Mysteries
Hidden Threads (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
Once again Virginia Davies Clark finds herself in an action packed, whirlwind mystery adventure involving a Vatican treasure lost for generations, international criminals, suspicious ghosts, and people trying to kill her.
Perilous Threads (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
Virginia Davies Clark and her husband Professor Andy Clark have no idea what’s in store for them as they attend an estate auction in Georgetown, TX. Virginia won the bid for an antique quilt and a ships log from the 1700s. Upon leaving the auction someone attempts to rob her of the quilt.
Mysterious Threads (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
Virginia Davies Clark and her friend Natalie North go to a quilt retreat to teach workshops at the Mayfield, An historic ranch in Williamson County, northwest of Georgetown, Texas. But Virginia’s lessons in paper piecing and Natalie’s lessons in knit felting are no match for Colin Carswell’s…
Secret Threads (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
Virginia Davies Clark and the Bee Hive Quilt Guild are set to invite newcomer Amanda Radford, a retired engineer, into their group. Hoping Amanda’s crafty reputation will perk up the Quilt Bee’s patchwork proceedings, they arrive at her home only to find her dead and a couple of her exquisite, prize-winning quilts missing.
Whispering Threads (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
Virginia ventures to Palm Springs, California for a quilt show and conference. It’s also a reunion and respite for her and her long time friend, Donna Bolette. A few days of fun, sun, and quilting can’t hurt.
Suspicious Threads (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
It’s hard to imagine anything really bad ever happening in picturesque Georgetown, Texas–until a famous face rolls into town and unthreads some very dark secrets. . .
Trail of Threads (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
Someone tried to kill a friend of Virginia Davies Clark in Virginia’s museum. The killers are after the gold, a mysterious Civil War era quilt, jade jaguar, and a ceremonial jade dagger her friend just inherited. More murders take place because of the old quilt and the inheritance. The list of suspects includes a university professor and a few relatives of Virginia’s friend. They all look suspicious and innocent at the same time.
Red Tide Murders (A Jack Turner Mystery)
Jack Turner, Ph.D., is a chemist and the Coroner of San Sebastian County California. Jack is called to active duty by the Army and with his girlfriend, a health department officer, Nancy Cartwright, must find the source of the toxic cocktail, find the perpetrators, stop anyone from using it as a terrorist weapon and causing a pandemic.
Murder at Webster Point Inn (A Virginia Davies Mystery)
Webster Point Inn, an old manor house built before the Revolutionary War, set in spectacular forests and hills above the deep-blue waters of Lake Ontario, is the vacation destination of Virginia Davies Clark and her husband Dr. Andy Clark. He envisions a relaxing retreat fishing in a near-by trout stream and out on Lake Ontario.
Dangerous Threads (A Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery)
Virginia Davies-Clark is called back into the service of the Smithsonian Central Security Service and the Department of Defense, along with her husband Andy and her friend Donna, to locate a quilt. This isn’t just any quilt. At the 1933 Century of Progress in Chicago, Sears Roebuck Company sponsored a quilt contest. The Grand Prize was to be $1,000.00. The quilt that won the prize was a piece called “The Unknown Star” by the maker, Margaret Rogers Caden of Kentucky.
Quest for the Crystal Skull (A Virginia Davies Mystery)
Virginia entangles the reader in a rapid-fire adventure involving the worlds of murder, voodoo, and antique fraud and the sights and sounds of Texas, New Orleans and Rome up to the high stakes end on the Mediterranean Sea.
The Trashy Gourmet (An Adam Thomas Mystery)
During his month-long sojourn in chef’s school in Georgetown, Texas, retired scientist and newspaper columnist know now as the Trashy Gourmet, Adam Thomas once again finds himself embroiled in the middle of a murder mystery. He is there when someone stabs Chef Elacroix with one of his customized carving knives and poisoned him. It is a crime in which Adam becomes a consultant to his friend Captain Roland Waits of the Georgetown Police Department in order to carve out clues that the police can’t.
Chimera (A Jack Turner Mystery)
Someone breaks into the high-level security section of USAMRIID (US ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES) at Fort Detrick, Maryland and stole vials of weaponized smallpox. Later the individual is found dead at the Washington, DC train station.
San Gabriel’s Secret (An Adam Thomas Mystery)
Nestled on the San Gabriel River in Central Texas’ Hill Country, Georgetown is a small town where things are normally pretty quiet. That is, until Adam Thomas, a retired scientist and now writer of a newspaper column for women under the name Aunt Kay, inherits a Confederate soldier’s journal and a murder.
Left at Georgetown (A Virginia Davies Mystery)
Virginia Davies has a lot going on in her life – a new marriage, new city, new job, a new play – and murder!
Castle Finleystoke (A Virginia Davies Mystery)
Museum curator Virginia Davies is on a vacation with her fiancé, Dr. Andy Clark, and his parents to Scotland to visit Andy’s Great Uncle, The Baron of Finlaystoke. Snobbish relatives, pompous lawyers, poisonings, a madman on a motorcycle and someone out to kill her make for another misadventure for Virginia.
Pelican Cove (A Virginia Davies Mystery)
While vacationing in the romantic seaside town of Pelican Cove with her boyfriend, Virginia stumbles upon the truth about a sunken ship involving smuggling, drugs, deceit and murder.
Napa Nights (A Virginia Davies Mystery)
Museum curator, Virginia Davies, attends the American Archaeological Convention in Napa, California. The arrival of The Reverend Hockings is controversial enough. His dropping dead makes it worse.
Laguna Nights (A Virginia Davies Mystery)
Virginia Davies, a graduate student in history is embroiled in an unclassic adventure involving a hoard of gold, thieves and a ring of smugglers in a plot that almost costs Virginia and her friends their lives.
Nonfiction
Poisons, The Handbook for Writers
The effective means for an undiscovered, perfect murder is illusive. The bottomless fear of discovery has kept most of us from the real life dastardly deed. But what about authors who need to craft a believable plot? Those who kill “fictionally” will find this book a valuable resource.
Management Books
Effective Transition from Design to Production (Series on Resource Management)
Taking a new product from the design stage to large scale production can cause processes in many companies to break down, contributing to the cost of manufacturing and while increasing negative pressure on the products launch into the market. Effective Transition from Design to Production provides planning techniques and guidelines to lead a proposed new product smoothly through the proposal, design, and manufacturing stages in an efficient and cost-effective way. Organized in sequential steps, the text outlines the seven stages of the production process: proposal, system design, detailed design, manufacturing planning, production readiness, low rate initial production, and production.
Environmental Life Cycle Analysis
The trend in industry and with the EPA is to prevent wastes before they are created instead of treating or disposing of them later. This book assists design/systems engineers and managers in designing or changing a product or set of processes in order to minimize the negative impact on the environment during its life cycle. It explains the overall concept of environmental life cycle analysis and breaks down each of the stages, providing a clear picture of the issues involved.
Waste Minimization as a Strategic Weapon
Waste Minimization as a Strategic Weapon provides guidance on how to design, implement, evaluate, and maintain a waste minimization program. It describes how waste reduction programs can be successfully coordinated into company procedures, while simultaneously improving that company’s bottom line. It illustrates how to set goals and metrics for a waste minimization program, how to determine the progress of such a program, and how to calculate the true costs of environmental compliance.