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|  | | Being Someone Else
Fourth in the Sticks Hetrick mystery series
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p style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Some people believe violence is foreign to our nature. Dan ‘Sticks’ Hetrick, retired chief and consultant to the Swatara Creek police department, knows better. We put a lid on our natural tendency to violence when we started living in groups, devising moral codes to hold it in check and allow us to live in harmony with others. But, deep down in the Id, there is always that tendency to violence.
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Fourth in the Sticks Hetrick series.
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Third in the Sticks Hetrick mystery series
span style="font-family: Arial">span style="font-family: Times New Roman">span style="font-size: small">span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-no-proof: yes">Retired police chief Daniel ‘Sticks’ Hetrick, still serving as unofficial consultant to his less experienced successor, has another murder to deal with in rural Swatara Creek, Pennsylvania. It soon develops the death of a local waitress is not the only trouble i | |  | | Cruel Cuts
Second in the Sticks Hetrick mystery series
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">When a rash of animal mutilations plague a rural st1:state>st1:place>Pennsylvania/st1:place>/st1:state> community and a vicious poison pen campaign is directed against an ambitious young lawyer, it leads to murder. Daniel ‘Sticks’ Hetrick, retired police chief, and Flora Vastine, a novice officer, team up and encounter false leads, a series of dangerous episodes and another murder before the case is resolved.
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The tranquility of 19th century small town life is shattered by the mysterious deaths of two strangers.
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Mystery surrounds the shooting of wealthy powdermaker, Isaac Schlussel.
P>Who shot Captain Isaac Schlussel and why?/P>
P>That question is at the core of this novel set in the early 19th century in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal fields./P>
P>Schlussel is one of those ruthlessly ambitious men who flocked to the area intent on wresting fortune from the earth. Dying of his wound after being shot by an unknown assassin, Schlussel muses on his history which provides a varied cast of characters with reason to wish him dead./P>
P>The technique employed by the author allows the reader to join Schlussel in looking to the past for their motives and to obse | |  | | Something in Common
The theft of rare books leads to murder
A lonely widow finds the severed head of an unknown young woman on her front porch in a quiet, rural community. In seeking her identity, retired police chief Daniel "Sticks" Hetrick discovers a link to a major theft of rare ornithological books and a trail that leads from the big city to his hometown where he must confront danger and the darker side of his community and its residents.
| |  | | St. Hubert's Stag
A crisis brings a family closer.
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For the Keller family, the lesson evolves from a deer hunt which forces them to confront secrets that have separated them from one another and the truth for years.
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li>Why did Jake Keller rebe | |  | | The Accidental Spy
A rogue becomes a hero during the American Revolutionary War
Wounded and on the run from the law during the American Revolution, Dandy Dan McCracken is rescued and nursed back to health by the lovely ward of Benedict Arnold’s procurement officer in Philadelphia. McCracken is enamored of the girl, but when her husband returns from the front he flees and falls in with a band of British spies. He switches sides once more as he discovers his conscience as a result of love and his actions—not through choice but circumstance—make him a hero.
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Love,lust and skullduggery in the anthracite coal region.
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Gold River Canyon
by Mr. Ed
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 Renowned Arizona lawman Jacob Golden is having terrible nightmares. He dreams he’s locked in a battle to the death with a demon from hell that consumes human flesh.
Golden’s a man who fears little, yet this haunting vision terrifies him to |
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