I have been writing for more years than I care to remember. My credits run the gambit from Technical Manuals, Corporate Operating Procedures, Municipal FEMA Remediation Reediness Plans, Municipal Highway Operations Plans, to Articles on collecting antiques, multiple books of poetry, and in excess of 30 Novellas and full-length novel series.
While most have been written under my own name, there is a 5-novel series, and a short story series that have been written under a penname. I don't actively advertise my works or seek reviews, so I am happy to say that my Goodreads rating in 4.03 based on 76 ratings. I guess that I am even happier that my primary penname's rating is 4.18 based on 86 ratings.
At this point in my life, my primary function is to act as a caregiver for my wife of many years as she battles the double daemons of Dementia and Alzheimer's. While the words had stopped flowing for a while, the spigot seems to be opening of its own free will. For my writing along with my new found pastime of painting with acrylics are paramount for me in the process of dealing with the stress of being a caregiver.
Susan Nurse: Like my husband of fifty years, I hold multiple degrees, mine being in History and Art History. I entered community college as an adult student in my middle thirties and earned my three degrees while raising a daughter, and maintaining a marriage. While commuting to another city to complete my Masters in Art History, I began a twenty-year career at the Memorial Art Gallery as its Visual Resource Coordinator, Assistant Librarian, lecturer and teacher of Art History in the Gallery's Art School.
One of my honored accomplishments at the Gallery was when I was selected as one of the staff members to author essays on works in the collection for inclusion in the Gallery's major publication on its collection. Seeing America: Painting and Sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University Of Rochester 1996,
It begins on a Saturday night. A night that was supposed to be a special Saturday Night in Smithville, New York, a night of music, dancing, and adult beverages. Instead, it becomes a night of chaos, terror, and heartbreak, as a former army sniper sets upon the scene bent on exacting revenge against Smithville Patrol Sergeant Dave Patterson. His diversionary portion of the plan and gone off without a hitch. The downtown area of Smithville was now filled with every piece of fire apparatus, ambulance, and police officer that was responsible for the safety of the people of Smithville. All done so that he could get a kill shot, one directed solely at his true target for the night.
Get into Pettibone's head as he takes his shot, not his desired shot, but one that he knows is more often than not equally fatal. And even though help arrives quickly, in the form of Senior Detective Charlotte (Charlie) Nelson, he leaves his lair believing he has completed his mission. He resists the urge to shoot the lady he dubs Florence Nightingale, as he watches the flow of blood from the leg cease. Confident that his target has bled out, and equally confident that the crazy tourniquet she had fashioned could not have actually stopped the blood flow.
Charlie is determined that she is not going to let the man below her die that night. Though both are longtime members of the force, they have never been close or even shared a drink together. Something that might change, if Dave actually survived the night, for something special passed between the two that night. Something that both Dave, a divorced man with a seventeen-year-old daughter, and Charlie a widower, who had lost both her husband and son to a drunk driver going the wrong way.
The story alternates between the thoughts and actions of Jonathan Pettibone, and his relentless quest to end the life of Dave Patterson, and the actions of Senior Detective Charlie Nelson, along with the rest of the Smithville Police Department as they hunt down the shooter that has killed at least eight that night, including one police officer. Each chapter in the book is dedicated to either Pettibone, which is told in a narrative, or to Charlie, which is presented in the first person.
Dave's daughter is quick to spot how her father and Charlie both seem to brighten up whenever they are together. Quick, witty, and her own person, she is more than happy to have Charlie assigned to protect her until Pettibone is captured. For she has her own plan for her father and Charlie, her dads needs a female in his life again, and very much needs a mother to confide in. After spending some time with Charlie, she decides that they all would be perfect together. And her antics designed to make her father and Charlie realize that they are perfect together, lend a bit of humor to lighten the stress during some very tense times.
Título : Driven by Revenge
EAN : 9780463734452
Editorial : Nursesnook&Books
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