Jack Erickson: 12 books

Max and Amanda are America's dream couple. Former college sweethearts, they marry and embark on exciting careers, Max as a star infielder for the Boston Red Sox and Amanda as an up-and-coming Hollywood actress. But the stress of travel—Max during the baseball season, and Amanda when she...

A school boy is bullied by a classmate to follow a beautiful young woman when she gets off a bus after work. He follows her home and becomes fascinated about her private life. He meets her professionally years later; his curiosity becomes an obsession that ends in a shocking conclusion.

Short story. Sheila and Ryan were lovers until one day Sheila abruptly disappears, leaving Ryan a cryptic note. Six months later, Sheila surprises Ryan by showing up at his apartment and pretending nothing had happened. Over a long weekend, Sheila dazzles Ryan with grandiose stories of her...

Sylvia de Matteo, an American photographer, is taken hostage by terrorists during a political assassination at Stazione Centrale, Milan’s train station. Sylvia is seized at gunpoint, thrown in a van, blindfolded, and driven to a warehouse where she is imprisoned in a cell. When terrorists...

Police forces all over the world -- and especially in Europe -- are being challenged by terrorist groups recruited in the Middle East by radical forces intent on destroying Western governments and cultures. The tragic bombings and heavily armed assaults on innocent civilians in France and Belgium...

True crime. When Brad Baker met Andrea Currier, it was classic middle America meets old money. Brad was from Indiana and dabbled in politics; Andrea was the great-granddaughter of Andrew Mellon, former Secretary of Treasury for three Republican presidents. Andrea's net worth was in the range of $500 million. It started out like a romance novel and ended with a shotgun blast New Years Eve.

Zoe abandons her husband Valentine’s weekend in Monterey.  This is not the first time she has run away from a lover or husband. Zoe has a compulsion to flee men who love her and adopt a new identity. Zoe starts a new life in Hollywood's fast lane with new lovers and a career in the movie industry....

Dane and BJ witness a double meteor streak across the sky the night they begin a summer love affair. They agree to meet the next summer with one condition; no contact over the winter. One harbors a dark secret.   They renew their affair next summer and vow to meet the third summer and never part. But the condition remains; no contact over the winter. The third summer arrives . . . .

Short story. A widowed college professor retires, moves to a California coastal town, and buys a home.  Digging in his garden one morning, he uncovers old love letters buried in a metal container. He pries open the box, reads the letters, and is emotionally touched. He becomes intrigued...

Short Story.  A San Francisco wife plots to murder her philandering husband by being in two places at one time.  She commits the Perfect Crime and starts an exciting new life with a sexy new boyfriend, living off the life insurance policy of her murdered husband.  Until her doorbell rings one night . . . .

Former high school football teammates meet at a wedding ten years after a violent tackle on the football field crippled one. The crippled teammate, whose promising tennis career was ruined, is a bartender at the wedding reception. His teammate is the arrogant groom. Revenge becomes a deadly wedding present.

Antonella Amoruso, senior deputy of Milan's anti-terrorism police, receives a call to return to her Naples hometown for the funeral of a family member murdered in a Camorra clan feud. Amoruso is plunged into the dangerous culture of Camorra, Naple's violent criminal syndicate, that thrives...