Josh Scott, Will Scott's son in the past two novels, Central and Van Buren and Teresa Garcia, has grown up, graduated from college, and is now a software engineer for a small tech company. His old childhood friend, Mya Chilton, who fled the country as an eleven-year-old child ahead of the Arizona authorities, has returned to the US. Eight years earlier her parents, noted philanthropists and researchers, Edward and Janaya Chilton, were murdered and Mya was the only witness to the crimes.Was Mya Chilton involved in these murders, a ten-year-old child?She has returned to Phoenix as an adult to acquire a piece of software, but the real reason is unknown. In fact, what she has been doing for the past decade has also been a mystery compounded by the interest the federal government has in Mya and her unique abilities, her father's groundbreaking research, and Mya's groundbreaking research into complex mathematical equations and theorems. She is so advanced that the...

Central and Van Buren is a classic murder mystery novel set against the backdrop of Phoenix, Arizona in the late 1980's. It was a time of slow, expensive computers, floppy disks, no cell phones and no internet. The novel opens up with the fresh discovery on a normal Saturday morning of the homicide of Jack Peterson, a high-power attorney with the prestigious law firm of Casey and Bennett. He has been murdered in his office early, three telltale shots having done their lethal work strategically piercing his head, heart and groin. ​Jack's best friend and former law partner, Will Scott, is summoned by Jack's wife Marla Peterson to visit with the police, then look into the mysterious death of her husband. Both Marla Peterson and Will Scott fear that the police, headed by Miles Kilgore and James 'Jimmy' Ramos, have prejudged the case suggesting that Jack was involved in Mafia criminality gone wrong.​Will jostles with the police while trying to...