Who is Michael LaRocca? Why should you care?

Drugs are being stolen from a police evidence locker and sold on the street. These same drugs are killing the users. When Internal Affairs detective Gary Drake's brother becomes one of the victims, Drake is even more determined to find the person responsible. Will his search for justice destroy the love he has finally found or will he administer his own brand of vigilante justice?

ISBN:0-7599-0492-8 e-book / 0-7599-0494-4 paperback

Eight years later, I'm working on two sequels, LAZARUS and CONUNDRUM.

Dog stories, cat stories, horse stories, Hong Kong stories, and of course those "infamous" hog farm stories that got me in so much trouble. Picasso's childhood, too. (The cat, not the painter.)

Coming soon from Write Now Publishing.

REDNECK MOVES TO CHINA has a prequel. An EPPIE finalist and a classic of women's literature.

Mom raised two sons alone in rural North Carolina, and later Florida, in the 1960s through the 1980s. I'm the one everybody thought would grow up dysfunctional. My little brother's the one who killed himself.

Watch me, fresh off the boat, stumble and bumble my way around Hangzhou for two years before I finally start getting the hang of living in China. Does China make foreigners nutty or does it attract nutty foreigners? The world may never know.

ISBN 1-59201-031-8

This book opens where WHO MOVED MY RICE? leaves off, with the three of us leaving Hangzhou to teach in Shaoxing. It moves all over the place, half in China and half in Thailand. And it has cats. Lots of cats.