Glenn Rogers Releases Book 3 of THE IMMORTAL Series, CARNAGE
In Glenn Rogers' mystery, THE IMMORTAL Carnage, the third installment of THE IMMORTAL series, the mayor of Los Angeles and two other of the Southern California super rich are murdered: one by rifle shot, one by lethal injection, and one by arrow shot. Along with LAPD Captain, Frank McGarry, Aaron wonders if the murders are simply random events or if they are somehow connected.
As Aaron begins to look into the background of the victims, he discovers that all three grew up together in a small town in Iowa. And then all three are murdered within a ten-day period? Aaron becomes convinced that the killings were not unrelated events, but planned assassinations. But why those three people? At first, as he interviews people in Southern California connected with the victims, there doesn't seem to be a motive for killing them. Aaron eventually discovers that one of them had plans for a business in Iowa that would generate millions of dollars of income for him and his investors but at the expense of a number of small farmers-farmers in the town where the three of the three victims grew up.
When a fourth victim is killed, the wife of one of the original victims and one of the group of friends who grew up together, Aaron travels to Iowa to discover why four childhood friends were murdered.
Rogers, who grew up in Southern California but now lives in a small town in Iowa, brought both of those contexts together in THE IMMORTAL Carnage. As in all his novels, Rogers creates a rich variety of characters and puts them in difficult circumstances. 'I think readers enjoy interesting characters in challenging situations,' Rogers says. 'Characters need to be multidimensional and realistic, reacting the way real people react to the joys and difficulties of life.'
THE IMMORTAL Carnage is Rogers' third mystery in THE IMMORTAL series. It is available through Amazon as a Kindle book or as a paperback or hardback. All of Rogers' novels are highlighted on his website: booksbyglennrogers.net
Glenn Rogers Releases Book 3 of THE COLEMANS, THE KNIFE
In Glenn Rogers' The Colemans Book 3 The Knife, Caleb Coleman is arrested in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the murder of his soon to be father-in-law, Colonel Edmund Cabot. Beth, the Colonel's daughter and Caleb's fiancée, is devastated. She believes Caleb to be innocent, as does Zack. But believing Caleb is innocent, even knowing he is, and proving it in a court of law are very different things.
Caleb and Zack had been through a lot since they left Cumberlands almost a year ago. There had been many obstacles to overcome. And the brothers had overcome, and survived and flourished. But they had done it together. Now, with Caleb in jail, soon to be tried for murder, fifteen-year-old Zack must find the real killer and prove his brother's innocence on his own.
To make matters worse, Zack becomes embroiled in an ongoing conflict between wealthy cattle ranchers in the area and Mexican sheepherders. When Zack intervenes on behalf of a nine-year-old Mexican boy who was being brutalized by a cowhand, Zack has to kill the young cowhand in self-defense. The young man's hateful father vows to even the score for the death of his son, and Zack has to watch his back. The local constable is useless, neither trying to find the Colonel's killer nor protecting the sheepherders from the cattle ranchers.
To give himself an edge, Zack contacts President Johnson (who knew their father and was very appreciative of their efforts on behalf of his administration-Book 2 The Journal) and asks to be appointed a Deputy U.S. Marshall. President Johnson agrees and deputizes Zack giving him the authority he needs to investigate the Colonel's murder and deal with the lawless cattle ranchers.
Before Zack can prove Caleb's innocence, he will travel from Santa Fe to Philadelphia and back again, a journey that exposes him to realities that he finds nearly incomprehensible.
Rogers, a philosophy professor and history buff, did extensive research in writing all three volumes of The Colemans. But for Rogers, it takes more than action, drama, and historically accurate details to make a good story. The characters in all of Rogers' novels face moral challenges and ethical questions that require them to think about good and evil and the kind of people they want to be. That is certainly true in The Colemans Book 3 The Knife, which is available from Amazon as a Kindle book or as a paperback or hardback. All of Rogers' novels are highlighted on his website: booksbyglennrogers.net
Glenn Rogers Releases Book 2 of 'THE COLEMANS TRILOGY, THE JOURNAL
Glenn Rogers' frontier thriller trilogy continues with The Colemans Book 2 The Journal. In Book 1 The Reckoning, the Coleman brothers learned that their father, Royce Coleman was a famous mountain man. In Book 2 The Journal, they discover that their daddy kept a journal of his days as a mountain man, a journal filled with stories that is a joy for them to read. They also learn that their father was a spy for the Union in the Civil War.
