Here is my initial contribution to the weekly series, The Alphabet Game, which you can read about here in a previous posting.

All Mortal Flesh:

Tilt A Whirl
By Chris Grabenstein
Carroll & Graf / Avalon

In the seaside resort community of Sea Haven, New Jersey, the police don’t have much to do. John Ceepak, formerly a military policeman with a thirteen year career in the Army, has recently been hired as Sea Haven’s new chief of police.

Lost Souls by Michael Collins

Penguin, September 2005

ISBN 0-14-303588-6

Paperback

On a nearly deserted street in a small Indiana town, late in the evening on Halloween, a three-year old girl is found dead, apparently struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver.