Intrusive Detecting: A Novel

Chris Campo, a 27-year old hair salon owner is found murdered in the closet of her Reno apartment. A few months later, Sally Quirk, a well-known, 55-year old construction defects attorney, commits suicide in the bathtub of her Las Vegas home. According to information available in the media, neither of these deaths was ever fully explained. Mark Almond, a retired foreign service officer, reads about each case and realizes that Chris was his barber and Sally his attorney. Although there is no other apparent connection between the two women, Mark decides to write a story about each of them to discover why these tragic deaths of two women he knew were so inconclusively investigated and never really resolved. Little did he know what might result from his inquisitiveness.

Frank Partlow was born into the US Army at the Presidio, San Francisco, 75 years ago. Along the way, he was commissioned from West Point, lived in fifteen states, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Egypt, Vietnam and Cambodia, before retiring as a Brigadier General. He is a Stanford Historian, Harvard Fellow, college professor, multinational peacekeeper, international negotiator, intelligence expert and baseball coach. After settling in Reno, he became a business owner, consultant, biweekly columnist, fiscal reformer and association president, along with a two year Presidential appointment in Washington DC. Although he is a published author, this is his first novel. He is 54 years married to his high school sweetheart, with two daughters and four grandchildren. He has been awarded the US Defense Distinguished Service Medal.