Books by Doug - All Rights Reserved - 2012
Barn Burner
Barns are burning on farms all around Jubilant Falls, Ohio — but that’s the least of newspaper editor Addison McIntyre’s problems. The daughter of Golgotha College president Dr. Seaford Thorn has come up missing — along with half a million dollars from the college’s endowment fund. When Addison’s own daughter Isabella, already suspended from school for assaulting a teacher, attempts suicide, Addison must come to terms with the real meaning of family secrets— her own and others.
Barn Burner tackles the legacy of mental illness in a small town, the secrets everyone keeps—and the damages that all of those secrets can do.
Barn Burner is the first in a series of mysteries set in Jubilant Falls, Ohio and Addison McIntyre is the latest addition to the reporter/sleuth literary tradition.
The Major’s Wife
When Marcus Henning came to the Jubilant Falls Journal-Gazette in 1982, he was looking for the one story that would change his career, give him credibility after screwing up a story in another town. Instead, he fell in love —and lost— the fiery redhead Kay James when she married an Air Force fighter pilot named Paul Armstrong. Seven years later, Kay was back — without the Major— and Marcus is on the trail of the one big story that would redeem his career. But what he uncovers could destroy everything he holds dear— his job, his career… and Kay.
This is the second in Debra Gaskill’s Jubilant Falls series.
Lethal Little Lies
Times are tough in the newspaper business these days.
In between staff cuts, furloughs and declining advertising dollars, Jubilant Falls Journal-Gazette editor Addison McIntyre hasn’t got time to listen when candidate Rick Starrett claims his opponent Virginia Ferguson ran a dirty state senate campaign.
Short on staff, time and patience, she can’t waste time on sore losers—then Virginia Ferguson is shot. As she dies, names Rick Starrett as the man who pulled the trigger.That gets Addison’s attention.
To further complicate things, Kay Henning, the wife of reporter Marcus Henning, has come up missing and believed to be in danger. Did she leave of her own accord or was she kidnapped?
Is there something that ties these two events together? Who’s telling the truth? And who is telling what could be lethal little lies?
This is the third in Debra Gaskill’s Jubilant Falls series.
