Bøker av Rod Vick

Nate and Star return in the third book in the Phantom murder whodunit series. The small town of Mukwonago, site of two chilling murder sprees in recent months, celebrates a new year, hoping the horror is over. But less than two months in, another murder sends local police scrambling. Ninety-two-year-old Marge Stickney announces she has found a letter indicating the location of a million-dollar fortune in gold and silver coins, hidden for more than a century and a half. Thirteen minutes later, she is murdered in her kitchen, the letter--gone. As Officer Nate Janowsky and newspaper editor Star Calloway team up to try and unmask the killer, they discover the letter contains secrets of its own, and the killer is no closer to the location of the fortune than are the police. But the killings aren't done, and uncovering the truth is complicated by Star's mentorship of a naive, young reporter, a missing island, an ominous dream, the death of a close friend, and a murder that could not possibly have been committed in thirteen minutes--but was. Once again, the keys to Nate's and Star's success lie in the village's distant past. And the keys to their survival lie with each other.

The village of Mukwonago, Wisconsin is rocked when a man with no enemies is murdered, and then his wife commits suicide a week later. When the deaths are linked to a prophecy in a stolen, century-old journal, Police Officer Nate Janowsky and local editor Star Calloway join forces again to try and track down a killer who will stop at nothing to find a legendary treasure.

Star Calloway, fired from her newspaper job in Madison for sacrificing her ethics to pursue a controversial story, resurrects the Chief newspaper in tiny Mukwonago, Wisconsin in hopes of a fresh start. However, she is plunged right back into turmoil when the paper begins receiving letters from a pseudonymous "Ho-ma-ba" who rails against the destruction of the village's rich heritage by development, and threatens terrible consequences if residents are unable to demonstrate their worthiness by decoding riddles that require a deep understanding of local history. When the riddles go unsolved, the murders begin, recreating gruesome scenes from village folklore and legend. As fear grips the community, Star teams with local police officer Nate Janowsky to try and determine the identity of the phantom killer and stop the spree.

The Book of Invasions is a globe-spanning adventure, a romp through history and mythology, a grudging love story, and an all-in battle against an evil hidden in plain sight. The world is stunned by the inexplicable murder of a dozen climate scientists at a remote research station in Greenland. When twenty-six-year-old Ricky Crowe, sister of a slain researcher, unexpectedly comes into possession of a parchment map found in Greenland's 5,000-year-old ice, she attempts to set aside the demons of her own grief and alcoholism-and a terrifying past that has left her with an eight-inch facial scar-in order to determine whether the map holds a key to her sister's fate. Bringing it to experts at the foundation that funded her sister's research, she sets in motion a race with her new allies to unravel puzzles hidden in tombs in Egypt and Ireland, and in an obscure book of Celtic myth-The Book of Invasions-before the secrets are lost to the ruthless cult that has searched relentlessly for the world-changing evil the map promises since before the pyramids were built.