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The Queen of All Colors:
Joe Sault Detective series, book 2
Release date: December 20, 2020
Paperback/ebook: 394 pages
Genre: Police Procedural/Sci-fi, Action/Adventure
Publisher: WMDbooks
The near future:
Constable Joe Sault has finally made Detective.
However, after the messy Cavallon affair, there is little chance he’ll ever be assigned a case. Instead, he and his partner at the Autonomous Droid Unit, Dennis Hennessey, patrol the streets as ‘Bot Defusers,’ cleaning up messes involving robots and the artificial intelligences that inhabit them.
But when a gangland shooting spree ties up every other Detective, Sault is handed his first homicide—the brutal murder of an indolent construction worker. “It’s a minor case, a slam-dunk, open and shut, don’t stir up trouble and this could reset your career,” he is told. But there’s a newly discovered DaVinci on display at the museum and Sault suspects a connection. Suddenly, a slam-dunk seems as unlikely as ever getting another shot at being a working Detective.
Sault must solve the murder while juggling his regular caseload which includes a cosmetic fraud involving nanobot swarms that threatens to turn deadly and a police warehouse break-in that can’t be explained.
Meanwhile, life at home is a rollercoaster as his wife deals with her bitterness over his part in ending her career, his daughter is growing up too fast, and his son may be too deeply involved in violent games of war.
And then there’s Vivia, his alluring AI assistant whose obsessive need to serve may prove his undoing…if nothing else does.
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Wakeless:
Joe Sault Detective series, book 1
Release date: June 7, 2019
Paperback/ebook: 373 pages
Genre: Police Procedural/Sci-fi, Action/Adventure
Publisher: WMDbooks
Wakeless is a realistic police procedural fused with straight-up sci-fi action/adventure—Michael Connelly meets Isaac Asimov.
The near future:
You can choose your reality—virtual, augmented, or holographic—and artificially intelligent virtual assistants within humanoid shells have recently become available to the average consumer.
Constable Joseph Sault is out of touch with his children, possibly losing his wife to another man and his father to dementia, and constantly in trouble with his superiors. Feeling isolated and powerless, he finds solace only in his work. It’s a shaky balance that probably isn’t really working.
For Sault, more trouble begins with a simple question about an apparent traffic accident: How could a small, autonomous car on a barren stretch of road sustain so much damage? Answers prove elusive, questions keep piling up, and he soon finds himself in the middle of what might be a conspiracy with world-shaking implications.
When the prime suspect turns out to be his wife’s employer, his work and personal life collide.
Cornered and out of options, Sault is forced to risk everything in a desperate bid to outwit the man who has the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence at his command.
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The Space Between Thought
(a novel about life, love, death, tea and time travel.)
Release date: Dec 16, 2014
Paperback/ebook: 264 pages
Genre: Literary Sci-fi, Action/Adventure
Publisher: WMDbooks
Simon Sykes' virtual reality software company is exceeding expectations. He has money and power. He has Celeste, a beautiful, talented, and devoted girlfriend. And secretly, he has his pick of other women on the side. He is in control, on top of the world, and relishing every moment. But Celeste’s sudden death deals him a staggering blow. To everyone except Simon, it looks like suicide, but he alone saw the ghostly figure at the scene of the crime. Plagued by grief and guilt, Simon vows to uncover the truth at any cost. While his business languishes and friends grow concerned for his sanity, Simon stumbles upon a secret that promises the power to unravel the mystery and undo one life-altering moment, to save Celeste and restore his future: time travel. Meanwhile, Simon's suspicious behavior has renewed police interest in the case. With Chief Inspector Holloway closing in, Simon wrestles with time, space, and reality to rescue the love of his life, unmask her true killer, and remodel his world.
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I Married Japan
(Japan's hilarious journey into one man's life.)
Release date: Jan 22, 2016
Paperback/ebook: 138 pages
Genre: Travel, Asia, Anecdote, Humor
Publisher WMDbooks
Think you just married an exotic Japanese woman? Wrong! In fact, you just married all of exotic Japan and 3000 years of history. But, the die is cast, the adventure’s begun, and the wonders and wondering will never cease.Throw in a couple of kids and a quirky Canadian family filled with characters, and you have the makings of epic tragedy, or gut-busting comedy, depending upon your point of view.
Get ready to learn, and be prepared to laugh your way through this collection of Japan-related articles on family life with the Deans!
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The Book of 5 Uncredible Short Stories
(from the distorted mind of William M. Dean)
Release date: May 05, 2016
Paperback/ebook: 145 pages
Genre: Humorous Sci-fi, Humorous Action/Adventure, Humor
Publisher: WMDbooks
If, all of your life, you have been desperately seeking a book filled with aliens, maniacal sheep, cupids and other mythical creatures then luck is with you and within these pages, you will find far-fetched stories from far-flung realities, told with exaggeration that amplifies truths, and adjectives that modify nouns. This is a work of fiction and has been scrupulously edited to exclude all fact so as not to distract you from all those aliens, maniacal sheep, cupids and postal workers you were looking for.
For the rest of you, there is at least one stunningly good-looking woman and some cute cats.
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Slices of Laugh
(Amusing Musings on Life and Family)
Release date: April 15, 2017,
Paperback/ebook: 219 pages
Genre: Humor, Slice of Life
Publisher: WMDbooks
Humorist William M. Dean has been compared to Mark Twain and Dave Barry, in gender. Here are 34 hilarious anecdotes and articles offering his unique perspective on far-flung subjects ranging from life, family, parenting, sex, intimacy, arguments, stealing your neighbor’s water, Japan, clothes dryer repair, violence, drugs, pets, sex again, aging, writing, couponing, Disneyland, scouting, dining with the Queen of England, and more.
A refreshingly wholesome, uplifting read, perfect for when you’re waiting for your nails to dry, your server to stop texting, your doctor to retrieve an implement, your lover to finish, or to hide behind while following a suspect in a busy terminal.
Lots of chuckles, keen observations, pearls of wisdom and nearly 100 funny pictures.
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