Vincent Panettiere – författare

WHAT DOES A MAN THINK ABOUT WHEN HE IS STANDING ON THE EDGE OF HIS OWN LIFE?Not his career. Not his money. Not the house overlooking the ocean or the record breaking bookadvance sitting in his bank account. He thinks about the women. Charlie Forte has everything the world told him to want. A celebrated writing career. A beautifulhome in Los Angeles. A level of success most writers only dream about. And on the mosttriumphant day of his professional life, he makes a quiet, private decision that has nothing to dowith any of it. He is going to kill himself. What follows is not a tragedy. It is something far stranger, darker, and more human than that. A stone garden wall and a darkly comic twist of fate leave Charlie suspended between the life heplanned to abandon and the one he never fully understood. And in that stillness, they comeflooding back. Twenty four women. Each one a chapter of his life he never properly closed. Eachone tied to a song he has never been able to silence. There is the infatuation that burned without ever truly catching. The affair that quietly dismantledhis career. The wife he stayed married to the way a man stays in a city he stopped loving yearsago. And threading through every memory, persistent and unshakeable, there is Sierra. The onethat never fully left. Vincent Panettiere writes with the brutal honesty of a man who has seen enough of the world tostop pretending. Charlie is not easy to love. He is petulant, self aware, darkly funny, andmaddeningly human. His confessions are raw and uncomfortable. His voice pulls you in and doesnot let go. Part literary fiction. Part erotic stream of consciousness. Part cautionary tale for every man whohas ever been undone by the ageless, irresistible siren song of women. EVERY LIFE HAS A SOUNDTRACK. MOST PEOPLE NEVER STOP LONG ENOUGH TO HEAR IT. .

A Hmong "e;story cloth,"e; a Revolutionary War battle flag, forged Picassos and a Russian drug dealer-finding the link between these disparate elements is the challenge Mike Hegan faces in The Scopas Factor, the latest mystery from Vincent Panettiere. After his last investigation ends tragically, Detective Mike Hegan returns to Chicago from St. Kitts, hoping to put everything behind him. But his girlfriend, Diana, has other plans, and although he has no interest in the job opportunity she presents him-in a small northern California town, no less-he wants to please her. Upon his arrival in Weedley, he's caught up in a kidnapping and two murders. A visit to Diana's family in San Francisco only serves to deepen the mystery, as her father might be the link to a gang of antiquities thieves that might have something to do with the crimes in Weedley. And when Diana's father disappears, Hegan takes off for Antibes in southern France, where he discovers that the mystery has only just begun.

Hours after a thoroughbred racehorse collapses and dies after finishing last in a race he was favored to win, his trainer-a young woman with a promising career-is found dead on a suburban Chicago beach. To the police, it's a simple case of murder-suicide. But Mike Hegan, veteran police detective, refuses to believe the official story. Instead of retiring like they want him to, he embarks upon a search for the truth, and finds himself on a Caribbean island where scores are settled-and lives are lost. Fans of James Patterson and other crime fiction writers will find a new hero in Mike Hegan-a detective who defies convention to make sure that justice is served.

Frank DioGuardia, a New Jersey college professor always feared the onset of autumn. A chill in the air and rainy skies took him back to the day his father died decades ago. It wasa memory that each year caused Frank to start counting the days until he reached the milestoneof having spent more time on earth than his dad. This year would be no different, bringing about the realization that after thirty years of marriage and three children he had been inhabiting the earth for all the wrong reasons. This realization came to Frank after he committed a violent act on a stranger during New York's Columbus Day parade. It also brought into his life Dr. Laurie McDevitt, the emergency room physician who had treated his injuries after the incident. When she revealed that her father died on the same night as his those many years before, Frank had a comrade in grief. Will their shared sorrows be enough to survive the media frenzy that follows?Shared Sorrows --- a story of love and redemption.