Bøger af Timothy Cole

The twenty-six short stories found in this book were written as exercises responding to prompt challenges assigned at least twice a month to a group of authors in a writers' club. A creative work based on one or more of five prompts had to be composed and presented within 48 hours to the assembled group for critique. One of the prompts was always a picture of a scene, an event, or a person; the others were typically given as a character, a place, an object, and a beginning scenario, each being quite specific and unrelated. At least one of the prompts had to be included in the composition. Although each work was expected to be within 2,000 words, some were often longer. All the pieces in this book were presented during the year 2014 to the authors of The Blank Slate Writers Group in Valparaiso, Indiana, and are the creation and property of Timothy Cole, a member.

Fred Cole was youngest child of John Conger Cole and Mary Arville Osborn and arrived as they both turned forty. Fred brought with him a series of illnesses which left him fragile and small, a condition coupled with the fact of the mellowed adulthood of his parents and the protection of his older siblings that shaped the career of his life into that of poet and educator. He was a man well-read and of quick wit, a 1896 graduate of Chesterton High School and of DePauw University, both in Indiana. For many years he was known as "Professor Cole" during his years as the Public Schools Superintendent in Porter County, Indiana. Much of his poetry and many of his songs were only published in the local newspapers of the day, dying lonely deaths in the back pages next to columns of ads for ointments and farm equipment. Soon after his death in 1959, his surviving, written works were collected and edited for eventual publication. This is that collection.

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"In the wealthy Gold Coast enclave of Westport, a feud between mystery writers turns deadly-and retired spy Dasha Petrov must find the real killer to clear her name. Once one of the most lethal secret agents in the world, Dasha Petrov has hunted Nazis, Communists, and one common murderer (in The Sea Glass Murders, the first Dasha Petrov thriller). But now it's 1991, two years after that unpleasantness, and Dasha is living a sedate life appropriate to an elderly widow in wealthy Westport, Connecticut, spoiling her grandchildren and innocently flirting with two of her neighbors, the rival mystery novelists Barnaby Jayne and Michael Aubrey. The two writers, both wildly successful and many times married, cordially despise each other. Dasha thinks they're just two silly men with big egos, but the writers' feud boils over into a bizarre series of attacks that starts with a blowgun dart and escalates to booby traps and car bombs. And when Jayne and Aubrey both turn up dead, the evidence points to one suspect-Dasha herself. Now Dasha has to once again call upon her cunning mind and capacity for extreme violence, honed by her younger years as a Nazi-killing partisan and a top-rank CIA agent. Teaming up with her old allies, Westport police chief Tony DeFranco and local TV reporter Tracy Taggart, Dasha sets out to clear her name, find the real killer, and figure out why she was targeted-while dodging jealous wives, a sleazy tabloid reporter, child spies, and a fearsome Mafia hit man, leading to a tense and dramatic confrontation. Fast-paced and filled with intriguing characterization, Murder This Close is a stunning murder mystery with a twisty cerebral plot and plenty of hard-hitting action"--