Books published by John Rickley Dumm

The enigmatic, simplistic Jo Machine is in an extreme quandary! Well, that is, for her.She is suddenly trapped in a conspiracy that threatens the national security of the United States and she can't reveal what she knows to those upon whom she trusts and relies. If that isn't enough, Machine encounters some very different characters, two to whom she can easily relate, and another two whose origins are far beyond her comprehension.And if that isn't enough, Machine is getting a strange, one word signal in her Core, "companion," from an unknown entity.This isn't good!In the words of those characters to whom she can relate, "Oolikomic jalla goo!"

Except for a 1962 primrose Cadillac convertible, disgraced and discredited Pulitzer Prize winning author, Antonio Delgado, has virtually lost everything, and on the edge of losing himself.He suffers bereavement and pain, strife and turmoil, misery and defeat in the depths of hopelessness from which he, himself, created.His wife is dead, his daughter is estranged, and he's without a hint of credibility and any redemptive horizon. What happens to a man like that?Antonio Delgado is about to find out!At no fault of his own, unexpectedly, perhaps ironically, he encounters a tragic line that should never be crossed, yet too often is, in his former chosen genre that once took him down the thousand mile road to the horizon, and to the top of his game: A mass shooting!

Pamela Pearson is very dead from what appears to be a savage, hateful murder and a postmortem rape. The husband, editor Howard Pearson, is covered in her blood and in a catatonic state. When homicide captain James J. Moran finds the deceased’s diary and discovers the deceased is former collegiate tennis champion, Jeannie Alcott, the investigation goes in another direction and things begin to transform. Howard Pearson, after recovering from his catatonia, realizes nothing has prepared him for what he’s about to encounter. Chronology is a story of murder, love, revenge, and psychological blood-letting when a disguise-in-reverse, show business and law enforcement converge, keeping the reader guessing to the bitter, bloody end.Who killed Jeannie Alcott Pearson?