A twenty-six-year-old bodybuilder, Gunter Hoffman, with body dysmorphic disorder fears crowds. Weight training compensates his anxiety and keeps at bay his childhood nemesis, the Detour Man-a homeless man that reappears in nightmares during stress.
The gargantuan young man's shyness, and uncomely face thwart his chances to have a girlfriend. Midnight solo strolls in a NYC park yield solace until he stumbles onto a mugging yet he did not intervene.
PI Vinnie Briggs agrees to advise Gunter and wishes he had not. He doesn't understand the man who spans six feet in all directions. He doubts Gunter's mental acuity. Park mugging? Unlikely. Except it's true and more.
Along comes Katia, a casual encounter in a coffee shop, inviting Gunter to her party for his kindness-and his body fascinates her. But not the party friends, who mock Gunter's bulging biceps, thick legs, and serpentine veins. Gloom besets a tearful Gunter. Horror with Katia's murder. Shock with his arrest and a double homicide charge-Katia's and the body from the park.
Vinnie and Rita Light, and assistant PI, use unusual investigative methods-hacking, breaking-and-entering, sex-to prove Gunter's been framed to counter the district attorney's strong case.
The investigation leads to uncovering a terrorist plan by Tajikistan cousins living in Jersey City. Finding them and exposing their plot will exculpate Gunter. Tipping Homeland Security too early loses exonerating evidence. Time is short before Vinnie and Rita must warn the FBI and Homeland. And time runs out. They resign to failing Gunter unless they take a huge gamble-one that endangers the lives of many including children. The consequences are dire. Lives change. Gunter's life changes.
Vinnie Briggs HOT series No 1 contains strong language and mature content. Readers sensitive to such material are advised to not listen to this book. Everyone else, enjoy!
When a rising-star senior analyst is falsely accused of sexual assault, the evidence mounts against him… Meanwhile, assistant Vinnie Briggs is determined to clear his boss’s name — but the story is about to become far more twisted and dangerous than he could ever imagine.
Today’s high schools aren’t about books. They’re about texts, Tweets, and social media postings… silly, gossip, and sometimes mean, until the random murder of a well-like high school teacher.
But is it random?
Vinnie Briggs can’t find any explanation other than the wrong place, wrong time… except he notices links to other accidents among teachers, principals, and high school parents. He recruits a martial arts expert, Rita Light, to help the investigation.
Vinnie and Rita learn about online and classroom bullying. Vinnie seeks hard evidence; Rita her invented inventive yoga sex among the widowers. It works, except she falls in love with one of the parents.
The investigation stalls until the outlier man appears. Now the focus shifts from identifying the murder to stop more killings. Can they also get justice?
School bullying, beautiful men and women, and martial arts for unconventional sex bring an investigation like no other. Outlier Man is a modern morality tale that challenges school rules intended to protect students that don’t always succeed.
- Vinnie Briggs went to Sicily for love. Instead he found murder.
- Salt & Pepper Man is an excursion into betrayal and what seems like a lost cause.
A chance meeting of a former high school best friend causes Vinnie Briggs' Sicilian vacation to fall apart even before he checks into his hotel. One friend asks for a 'simple' favor, the other dies.
Vinnie knows it's a bad idea to get involved, yet he can't refuse. He's asked to link the Brooklyn mob to human trafficking in Sicilian refugee camps.
The favor brings complications. The body count grows. And on top of it all, a youthful bodybuilder seduces Vinnie's husband.
If he fails, fatal consequences will follow, and not only for him.
