“When one’s idea of right and wrong were merely mental constructs, it was easy to misunderstand what was acceptable behavior.” Madcap mayhem and an abundance of strange behavior await in Kinney's Quarry, a novel by Verlin Darrow. The story follows two intelligence agents, Kinney and...

Karl Gatlin is a private eye working in ultra-liberal Santa Cruz. His client, Aria Piper, has come to him to investigate a series of threats from a religious zealot by the name of Gary Crowder. Karl, his assistant Matt, and his in-house muscleman John Ratu...

Tom Dashiel is a forty-four-year-old therapist leading a solitary life in Santa Cruz, California. Tom's physical features are intimidating, as he is very tall and has scars on his face following a bad accident. Tom meets an unusual client named George Arundel who speaks in...

In The Not Quite Enlightened Sleuth, a murder mystery by Verlin Darrow, Ivy Lutz left her life as a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka and returned home when her mother had a stroke. Ivy struggled to apply her Buddhist principles in her new life and...