David Ruggeri: 11 books

Famous movie star Millie Swann has committed the most grievous Hollywood sin: She has gotten older. In a fit of rage she brutally murders her long-time agent, leaving him with his genitals in his mouth. He has controlled her career with astute negotiations, drugs and pornographic blackmail since she...

The genesis of a serial killer begins when 12-year-old William Jarrett considers himself "abandoned" by his parents in a repressive all-boys' summer camp and boarding school. Afterwards, the institutionally-inclined young man joins the US Navy where he finds a special joy as a part-time projectionist...

SHORT STORIES: Winter Dance Expiation A View From The Sanctuary Limmenkov’s Lament From Beginning To Beginning Radzinsky’s Lunch A House In The Suburbs Breakdown The Tenant Charlie’s Big Trick Christmas Past The Last Christmas Tree BONUS: FIRST CHAPTERS OF NOVELS: The Other Father Everlasting In...

Thomas Harper has always been a well-liked and respected businessman. With the loving support of his wife and the normal difficulties raising two teen-age children, he has fashioned a complacent life of personal and professional achievements of which any other 42 year-old would be proud. Now he is...

After the birth of their third child, Kevin and Karen Marsh rent an unseen vacation seaside cottage in distant, isolated San Sebastian. Even before they can settle in, their dog balks and runs. Seventeen year-old Gillian claims she hears noises under the house. On their first morning they discover...

'THE LUXEMBOURG AMENDMENT reveals one of the great secrets of World War II in a modern thriller of international intrigue. Whether it is the Winds of Jihad, the Israeli Mossad, the powers of the Catholic Church or the ancient clandestine Italian society, Il Nostri Consiglieri who want the secret,...

Jeremiah looks up to 16-year-old "Beans", a natural leader and master manipulator, who points out to his younger friends that they are all helpless, at the mercy of a system which releases rapists and criminals from jail to prey again, a society that doesn't effectively protect its children from...

Adam Blake, an easy-going stockbroker, living with his girlfriend, Yvonne, in Venice, California, wakes on his 30th birthday to find he has suddenly acquired the ability to perform healing miracles. After unrewarding research, Adam attends a Pentecostal revival to observe the laying on of hands. Aimee...

When a young priest hears the confession of 14- year-old Alma Sanchez, who claims to be a virgin impregnated by an angel, and finds his pastor crucified in their church, he begins a strange journey into the supernatural. Still wracked by guilt because he had once done nothing to stop his high school...

For Byron Carmona, a miasma of dread seems to emanate from the old Cornwall house next door. Three years previous, Billy Cornwall tried to rape Byron’s 12-year-old sister, Shelly. And then in the winter of 1963, the Cornwalls all died by carbon monoxide poisoning when Billy‘s father was crushed...

When forty-five year-old banker, James O'Brien, loses the only job he has ever had, he discovers a number of harsh facts: his age and educational limitations reduce his value in a tough job market where many companies are downsizing, he has lost the esteem of his wife, unemployment compensation is...