The first book, ”Come Hell or High Water,” involves Lew in the suspicious death of a prominent local attorney with whom he’s had an unpleasant history, and the somewhat reluctant sleuth soon finds himself in trouble with a brutal biker and a femme fatale. It also provides the backstory on how Lew came to be a widower, and introduces many of the recurring characters in the series. This includes a fellow reporter who is descended from the Indians who once lived here, and offers a glimpse of their life before the gold rush.

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In the second, “Hell Hath No Fury,” Lew is faced with unraveling the death of a teenage girl, the daughter of a family friend who lives down the street from his little bungalow. This one takes him into the complex world of high school, a milieu he hasn’t occupied for over half a century, to re-learn the emotions that affect teenagers caught between youth and adulthood, and the relationships they have with their parents and each other. It also forces him to sort through a myriad of red herrings to identify the killer, aided by his computer guru who is one of the students.

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In the third, “Hell to Pay,” Lew befriends a ten-year-old boy who lives with his beautiful single mother and little sister in an immense old mansion in his neighborhood, shrouded in dark rumors and built from the profits of a once-abundant gold mine. History and conflict have followed the gold mine descendants into the present, creating a myriad of conflicting clues, motives and plot twists that Lew must untangle, revealing long-hidden secrets and enmeshing him in a modern version of the wild past. This one explores the gold rush backdrop of the region, and the affect it had on both the gold-seekers and the environment.

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In this fourth Lew Travis mystery, Lew is confronted with the loss of a close friend with whom he worked at the Sienna Sentinel, who recently died in the local hospital under curious circumstances. As Lew begins to collect evidence, he realizes there is reason for suspicion in a number of directions.

The seventy-two year-old curmudgeonly “investigative reporter”, battling his own demons, pursues clue after clue, which lead him to a homeless camp in the forest and an empty church with a strange occupant. Relying on his dogged determination and canny intuition he pieces together the facts, aided by the sundry cast of characters the readers of this series have come to know.

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Robert Campbell, a respected and beloved high school English teacher, is leading a quiet life in early retirement when a neighbor notices several newspapers lying on his front porch, untouched. A thorough search of the house turns up nothing, and two weeks of efforts by the local constabulary yields not one clue. It seems he has simply vanished.

Pressure grows on the police, paranoia grows in the town, and something has to give. There seems but one place to turn: the man who has shown time after time he can solve unsolvable mysteries. Along with the usual cast of questionable characters, Lew Travis is off on another adventure.

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In his Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein proposed that time was not a fixed entity, but depended on the perspective of the viewer. Experiments that followed confirmed this unlikely claim, proving that time was indeed a variable.

What are the implications of this finding? Some of the unsettling possibilities are explored in these ten stories, from a strange building where it’s hard to gauge the time, to a young man who seems to be in more than one place, an old professor who has spent decades seeking a way to re-live his lost past, and a busy housewife who prays for more time, only to experience some unexpected consequences.

These stories, written with both amusement toward and compassion for their sundry cast of characters, explore the implications of looking at life from different perspectives. Perspectives that might be characterized as...somewhere in the twilight zone.

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The line between science fiction and fantasy is a fine one. The former leans toward what is possible, though yet unknown, given our scientific knowledge. The latter roams a bit further from that touchstone. But really, who's to say?

In this series of tales, that line is explored in multiple directions. Can time sometimes shift a bit? Can dreams be real? Are shadows always just shadows? Can a person exist at two points in time? What would a place where time doesn't pass be like? Are there unanswerable questions?

These and other inquiries are explored in this series of twelve stories. Are they science fiction or fantasy? A bit like the location of particles as seen through the lens of quantum mechanics, it's ultimately in the eyes of the beholder.

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Gabe, a forty-four year old homeless man down on his luck, is living illegally in a tent in the Tahoe National Forest, with only the occasional company of another such hobo and a friendly squirrel. His funds are dwindling, winter is fast approaching, and his future appears bleak.

Into this scene steps a new element: an unlikely interloper discovers his lair, who is appalled by his presence yet concerned for his survival. An improbable relationship is triggered, full of tension and uncertainty; where this will lead is a mystery.

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"At the age of forty-eight, Ethan Alexander was a troubled man.” Thus begins the story of a man facing a mid-life crisis. He has done all the things one is supposed to: get a good education, land a good job, and have a successful career. Yet he feels unfulfilled and can’t escape the feeling there must be more.

So he takes the leap: quits his job, buys a huge run-down Victorian in an old gold mining town in the middle of nowhere, and begins his search.

Ethan is a scientist – an astrophysicist – who disdains mythology, yet finds himself engrossed in ancient myths. He is an urbanite, now surrounded by rural life and untamed nature. His neighbors include liberals and conservatives, atheists and holders of a variety of religious beliefs. He is a bachelor who suddenly finds himself torn between two women. And unlike every day of his adulthood, he has endless time to fill.

This is the story of how one man faces these challenges. Where he winds up. And whether he finds more.

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Ian Mackenzie, a high school sophomore, lives with his mom, who cleans houses and struggles to pay the bills. While a decent student, he sees little relevancy to his subjects and is flunking geometry. He’s also losing his only good friend to an ‘in’ group of callous boys. Only his mom’s determination that he graduate and a girl who is the object of his fantasies are keeping him in school.

One day, walking home from school, he hears moaning coming from a huge Victorian house, investigates, and finds an old man sprawled at the bottom of the stairs, barely alive. He calls for an ambulance and waits to see he is safe. But when the ambulance is gone, he steals the old man’s food and money. The consequences prove dire, leading to challenges he could never have imagined.

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