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The first book in The Ted Vallan Mysteries Trilogy introduces a young couple striving to manage a busy family and their demanding professions. Ted is an investigative Vermont State Trooper and Liza a resident physician. Awakening one morning to emergency calls for each of them the Vallans become challenged in most unexpected ways.An unidentified body is floating in a Vermont lake. Working his first major case takes Ted from Vermont to New York City where he searches for information about the body and a possible clue from a most unlikely place.Trouble and danger show up in Vermont and follow Ted to the City and back. They say the City never sleeps and neither does Ted. He tangles with goons, police, and a mysterious woman.In situations challenging his own personality and values Ted doubts himself, torn over his role in putting his family and others, and even his marriage, in danger. His confusion and anger lead him to become obsessed with confronting the person he holds responsible. Liza and colleagues urge him to let it go and move on. Ted's not sure he can.

Family man and experienced Vermont State Police Major Crime Investigator Lieutenant Ted Vallan is furious about the botched investigation of the young State Medical Examiner's sudden death. Even more alarming and upsetting is his conviction a State Trooper was involved in her death. But who?The second book in The Ted Vallan Mysteries Trilogy is a disturbing tale of dark compulsions and behaviors, ultimately reflecting some of the harsh realities of life in the mid 1980s. It's not the world Ted Vallan and his physician wife and two children live in, but Ted does not flinch from the facts and what he finds. That doesn't mean he isn't surprised or ever gets comfortable with the danger and events surrounding the case.Ted works to define and manage challenges not only of this case but also with doubting State Police superiors and a question of the stability of his marriage. He truly does the best he can in a world that may have lurched a bit ahead of his values.

                    This cautionary tale reminds you to be careful what you hope for in retirement.The final book in The Ted Vallan Mysteries Trilogy finds newly retired Vermont State Police Major Crime Investigator Captain Ted Vallan suddenly in New York City. He has fled the Vermont hospital where he recently became head of security. With only the clothes on his back he shows up at his author son’s apartment. What happened to make Ted believe he must remain on his own; a fugitive from the law? No longer a young man, how will he respond to the challenges of staying out?Heartbreaking, and dramatically complicating events, it appears his wife is responsible for his flight. With the power of unfortunate mistakes from the past piercing everyone involved like bullets, how is Ted’s disgruntled former deputy working what happened in Vermont? Are there any secrets or answers in his son’s ‘fiction’ novels about his family…and murder?Surprisingly, back in Vermont, newly badged NYPD Detective James Wiley may become Ted’s best hope. For the first time in his brief career Detective Wiley finds his training and skills challenged as he tries to settle into a frustrating search for the truth.