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Tim Wohlforth
Bio: Tim Wohlforth lives in Oakland, California and is a fulltime writer. He has had sixty-one short stories published in print magazines, anthologies, and on-line zines. He is a 2003 Pushcart Prize Nominee. He has received a Certificate of Excellence from the Dana Literary Society. A contemporary noir novel, No Time To Mourn, was published by Quiet Storm in April, 2004. Lee Child, New York Times best-selling author writes of this book, "Like a great twelve-bar blues--the comfort of a familiar form jazzed by a fresh key and an exciting new voice." He co-authored the non-fiction book, On The Edge: Political Cults Right and Left, published by M.E. Sharpe. He has participated in numerous short story panels at Left Coast Crime and Bouchercon Mystery conventions.
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A Cry In The Night [MultiFormat]
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You walk down a dark wind-swept street in Brooklyn, A sentry, holding a rifle, peers down from the fourth-floor window of an all-too-familiar brownstone. A child's cry rends the air. Your child. You must return to the group and rescue him. Once you enter that door, will they ever let you out again? (Published: 2004)
Words: 5669 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Crip and Henrietta [An Astounding Adventure of Crip and Henrietta] [MultiFormat]
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Tom Bateman, a paraplegic PI, and his green-haired, pierced and tattooed sidekick Henrietta try to find a missing friend, David Bernstein. He has been kidnapped by a radical party. The two discover that David is to speak at a public meeting. The party controls David by threatening his former lover, Ann. Crip and Henrietta must find a way to protect Ann so they can liberate David. (Published: 2001)
Words: 8307 - Reading Time: 23-33 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Harry [MultiFormat]
by Tim Wohlforth
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A rusted, dented, dirty-white Toyota passes under a streetlight in a small town in Southern Oregon. A hulk of a man exits, leans on a cane and walks crab-like down the sidewalk toward Ted Whitaker. It's Harry, his best friend in the Sixties, a man Whitaker hasn't seen in thirty years. What does he want from him? For surely this meeting has a purpose. Whitaker soon discovers that Harry, once an extreme radical, has become an eco-anarchist and terrorist. He seeks to recruit Whitaker to join his p... more info>> (Published: 2010) EPIC eBook Award Finalist
Words: 67209 - Reading Time: 192-268 min.
Category: Suspense/Thriller/Mystery/Crime
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Jesus Christ Is Dead [An Astounding Adventure of Crip and Henrietta] [MultiFormat]
by Tim Wohlforth
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"Jesus Christ is dead!" green-haired Henrietta screams into the phone. Paraplegic PI Tom Bateman wheels over to her apartment to find his dysfunctional sometime partner standing on her porch, dripping in blood, surrounded by cops, with the body of a street preacher at her feet. Henrietta is capable of almost anything, but murder is a bit over the top. He seeks the real killer following a trail that leads him to the Blood of the Lamb Tabernacle and then back to his early days as an antiwar Vietna... more info>> (Published: 2004) Best American Mysteries Distinguished Award Winner
Words: 6407 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Lobster Bisque [A Private Eye Jim Wolf Story] [MultiFormat]
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Jim Wolf, a private eye, meets Laura Simmons. The cops suspect her of killing Carol Smythe, her boss. Fabulous chef, but a hellion to work for. Someone had stuffed Smythe's arrogant head in a boiling pot of lobster bisque. Wolf takes the case and enters the world of the four-star restaurant kitchen, a war zone of conflicting prima donnas. (Published: 2003)
Words: 3872 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Skulduggery [An Astounding Adventure of Crip and Henrietta] [MultiFormat]
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Green-haired stared at paraplegic PI Tom Bateman's computer monitor. "You better read this, wise ass," she said. A simple enough message in large type covered the screen: "Help! Someone is trying to kill me." The pair become embroiled with killers searching for an ancient human skull, worth millions. (Published: 2003)
Words: 5131 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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Sophie [MultiFormat]
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Our protagonist finds himself lost in a rundown neighborhood. He stops short, almost running over a small emaciated dachshund. The dog's tag contains only her name, "Sophie," and a phone number. Not finding the neighborhood inviting for knocking on doors, he takes the dog home and calls the number. Regrettably the dog's owner turns up. Our protagonist must try to rescue Sophie from the clutches of an unscrupulous puppy mill. (Published: 2003) Pushcart Prize Nominee
Words: 3359 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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The Black Cat [A Private Eye Jim Wolf Story] [MultiFormat]
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She left Jim Wolf holding the bag. Inside the bag was Edward, a scraggly, cross-eyed, flea-infest tomcat with a bad attitude and the key to a killer. (Published: 2003)
Words: 3481 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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The Farmer [An Astounding Adventure of Crip and Henrietta] [MultiFormat]
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Green-haired Henrietta hires Tom Bateman, a paraplegic PI, to help her feed two dogs, Ralph and Patsy. Sounds simple enough. However, Tom soon discovers the dogs are Presa Canarios with a taste for human blood and they guard a warehouse marijuana plantation. (Published: 2002)
Words: 3337 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
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The Last Revolutionary [MultiFormat]
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A sixty-year-old woman sits alone in her Mexico City apartment, surrounded by memorabilia gathered from her many adventures. She opens a drawer, lifts out a revolver she had gotten in Nicaragua, and presses it against her temple. She had lost the love of her life, an Uruguayan revolutionary, shot down in the Chilean countryside. Yet she rebounded. She can deal with sorrow. She just can't handle emptiness. [This story received a Certificate of Excellence from the Dana Literary Society.] (Published: 2003)
Words: 2986 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
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The Ranters [A Private Eye Jim Wolf Story] [MultiFormat]
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Private Eye Jim Wolf meets Walter Johnson, one of the world's greatest jazz musicians. "I need you to find thirty people," Walter tells him. His daughter, Charlene, a student at Cal, has disappeared along with 29 other young women, all members of a strange suicide cult, the Ranters. Soon Wolf is tracking down a "levitated" school bus and a demented guru. (Published: 2001)
Words: 5354 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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