Will Sedar was born in Boston, Mass and grew up in a Boston suburb. The young Will grew up an avid reader. He devoured Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries. “I am your typical die-hard Red Sox fan and still feel the 2004 thrill of my team coming back to beat the Yankees and sweep the Cardinals to win the World Series.” Will always dreamed of being a writer. He wrote his first book at the age of nine – a story about a frog, called Frantic Frog.
The Down on Your Luck Detective Agency is down on its luck. Beatrice Preston, a sober alcoholic, inherits the agency from her estranged father along with its mountain of debt and a domestic violence investigation. Even though saving the battered woman’s life, could cost Beatrice her own life she presses forward, recruits two friends from Al-Anon, a sober doctor with a suspended medical license, and an ex-pro football player, to help her hunt a savage killer. They’re new at detective work, but what they lack in skill, they make up for in street smarts and loyalty to each other. Can the dedicated group catch the killer before he kills again? Three amateur detectives who lost everything rebuild their lives, learn to love again, and create the most powerful of bonds: friendship.
Tikkun olam: a Jewish belief that it is one’s duty to repair the world. In The Carved Triangle, homicide detective Mendy Brickman’s need to do tikkun olam intensifies when he catches a shocking murder: a teenaged Russian sex slave found dead with a triangle carved in her forehead. With his marriage in tatters, his ten-year-old daughter ignoring him, and a dirty cop sabotaging his case, Brickman tracks a killer. Soon, the killer hunts Brickman, who must choose between Biblical revenge, an eye for an eye, and justice.
UC Berkeley homicide detective Ruby Kaminoff catches a shocking case – a grad student is found dead, half his head blown off from eating his gun.
The county medical examiner and the Berkeley city cops rule it a suicide but Ruby, the daughter of a famous rabbi, sees blood dabs on the victim’s toe, thumb and ear and recognizes a Biblical ritual. She’s convinced it was murder and senses a cover-up. When told to back off, she fights to be heard, but the medical examiner and homicide detectives refuse to listen to her.
Off the grid, Ruby pursues the case, finds unsettling links to her own father’s unsolved murder and is soon hunting a dangerous serial killer. When the killer turns his attention to Ruby, she fights for her life.
Thoughts on life, writing and the pursuit of happiness ...
In 1986, I traveled around the world, visited sixty-two countries and set foot on all seven continents...
Decades before 9/11, I was in New York City on a hot summer day. The line of tourists waiting to ride the elevator to the top of the World Trade Center...
If you’ve seen GREASE, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, then you’ve seen the only movie I’ve been in...
I love crime and police shows. In no particular order, here are a few of my binge-worthy favorites...
In 1892, My grandfather, Sam, and his four brothers owned a factory that made women’s dresses. ...
In 2007, I traveled with my family to Lithuania looking for my grandfather’s childhood home...