Bøker av Mike Nelson

Craig Williams tried to Vanish. He thought he was running away from his adulterous wife and the children that he thought he'd fathered. When everything went wrong he got caught and charged with several crimes. Worse yet, his wife was told of his scheme and ended up sitting in the courtroom during his arraignment. After Craig was jailed, he quickly understood that being in jail was probably more dangerous than running from the drug cartel that he'd stolen money from. When the FBI offered him a deal to put everything behind him and disappear into their Witness Security Program, he jumped at the chance. The problem was, there was a lot more to the deal than he thought there would be. He wanted retribution. What he ended up with was something very different.

Child abuse is never an acceptable thing in a civilized society, but sometimes social mores in certain localities are more accepting of deviant behavior, especially in more rural communities. Identification of abuse in small towns is often more difficult because in close-knit communities people don't want to 'cause problems' with the 'neighbors' even if they suspect improper things are going on. Thankfully, our nation's laws are becoming much stricter in that regard, especially where law enforcement is concerned. Officials are being held to higher standards when it comes to reporting and prosecuting reported cases. What happens, though, when extreme social pressure from wealthy or politically powerful individuals in a small town gets involved in the mix? Is there a remedy for the victims? Can a social or political norm be toppled; or do the victims and/or their families simply have to live with the situation or remove themselves from it altogether by moving away?

Someone has abducted and murdered nearly thirty young women, randomly dumping their abused bodies alongside the nation's highways. What little evidence the authorities have, points to a long-haul trucker. Jack Fredericks, an FBI agent, has been tasked with connecting the dots and stopping the deviate. But the man he's chasing is smart and careful, often leaving behind little or no physical evidence. Finally, on a river bend near Omaha, the locals find a young woman's body that may break the case wide open. What will it take to catch the killer before he takes his next victim?

Henry Fraser is an 89-year-old World War II veteran living alone in the noisy slums of his formerly peaceful neighborhood. When gang violence and deadly attacks nearly destroy his home and threaten to tear the neighborhood apart, Henry uses his Marine training to fight back, waging a one-man war against the criminal element taking over the streets-in the process discovering that not everyone is his mortal enemy. Treehouse in the Hood is a tale of bold defiance, cultural understanding, and finding friends in the most unexpected places.

Dave and Patti have been sweethearts since high school. When Dave wins an athletic scholarship to an out-of-town university, Patti enrolls in his new university and follows him there hoping that their relationship will blossom. She wants romance, love, and marriage. Dave becomes so focused on football and his engineering studies that he seems to be incapable of taking their relationship to the next level. What will happen when one of Dave's fellow teammates, a controlling man with a shady reputation, takes a serious interest in Patti? Will Dave change his attitude in time to save their relationship or will his teammate beat his time? If Patti gives in to the other man's advances what will be the result?

Seventy-year-old Jack Wilkerson, a retired chemist, has a talent for creating hiking sticks as a hobby. While riding a remote Utah mountain trail to cut the quaking aspen "blanks" he uses to create his masterpieces, he sees something that he shouldn't have seen and is shot in the head for his trouble. He barely survives the gunshot and the subsequent tumble down into a steep canyon. The question is, will he be able to survive the journey back to civilization? When faced with impossible odds, what will he be willing to do to survive?

Fred Bracken is headed back to the tiny Montana community where he grew up after being an inpatient in a military psychiatric hospital for a year.Still pestered by nightmares and flashbacks from the war that left him with severe PTSD, he wonders what life will look like.He wants to marry his childhood sweetheart but how can that happen? Her father is in prison. She has two children by prior marriages, is living with her mom, and working to support them all.He has no home, no family and no job skills other than ranching. Worse yet, after what happened, he doesn't know if anyone in the tight-knit ranching community will trust him.Even if things work out, will he be able to keep his demons under control? What will happen when he has to face the people and the situations that sent him to the hospital in the first place?He knows that PTSD has been called the silent killer. His psychologist has done all she can to prepare him, but now he's on his own. Will he be able to weather the storms he's facing, or will he simply become another statistic of the war that broke him?

Brain injured at three months of age by his violent father, Billy's life hasn't been easy. He's bright, attentive, and can see, and hear. He just can't talk. His doctors call his condition Broca's Aphasia. His father is in prison for what he did. Billy's mom has taught him sign language and has home-schooled him all of his life. At fifteen, Billy is pushing the limits of what his mom can teach him at home. Billy's stepfather has never had much to do with him. Much worse, his mom is terminally ill. Billy will soon be alone and faces a number of unacceptable choices. Which choices will he make and what effect will they have on the rest of his life?

Scott Corbridge has a gift. He can hear human thought.In Clairvoyant, he used his gift to lead law enforcement through a series of heart-rending events that solved murders, rescued taken children, exposed the dark underbelly of the human sex trade, and got the attention of people on both sides of the law. Clairvoyant (Book 2) follows Scott as he tries to adjust to his new life-one he doesn't really want, yet one he can't ignore.Scott is driven to help people, but he has to learn to control himself, knowing when and how to get involved without getting into trouble.On a flight to Mazatlán, Scott stumbles across two people who are taking an underage girl to Mexico to be sold to the trade. He can't walk away, but if he saves her, he will be thrown right back into the mess he's trying to run away from. Will a woman he meets on the beach in Mexico help him sail away from both sides? Or will his gift ultimately ruin everything?

WINNER OF THE LEAGUE OF UTAH WRITERS' 2019 SILVER QUILL AWARD FOR ADULT FICTION. All of his life, Scott Corbridge has had prophetic dreams. But after sustaining head trauma in a devastating car accident, he wakes to discover that ability has been amplified tenfold. When he experiences visions of a murdered woman and takes the information to the police, he immediately becomes the prime suspect in an unsolved murder and finds himself in jeopardy of spending the rest of his life in prison. In an effort to clear his name, Scott probes deeper and soon uncovers the shocking truth behind the murder-but can he outsmart the real killers before they discover his otherworldly abilities and put an end to him? Clairvoyant is a captivating paranormal crime thriller that forces readers to answer the question: If you suddenly had the ability to read minds, how would you use that gift?

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Why do some people retain cute baby-talk names for their relatives (like "Num-Num" and "Pee-Paw") well into middle age? How should a reasonable person respond when Olivia Newton-John sings, "Have you never been mellow?" Who's responsible for the sorry state of men's fashion, and is it the same guy who invented the jerkin? Is there any future in being a Midwesterner? Can you really enjoy your lunch when the restaurant is decorated to look like an African plain? How come women keep dozens of bottles and jars of moisturizers, unguents, and lotions around -- all of them half empty? In more than 50 hilarious all-new essays, one of America's brightest young humorists -- the head writer and on-air host of the legendary TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- finds the fun in all aspects of the human condition, no matter how absurd. Join Mike Nelson on an angst-filled visit to a health spa; shopping sessions at Home Depot and Radio Shack; adventures in the very amateur musical theater; a gut-busting discourse on the history of television; ruminations on his roles as husband, father, and citizen; and much, much more.