H.B. Berlow

Ark City Confidential Chronicles

1 - Ark City Confidential (Jan-2017)
2 - Secrets of the Righteous (Jun-2018)
3 - Lost in the Plains (Sep-2019)
4 - From Somewhere in a Dream (Jan-2021)

The Wichita Chronicles

1 - The Day of Calamity (Dec-2023)

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  Kansas Two-Step
  

  • Nov-2010
  • / General Fiction
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  He's a gray-bearded old hippie who wears Hawaiian shirts and who makes his living doing subversive internet research. In essence, he's a professional hacker. But now R.C. Bellicki has gotten himself caught up in murder and he has to use all his com...

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  The Ballad of Justin Thieme
  

  • Mar-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  Day-Trippin'
  

  • Mar-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  Malfeasance
  

  • Mar-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  Swan Song
  

  • Jan-2013
  • / Thriller
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  "You better check on your brother. I think he's dead." It took one anonymous phone call to send Walt Hardy on a long journey back to Wichita, KS. Back to the city where he was kicked off the police force on charges of corruption. He knew he would run...

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  Ark City Confidential
  

  • Jan-2017
  • / Historical
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  Ark City Confidential Chronicles - 1
  

  Baron Witherspoon, a disfigured WWI vet, now a beat cop in a small Kansas burg, is on a collision course with Jake Hickey, a volatile Chicago gangster. While Baron wants merely to provide residents with a safe place to live and escape the memory of t...

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  Secrets of the Righteous
  

  • Jun-2018
  • / Historical
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  Ark City Confidential Chronicles - 2
  

  Baron Witherspoon, facially scarred WWI veteran turned beat cop in Arkansas City, KS, finds himself immersed in two different murder investigations that span the course of three years. Each case is heinous and filled with twists and turns. To catch t...

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  Lost in the Plains
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / Historical
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  Ark City Confidential Chronicles - 3
  

  It's 1943 and World War II rages overseas. However, for Baron Witherspoon, beat cop, his sole concern is keeping his city safe. Yet that seems impossible when two FBI agents show up, claim a German POW soldier has escaped and is on his way to Arkansa...

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  From Somewhere in a Dream
  

  • Jan-2021
  • / Thriller
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  Ark City Confidential Chronicles - 4
  

  For close to thirty years, Baron Witherspoon has lived another man's life. Now, he's been pushed out of his job as a beat cop in rural Ark City, Kansas. He should be looking forward to some kind of a future but instead there is too much from his past...

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  The Day of Calamity
  

  • Dec-2023
  • / Historical
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  The Wichita Chronicles - 1
  

  Private detective Harold Bergman stood as a testament to his former life as a Wichita Kansas policeman. Having endured the brutalities of World War II, he carries a slight but noticeable limp, a constant reminder of the battles fought on distant shor...

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  The End of the Treachery
  

  • Dec-2024
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Harold Bergman, a Jewish private detective and World War II veteran, is approached to locate a missing girl. Little does he know, this seemingly routine case plunges him into a labyrinth of deceit, entwined with a looming threat to national security....

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