Author Event: Friday, May 10 from 11am to 3pm

Please join us on Friday, May 10 from 11am to 3pm for a book signing with Stuart Scott, author of GRITTY, GRISLY AND GREEDY and PRISONERS OF WAR.

Two dual plot lines converge with unexpected and devastating result. The story of the infamous Mark 14 naval torpedo, who’s failures to perform hampered our submarines between 1942 and  1944, is told through the eyes of a key production worker. The public’s fear and now forgotten actual attacks on our West Coast, are recounted as they affect the love between master machinist Pat and his Japanese-American sweetheart. When her family is interned and her father killed, as a suspected spy, Pat must decide where his loyalties lie: with his love or with his country.
Prisoners of War is a 64,000-word standalone novel about love, loss and redemption in wartime America. Spanning a 50-year period, the action plays out on the West coast, in a torpedo factory and our only ‘Segregation’ camp for American citizens.

Stories inspired by true crooks and crimes from my 28 years as a fed.
 This is a short story collection of quirky stories with black humor and original hooks. It is not about me, but about the crooks and crimes.
Featured among the stories is the fictionalized answer to the greatest mystery in Whitman County. “Who shot George McIntyre, the Pullman sniper?” On Easter Sunday, 1949, George McIntyre, a Walla Walla native, shot 40% of all the law enforcement in Whitman County before being killed.”
In my twenty-year career in law enforcement, I worked with cops and criminals, and encountered con artists, crooked lawyers and innocent citizens caught up in dodgy dealings. These real characters and their adventures, together with my own imagination, have inspired stories about the bank robber who flashes her female assets to dazzle cashiers, the getaway driver who forgets what he's supposed to do, the almost-genuine Native American radio evangelist who knows how to persuade, and the dealer in gold teeth who extracts merchandise from living people.
Each story concludes with an “Author’s Notes” paragraph that tells something about the actual cases or crooks referenced.