most difficult of the Damien Dickens Mysteries for me to write. I knew where I wanted to go with my plot, I knew my villain (not always the case for me at the start of a book project), and I knew how and where I wanted the story to end. That was the easy part.

The hard part of the project was its emotional content. I literally wrote some of this book with tears in my eyes.

The Gold Dragon Caper is a darker story than the first three novels. It was difficult to avoid the influence of the political climate in the USA during its writing, especially as Derek J. Turpin shares some characteristics with another DJT.

I don’t want to reveal any spoilers, so let me just say that we learn more about what makes Millie tick in this Caper. She went through some tough times before she met Damien, and some of that comes back to haunt her in this story.

I hope you enjoy The Gold Dragon Caper. 

Amazon Buy link: mybook.to/tgdc

Phyllis Entis

Phyllis Entis is the author of the Damien Dickens Mysteries series, which includes The Green Pearl Caper, The White Russian Caper and The Chocolate Labradoodle Caper and The Gold Dragon Caper. Her debut novel, The Green Pearl Caper, was a Library Journal SELF-e Selection. Phyllis is a free-lance writer and retired food safety microbiologist with degrees from McGill University and the University of Toronto. In 2007, ASM Press published her non-fiction book, Food Safety: Old Habits, New Perspectives.

Phyllis lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California with her husband and their Australian Cobberdog, Shalom. When she’s not writing, Phyllis usually can be found walking around town, browsing in the local library, or enjoying her garden.

Website and blog: phyllisentis.wordpress.com

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Political Dirty Trick

From the author:

A Dirty Trick

For some time, I had been thinking about writing a novel that included a slippery slope.  A normally good person, for one reason or the other, crosses over “the line.”  Now they are on a slippery slope and any movement at all is likely to take them further down the slope, further away from the line that defined them as a “good person.”

In fact, I was going to call the book, A Slippery Slope. 

Then came all the uproar in politics. It seemed like each politician was more than happy to trash the other.

That, and the slippery slope rattled around in my brain for months.  As they began to run into one another, I decided to use the election venue to look at this person on the slippery slope. 

The result was my newest suspense book, Political Dirty Trick.  It is Book #3 in the Crystal Moore suspense series.  (A few months before I was ready to publish, I was corresponding with a writer I know. She mentioned she was ready to release a new book, titled “A Slippery Slope.”  When  I told her I was about ready to release one with the same name, she said to go ahead, it wouldn’t bother her. But I decided not to do that. So, it became Political Dirty Trick.)

In Political Dirty Trick, a basically good person is convinced to help a candidate by creating a dirty trick that would give the opponent lots of negative publicity and perhaps hurt him in the polls.  She agreed, convincing herself that it wasn’t really wrong. All is fair in politics.

But in the course of creating this, a man is killed. Now, she panics and tries to cover her tracks. This, as could be expected, leads to more problems. And before long, she will do anything to avoid the police. The slope is steeper and slipperier. 

Crystal is a good friend of the candidate on whom the dirty trick is played.  As she tries to determine who is causing the problems, she becomes a “loose end” that needs to be snipped off.  And much of the novel is trying to save Crystal, as well as save the campaign.

Political Dirty Trick releases in mid-May.  It is available for pre-publication orders at:  https://amzn.to/2pIHMqs     

James Callan

After a successful career in mathematics and computer science, receiving grants from the National Science Foundation and NASA, and being listed in Who’s Who in Computer Science and Two Thousand Notable Americans, James R. Callan turned to his first love—writing.  He has had four non-fiction books published.  He now concentrates on his favorite genre, mystery/suspense. His twelfth book releases in May, 2018

http://www.jamesrcallan.com.