Rick Russell: 11 books

Rick and Tori Carlson from California Tumbles into the Sea, interrupt their honeymoon to investigate a forty year old Hollywood mystery that leads them into an international conspiracy. A character actor is shot, and he was looking into the forty year old mystery of the death of actress Thelma Todd. Did he solve the mystery of Thelma's death, or stumble into something much more sinister?

Heroes are sometimes so goody goody that they can't carry a book or story on their own, hence the promotion of the villain to the first chair. This anthology explores the evolution of the villain to protagonist; the crime lord, con man or gentleman burglar who succeeded to the featured role. Hold...

The best and most influential female Vampires of the Victorian era. For many years these ladies were in the shadow of the men, Ruthven, Varney and Dracula, but even in the modern era no writer has really surpassed the images of these ladies as the ultimate 'vamps.' They are seminal creations in both horror and popular culture and sadly have taken a backseat to long. Now they are back.

An Anthology of early and seminal occult detectives from the middle to late 1800s. The sub-genre that gave birth to such modern series as the X-files. From Ghost maestro J. Sheridan Lefanu through popular mystery writers such as Algernon Blackwood, L.T. Meade and Robert Eustace, through occult wroters like Dion Fortune and Aleister Crowley to the master of horror writing Arthur Machen.

A modern take on Fu Manchu, The hidden deadly villain and how he is pursued. "A well done exercise in modernizing an old standby without making it creaky and anachronistic." - from Amazon review. The Carlsons work as journalists rather than detectives and their methods form another level...

A war correspondent returns home to a murder mystery, an ex-fiancee and small town America. "...There are insights about How soldiers deal with war and the return from war that should be required reading for all who deal with Warriors & Veterans. The cultural accuracy and social content of the Vietnam War Era setting in a small town is superb." Peggy Jentoft, Amazon Review.

An anthology of the femme fatale motif through the nineteenth into the early twentieth century. The dangerous woman as viewed through the lens of the Victorian age. The motif wanders through several genres, sensation, mystery, horror ans ghost stories, with the essential quality that they hinge on...

Winemaker Kat Carlson recruits her family and friends to find and take down a child pornographer/kidnapper hidden out in Baja California. Body guard Ken Holder proposes to Kat and takes over as Annandale's police chief as the Carlsons and friends unwind a tangled mystery to get to the pornographers lair in the hinterlands of Mexico. Kat takes over a narrator in this latest Carlson mystery.

Metaphors of the classical myth of Phaedra and the song "Some Velvet Morning" blended into an action novel. An attempt to put an action novel within a more literary framework with allusion and metaphor taking the Carlsons and pitting them against a shadowy mafia boss who is known strictly...

In an unprecedented interreligious conference in November 2014, Pope Francis and four hundred religious leaders and scholars from around the world met in Rome to explore what their diverse faiths teach about marriage and “the complementarity of man and woman.” This book contains the most...

Exploring the myriad ways in which we go about preserving what might otherwise be forfeited.   Whether trained specialists or lay people who care about something, preservationists come from every stratum of life. The archivist, the linguist, the local town historian. The paleontologist, the heirloom...