Greg Messel has written four novels and three
unpublished memoirs. He published his premiere novel “Sunbreaks” in 2009,
followed by “Expiation” in 2010 and “The Illusion of Certainty” in 2011. “Last of the Seals” is
the first in a series of mysteries which are set in 1957 San Francisco. The second book in the series “Deadly
Plunge’ will be published around Christmas of 2012. Greg grew up in the San
Francisco Bay Area and has had a newspaper career as a columnist, sportswriter
and news editor. He won a Wyoming Press Association Award as a columnist while
working for a daily newspaper in Wyoming. Greg also spent many years in the
corporate world as a Financial Manager. He now devotes his energies to writing
at his home in Edmonds, Washington on the Puget Sound just north of Seattle, where he lives with his wife, Carol.
About the book:
The year is 1957 in
San Francisco. Sam Slater is a lifetime minor league
baseball player for the San Francisco Seals. The Seals have just one more
season left as San Francisco is about to become a major league city.
The Giants are coming to town in 1958 and the Seals will be displaced. Sam has
come to the end of his baseball career and is going to join the private
detective agency of his best friend. When his friend is brutally murdered, Sam
must go it alone and try to find out why. Along the way he is swept off of his
feet by a beautiful Elvis-obsessed TWA stewardess named Amelia Ryan. Sam and
Amelia try to unravel the mystery together. Sam’s best friend, Jimmy
inadvertently saw something he shouldn’t have. Sam and Amelia have pictures in
their possession that have crime families in San Francisco and Chicago very worried. Then a young woman Sam has
been searching for is found dead on the beach. Suddenly, Sam and Amelia find
themselves in danger. On dark and foggy San Francisco nights, trouble is lurking just around the
next corner.
In 1968, Dan and Katie
are one of the hottest couples at Ballard High School in Seattle. He is
the hero football player, and she is the beautiful cheerleader. These
high school sweethearts believe theirs is a love that will never die.
Life changes when Dan leaves Washington to start college at the
University of California Berkeley and pursue his dream of working for a
big time newspaper in the glamorous city of San Francisco. The quest for
his dream occurs against the turbulent background of Berkeley and San
Francisco in the 1970s as Dan and Katie go their separate ways. Now,
thirty years later, Dan is back in his hometown of Seattle attending his
mother's funeral. He's never stopped thinking about Katie, his
long-lost love. But the two former high school sweethearts reconnect in a
most unexpected way as the rest of the world grows more fearful of Y2K
and the dawn of the twenty-first century. They are hoping that their
love, once lost, can now be reclaimed
> The Illusion of Certainty (My Review)
"The Illusion of
Certainty" follows two parallel story lines. Marc is a successful
businessman who seems to have everything-a great job, a beautiful wife, a
house in an upscale neighborhood of Portland, Oregon and two great kids
who are preparing for college. But something is not right. Marc is
unsettled by the sudden change in his wife, Aimee, who seems distant and
unhappy. What is going on with her?The second storyline involves a
successful young attorney Alexandra Mattson. Alex, as she is called by
her friends, meets a handsome young cop, Sean, during an unexpected
crisis in her neighborhood. Sean and Alex seem made for each other and
begin to merge their futures in a world of uncertainty.The only
certainty in life is that we will face uncertainty. Despite all of
the technology and controls available in the modern world, sometimes the
only comfort comes from the human touch.
>Sunbreaks
Tom is a middle-aged
man who works in downtown Portland, Oregon. His wife is killed suddenly
when her car is hit by a drunk driver. Tom goes into a period of
isolation for almost two years; his life sinks into a time of grayness
and gloom. Then, a bright light named Erika comes into his life. She is a
dazzling young woman who he meets, quite by accident, at the coffee
shop which he frequents each morning. Tom and Erika have an instant
connection. They formulate a plan to become companions and to begin
enjoying all of their interests again but as platonic friends. They are
both tired of being alone but do not want to play all of the dating
games. As the year progresses, Tom and Erika become more and more
comfortable with each other thanks to a series of unexpected crisis that
ensue. Tom is falling more deeply in love with Erika each day. Erika
continues to take it slow and wants to be just friends. Tom keeps his
love for her a secret as he patiently waits for Erika to want more from
their relationship.
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