TURBULENT REENTRY
Wade Evans may be out of prison, but the hard part is just beginning.
Instead of college exams and dorm parties, twenty-two year old Wade Evans spent the last four years at Dayton Correctional on a rape charge. Her name was Elisabeth and they dated for six months before her testimony clinched his conviction. Wade couldn’t honestly tell them it didn’t happen but would the jury have believed it was her idea? She was beautiful and experienced and taught him so much. Four years later, he still can’t figure out why she lied to the jury. Now he’s out and working at Scene Cleaners where he cleans crime scenes after the police are through with them. Wade’s new life outside the prison walls is challenging. His partner, Scraper, who found his life’s calling in this work, seems to have nothing but disdain for him but the attractive redhead who handles the front desk keeps flirting with him. Does she know he’s considered a sex offender? Does she care? In spite of the risk, Wade can’t keep himself from driving by Elisabeth’s palatial home, a definite violation of his Reentry Program. All he wants is one glance to see how the last four years have treated her – to see how her new lawyer husband is treating her. Then the unthinkable happens - the next murder scene he has to clean is at her house.
PROJEKT HALF LIGHT
"As Savanna twisted the doorknob, Colin watched the second man burst from the other
doorway and raise his gun. He heard three very loud explosions and felt something hard
strike his cheek."
Colin Studebaker works for the FBI, but doesn't chase criminals. He is an engineer with one of the FBI's clandestine Special Operation Groups, specializing in high tech surveillance equipment. After a seemingly chance encounter with a beautiful blond, large men with handguns are suddenly chasing them through the streets of Washington DC. When Colin questions their interest in her, he can hardly believe her assertion that it’s Colin they’re after. She is a Private Investigator hired to find Gary Jackson, a Senior Policy Advisor for FEMA who disappeared three weeks earlier. Does Gary's disappearance have something to do with the covert recording device Colin recently loaned him? Not knowing if his attraction is to the adrenaline or the beautiful girl, he joins her in the search for Gary. On the run from both sides of the law, they stumble onto a sixty-year-old Nazi plot to infiltrate the US government.
TRANSPLANT UNLIMITED
Bad heart? No problem. We’ll print you a new one.
It's the near future and the Organ Donor Waiting List is obsolete thanks to advances in 3D printing technology. Nelson and Walt, best friends since college, own Transplant Unlimited, a company that prints human organs from the recipient's own DNA for transplant the same day. Hearts, lungs, kidneys… if the surgeons can transplant it, Walt and Nelson's equipment can print it. Nelson is concerned when two hoods from the local casino show up demanding the $2 million Walt owes them but Walt assures him it is not a big deal. Three days later, Walt's corpse is at the bottom of a ravine amid the scattered wreckage of his antique sports car. It doesn't take long for Nelson to suspect it wasn't an accident. Nelson heard the rumors of Walt's affair with Erika, the attractive, young technician that worked for him but what would she see in an out-of-shape, middle aged, married man-unless it was the casino's two million dollars? Walt's wife, Lillian, loved him but they haven't been getting along lately. A mistress could do that to a relationship and, coupled with Walt's ten million dollar life insurance policy, would make for an plausible motive but Nelson thinks there's more to it than a simple murder. The deeper Nelson digs into the questions surrounding Walt's death, the more he finds out he never really knew Walt at all.
MEMORABILIA
A mystery stretching from the beaches of Normandy June 6, 1944, to present day
Atlantic City.
When Elyse, the beautiful memorabilia collector, came into Sean Barrick’s pawn shop, she was searching for historic photographs of the D Day landings. It was no coincidence that Sean’s grandfather was a war photographer and one of the few men on Omaha Beach that day shooting with a camera instead of a gun. The urban legend of his missing photographs is well-known but her story about those photographs pointing to a cache of stolen Nazi jewels is new and leads them on a search for answers reaching back to 1944. Can Sean trust her or should he believe the two Secret Service agents who say she’s a criminal?
JUDITH
Twice married, twice a queen, twice widowed. All before she
was sixteen.
