Death Star

What the stars didn't foretell

No one saw it coming. Not the victim and not the 100-plus astrologers attending the annual gathering of the World Society of Astrologers, or even a hint of anything that might darken the society's prospects.

The first murder left everyone puzzled and then a second that put the society's inner circle on edge.

Winton Hazlett, inspector at a small town in England, thought he had the answer but found he had to rewrite his playbook as he uncovered the secrets that simmered below the surface.

All this while he tries to track down his niece being held captive by a bearded hermit, who has taken a fancy to her, and the dangers that lurked at the fringes of drug dealer's dark world.