Author Don E. Finegold loves a mystery. He enjoys using his imagination to conjure up novels that are exciting, provocative, relate events that arouse the reader’s curiosity while being a quick, comfortable read. He wants the reader to enjoy the casual flow of words that lead to all sorts of adventures.

His first novel, “Interlude,” (2001-2002), introduces characters who live with wealth – and turmoil. Infidelity, greed, jealousy and hatreds abound within a group of privileged people and may be the reason for a violent attack – and a murder. Detective Murray searches for the answers to reap justice upon the aristocrats he despises.

Finegold’s second novel, “The Pact,” (1998-2003), introduces three young men, raised in the Boston area by intolerant parents, who all exhibit cavalier attitudes while planning and performing terrible injustices. Is one – or are two – or are all three young men involved in a spree of killings that take place in a space of 12 years in a normally complacent twin-city area on the North Shore of Massachusetts in the 1950’s and 1960’s? Each youth has his own secret agenda, and a number of provocative incidents occur as two determined, dedicated detectives try to sort out the answers.

Novel number three, “The Pemberton Murders”, (2006), relates the tale of a woman living with the onus her husband was a serial killer, who disappeared and is on the lam. She alone believes in his innocence, and that he was a victim himself rather than the killer. In the 1990’s she reads about new tools the authorities are using – DNA and forensic science advances – and convinces a former detective on the case – now a private investigator – to search out what really happened. Everyone was in for a surprise.

In his fourth novel, “The Investigator,” (2007), Finegold introduces a new protagonist, a female private investigator with a mysterious upbringing. Samantha Robbins is someone special. “She’s no statuesque beauty, but rather a diminutive Venus.” She’s special because she possesses a sixth sense. She and her friend, Detective Arthur Lite, team up unofficially to thwart a terrorist attack and catch a serial killer.

Novel number five, “Revenge,” (2008), is an intricate tale depicting the end-game of a long-lasting animosity between two wealthy, egotistical men. Private Investigator Samantha Robbins prevents mayhem and murder in this fast-moving tale of sex and killing.

In novel number six, “Secrecy and Deception,” (2009), PI Samantha Robbins faces new challengers. Along with local police and the FBI she faces a well-entrenched Boston mobster group. It takes all of Samantha’s abilities to unravel the twists of a demented killer.

In novel number seven, “The Rose Pedal Murders,” (2010), Samantha Robbins faces a psychopathic killer bent on killing women for one reason – because they are woman. Each victim is strangled and marked by a signature – a rose petal stuffed in a nostril! The killer is bent on leaving his mark on a world he detests, and he’s saving his most important victim for last. Bodies are piling up around Samantha, and she may be next!