The Other End of the Lie Available in the Fall of 2024

The phrase ‘there’s no place like home’ doesn’t conjure up feelings of warmth and love in The Other Side of the Rainbow.

Standing up for what is right - a police motto homicide detective Carol Ann McCloskey believes in and lives by in the city of Corona, Colorado — the crown city of the Rocky Mountains. Achieving her career aspirations in 1987 means the Denver native must protect her secrets by never discussing the past. When she decides to investigate her brother’s death, those secrets are threatened, and everyone she loves becomes a target. Now, it seems Detective McCloskey’s irreverence for authority and the status quo has led a killer to her family. Whom can she trust?

Dannel Pappas, a mobster-informant gathering evidence to rat out his boss, must protect his wife and daughter no matter the consequences.

No one puts Senator Lane Daley in the hot seat, no one. He will crush anyone who tries even if that means going after his own son.

Can Lane and Dannel stop Detective McCloskey before she ruins everything?

An Exploration in Asking and Answering this Question

I wrote the initial version of this book as my capstone (Thesis) for my graduate degree. I then changed a few things in hopes to make it a more nonfiction read but it still reads like a case study.