Tastevin

Michael Kaplan Mysteries #1

by David W. Cowles

Michael Kaplan is in his early thirties. He’s tall, dark, and handsome; intelligent, educated, and urbane. A woman-charmer, not a womanizer. Masculine, not macho. He has a law degree, but works beneath his education and abilities as a restaurant critic for the Las Vegas Times. Myra Brotsky is a typical Jewish American Princess raised in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. Myra’s primary goal in life is to find a handsome, wealthy Jewish man—preferably a doctor or a lawyer—and marry him. Her sights are set on Michael, who meets all but one of those criteria.A bottle of bad wine starts them off on a wild West Coast jaunt followed by suspected killers and the police. The action builds to a cataclysmic climax and a shocking revelation.TASTEVIN is Volume One of the Michael Kaplan Mysteries.

Genres: Mystery

347 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 7, 2011

About the author

David W. Cowles was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in California’s San Fernando Valley. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1976.
Cowles is a member of the State Bar of California (inactive) and is admitted and qualified as an attorney and counselor of the Supreme Court of the United States. He’s served as a board member and president of numerous nonprofit organizations, and was awarded Congressional and other commendations for his efforts.

Cowles founded and was CEO of companies in the photographic and financial communities. He’s flown his own airplanes; traveled extensively; and spent a month as a volunteer with the Israeli Defense Forces.

For over eight years, Cowles published and edited Keno Newsletter, a monthly publication read by keno players and casino executives. For six years, he wrote a weekly column for Gaming Today. For three years, Cowles wrote op-ed columns and a weekly cooking column for the Peninsula Gateway newspaper in Gig Harbor, Washington. His articles have been published in the Las Vegas Sun and Newsweek magazine.

Cowles draws on his background and experiences to write in a wide variety of genres including mystery, adventure, thriller, comedy, fantasy, romance, erotica, how-to, children’s, novellas, treatises and expositions, short stories, and cookbooks. Often he’ll combine several genres in one book.