As the daughter of King Charles of Frankia and the great-granddaughter of Charlemagne, Judith could have anything she wanted — except a chance to fall in love. She would be forced to either enter the church or to marry a king from some distant land in pursuit of a strategic alliance. She wanted to fall in love with a man of her choosing, but princesses did not get to choose. Not wanting to live her life in a monastery, she felt a combination of relief and apprehension when her father announced she would marry King Æthelwulf of Wessex. She knew little of this small kingdom on the island of Britain. The recently widowed Æthelwulf was returning from pilgrimage to Rome and felt the Frankish princess would bring status and sophistication to Wessex. However, before the newlyweds had even left Frankia, word reached them that Æthelwulf’s son intended to steal the crown. As Judith sailed to Wessex with her new husband to face an unknown land and an unfamiliar culture, she pushed all hope of love from her mind. Based on the true story of this amazing woman’s life.
© Kyle R Fisher, 2021
Novels
Book Review of Memorabilia
January 2019 Mensa Bulletin,
Caroline McCullagh, editor
It’s difficult to tell you about Memorabilia by Kyle R. Fisher without giving away any of the intricate and interesting plot. I can tell you that Sean Barrick, a disgraced police officer and the grandson of D-Day photographer Paul Barrick, is drawn into a hunt for some of Paul’s long-missing photos that might be worth a lot of money. He’s brought into the search by the mysterious Elyse, a beautiful woman with a big secret. This is a cross-genre novel, part mystery and part science fiction. Yes, really. And it works. Memorabilia held my interest every step of the way. Fisher does an excellent job of bringing you into the scenes with the characters.
The book has three potential problems - none of which disqualify
it from being a good read. First, the cover does not give a sense of
what the book is about, and, for me at least, was not appealing.
Additionally, there were some longish quotes from Paul’s wartime
journal that were too detailed to be journal writing. With minimal
changes, they could have been handled as back story and would
have worked much better. Finally, Sean’s (and the reader’s)
understanding of what really happened depends on a
coincidence at the end, but I didn’t care, and you won’t either.
Turbulent Reentry voted best unpublished
novel in 2010
San Diego Mensa 2010 Creative uRGe Contest
Turbulent Reentry was selected as the winner of the San Diego Mensa 2010 Creative uRGe award for Best Unpublished Novel.
Book Review of Judith
February 2022 Mensa Bulletin,
Caroline McCullagh, editor
Judith, by Kyle R. Fisher is such a good book that I’m going to lead with the one negative I have about it — the cover. Picture a background of swirling greenish clouds; foreground: a woman, her back to the observer, in a windblown, blood-red dress. In her hand, a large dagger. Superimposed on her dark hair, the word Judith, also in blood-red type. So, what kind of book is it? I was expecting it to be about a female serial killer. I would never have picked this up to have a second look and find out how wrong I was if I didn’t have to read it for the review. I lead with the negative because other people may react as I did to the cover and never discover what a fine historical novel this is. I’ve reviewed favorably two of Fisher’s previous novels, Transplant Unlimited (2016) and Memorabilia (2019). I complained about the cover of Memorabilia, too.
This fascinating and well-written story is about Judith, a
granddaughter of Charlemagne, who lived in a time (800s C.E.)
when a woman’s choice was to marry a man of her father’s
choosing or spend her life in a religious institution. Judith was
married off twice, both times to kings, but ultimately wanted to live
life on her own terms by marrying the man she loved.
Wow, is this good writing. It starts with a battle scene. I find in
many books that those are so muddled that I can’t follow them very
well. Not so in this one. Fisher puts us right in the middle of the
action. He really gives us a feel for what the times were like all the
way through the story. And there are many characters in this book.
He makes each one come alive as an individual
So, action good, characters good, dialogue good, scene-setting
good, plot good. And ultimately, research good. What more can we
want? This one gets five starts. Visit KRFisher.com.
Novels
JUDITH
Twice married, twice a queen, twice widowed. All
before she was sixteen.
