AVAILABLE: April 2026!
Anatomy of a Death (available April 2026)
Historical Crime Fiction
(Book #3 — Gangster Series)
ISBN:
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Booze and dope addiction are smack-dab in the middle of everything in the village of Oxbow after the American Civil War. The Hospital for the Insane was built to handle the growing need for mental health care and addiction. At the center of the story are a physician and his wife, a sharp-witted, high-strung woman and pillar in the community, and a young boy who works at her hotel, where notorious outlaws and odd ducks come to lay low. It’s a story of addiction, love, sacrifice, and murder.
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The Black Bag of Dr. Wiltse, Murder on The Prairie, 2021
Historical Crime Fiction
(Book #2 — Gangster Series)
ISBN: 978-0-9992635-5-6 (Paperback); ISBN:978-0-9992635-8-7 (E-Book); ISBN: 978-0-9992635-7-0 (Large Print)
Book Review/Award (2022), Shelf Unbound, US (link)
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Set in Iowa, a pioneer physician, Dr. Alexander Wiltse, is attracted to murder investigations, and his black bag allows him to enter places where others may not go, which puts him in the center of horrific murders. Black Bag Dr. Wiltse — Sample Pages
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Gangster in our Midst, Bookkeeper, Lieutenant, and Sometimes Hitman for Al Capone, 2017
Historical Crime Fiction
(Book #1 — Gangster Series)
ISBN: 978-0-9992635-3-2 (Paperback); ISBN: 978-0-9992635-2-5 (E-Book); ISBN: 978-0-9992635-4-9 (Large Print)
Book Review/Award (2025), Reader’s House, UK (link); Book Review/Award (2019), Shelf Unbound, US (link); Boo Review (2017), Little Village, US (link)
SHORT DESCRIPTION: An Italian American mobster, Louie La Cava, comes to a small Iowa town in the 1920s and soon claims to be the bookkeeper to Chicago Kingpin Al Capone. Gangster in Our Midst — Sample Pages
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Minnesota Stories, 2022, anthology
The Seymore Farm for Offensive Creatures
ISBN:
SHORT DESCRIPTION: 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 (out of print): 10:0692509852, 400 pages. Availability: Archived German Historical Institute, Washington, DC.
SHORT 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
Availability: (Out of print) Archived Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; Presbyterian Historical Society, National Archives of the PC(USA), Philadelphia, PA
SHORT 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.
ISBN: 13: 978-0578139593, 300 pages (out of print)