A young man’s brutal death is confirmed by the first cops on the scene, the EMTs, and the medical examiner. And by Detective Cleveland, who is assigned to the case without his usual partner. Everyone agrees the victim is truly dead. But Cleveland brings a little more to the job than a cop usually does. He has a gift that—so far—only he knows about, and he’s always wanted to keep it that way. He calls it a little tickle in the mind. Perhaps some might call it being haunted. Usually, when it speaks to him, it serves merely to keep himself out of trouble, but this time he’s sure it’s a different voice. Perhaps the urgent voice of the victim lying at his feet. If it is, he thinks he’d better listen. Still, it’s only able to give him impressions. Ninety minutes later, the victim wakes up on the way to the morgue, asking for  Cleveland. This time, the message is unmistakable.

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IN SEARCH OF A PERFECT CHRISTMAS contains four lighthearted, sometimes tongue-in-cheek novelettes, where events contrive to make Christmas not quite the perfect experience. At the same time, these stories remember with respect and reverence the events that are the origin of the celebration. They are set in more innocent times, but the search for The Perfect Christmas still travels a rocky road that hasn’t changed for two thousand years.

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A chip has been made with a secret “Easter Egg,” a bonus more deadly than a gun.

Chips are all the rage again. They started putting the new ones into the cons up at the prison. Now, they’re putting them into the cops, too. They say it’s just for positive identification. But when Detective Sid Hiller begins to question a series of strange deaths of young men, he makes a chilling discovery. The cops and the cons are wearing the same chip, and hiding inside the new chips is a secret that’s stalking and waiting for the signal to kill. They’re getting away with it because the police have been taken over in a silent, clandestine coup. And the only one standing in their way is Detective Sid Hiller. And the girl who must save his life.

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Young Cliff Mills could tell you about bad economic times as well as what could happen when a fellow puts a gun in your face. Cliff is sitting pretty. He works days as a highly-regarded auto mechanic to support his wife and son, and nights on a college degree.

But the big crash happens, and the fabric of the country, and his life unravels. His employer is forced to let him go, jobs become as scarce as dinosaur teeth, a bank failure robs him of his college tuition, and when he finds temporary work for a few days, his employer disappears with the money he needs to pay the rent and avoid eviction. To avoid life in the in the local Hooverville, takes refuge in a small town where his employment prospects are said to be even worse.

Before he can even try to get on his feet, his life is quickly complicated when he discovers he is the only one who seems to notice a series of strange and mysterious goings-on that may include murder.  He quickly finds himself ill-equipped to confront a couple of gangs of bootleggers, one of which is secretly facilitated by local law enforcement only slightly less corrupt than the vicious gang itself. Very quickly, he’s in their crosshairs and nobody wants to listen.

Everything is truly out of kilter.

A Cliff Mills Novel.

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