Bøger af Charles Dayton

Robert Campbell, a respected and beloved high school English teacher, is leading a quiet life in early retirement when a neighbor notices several newspapers lying on his front porch, untouched. He searches the house and finds nothing disturbed-except that Campbell isn't there, and clearly hasn't been for a while. With public concern growing, police launch an investigation, and after weeks of trying, turn up nothing: no suggestions of foul play; no encouraging leads; no clues at all. His friends are worried, rumors are multiplying, the town is becoming traumatized, and tensions are reaching the breaking point. Something has to give. In this fifth Lew Travis mystery, the seventy-two-year-old curmudgeon is faced with this dire situation, set in his old gold-rush town in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

Lew Travis is a curmudgeonly seventy-two year old part-time investigative reporter who lives in Sienna, a small town in Northern California's Sierra Nevada foothills. He decides to look into the suspicious drowning of a prominent local attorney with whom he had a difficult history, and soon finds himself involved with a brutal biker and a gorgeous femme fatale less than half his age. In addition to the intrigue and suspense, this book provides insights into this colorful region and the Native Americans who once populated it, while introducing the cast of characters that inhabit this series.

In the second book in this series, Lew Travis, a 72 year-old curmudgeon, is faced with unraveling the death of a teenage girl, the daughter of a nearby friend. This takes him into the local high school, a milieu he hasn't occupied in half a century. He is quickly ensnared in a complex web of characters, motives, and clues. These pile up such that Lew has to draw on all his sleuthing skills to unravel it, assisted by his friends at the Sienna Sentinel and his teenage computer guru. It all comes down to a climax even he hasn't anticipated.

In his Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein proposed that time was not a fixed entity, but depended on the perspective of the viewer. Experiments that followed confirmed this unlikely claim, proving that time was indeed a variable.What are the implications of this finding? Some of the unsettling possibilities are explored in these ten stories, from a strange building where it's hard to gauge the time, to a young man who seems to be in more than one place, an old professor who has spent decades seeking a way to re-live his lost past, and a busy housewife who prays for more time, only to experience some unexpected consequences.These stories, written with both amusement toward and compassion for their sundry cast of characters, explore the implications of looking at life from different perspectives. Perspectives that might be characterized as...somewhere in the twilight zone.

This is the third book of the Lew Travis Mystery series. Like its predecessors, it is set in the California foothills and features a 72-year old sleuth. Lew, a widower, and a part-time investigative reporter for the local paper, is curmudgeonly but shrewd, and is surrounded by a recurring cast of characters. In addition to the mystery and humor, the book offers insights into the gold rush and its enduring effects.

In this fourth Lew Travis mystery, Lew is confronted with the loss of a close friend with whom he worked at the Sienna Sentinel, who recently died in the local hospital under curious circumstances. As Lew begins to collect evidence, he realizes there is reason for suspicion in a number of directions. The seventy-two year-old curmudgeonly "investigative reporter", battling his own demons, pursues clue after clue, which lead him to a homeless camp in the forest and an empty church with a strange occupant. Relying on his dogged determination and canny intuition he pieces together the facts, aided by the sundry cast of characters the readers of this series have come to know.