Jesse W Thompson: 13 books

In the hard times of the 1930s, Fin Barker sends Casey Carpenter to find his son who has run away to avoid prosecution for murder.

Mike MacDougal sails from Seattle for the Philippines with a group of scientists, they to learn more about Dr. Minerva Booger, brain surgeon, and her work with cannibals, he to learn what has happened to his mother who was sent to interview the doctor and has disappeared.

This book has a truckload of villains, but no lone protagonist who fights the odds against success, so you can't call it a novel. Rather, it's a series of stories about biblical heroes from Adam and Eve to Peter, with fictional characters who show up when I need them to make things clear and tie the stories together.

Widower Pete Erickson resurrects an abandoned sailboat and sets out for Alaska with a rich widow and her son as paying passengers. He's ignorant as a clam, but she knows about the valuable cargo the villain hid in his boat and will stop at nothing to recover.

This brief treatise asks and answers the question "Does God Smoke?" As it does so, it sets forth the three great boons of life, how they have blessed humanity, and with missionary zeal, have been scattered worldwide.

Molly Malone, from San Francisco, goes to Iowa to learn something of her family's roots. After she graduates from the University, she agrees to teach for two years in the corn-fed town of Hoover with its generally bigoted eye on life and a particularly sharp eye on its teachers. Miss Malone breaks the mold.

Annabelle and Delilah Lovland inherit Grandpa's run-down log lodge in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. They lack money for renovation and face a $280,000 mortgage plastered on them by Cleo's husband Percy, who wants to steal the property.

At the end of "North to Alaska," after Pete Erickson has been married for fifteen minutes, Mrs. Reverend Helgesen convinces herself that he wishes he had married her instead of "that foreign-looking woman." She's right.

In Seattle, Mike MacDougal and his nurse, Melinda Morland, join a group of scientists on board Viking for a voyage to the Philippines.to investigate the work of Dr. Minerva Booger, brain surgeon, who claims she is close to transplanting human brains. The NY Times has sent Esther MacDougal to interview...

An escaped lunatic murders two prostitutes at Lovland Lodge. Sam and his two fishing buddies meet Delilah and Annabelle who have inherited the beat-up old lodge east of Sacramento. Business is dead. The sisters face foreclosure. When Lovland Lodge becomes Samson and Delilah's Haunted Bed and Breakfast,...

Casey Carpenter has three goals: Pass the bar exam before he reaches 21 years of age; Gain revenge against the crooked district attorney who executed his innocent father; Find Ed Cooper Jr who has run away to avoid prosecution for a crime he did not commit. Casey's wild goose chase takes him from...

This book shows Biblical heroes from Adam and Eve through the Old Testament into the New, with a host of individuals and angels both real and imaginary slipped in among them. Along with its serious side, it has a good deal of fun, with a fanciful look at heaven, who gets in, and what life is like after...

Molly Malone, from San Francisco, traps herself in a small town in the middle of Iowa's cornfields where she teaches high school. She years for boats, water and the mountains of the West. Where she lives, the chance for romance, or a husband, falls a thousand degrees below zero. She runs an ad "for...