Richard Powell - guest on September 2024
Richard is an incredibly talented and accomplished author, with multiple bestselling books. His writing spans various genres, from captivating murder mysteries to compelling World War II dramas and thought-provoking stories set in Japan. What sets Richard’s work apart is his ability to intricately weave richly developed characters and vivid descriptions, transporting readers into the captivating universes he creates within each story.
It’s no wonder that his books have garnered such a devoted following from readers around the world. Camilla Hillberg
Richard Powell books
Murder Club
A prominent author dies at a mystery writer's retreat. Who Did it? Recently promoted to investigations, Deputy Sheriff Christine Urich is eager to succeed. Show she is not merely a pretty face promoted to make the Department look fair. But will this first case derail her dream? Why? The lead Detective, Robert Jordan, struggles with Demons of his own. His career circles the drain after being hounded out of Memphis Homicide. Landing in this rural county, Jordan seems content to finish his career making as few waves as possible.
As they struggle to build a working relationship while stumbling over the writers shadowing their every move, they discover that everyone there wanted the victim dead. Are the writers interested in watching the police at work, or are one or more of them killers covering their trail while pretending to cooperate? Can the detectives put their differences aside and bring the killer to justice? Come find out!
WHAT REVIEWERS SAY ABOUT THE JERGEN COUNTY SERIES: Robert Jordan and Christine Urich. Mix a hint of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch with a twist of James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux. Add Robert Dugoni’s Trace Crosswhite and a dash of J.D Robb's Eve Dallas. The combination gives bad guys nightmares!
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To So Few
In the dark opening days of the Second World War, Japan marches unhindered through China and Southeast Asia. They decimate the American Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Grind the Philippines and the remaining American territories in the South Pacific beneath their bootheels. Not even the North American continent is immune as the Japanese conquer Alaskan Islands.
Four young Americans, three men and a woman, travel to China to assist in the embattled Chinese. The woman works in her father’s mission hospital bombed relentlessly by the Japanese, while the men join the American Volunteer group. These men, flying in support of the Chinese, become the only threat to the brutal conqueror’s ambitions. For a shining moment, this band of young people, who become known as the Flying Tigers, stands alone, thwarting the death that rains down on Rangoon.
While struggling against these impossible odds, personal challenges threaten to tear these young people’s lives apart. Can they prevail where others have failed?
While Americans cheer their efforts, Winston Churchill compares them to the brave airmen who defended the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain. Of those, he said: Never in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much TO SO FEW!
The young French student crosses the Atlantic Ocean to journey from Montreal to the Yukon to retrace his grandfather’s travels during the Klondike gold rush. He is murdered near Whitehorse.
Two cars speed by another on the Trans-Canada Highway just outside Ottawa while the car being passed was beginning to swing left. The driver of the passed car explodes into rage and chases the other two cars. The incident results in the death of two men and the near murder of their wives.
A serial killer is found innocent for his first murder. He goes on to kill four more children before he is removed from society.
The final story is about the killing of a very elderly woman in Manitoba for she and husbands pension savings.
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Pact With The Devil
FROM THE SMOLDERING ASHES OF POST WAR GERMANY, A NEW DEADLY CONFLICT EMERGES!
IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR’S LAST DAYS, CAPTAIN JAMES ROSS COMMANDS A RIFLE COMPANY. WHILE JUSTINE ROTHSTEIN LEADS A BAND OF PARTISANS HUNTING NAZIS. THEY JOIN FORCES TO LIBERATE A NAZI DEATH CAMP IN AUSTRIA. ONCE THEY SUCCEED, EACH GO THEIR SEPARATE WAYS.
WITH THE SECOND WORLD WAR DRAWING TO A CLOSE, A SECOND CONFLICT BETWEEN SUPERPOWERS EMERGES. WITH MILLIONS DISPLACED AND HOMELESS, DIRTY DEALS AND DECEIT RUN RAMPANT AS THE AMERICANS AND RUSSIANS JOCKEY FOR ADVANTAGE IN THIS CHAOS.
IN THIS CLIMATE, JUSTINE AND ROSS MEET AGAIN AT THE NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES COMMISSION. JUSTINE SEARCHES DESPERATELY FOR HER FAMILY DEPORTED BY THE NAZIS. WHILE ROSS INVESTIGATES THE HOLOCAUST’S PERPETRATORS.
THEY UNCOVER A PLOT GUARANTEEING THE RUSSIANS WIN THE COLD WAR BEFORE IT BEGINS.
THE POWERFUL PLOTTERS SHOVE ASIDE OR MURDER ANYONE WHO GETS IN THEIR WAY. DESPITE THIS PERIL, JUSTINE AND ROSS STRIVE TO EXPOSE THIS CONSPIRACY. WILL THEY SUCCEED.
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Pandora's Legacy
BASED ON HISTORICAL FACTS!
While the Western Allies and the Soviets square off in the cold war’s opening rounds, a third deadly conspiracy threatens resurrect the Nazi regime. A group calling themselves the Werewolves favor a return to power in Germany while their colleagues supported by both the Vatican and the Western powers, flee to countries around the world who welcome them with open arms. The conflict engulfs not only the Nazis, but threatens both Germany and the World’s future.
Major James Ross leads a team investigating Nazi war crimes. A deadly ambush leaves one of Ross’s people dead and another presumed missing. Tasked with finding his missing man, Ross, and his colleagues hunt for the killers, exposes this third conspiracy threatening world peace!
At the same time, the Russians coerce Justine Rothstein into spying for them. Her quest to satisfy the Russians, places her square in the sights of American spies.
With murder and mayhem erupting throughout Nuremberg can these butchers be stopped?
Will Justine dangle forever between the two battling Superpowers?
Come find out!
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Satan's Toys
YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTERS FROM THIS AWARD-WINNING SERIES RETURN IN THIS MURDER AND SPY THRILLER!
With the war behind them, Germans struggle to rebuild both the structures demolished in the war, and their society decimated by the Nazis. While Willi works to rebuild the civilian police a serial killer targets young women in both the Western and Eastern zones.
At the same time, Major Ross, now fully engaged in US intelligence, is ensnared in the growing conflict between the Russians and their Western allies. Entangled with a female Russian defector, she demands Ross provide both security and, in her words, comfort during this trying moment in her life.
Can Willi and his growing team snag the devil butchering young women throughout the nation? Can Ross succeed in this den, demanding both professional and personal betrayal? Come find out!