When Eva is given mysterious ancient relics, she is driven to the past and uncovers startling facts about her family. We write much about her ancestors as we have searched our own genealogy. David has just learned some amazing things, which may appear in another one of our thrillers in the future. After Diane began [...]
David likes to tell readers that our system is foolproof. Diane starts at the beginning, while David starts at the end. He writes backwards and when we reach the middle, we are finished! Truthfully, we each write scenes and then have the freedom to edit each other’s work. Diane edits the manuscript one last time [...]
The law is fascinating. It can make a difference in one person’s life, which can change a neighborhood, a town, a country. Both of us have written extensively in our careers. In Diane’s legal briefs, she strove to make case law come alive to the facts of a case. David’s reports of investigations, the basis [...]
As we divide our time between writing and promoting our writing, we do try to make time for such events. We’ve had the privilege to do so over the past months and will consider any requests for same. If is not always practicable to meet with book clubs in person, we are available to meet [...]
Many things in our books have happened to either of us, while some have happened to our associates or others. Remember that facts, names, and situations have been fictionalized to protect everyone’s privacy. Suffice it to say, our careers provide us with much fodder for fiction.
In our novel Facing Justice, Emile Jubayl was suspected of raising support for Hezbollah and traveled to his birthplace in Bint Jubayl, Lebanon. Soon after, Israel was fighting Hezbollah in Bint Jubayl. Also, we wrote Stolen Legacy highlighting The Monuments Men before we ever knew there would be a new movie about these brave troops [...]
Although Federal Agents Eva Montanna, Griff Topping, and Bo Rider appear in multiple books, the novels can be read in any order. Every storyline concludes in each book. The initial publisher referred to our first three novels, Facing Justice, Confirming Justice, and The Camelot Conspiracy as a series; however, these too can be read in [...]
Diane studied the JFK assassination in college, reading the Warren Commission report, and always believing there were unanswered questions and flawed conclusions about Lee Harvey Oswald being the lone shooter. David worked as an investigative aid at the Chicago FBI office while in college. During his time there he learned Oswald purchased the murder weapon [...]
David’s Uncle Chuck served in that war, as did Diane’s father. Diane’s ancestors are from the Netherlands. As we heard stories from our parents, we determined to write about WWII someday. Over the past few years, we visited De Zwaan, the working windmill moved to Holland, MI in 1963 after it survived Germany’s invasion of [...]