Bob Henneberger: 7 books

Benjamin Kats, a detective based in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, works with his partner and sometimes lover, Cassandra Pales. An unstable new client, Marcia Satterwhite, hires Benjamin to find her missing child, Becky. Visiting Marcia’s home to quit, he discovers her murdered body. Unknown to Katz, Lepus, a second rate detective, was hired by an unprincipled relative to kidnap the girl.

An insurance company hires Benjamin and Cassandra to investigate a five million dollar death claim; the beneficiary is a corporation in the Cayman Islands. Uncovering who is behind a Cayman Island corporation is the key to uncovering who the killer is and why. Cassandra has a pregnancy scare, the ‘Katz cradle’, but she really isn’t expecting.

Although Hell can be portrayed as a vivid tangible landscape, in reality it's a mental backdrop. Loss of self respect and worth as well as a loss of purpose can plunge a person into his own hell on many levels. This tale explores the theme of loss and redemption by following two characters separated in time by four generations, each man dealing with a life crisis.

On the surface a man of his time, John Crackstone enjoys the good life, but can’t quite afford it. While solving the disappearance of a wealthy client, John uncovers clues that point to his own lost identity. Sometimes life is like a Monty Python episode;‘now, for something completely different’. John discovers he has been on the wrong journey for almost two years.

Katz must identify an unknown operative who is taking delivery of important encryption keys from an American scientist. He is arrested for murdering a Japanese agent on a cargo container freighter. The CIA recruits Cassandra as she and Katz solve the mystery of the Japanese agent’s murder and theft of encryption keys. Cassandra agrees to marry Katz, and the story ends with their wedding.

To a basic civilization, advanced science can seem like magic. What happens when magic seems like advanced science? The final installment of the trilogy answers the question of how an Ambassador from a system in the Andromeda Galaxy relates to two humans, an omniscient, immortal race called...

Extinction is just the beginning. Do you ever wonder what's behind the whole ET phenomena? This Science Fiction trilogy, The Crackstone Chronicles, weaves the life of a Zizthanthe ambassador, John Crackstone, through three millennia and two galaxies with the lives of two Earthlings, Matt Hollinger and Sylvia Huffstedder.