My First Novel

HALCYON FURY, a sea story of suspense on northern Lake Michigan, was published at Infinity Publishing in April, 2011, and is available in paperback and Kindle at Amazon, and Barnes & Noble Nook Books


The story is set in Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay region and features Traverse City and Elk Rapids, as well as Ann Arbor, Charlevoix, Beaver Island, and the Straits of Mackinac.

Paul Tyson discovers that his research data on global warming in Lake Michigan have been stolen and published by fellow student Ronald Withers. Paul confronts Withers and threatens to break his neck if he doesn’t confess and retract the plagiarized article. Later, Withers is found comatose with massive head trauma aboard the research ship HALCYON. Paul is charged with aggravated assault, and as Withers barely clings to life, the charge is likely to be elevated to murder one. Out on bail but unable to control his anger, Paul struggles to salvage his career and his relationship with partner Joan Brockton.

My Next Novel

My next novel, NO SWIMMING, will continue with the main characters of HALCYON FURY. Joan Brockton’s nemesis, Larry Griffin, after leaving grad school and entering a Caribbean medical school, creates a transgenic freshwater jellyfish with fatally toxic stinger genes from the marine box jelly and plants it in a lake near Traverse City, causing fatalities and general panic. Griffin falsely implicates Joan as the perpetrator, and begins plans to introduce the jellyfish to Traverse Bay. Joan and Paul Tyson struggle to unravel and avert the impending disaster.