Midnight in Brussels

Later, Roger is forced to look Bert up again to get blood when his daughter is in a serious auto accident. A friendship develops between Bert and Roger's family that includes Tad, a boy Bert has been watching over on the streets. At Roger's urging, Bert begins working to restore his self-respect and get off the street.

Roger's point of view is altered also, and he begins to take pro bono cases to help people like Bert. Roger's daughter, Sharon, sees a need to help others also. Her attempt to befriend a woman and her small children gets her kidnapped.

Bert uses his forgotten skills as a private investigator to find Sharon and arrange her rescue, but is seriously wounded during the rescue. His recovery, assisted by his landlady, results in a romantic relationship. Bert would like to adopt Tad, and so would Roger and his family, but, when Tad's mother shows up unexpectedly, his life is turned into turmoil. Where will Tad end up?

The Gathering was the twenty-fourth in Kienzle's series of mysteries, featuring Father Robert Koesler as a Roman Catholic priest whose intuitiveness and caring nature have led him to an unusual calling: solving mysteries, mostly of the murderous kind.

In this entry, revisit Koesler's adolescent and teen years, to a time when young Catholic men and women were encouraged, even expected, to become priests and nuns, whether or not their vocation was real. We meet his group of six young aspiring religious (four men and two women) who underwent the rigors of the seminary and the convent together. We learn of their individual struggles with their faith, their mentors, and their commitments to difficult choices. And we painfully discover how one member of this group is inflicted with undeserved guilt by an unspeakably cruel superior and how this dooms his life. Now in their seventies, the group gathers together, a reunion of sorts, that is cut short when one of their number is found dead. Suspicions arise, and once again Father Koesler's acumen is called on to solve the puzzle.

When Jake Winship, a burned-out Wall Street executive attempts to escape his unsettled past, he becomes trapped in a nightmarish future. Seeking his naïve version of paradise sailing through the Caribbean, unleashed terror stalks him and his reluctant wife Vanessa at every port of call. Unaware of their hidden cargo, they become unwitting victims of a narco-terrorist network that tightens its noose on them ? until it is too late to hide or run. The suspenseful chase that unfolds becomes a plethora of perils and predicaments ? forcing them to unravel the hidden agendas of their marriage while overcoming the sadistic schemes of their ruthless pursuers. After their illusory bliss of the tropics is shattered by a ?perfect storm? on the high seas, they must turn to innocent islanders who are soon entangled in the same web of terror. Now in a desperate race against time, the hunted are forced to become the hunters - with Jake and Vanessa discovering that only love, courage and cunning can prevail over the twisted evils of their lost paradise.

Secrets lurked amongst the intimate group of family and friends secrets they

hoped and prayed would never be revealed. But when Jackson Pryce is

murdered in the wee hours on that frosty Christmas morning, the secret he kept

about his investigation of the underground world emerges. Then Jacksons

handwritten notes fall into the hands of Detective Clay Stephens, his friend and

former partner. Determined to find Jacksons murderer no matter where or

to whom the road leads one by one, Clay shines a light on all of their secrets. Yet,

only one secret would bring all of their fragile worlds crumbling down. Only one

secret would wreak havoc on all of their lives. Only one secret would keep them

all living on the edge. In time, only one secret would break through for all to see.

It was destined to happen…the only question is when, where, and how?

Would it be Bridgettes decision to keep secret the large sums of money she quietly withdrew from her personal bank account, or that she sneaked off the Estate

to spend a day of adventure with the one friend her husband desperately tried to keep away from his pregnant wife? Would it be Davids and Agnes decision to keep the

question of their daughters paternity a secret, or that the man Bridgette

knew as Uncle Jack and loved like a father shared much more with her

mother than just a close friendship? Would it be Jeremys decision to keep

hidden the sordid secret of his mother, Diana Robinson (alias Sara White) by

claiming his parents were dead, or his night of lust and passion with his ex-lover,

Fran McKenzie? Would it be Megans decision to keep hush-hush the shameful secret that she squandered away hundreds of thousands of dollars from her trust funds in the casinos, or waiting too late to disclose her relationship with another man Reginald Douglas?

Lance Corporal Perry McMullin is a wannabe sniper prepared to help win the war in Vietnam. Navy corpsman John Henry Fox dreams of becoming a military chaplain. Now just out of medical training, he is unsure of his newly imposed warrior status. As fate brings a life saver and a life taker together, they soon become friends?but not without conflict.

McMullin is on the military fast track. Focused on being a career marine, he is promoted to sergeant and trained as a sniper. Fox, never a fan of war, decides to return to college, causing the two unlikely friends to part. After instructing at MCB Quantico and working stateside intelligence, McMullin requests to return to Vietnam. Ensign John Fox has also returned to the battlefield, but this time as a navy chaplain. As a cross and sword reunite during special covert operations and top secret missions, neither has any idea that a parting of ways is in store once again.

In this compelling, action-packed military tale, two men attempting to survive the ravages of war somehow manage to salvage a friendship and, in the process, discover a lasting gift that neither could have ever imagined.