John Schmierer

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Gravedigger's Moon
Dec 20, 2013
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There’s no alternative for Benjamin Holt—to save his successful legal career he has to locate a deceased client’s sole heir. The client was well known and rich, wealthy enough to spark a media frenzy should word of a long-lost heir become public knowledge. Only Holt and the senior partners at his law firm are currently aware of the situation. The partners blame Holt for mishandling the estate and won’t be happy without a prompt and satisfactory resolution of the inheritance issue. They send him to Phoenix, Arizona to chase down the last of the dwindling leads.
With his wife scheduled for surgery and their six-year-old son needing reassurance, Holt plans on heading back home to Newport Beach as soon as possible. Family obligations come first, but a meeting in Arizona with a prospective informant named Alan Kane forces a change in priorities. Kane knows who Holt is looking for. He hatches a scheme to exploit Holt’s good intentions and steal the inheritance through a deadly game of identity theft. Holt continues his search across two states in a journey misdirected by murder and deceit. He reaches the point of no return in the Sonoran Desert, where the bodies are buried, where he finds more to worry about than losing his job.
With his wife scheduled for surgery and their six-year-old son needing reassurance, Holt plans on heading back home to Newport Beach as soon as possible. Family obligations come first, but a meeting in Arizona with a prospective informant named Alan Kane forces a change in priorities. Kane knows who Holt is looking for. He hatches a scheme to exploit Holt’s good intentions and steal the inheritance through a deadly game of identity theft. Holt continues his search across two states in a journey misdirected by murder and deceit. He reaches the point of no return in the Sonoran Desert, where the bodies are buried, where he finds more to worry about than losing his job.
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Ocean Boulevard
Aug 5, 2010
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If it’s possible for a wealthy Orange County real estate developer to actually have a soul, Wes Marshall comes about as close as you can get. He’s a self-made man who came up the old fashioned way, through hard work and perhaps a little luck. He’s happily married, faithful to his wife, Kathleen, and adores their only daughter. At 50 years old, he can look forward to clear sailing, right through retirement.
But when Kathleen dies in a suspicious accident, Marshall begins to lose touch with reality. It’s the only explanation for his obsession with Debra, a new and much younger woman. The quiet marriage ceremony they hold so soon after Kathleen’s funeral surprises everyone. A few months later, a brutal murder aboard his boat leaves a blood-spattered Marshall looking unhinged and guilty. It’s not until he’s on the run from the police and pursued by two unrelenting strangers that Marshall sees the truth. Nothing was as it seemed, but by now there’s nothing he can do to make things right. Even worse, he can’t last forever living as a homeless outcast whose survival dictates that he blend in to a world every bit as dangerous as the one he’s hiding from. If he has any hope for redemption, it lies with Christine Blake, the woman who unwittingly framed him.
But when Kathleen dies in a suspicious accident, Marshall begins to lose touch with reality. It’s the only explanation for his obsession with Debra, a new and much younger woman. The quiet marriage ceremony they hold so soon after Kathleen’s funeral surprises everyone. A few months later, a brutal murder aboard his boat leaves a blood-spattered Marshall looking unhinged and guilty. It’s not until he’s on the run from the police and pursued by two unrelenting strangers that Marshall sees the truth. Nothing was as it seemed, but by now there’s nothing he can do to make things right. Even worse, he can’t last forever living as a homeless outcast whose survival dictates that he blend in to a world every bit as dangerous as the one he’s hiding from. If he has any hope for redemption, it lies with Christine Blake, the woman who unwittingly framed him.
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