Gene Pool

Night comes to Whitton Falls, and for Cate Somers, paleontologist and researcher, the university town she thought of as a safe harbor has an insidious element at work. Cate gradually becomes aware that there is a hidden presence, alien and cold and impossible to stop. Whoever or whatever is attacking local residents has an agenda that is accelerating.

Cate is called on to help in the investigation, along with the sheriff’s nephew, Wyatt, a homicide detective from New York. But everything she assumes about what is going on is altered when her biologist friend Emma analyzes metal objects found at the killing sites. The series of murders has left a trail of evidence that has its origins in a peculiar chemistry, an unknown gene pool. Each one contains the attributes of anaerobic bacteria, the sort that NASA and ExoMars would expect to show up on other planets.

The rules of what is “real” no longer apply.

EXCERPT from Gene Pool:

Emma inserted the probe into the brain tissue next to the sphere. “I’m going to do the same thing Ethan did. It should work. That’s what Ray and I wanted to test for ourselves just as you all showed up.”

She touched the sphere with the probe. The small sphere moved so slightly we almost missed it. Then it stopped. Emma touched it again. It began to spin, slowly at first and then accelerating. It moved in a slow circle tracing a path through the blood and tissue that comprised the temporal lobe. Just as suddenly, it stopped again. When she touched it with the probe nothing happened.

No one said anything. I could hear the sheriff’s accelerated breathing. None of it could be real, I thought, yet I knew that all of it was.

“Almost like living the story with the characters. Likable character (mostly!). A different take on the old story with a very different motives for a change. Well worth the time.” ★★★★★ Amazon review

“a wonderful read I will look for more by this writer …” ★★★★ Amazon review

Book categories: Mystery and Thriller/Science Fiction