Coming: 2024!
Before You Go (working title), 2024
Historical Crime Fiction
Book #3 — Gangster Series
A sharp-witted, high-strung embattled woman and pillar in the community, along with a young vagrant boy, are at the center of the story of love, addiction, sacrifice, and murder in the 1870s.
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The Black Bag of Dr. Wiltse, Murder on The Prairie, 2021
Historical Crime Fiction
Book #2 — Gangster Series
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: The historical crime novel tells the backstory of the family who built Hotel Wiltse–a major setting in Gangster in Our Midst. Dr. Wiltse is attracted to murder investigations and finds his black bag allows him into places where others may not go – and at the center of horrific murders. Black Bag Dr. Wiltse — Sample Pages
Book Award: 2022 Notable Indies Book Award, Shelf Unbound book review magazine.
Gangster in our Midst, Bookkeeper, Lieutenant, and Sometimes Hitman for Al Capone, 2017
Historical Crime Fiction
Book #1 — Gangster Series
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: The historical crime novel tells the fact-based story of an Italian American mobster, Louie La Cava, who came to a small Midwestern town in the 1920s—where he lived there off and on for the next sixty years. Gangster in Our Midst — Sample Pages
Book Award: 2019 Notable Indie Book Award, Shelf Unbound book review magazine
ISBN: 978-0-9992635-3-2 (Paperback); ISBN: 978-0-9992635-2-5 (E-Book); ISBN: 978-0-9992635-4-9 (Large Print)
Minnesota Stories, 2022
The Seymore Farm for Offensive Creatures
A Collection of 28 Fiction Stories About the State We Love (2022), compiled by Women of Words, published by Kirk House Publishers; July 2022: “The Seymore Farm for Offensive Creatures,” By Betty Brandt Passick
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We Are Eight, A Memoriam
Reference/Genealogy/Regional History, August 13, 2015, ISBN: 10:0692509852, 400 pages
Availability: (Out of print) Archived German Historical Institute, Washington, DC.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: The 400-page pictorial memoir traces four German family lineages that emigrated from Germany to America beginning in the mid-1840s, all settling in Bremer and Fayette Counties, Iowa, USA. The book includes genealogy, biographies, interviews, and photos—each generational story placed in the local, regional, state, and national historical setting of the time. The book is the result of five years of research.
Arlington Hills Presbyterian Church, 125 Years, 1888-2013
Reference/History/Presbyterian Church, 2014, ISBN: 13: 978-0578139593, 300 pages
Availability: (Out of print) Archived Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; Presbyterian Historical Society, National Archives of the PC(USA), Philadelphia, PA
BOOK DESCRIPTION: The author (and church member) penned the 300-page book chronicling the 125-year legacy of the pioneer church on St. Paul, Minnesota’s east side. The congregation of nineteen persons began as a mission Sunday School in 1885, initially under the sponsorship of East Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, and supervision of Central Presbyterian Church in downtown St. Paul. On December 9, 1888, Arlington Hills Church was organized with 25 members received. The congregation struggled with dwindling membership and finances in its final decades, and in December 2013, voted to close its doors.
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