Recuperating from the bloody confrontation with their parents' killers, Caleb and Zack Coleman are surprised by a young woman bursting into their room claiming to have their father's journal, a book that contains secrets that powerful people in Washington, D.C. will kill to keep secret.
When the boys learn that it was their father's intent to have the information in his journal given to honest and just people in Washington, Caleb and Zack decide to see to it that their daddy's goal is realized. To get the job done, the boys must travel from Colorado to California and then clear back to Washington, D.C., where they are surprised to find that President Johnson knew their father and considered him a trusted friend.
With Emma Langly, the young woman who brought them their daddy's journal, as their new traveling partner, the boys face an adversary that knew and respected their father, a man who was perhaps their father's equal and who will kill the sons of Royce Coleman if need be to keep the secrets of the journal secret. Once Caleb and Zack become aware of their deadly opponent, they struggle with the ethics of how to deal with an enemy who intends to kill them if necessary, but who hasn't moved against them yet.
Rogers, a college professor in a small town in Iowa, believes that a good story should not only be entertaining, but thought provoking. 'The best stories,' Rogers says, 'make you think about ethical concerns or important issues of one sort or another. The best writers are those who can tell a story that not only entertains but provokes thoughtful consideration.'
When he's not in class teaching philosophy, Rogers is writing fiction. To write accurately about Royce Coleman's life as a mountain man, Rogers did extensive research into the lives and adventures of the real mountain men of the 1820s and 30s, reading several of the actual journals the explorers and trappers kept as they opened the American frontier.
The Colemans Book 2 The Journal is available from Amazon as a Kindle book or as a paperback or hardback. All of Rogers' novels are highlighted on his website: booksbyglennrogers.net
Glenn Rogers Releases New Frontier Thriller
Philosophy Professor, Dr. Glenn Rogers has written a frontier thriller where two young men face unimagined challenges and overwhelming odds as they set out across a war-torn frontier to bring their parents' killers to justice. The title of Dr. Rogers' book is: 'The Colemans Book 1 The Reckoning.'
In the Prolog of his thriller, Rogers writes:
Whatever honor may be possible in the seemingly unavoidable conflicts that arise between men of differing ideologies, if indeed there can be any at all, is turned to shame by men who use the conflict to justify brutality and enhance their own personal position. Such was the case April 14, 1865. In Washington, D.C., Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. In the region of Cumberland, Kentucky, a band of renegades dressed as Union soldiers raided several farms, murdering, looting, and burning as they went, setting in motion a chain of events that would forever change the lives of two young men.
The young Coleman brothers face incredible challenges as they leave the hills of Kentucky for the first time in search of their parents' killers. Though capable young men, Caleb, seventeen, and Zack, fifteen, could not have anticipated the events that awaited them beyond the friendly hills of the Cumberland.
They also could not have anticipated what they would learn about their father. Knowing him only as an outdoorsman and a Kentucky farmer, they are surprised to learn of his former life as a famous mountain man. Everywhere they stop, it seems someone knows his name. Over the next few months, the Coleman brothers would learn that there was a side to their father they knew nothing about. And in coping with the harsh realities of life beyond the hills of Kentucky, in pursuit of a pack of ruthless killers, the brothers also learn a great deal about themselves.
When the brothers finally catch up with the killers, they are seriously outnumbered as they match wits, muscle, and skill with the men who murdered their parents.
The Colemans is not at all a typical 'western,' but a thoughtful and thought provoking story about two young men who wrestle with the difference between justice and revenge, and responsibilities and obligations as they struggle to be the men their parents raised them to be.
Rogers, who was born in Kentucky, is a history buff and has always been interested in the time frame in which The Colemans is set. He spent hundreds of hours researching the various aspects of life in 1864 America: the location of towns, bridges, roads, rivers and creeks, distances, weapons, and more, so that his story would historically authentic.
'The Colemans Book 1 The Reckoning' is now available through Amazon as a kindle book, a paperback, or hardback. All of Glenn Rogers' novels are displayed on his website: booksbyglennrogers.net.
