William Baer

A Jack Colt Murder Mystery

1 - New Jersey Noir (Mar-2018)
2 - New Jersey Noir - Cape May (Jan-2021)

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  The Heretic
  

  • Apr-2004
  • / General Fiction
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  "The Heretic is a major literary achievement, putting the author in the ranks of Mauriac, Bernanos, Greene, Waugh, and Walker Percy. Flannery O'Connor believed that all true literature is anagogic, by which she meant that the events of the story shou...

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  Fourteen on Form
  

  • Dec-2004
  • / General Fiction
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  One-and-Twenty Tales
  

  • Feb-2015
  • / General Fiction
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  With these brilliant and profoundly affecting short tales, William Baer resurrects the long-lost art of clearly and gracefully telling deeply meaningful stories of engaging, memorable, and purposeful plots with themes of enduring moral virtue. His cl...

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  Times Square and Other Stories
  

  • Aug-2015
  • / Thriller
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  Fiction. Short Stories. In William Baer's TIMES SQUARE AND OTHER STORIES, there are everyday characters walking extraordinary paths for love; there are smart, skillful characters struggling to reconcile their viewpoints and convictions with the statu...

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  New Jersey Noir
  

  • Mar-2018
  • / Thriller
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  A Jack Colt Murder Mystery - 1
  

  On the bridge over Paterson's Great Falls, a retired state trooper is murdered by a girl in a grammar school uniform. The victim was the beloved uncle of Jack Colt, a private investigator descended from the inventor of the revolver. While investig...

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  New Jersey Noir - Cape May
  

  • Jan-2021
  • / General Fiction
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  A Jack Colt Murder Mystery - 2
  

  After solving the assassination case of his beloved uncle, Colt finds himself truly alone, ditched by his girlfriend. However, there's not much respite or time for introspection for him: he's called on again to solve a new murder case, along ...

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  New Jersey Noir - Barnegat Light
  

  • Sep-2022
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  After Jack Colt is hired by a pretty FBI agent to solve a horrific murder case in Barnegat Light, he finds himself called upon by the daughter of a distinguished judge to another murder scene. Although Colt remembers that his uncle once warned him th...

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  Murder in Times Square
  

  • Feb-2023
  • / Mystery
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  Many Words Press-and imprint of Able Muse Press-is proud to introduce Murder in Times Square, a Deirdre Mystery, initiating a new series by the author of the popular Jack Colt mystery series: When a young woman in a red designer dress falls twenty-fi...

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  Advocatus Diaboli
  

  • Jun-2023
  • / Thriller
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  Many Words Press-an imprint of Able Muse Press-is proud to introduce Advocatus Diaboli of the Catholic Themes, initiating a new series by the author of the popular Jack Colt mystery series: Advocatus Diaboli is the story of a murder mystery caught up...

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  Annie Oakley Mystery
  

  • Jul-2024
  • / General Fiction
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  In 1900, sharpshooter Annie Oakley, the most famous woman in the world still performs with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, but when the touring season is over, she lives a quiet life in bucolic Nutley, New Jersey. Childless, Annie has a special intere...

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  Central Park
  

  • Jul-2024
  • / General Fiction
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  Rick Kincaid is a tough NYPD detective in Midtown's domestic violence division.One night in Central Park, he comes upon a young woman saving the life of an elderly man who's had a heart attack. She's dressed in a CPMU (Central Park Medical Unit) shir...

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  The Gravedigger
  

  • Jul-2024
  • / General Fiction
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  Polly Kinnell is a renowned chocolate taster for many of the world's most famous chocolatiers (Ghirardelli's, Godiva, Hershey, etc.). When her father dies on the Island of Skye, the distraught Polly travels to Scotland for his funeral where she has s...

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  Jacinta
  

  • Jul-2024
  • / Christian
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  Many Words Press is proud to present Jacinta, the second in the series of the Catholic Themes novels by award-winning author William Baer: In Jacinta, the enthralling second installment of William Baer's series of Catholic Themes novels, we are intro...

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  Mary Pickford Mystery
  

  • Jul-2024
  • / General Fiction
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  In 1919, Hollywood film star Mary Pickford, the most famous woman in the world, is currently in between pictures and recovering from the Spanish Flu when a man shows up at her Malibu hideaway one night asking for help. The man, who's been shot twice ...

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  Murder in Nashville
  

  • Nov-2024
  • / Police Procedural
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  When a country music starlet is mysteriously abducted during her Grand Ole Opry debut, Deirdre maneuvers herself into the MNPD investigation, navigating a tangled web of intrigue and resistance. Can she solve the case before the music stops?...

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