Deadly Recall

Seventeen years ago, Eden Moran blocked out a murder. Heaven help her, she's about to remember. Nine-year-old Eden thought she was saying good-bye to her mentor that fateful day in St. Patrick's. She had no idea she'd witness the nun's demise, or that her child's mind would compensate. Now seventeen years later, Albuquerque cops have unearthed human remains at a construction site, and the evidence points to Eden as being the key to solving Sister Beatrice's murder. When a hell-bent cop applies pressure, Eden stands firm. She doesn't remember the woman. Unfortunately for Eden, Sister Beatrice's killer will do whatever it takes to keep it that way.

At the cemetery following his mother's burial service, Ryan Fleet, eighteen, fires a .38-caliber revolver twice in rapid succession, hitting Joe Fleet, his father, and Heather Prentice, his father fiance. They were to be married that night in Las Vegas. The injuries create lifelong handicaps for both. Denied bail and awaiting trial, abruptly the criminal charges against Ryan are withdrawn by both plaintiffs. Seven years later Doctor Ryan Fleet is in court facing a civil suit filed by Heather Prentice.

Deadly Recall is a gripping thriller that takes the reader inside the dark underbelly of the world of medicine. Author Arvin Chawla deftly takes the reader beyond the pages to a sleepy town where a nonchalant locum physician is supervising a nursing home; an unlikely setting that catapults Doctor Jason Gilchrist into a deadly high-stakes game of greed and corruption.

Cindy and Danny Haskett had been married for two years and were childless by choice, waiting until they were more financially secure. One evening as a act of kindness by loading her bike in his pickup and giving her a ride home in the rain from the Fire and rescue Department meeting, she invites Nick Blazerak in for a coke. Danny, an OTR driver, is headed to Montana. Awakening at 5:20 in the morning, Cindy realizes immediately that Nick had drugged and raped her. She soon discovers she's pregnant. Two weeks later Nick is killed, shot in the back. Investigators have no suspect. For two years the case remains unsolved until a sudden and highly unusual turn of events occurs.-- Back cover.

For twenty-six years James Drake Foster hasbeen haunted by the memory of his fostersister's tragic suicide the evening of her high school graduation. Only he knows why she took her own life. Now a successful private investigator and predator of vulnerable, affluent women ten years his senior, he embarks on a mission that will not only avenge her death but will also protect her from harm in the event heaven is accepting undesirables. He is confident the mission will also drive his own demons of the past from his mind. The success of his agenda depends on his ability to function as two distinctly different individuals: the competent and idealistic private eye and a psychopathic serial killer. Four months and six bodies later--mission accomplished. Not quite. Suddenly his agenda is derailed.

The humble life of Cletus Grange abruptly changes on a quiet Sunday afternoon when Green Bay Homicide Detective Vince London drives him to the city morgue for a positive ID of his daughter, Cindy, twenty-one, whose battered body was found dumped in a cornfield. Within twenty-four hours the suspect is behind bars. The autopsy reveals she had also been drugged and raped. Grange notifies his ex-wife, then disappears immediately following the funeral, his repair shop closed and the house abandoned. With the Wisconsin penal code rejecting capital punishment, Grange has no interest in the trial or the sentence. Not until he is inside the walls himself, face to face with the murderer, will the wheels of true justice begin to turn. A life for a life--and Clete will be the executioner.

Trained by the Marines as a Military Criminal Investigator, Warrant Officer Harley Dodd retires after twenty years and returns home for the first time since enlistment. Had he maintained contact with the family, he would have known his mother had been placed in a nursing home, his sister Ella Mae, twenty-eight, lay in a coma as the result of being attacked in her home a year ago, and his niece Hayley, age ten, abducted and never found. When he solves the crime, he's recognized as a hero, but no one knows the truth. He did not extradite the repeat sex offender to Colorado. If found, the body would be snagged or floating in Colorado's Muddy Boggy River. That victim proved to be Harley's first and the beginning of a crusade to eradicate the Pedophilia Plague in the state of Wisconsin. "We kill rabid dogs, don't we? Rabid humans deserve the same!"

Ray Steagle, high school English teacher late to the gym and unseen, encounters an honor student terrorizing the entire student body with a .357-magnum at the academic awards assembly. Ray gets a .38-caliber revolver from his car and calls nine-one-one. Knowing Jacob Kriter well, he tries to appease the boy. After fourteen minutes, both weapons fire. One misses. The other does not. Ray is charged and goes on trial.