Dick Snyder: 5 books

JONAS KIRK MYSTERIES: CLICK Can Jonas Kirk, a wealthy, white, middle class twentysomething orphan find a purpose in life? Thoughtful detective work appeals to him, especially when it solves homicides that seem to puzzle the local police in Woodland Park, Minnesota. In CLICK, Kirk...

Jonas Kirk emerged from the sudden death of his parents as a wealthy wanderer, traveling widely but settling into his home town, Woodland Park, MN. Immune to the movers and shakers of his community, he remained footloose until he became interested in murder. Studying forensic evidence at Hamline University,...

Bingo is a simple game, a format for gossip, fun and occasional windfalls of cash. Yet in Woodland Park, it seems to trigger burglaries and murder. Key personalities focus on these frightening events, among them, Bishop Leland Burkey, and Lt. Chester Devlin, each especially frustrated at their inability...

Life is lived in segments, sometimes seamlessly woven, sometimes abruptly altered. This collection of short story fiction reports on personal transitions, uncertain futures, and individual frailty. Stories of failed love, fitful maturation, fragmented relationships, human misbehavior and psychological...

Who needs sleep anyway? The men (and woman) who established a genre of television—comedy after dark—are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From pioneers Dick Cavett and Tom Snyder to the original meta-hosts David Letterman and Garry...