Books with author Murphy Rae

Sex or lunch, what would you do, six days in a row? If you dont find the baby soon, will she freeze to death? It appears to be a single gunshot wound directly under the chin; should we assume suicide or possibly foul play? It appears the grandfather had a heart attack and fell through the glass storm window. Do we remove the body before the young grandkids show up? Its against rules but we cant allow the childrens last memory of grandpa to be crumpled and bleeding. Is that a gun in his hand or is that a cell phone? Its too dark, but the call was a man with a gun! If youre right youre a hero. If youre wrong you go to the morgue. These decisions are made on a daily basis if you are a Chicago Police Officer. Hopefully youre right. If youre wrong not only do you suffer but your family does as well. No police officer wants to make a split second decision but at times thats all you have.

Bob, our favorite martini-loving ghost, has vanished. Now Roz faces a miserable snowbound Crooked Lake winter alone. Well, almost alone. Thank goodness for David, the practical, kind grape grower who lives up the hill.What a winter it is! Record-breaking snows followed months later by record-setting rains. Ah, the joys of living on a lake shore when the spring floods arrive.High water, anyone?Undeterred by mice, sociopathic relatives, Carnegie Hall disasters, and spring floods, Roz searches for her MIA ghost. In the process she goes toe-to-toe with the hyper-verbal crowd at the Algonquin Round Table. Can Roz best smarty-pants Dorothy Parker in a game of wits? Will Harpo Marx finally speak out and help Bob return to Crooked Lake?For the answers to these and many other spirited questions, read BOB AT THE PLAZA!

After returning from the boiling heat of the Devon Desert, Baymar, Shomnath, and Pall continue the quest for Ambrosia’s blue diamonds. The journey now brings them to the Astral Plane, the magical land of the Fae, Gods, and Master Wizards.Meanwhile, a grieving Kala goes home in search of healing, Fort Hammerheart continues to rebuild, and King Alex struggles to keep his grip on the City of Somerlund, as well as his mind.

Sex or lunch, what would you do, six days in a row? If you don't find the baby soon, will she freeze to death? It appears to be a single gunshot wound directly under the chin; should we assume suicide or possibly foul play? It appears the grandfather had a heart attack and fell through the glass storm window. Do we remove the body before the young grandkids show up? It's against rules but we can't allow the children's last memory of grandpa to be crumpled and bleeding. Is that a gun in his hand or is that a cell phone? It's too dark, but the call was a man with a gun! If you're right you're a hero. If you're wrong you go to the morgue. These decisions are made on a daily basis if you are a Chicago Police Officer. Hopefully you're right. If you're wrong not only do you suffer but your family does as well. No police officer wants to make a split second decision but at times that's all you have.

Revised 3rd edition: 6/20The Archmage of Somerlund is dead. Murdered in his laboratory just one day before announcing a major discovery to the royal court. He finally deciphered the whereabouts of Ambrosia’s Blue Diamonds, fabled artifacts lost to time and legend. Laced with magic from another era, the soul gems each contained the trapped soul of a dragon within, granting the master of the diamonds the power to summon, and ultimately control a dragon. Although the King of Somerlund dismissed the Archmage’s murder and ignored his son’s plea to investigate the matter, Prince Shomnath would not sit idle and against his father’s word began his own quest for the diamonds, enlisting help from his three closest friends and a retired battlemage turned healer.

Revised 2nd edition: 6/20Following their battle with the mad dwarf Baylor and his dragon, Prince Shomnath, Kala, Rolo and Baymar head into the Devon, the scorching hot desert to the south of Somerlund. There they renew their search for another one of Ambrosia’s blue diamonds, which she locked away in a hidden oasis.Meanwhile, Pall and Scuttle remain at Mt. Loyola to rescue or find closure with their clan when Fort Hammerheart receives a surprise visitor.

She’s dead because of me.Josh Wilkinson is haunted by two words written in still-warm blood: Your fault.Wisdom, an immortal raised by the djinn, has gathered a band of super-powered teenagers to stop the Council of Peacocks, a group of evil sorcerers. After the battle in Thessaloniki, the Council is on the run. Just when final victory appears imminent, Josh’s mother is murdered and the prime suspect is his father.Once Josh was integral to the Council’s plans for world domination. Now Josh learns his cousin, Travis, is the one set to activate the Verdenstab. If he does, the Orpheans, demonic allies to the Council, will escape the Black Sea, a pocket dimension that serves as their prison. In a last-ditch effort to prevent the invasion, Wisdom and Josh use an ancient portal hidden beneath Gobekli Tepe to enter the Black Sea. The rest of the team – a pyrokinetic, a telepath, and a mercenary – head to stop Travis from activating the device.The end is closer than anyone suspects. The Activation is set to happen tomorrow.

Blue Diamonds is a fantasy novel about escape. A king who wants to escape his responsibilities, a prince who wants to escape his destiny, a dragon who wants to escape its imprisonment, and a wizard who thought that he escaped the life of an adventurer long ago. The city of Somerlund hasn't seen a dragon for hundreds of years, so when prince Shomnath learns that there might be dragons in the outskirts of his kingdom he has no choice but to ignore his father's denial of the matter and pay heed to his own thirst for adventure. Together, he and a few friends become the only party out to find truth, adventure, and possibly save the entire kingdom itself.