Storm Rising by Douglas Schofield
It’s been a rough five years for Lucy Hendricks.She hasn’t had an easy time of it since her husband, Jack—a devoted and upstanding Bayonne, New Jersey, cop—was murdered while on an investigation. There were suspicions that he’d been involved with the local Mafia, and the media wouldn’t let it go, making life unbearable, so Lucy moved to Florida to raise …
Douglas Schofield Reveals: “Why I Write Women”
Author’s Note: When “CRIMINAL ELEMENT” asked me if I’d like to submit a piece on why I write women, I didn’t hesitate. In today’s world, in today’s social environment, it’s something that needs to be said. The article I submitted was just published. Please, dear friends — and especially you men out there — for the sake of all those …
Time of Departure by Douglas Schofield
Only the future is certain; the past is always changing –Chinese proverb In Gainesville, Florida, Claire Talbot’s appointment to lead the State Attorney’s Felony Division is met with smoldering resentment. Some colleagues are openly skeptical about her youth, her abilities, and even her gender. Then a highway project turns up a gravesite from a decades-old string of unsolved …
Succession by Douglas Schofield
Across the world, two-and-a-half billion people sit glued to the broadcast of Princess Diana’s funeral. In Bayonne, New Jersey, surgical resident Dr. Emma Parks watches the somber proceedings over her morning coffee, then hurries to get ready for work. Today’s shift, she expects, will be no different from any other… fixing broken bodies, one emergency at a time. But …
Flight Risks by Douglas Schofield
After ten minutes, Grace reached the canyon rim. The wound in her side was bleeding. Ahead and just outside the tree line, a huge steel pipe, eight feet in diameter, emerged from the termination of the earthen berm and launched itself into space. It formed a span, a hundred feet long, to the rim of the opposite canyon wall. A …