Mall Rats: A Stick Foster Mystery
Split Seconds
by Kevin Robinson
from Rutledge Books
Wheelchair-bound journalist Nick "Stick" Foster smells a great story when a NASA computer expert is found enmeshed in a crab-line and Propjob the porpoise salvages an apparently unreasonable computer disk from the site. The victim's beautiful, edgy fiance' adds to the mystery, which accelerates when Stick gets close enough to the answer to be shot. Appealing to his network of friendly computer whizzes for help, Stick learns that someone has locked a virus into a NASA system, guaranteeing an unpreventable disaster.
A Matter of Perspective
by Kevin Robinson
from Vivisphere Publishing
For his third roll on stage, wheelchair-bound stick Foster, A Florida journalist attends a fancy shindig at the law firm his wife works for when the seemingly healthy senior partner drops dead. The more Stick probes, the more complicated and murderous the case becomes. Shark-hungry lawyers, jealous lovers, and a big-money personal injury suit muddy the waters. Luckily, Stick and his odd coterie of computer hackers and mall rats are able to ramp up their collective skills with their usual eccentric e'lan.
Mall Rats
by Kevin Robinson
from Vivisphere Publishing
Wheelchair bound columnist Nick "Stick" Foster is about to marry his soul-mate-on-wheels, Samantha, when aged Martha Galliger sips the wedding punch she made herself and succumbs to a lacing of crack, PCP, and amphetamines. Suspicion falls on the wedding guests as well as on the folks from the mall (Stick's latest article assignment). Was it the mob-connected pizza maker, a shopkeeper in the federal witness relocation program, or one of the "mall rats," punk kids who hang out at the mall? When a security guard is killed ater identifying one of the "Rats" as a drug dealer the suspect hides out in the mall ducts until he can clear his name. It's up to Stick to solve the mystery and avoid becoming "chummy" with the alligators.
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