Murder Uncertain
Kirtland Thomas Ph.D., a world renown particle physicist, suspected of stealing top secret research papers from a government agency, is found dead in his bed by his daughter, Natalie. The coroner ruled that he self-injected a lethal dose of heroin.
All who knew Doctor Thomas well think the ruling is preposterous as he was a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Natalie makes it her mission to get the ruling changed and restore her father's good name. She is partially successful but will need the help of private investigator Andreas Olsen to complete the mission.
The reader will encounter: a little physics – including Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle which gives the story its title, some Mormon culture and heritage, and visits to The City Different (Santa Fe) and the Atomic City (Los Alamos).
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MASTER MAYHEM
Zachary Lincoln is a single, wealthy young entrepreneur who designs computer programs for corporate clients. But he also is a little strange in that he believes he receives revelations from God; but he doesn’t understand what God is telling him. He has looked into many religious cultures for greater understanding of what God is saying but to no avail.
He meets and falls in love with a lovely young lady and kindred spirit, and they learn of a religion that holds hope of helping Zachary come to the understanding he is seeking. They find a practitioner of that religion who offers what starts out to be hope and ends with the young couple being charged with robbery and murder.
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BLOOD ATONEMENT
A disturbed ex GI discovers a family history that unhinges him and sets him on a course of deadly retribution involving the subjection of victims to torture and blood sacrifice to vicariously atone for the sins of their ancestors.
The first victim is an elderly family practice physician whose son gets Andreas involved only after some twenty-four months after the physician was killed. Andreas finds a clue that alluded many man hours of police and private investigation. The clue leads him to three other suspected killings by the same man, so Andreas has to turn the cases over to the FBI.
The FBI investigation grinds to a halt and Andreas gets the case back. It is only with extensive help from an associate investigator, Guillermo Vigil, and good friends that the case is finally solved.
Central to the story are:
• The 1800s Mormon War
• Executive Order 44 (“the extermination of Mormons order”) issued by Missouri’s Governor
• The subsequent Hawn’s Mill Massacre by the Missouri State Militia, and
•Brigham Young’s sermon on blood atonement.
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COLLIDING CULTURES
A valuable ancient Middle East dagger and a sensitive medical report have been taken from a safe in the office of the Hospital Administrator of Albuquerque’s Memorial Hospital. Hospital administration believe the items were taken for nefarious purposes and hire Andreas Olsen to recover the items.
After Andreas and his colleague, Guillermo Vigil, thrash about for leads the perpetrator of the theft reveals himself: motive, profit. Andreas and Guillermo lay a clever trap for snagging the perp but in a strange twist of irony, they are interdicted and a subplot surfaces.
Central to the story are the destruction of Buddhist statuary by the Taliban and the growing of opium poppy in Afghanistan.
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NEW ELEUSIS
An obscure firm is selling genetic engineering services that allow customers to produce and sell genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that are indictable. Thus alluding any restrictions imposed by governments or product boycotts by concerned consumers.
Andreas gets involved when an attempt is made by the firm on the life of his associate, Guillermo Vigil. When Guillermo learned his daughter, Maggie, who knows nothing about the sub rosa GMOs, was hired by the firm, he got suspicious because it operated on a privately owned island in a highly veiled cloak of secrecy. When he started looking for more information, the firm sent an assassin to end his prying.
Together, Andreas and Guillermo start a trail to find the would-be assassin that will eventually lead them to a cattle operation in Colorado, a stud farm in New Mexico and an oat farmer in Kansas. In the interim, Maggie, who was sent to Spain to work, will struggle trying to save a dairy co-op from disaster.
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Bengta Jorgensdotter
A Novella
The young, beautiful eighteen-year-old Bengta, due to circumstances beyond her control, becomes an undercover agent of the Royal Canadian Mountain Police and is pressed into service as a prostitute in her hometown of Port Arthur, Ontario. She then goes on and over the next thirty years distinguishes herself as one of the RCMP’s most decorated and longest serving agents. Her exploits are domestic and foreign with interactions with the FBI and CIA and surprisingly with the East German Stasi.
Her thirty-year saga is backgrounded in a life story of “what might have been” that starts when Nils Bonnason – a Mormon missionary – and she fall in love during the time she worked as a prostitute in Port Arthur.
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