THE HIDDEN SCALPEL
The Hidden Scalpel released 10/1/24! It is a medical thriller mystery featuring a residentially challenged protagonist and a group of friends. They happened to meet and get to know each other at a park. Here’s the description:
A string of disappearances. A chilling connection. When his comfort zone shatters, can a former cop battle PTSD and save innocents from the grave?
Joe “Fitz” Fitzgerald doesn’t need more stress. Living out of his car and hanging on to sobriety with help from his cat, the gruff ex-military man’s ever-lurking anxiety surges to the surface when a residentially challenged friend vanishes. And when the police claim there’s nothing they can do, his anger and resentment drive him to take the investigation into his own shaky hands.
Certain the kidnappings are racially motivated, Fitz fights through his panic response and rallies his comrades to warn the vulnerable African American population. But when they set one of their own up as bait to track the criminals, the situation spirals from dangerous to deadly.
Outnumbered and outmaneuvered, can he still find a way to bring everyone home alive?
The Hidden Scalpel is the character-driven first book in the Park Pals Mysteries series. If you like amateur sleuths, page-turning suspense, and stories that tackle current social issues, then you’ll love Dwain Cassady’s thoughtful puzzle.
Buy The Hidden Scalpel to cut away corruption today!
THE MISSING PILL
The Missing Pill released on 3/17/25! It is a suspense novel featuring the same group of Park Pals you came to know in The Hidden Scalpel. Join them as they try to bring down a vicious criminal who is trying to kill them in the process! Here’s the description:
A barless prison. A chilling note. Can a homeless former cop wrangle his anxiety and outwit a malicious criminal to save innocent women from death?
The loneliness of living in his car is wearing on Fitz Fitzgerald, an ex-cop, retired army man with PTSD. An opportunity to be more involved with people presents itself when he and his friends discover a woman crying at the park, a thief having stolen the immunosuppressants for her kidney transplant. Having helped the woman get the medication replaced, Fitz’s anger is kindled when, a few days later, he learns she is missing.
A nagging sense of responsibility launches Fitz into investigating the woman’s disappearance. Once Fitz and his park pals discover who is the likely culprit, the perpetrator turns on them in a murderous quest.
Can Fitz conquer this criminal, or will his effort to help someone end in multiple deaths?
The Missing Pill, Book 2 in the Park Pals Mystery series, is a character-driven mystery thriller. If you like page-turning suspense, intriguing characters, and stories that leave you with the uneasy feeling, “This could really happen,” then you’ll love Cassady’s cat and mouse chase.
Buy The Missing Pill and start savoring the suspense today!