The Organizer (KHG Dunn, 2004)

The young computer programmer who wrote the software for his company's touch-screen voting machines is fired. Resentful, he tries to unionize the company's employees. But when he threatens to reveal the security flaws in the voting machines, the CEO of the voting machine company teams with a power-hungry state official to silence him.

MOTHER LAVINIA GREY stories

Grave Misgivings (Delacorte, 1998)

Stone angels are disappearing from the Fishersville cemetery, only to reappear in antique stores several states away; even the occasional grave is going missing. As she unravels the mystery of what’s happening in her little town, Mother Vinnie uncovers stories of hate and heartbreak dating all the way back to the Great Flood of 1955.

Hasty Retreat (Delacorte, 1997)

Mother Vinnie takes her parishioners on a weekend retreat to a monastery in upstate New York. But the weekend goes seriously bad when Vinnie’s political enemies show up. Instead of peaceful prayers, shenanigans take place, culminating in the murder by knitting needle of an elderly monk.

Unholy Angels (Dell, 1996)

When an evil developer tries to turn the Little League ball field into a resort hotel, no one in town is very much grieved to hear that he has been shot to death. Mother Grey, however, must track down the killer, if only to save the soul of a young boy in her parish. She finds the solution to the crime buried in the complex blood relationships among the long-time denizens of Fishersville.

Devil's Workshop (Dell, 1996)

Devil worshipers have invaded Fishersville. Things are bad enough for Mother Vinnie, priest of St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, what wit hstruggling with the Evil One and trying to keep her friends at the young men’s halfway house from going crazy (again). Then the corpse with the missing head turns up.

Bury the Bishop (Dell, 1995)

Vinnie Grey, the new young priest at the moribund Episcopal church of St. Bede’s, Fishersville, has been charged by the diocesan bishop with the task of gracefully closing it within three months. she refuses; they disagree quite strongly. This may be why, when Vinnie stumbles over the bishop’s dead body at the Diocesan convention, she is the first one the police suspect of killing him.

NICK MAGARACZ detective stories

The Jersey Monkey (St. Martin's Press, 1992)

When Nick Magaracz undertakes to protect the CEO of a New Jersey pharmaceutical firm from real or imagined poisoning attacks, he uncovers tainted drugs, illicit sex and murder.

The Death Tape (Little, Brown, 1987)

Nick Magaracz is back at work for the State of New Jersey. Hot on the trail of a terrorist who faked his own death, Nick stumbles over a plot to blow up the Division of Taxation.

Unbalanced Accounts (Little, Brown, 1986)

When the detective business in Trenton gets so slow that he can’t pay for his daughter’s orthodontia, Nick Magaracz jumps at his wife’s cousin’s offer of a job tracking down lost checks for the State of New Jersey, posing as an accountant. Why not? It looks like easy work, until the bodies begin to fall.

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