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"On those cold days in hell, we'd burn books,

millions of books. The writers too."

Red Hot Books by Lou Dischler. . .

UNDER THE MISSISSIPPI

A quirky, fictional biography of the rather daft Adele "Teedle" Beauregard, a mountain girl who falls for assassins and consorts with voodoo queens on her way to becoming a celebrated Parisian artist. (98,000 words)

This book is currently a semifinalist in the Amazon/Penguin "Breakthrough Novel" contest. If you'd like to read the first chapter and vote, the link is here.

DEVIL'S FLAT

Avid bicycler Tipper Boone is in for a wild ride when his father disappears, his mother becomes a slut, and the FBI mistakes him for a serial killer. Set in the sex-drenched seventies, DEVIL'S FLAT is The Catcher in the Rye crossed with Helter Skelter, a coming-of-age with Jeffrey Dahmer. Complete at 80,000 words.  (80,000 words)

Devil's Flat was an editorial pick in the truTV/Borders Books "Search for the Next Great Crime Writer" contest (even though it wasn't really a crime novel).

THE GODS OF WINTER

A hallucinatory journey into the poisoned mind of a pope who cannot trust anyone, not even himself. It's a tale of revenge for the bloody horrors of the inquisition. Of two men: one who would destroy the church for torturing his ancestors, and another who would capture it and replace Christ with a god of his own creation. (89,000 words)

This book is a contestant in St. Martin's Minotaur/MWA "Best First Crime Novel Competition."

THE SENATOR

Ex-journalist, ex-marketing manager, ex-political candidate, and now full time failure, Paul Kennedy is adrift, on a downward spiral. He's slowly sinking into alcoholism when a misaddressed package arrives at his island cabin. The package contains a manuscript detailing the secret activities of the Society of Dorset, which has for a century sought to undermine the United States, to bankrupt it using the mantra of "Free trade is good for America," and in so doing create a new world order. Failing to promptly recover the MS, society operatives attempt to frame Paul for the murder of his girlfriend, but fail in spectacular fashion, driving him into league with his archenemy, a right-wing Senator. (83,000 words)

This book shows what happens when America reverses its suicidal policy of free trade. It's available from Amazon.

THE GENIUS OF MERRIVILLE

The story of Harry Worth, an inventor who thinks too much, and his wife Julie, who shoplifts everything from shoes to nuclear weapons. (78,000 words)

TIME TRAVEL WITH DOGS

A time traveler somehow becomes responsible for Marie Antoinette's dog, and every attempt to get rid of it only produces copies of the awful beast. (80,000 words)

MEMORY FOR MURDER

An obscure researcher at a southern university discovers a drug for deleting memories as though the brain were a computer hard drive. On the verge of demonstrating its use in a human for the first time--a murderer on death row--he's threatened by envious coworkers and by pharmaceutical companies that will stop at nothing. (71,000 words)