Michael R. Lane is the author of a new book, The Family Stone, a work of general fiction published by Booklocker.com.
Abraham and Winona Stone are proud owners of Willie’s Market, a modest urban grocery store in a thriving working class community. In the year following the long, hot summer of nineteen-sixties America, Willie’s Market provides more than produce for their neighbors. The store also serves as a vibrant mecca for neighborhood gossip and spirited debates. Intriguing stories that are poignant, tragic and uplifting are thrust against a fiery backdrop of civil unrest.
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>Michael was an avid reader as a teenager who only wrote when necessary. That was before he spent time with poetry. Poetry became his first creative writing love. They began dating in high school, and she remains his longest-running love affair. While the poems in this volume were written over a number of years, the collection was compiled, edited, and refined between February 2016 and June 2017. Mortal Thoughts arose from their romance.
Clinton Windell is murdered and robbed of twenty million dollars in uncut gems. C. J. Cavanaugh is hired to root out the murderers. There’s only one catch. C. J. and his partner must keep mum they’re working the case. Between the killers, Homicide Detective Pendleton, and their client, C. J. must utilize every ounce of cunning to keep him and his partner out of prison or the morgue long enough to capture the killers…