In HORATIO’S COMA private investigator Dan Ballantine learns that his best friend was the victim of a brutal attack and lies unconscious in a Reno hospital. Someone left Horatio in his truck in the parking lot outside the Emergency Room.

Dan’s investigation leads to a suspect who is a Doomsday Prepper with a secret desert hideaway. With the help of his elderly Paiute friend, Hoppy, Dan searches the desert while hospital experts work to save Horatio’s life.

In THE BLOODY A MURDERS Sacramento homicide Detective Sergeant Harold “Harker” Smith and his partner, Roberto Alcarez, are called to a tidy murder scene. A woman has been left fully clothed in her bath tub with a severed femoral artery. The killer carved a large upper case A above her left breast.

The detectives suspect a love triangle gone bad, but a few days later the corpse of a middle-aged woman found floating in her backyard pool carries the same bloody A. Her husband assures Smith and Alcarez the victim was not an adulterer.

Because it is a hot news topic, Smith asks the husband if his wife had an abortion. He confesses she did and provides the name of the clinic.

The serial killer continues to leave dead women marked with an A while the detectives work their case.

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