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Releases, appearances and progress reports. Newest first.

Appearance

Guest lecture — Arts Center, Hawthorne, NJ

Arts Center · Hawthorne, New Jersey · 5:00 PM

An evening on writing The Killing Gene: how a process engineer builds a thriller, what the science had to get right, and where the story stopped obeying the research.

Announcement

The Suicide Council is ready for publication

The manuscript is finished. A council of saints and prophets interviews the dead in the minutes before the tragedy, and files a report that decides where each of them goes.

The families are the ones left holding the question.
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Announcement

Mindburst — first look at the third novel

A promising new drug for Alzheimer’s patients gives hope to many — but the drug has a good side and a frightening side effect. Victer expects to finish the draft in the autumn of 2026.

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Release

The Killing Gene is available now

A genetics company contracted to build the FBI a criminal DNA database finds a marker for violence that skips a generation — then a body turns up inside the company.

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