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Someone is burning down all the old resort hotels in Gloucester, MA. Has the son of a town matriarch been killed because he knows who it is? Did he commit suicide by Russian roulette as the town fathers claim, or did his girlfriend, Christina Lima, the daughter of a poor Portuguese fisherman have a hand in his death? Nate Lewis is hired to find out, but when he falls in love with Christina they both become targets for powerful interests.

A READER’S CHOICE…

What a terrific crime mystery!  I was gripped from the first sentence. You’ve got a real flair for storytelling, characters, dialogue, plot, and suspense. I can’t wait to read Parts II and III of the “1970′s Trilogy.” Thanks for a great read. Steve Rohde author of AMERICAN WORDS OF FREEDOM and FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY

I was especially taken with Burning Questions, the characters and atmosphere.  I have a friend who lives in Gloucester who I directed to the book. Mark Curchack, Philadelphia, PA

Good interesting story, fun, and just the right amount of wide-eyed innocence/hard-boiled detective and sarcasm! Janie Tyre, Menlo Park, CA

I am not fixin dinner because of you. I can’t put down Burning Questions. Maggie Livings, Fredericksburg, TX

I just finished reading Burning Questions and really enjoyed it.  Bravo!!  It kept me up long after I should have turned out the light and gone to sleep. Todd Endelman, Ann Arbor, MI

Finished Burning Questions in 2 nights. A ripping good yarn-
especially the denouement! Looking forward to the 2nd part of the
trilogy. Joan Simon, Sebastopol, CA

BURNING QUESTIONS IS  AVAILABLE FROM WHISKEY CREEK PRESS.

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SPECIAL OFFER: Order the paperback through this website for $15.00 total, tax, mailing and handling included. If you buy through this website, I will discount Part 2, A Shot In the Arm, three dollars off the cover price after it is released on April 1, 2012. Further details will be posted here.  Save over nine dollars!

Against Christina’s advice, Nate Lewis defends a black militant accused of homicide. But his fat cash retainer was stolen from rogue government agents involved in a drugs-for-guns operation. Soon Nate is the last man standing as the agents attempt to recover the cash. Only Christina can save him. But she’s caught him philandering. Will she?

Advance Praise for A Shot In The Arm

A fine writer. Willdorf’s trilogy is a brilliant creation!  His re-creation of period is right on the money, and his characters rock. Wonderful book!

Mark Rudd, author of Underground: My life in SDS and the Weathermen

A fast-moving novel. Plenty of twists and turns. The legal details are sharp; the drinking and drugging and low life neighborhoods are Day-Glo vivid.  I was glad to know there’s at least one more novel out there about Nate Lewis and his world. Meredith Sue Willis, “Author of Ten Strategies to Write Your Novel and Out of the Mountains?”

NOW SET FOR PUBLICATION SEPTEMBER 2012

THE FOURTH CONSPIRATOR

Christina takes a job as PR director at her aunt’s winery in Mendocino County. Nate sets up a law practice to Ukiah. They are barely settled when winery V.P. Vince Russo, an ex-Marine with a hair-trigger temper, is accused of killing a man raiding his pot garden. Is it murder or self-defense? Nate takes the case. Then when her aunt is diagnosed with cancer, Christina is drawn into an inheritance battle and is critically injured. Was it just an accident, or attempted murder? Are the two incidents somehow connected? It will take several more deaths to sort out the truth.