Thrillers set on the El, in the rowhouses, and in the kitchens of the city I keep the trains running in.
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A Philadelphia thriller
Eli Ward wakes up in Philadelphia with no memory of who he is, and lives the same day again. And again. Every day is shorter than the last. Somebody close to him wants him to stay lost, and if he can't figure out who, and why, before the clock runs out, there won't be a tomorrow to wake up to.
Buy on AmazonVeronica Pryce Thrillers, Book 1 · Inspired by a true story
Philadelphia, 1988. A boarding house on Kater Street, a landlady everyone trusts, and tenants who keep disappearing. Detective Veronica Pryce knows something is wrong. Proving it means digging up what's buried in the garden.
Buy on AmazonA supernatural domestic thriller
Julian Mercer has 80 percent of everything a man could want: a thriving company, two great kids, and a wife who carries it all. After a car crash leaves him in a coma, he finds the missing 20 percent in his dreams. Her name is Serena. And every time he goes back to sleep to find her, she takes a little more of him home with her.
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An Afro-Latina Philly novel of love, loss, and taking her life back
April lost her twin at seventeen and has been standing next to the pretty girl ever since. Then a man named Mel decides she's worth his time, and she has to figure out what she's worth to herself.
Get an early copyA Detective Noelle Hartley thriller
Six children have vanished from the same Philadelphia neighborhood. Detective Noelle Hartley knows what kind of man takes kids. But the deeper she digs into the landlord everybody suspects, the less sure she is who those children needed saving from.
Get an early copyVeronica Pryce Thrillers, Book 2
Germantown, 1989. Everybody in the church loves Retta's cooking. Everybody who eats it keeps getting sick. Veronica Pryce is back, and this time the poison is on the potluck table.
Get an early copyDemetrius Patterson is a Philadelphia native who has spent more than thirty years working with electricity and more than a decade as a SEPTA signal maintainer, keeping the trains in his city moving. He also teaches electrical courses at night, because he loves helping young people win.
He writes stories set in the Philadelphia he knows: the corner stores, the rowhouses, the El, and the people who hold one another together. Every book is its own story, and every book is part of the same city.
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