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Stephen L. Brayton is a Sixth Degree Black Belt and certified instructor in the American Taekwondo Association.

He began writing as a child; his first short story concerned a true incident about his reactions to discipline. During high school, he wrote for the school newspaper and was a
photographer for the yearbook. For a Mass Media class, he wrote and edited a video project.

In college, he began a personal journal for a writing class; said journal is ongoing. He was also a reporter for the college newspaper.

During his early twenties, while working for a Kewanee, Illinois radio station, he wrote a fantasy based story and a trilogy for a comic book.

He has three books published: Night Shadows, The Peace Tree Mystery, and A Cold New Year.

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	ALPHA: A Mallory Petersen Mystery 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cold New Year 4.89 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iowa's Original Writers Anthology 2015 by Matthew Davenport (Goodreads Author), Kathryn Daugherty (Goodreads Author), Stephen Brayton (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	BETA by Brayton, Stephen, Stephen Brayton (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ALPHA 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iowa's Original Writers Anthology 2015 by Wendy Siefken (Goodreads Author), Kathryn Daugherty (Goodreads Author), Stephen Brayton (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strong Women by NeoLeaf Press (Goodreads Author), Stephen Brayton (Goodreads Author), Cassandra Denhartog it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My Analysis This book started out well. The murder victim found at the beginning. The new detective, Day on the case, finding clues. The cultural references. The descriptions. The bits where the new science of fingerprinting was introduced. It was rem ...more
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My Analysis So much going on in this book, but the author does a good job of making sure nothing gets lost. Yes, it takes a while to reveal the secrets, and some of them are pretty average. The clues are subtle and a stretch at times. A lot of characte ...more
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