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Before You Go (working title), 2024
Historical Crime Fiction
Book #3 in the Gangster Series
Small towns are not immune to unstable people looking for revenge. When a businessman is found mutilated and murdered at the train station, the magistrate sets his sights on a lone drifter — and overlooks the venerable physician who had recently gone on a rampage and threatened members of the town council. Ultimately, it’s a woman, a pillar in the community, and a vagrant child – one who runs ‘errands’ in the tunnel connecting two hotels, one a brothel – who expose this story of love, addiction, sacrifice, and murder.
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The Black Bag of Dr. Wiltse, Murder on The Prairie, 2021
Historical Crime Fiction
Book #2 in the Gangster Series
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: A pioneer physician and his family emigrated from Canada to a rural community in northeast Iowa in the mid-1850s. Only his wife knows of his attraction to murder investigations—his well-oiled black canvas bag allows him to places others may not go. He soon finds himself at the center of horrific murders, Indian massacres, mob hangings, prairie banditti – then Civil War, and sanctioned murder. Perhaps, the Canadian is also running from entanglements of the past.
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 in the Gangster Series
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: Marshal Sweeney Delaney was just a rookie in his small Iowa town when Congress ratified the 18th Amendment. Prohibition threw the whole nation into a tailspin. Even teetotaling Christians jumped on the bandwagon and began making panther piss in a still behind the barn. Then—a Chicago gangster came to town. Sweeney followed the adage: Keep your friends close; your enemies closer. Two old friends are part of his inner circle: Walter Bierkoff, a farmer and man of keen curiosity, and the perspicacious Father John Halpin, the priest at the I.C. Catholic Church.
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
I published my first short story in Minnesota Stories, 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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