Stephen Gaspar is a writer of historical detective fiction. He and his wife Susan, have lived in Windsor, Ontario, Canada all their lives. His latest book, The Book Club Murders, is being published. (Look below) Some of Stephen Gaspar's detectives include a Templar Knight, a Canadian Mountie, a Benedictine monk, and a Roman tribune.
By 1959 Lee Linville is a junkie living on the streets of New York. He has turned away from the life as an investigator for his lawyer friend, William Fullerton, and has embraced the counterculture way of life. Fullerton comes to Lee with a job only he could do. Fullerton wants Lee to find a sixteen-year-old runaway from an affluent family who has also turned to drugs and is lost in the concrete jungle of New York.Lee must fight against his addiction and his personal demons as his search takes him to the subways of Manhattan, the blues clubs of Harlem, the beatnik scene in Greenwich Village, and the rundown tenements of the Lower East Side. Along the way Lee encounters cops, drug dealers, pimps and a colorful assortment of fellow addicts. If this is a simple runaway case, why is someone trying to kill Lee before he can find the missing girl? As well as being a fast-paced detective story, A Piece of Work is a thought-provoking, sometimes moody look at life in 1950s America where the marginalized struggle with life on a daily basis.
Barclay Of The Mounted is the memoir of a young man who, looking for adventure and glory, joins the newly formed North-West Mounted Police in 1874. Henry Barclay, a native of Toronto travels west “to keep the peace and maintain the right of all.” Barclay is an educated young man who quotes everything from Byron to The Bible, and from Shakespeare to Shelley.
Jessica Conners leads a typical life. She is married with two teenage children. Aside from her family, Jessica’s passion is books. She loves books. Jessica is an avid reader and collector. Along with her librarian friend, Emily Hudson, they host a women’s book club. When a member of the book club and a friend who owns a bookstore end up murdered, Jessica Connors tries to learn the truth about their deaths. Meanwhile, Jessica is being plagued by strange dreams brought on by a peculiar book fate has put in her hands. Can these dreams help her solve the murders of her friends? Will the solution be something she can accept?
The Book Club Murders is a cozy mystery with a hard-boiled detective story woven throughout. The story will appeal to fans of both genres. It is a story about the power of friendship and the awesome responsibility of truth.