Seneca Point: A Brandon Webster Mystery

by Dan Riker

When former CIA agent and covert Pentagon operative Brandon Webster investigates the murder of his estranged brother, the famous and powerful Supervisor of the Western New York Town of Lakeside, he finds the identity of the killer is hidden in a web of town and family secrets, and a conspiracy of violence, kidnapping, fraud, and bribery inside a reclusive, and heavily armed, religious group. Brandon first operates as a traditional private detective, working with a canny state police investigator. They discover that every suspect is hiding something except for the one who doesn’t have an alibi. They methodically expose some of the secrets but obtain no hard evidence. When their investigation becomes stymied, Brandon draws resources from his shadow world, and uses deception and disguises, and his skills as an interrogator and a commando, to uncover the remaining secrets, destroy the conspiracy, and force the killer into the open.

268 pages, Paperback

Published May 18, 2011

About the author

Dan Riker is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Baltimore School of Law. He was a reporter, bureau manager, regional news editor and sales executive for United Press International, Assistant Public Relations Director at The Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Press Secretary to the Governor of Maryland, an executive at the MCI Communications Corporation, and CEO of Pocket Communications, Inc. He and his late wife, Janis Ahalt Riker (1944-2014), operated Basset Books LLC, a dealer in used, collectible and out-of-print books from 1998 to 2012 when they moved to Portland, Oregon. A LIGHT NOT OF THIS WORLD was Dan's first novel. SENECA POINT was his second, and he has finished a third, THE BLUE GIRL MURDERS, a historical mystery set in Baltimore in 1966. He also has just finished his first work of non-fiction, DO WHAT WORKS AND CALL IT CAPITALISM, and has been publishing excerpts of the book on his blog, www.danriker.blogspot.com, on www.progressiveamericanthought.blogsp..., on www.Truth-out.org and on www.dailykos.com. He can be reached at danriker@danriker.com