As the daughter of King Charles of Frankia and the great- granddaughter of Charlemagne, Judith could have anything she wanted — except a chance to fall in love. She would be forced to either enter the church or to marry a king from some distant land in pursuit of a strategic alliance. She wanted to fall in love with a man of her choosing, but princesses did not get to choose. Not wanting to live her life in a monastery, she felt a combination of relief and apprehension when her father announced she would marry King Æthelwulf of Wessex. She knew little of this small kingdom on the island of Britain. The recently widowed Æthelwulf was returning from pilgrimage to Rome and felt the Frankish princess would bring status and sophistication to Wessex. However, before the newlyweds had even left Frankia, word reached them that Æthelwulf’s son intended to steal the crown. As Judith sailed to Wessex with her new husband to face an unknown land and an unfamiliar culture, she pushed all hope of love from her mind. Based on the true story of this amazing woman’s life.
MEMORABILIA
A mystery stretching from the beaches of Normandy
June 6, 1944, to present day Atlantic City.
When Elyse, the beautiful memorabilia collector, came into Sean Barrick’s pawn shop, she was searching for historic photographs of the D Day landings. It was no coincidence that Sean’s grandfather was a war photographer and one of the few men on Omaha Beach that day shooting with a camera instead of a gun. The urban legend of his missing photographs is well-known but her story about those photographs pointing to a cache of stolen Nazi jewels is new and leads them on a search for answers reaching back to 1944. Can Sean trust her or should he believe the two Secret Service agents who say she’s a criminal?
Book Review of Memorabilia
January 2019 Mensa Bulletin,
Caroline McCullagh, editor
It’s difficult to tell you about Memorabilia by Kyle R. Fisher without giving away any of the intricate and interesting plot. I can tell you that Sean Barrick, a disgraced police officer and the grandson of D-Day photographer Paul Barrick, is drawn into a hunt for some of Paul’s long-missing photos that might be worth a lot of money. He’s brought into the search by the mysterious Elyse, a beautiful woman with a big secret. This is a cross-genre novel, part mystery and part science fiction. Yes, really. And it works. Memorabilia held my interest every step of the way. Fisher does an excellent job of bringing you into the scenes with the characters.
The book has three potential problems -
none of which disqualify it from being a
good read. First, the cover does not give a
sense of what the book is about, and, for
me at least, was not appealing.
Additionally, there were some longish
quotes from Paul’s wartime journal that
were too detailed to be journal writing.
With minimal changes, they could have
been handled as back story and would
have worked much better. Finally, Sean’s
(and the reader’s) understanding of what
really happened depends on a
coincidence at the end, but I didn’t care,
and you won’t either.
TRANSPLANT UNLIMITED
Bad heart? No problem. We’ll print you a new one.
It's the near future and the Organ Donor Waiting List is obsolete thanks to advances in 3D printing technology. Nelson and Walt, best friends since college, own Transplant Unlimited, a company that prints human organs from the recipient's own DNA for transplant the same day. Hearts, lungs, kidneys… if the surgeons can transplant it, Walt and Nelson's equipment can print it. Nelson is concerned when two hoods from the local casino show up demanding the $2 million Walt owes them but Walt assures him it is not a big deal. Three days later, Walt's corpse is at the bottom of a ravine amid the scattered wreckage of his antique sports car. It doesn't take long for Nelson to suspect it wasn't an accident. Nelson heard the rumors of Walt's affair with Erika, the attractive, young technician that worked for him but what would she see in an out-of-shape, middle aged, married man-unless it was the casino's two million dollars? Walt's wife, Lillian, loved him but they haven't been getting along lately. A mistress could do that to a relationship and, coupled with Walt's ten million dollar life insurance policy, would make for an plausible motive but Nelson thinks there's more to it than a simple murder. The deeper Nelson digs into the questions surrounding Walt's death, the more he finds out he never really knew Walt at all.
PROJEKT HALF LIGHT
"As Savanna twisted the doorknob, Colin watched the
second man burst from the other doorway and raise his
gun. He heard three very loud explosions and felt
something hard strike his cheek."
Colin Studebaker works for the FBI, but doesn't chase criminals. He is an engineer with one of the FBI's clandestine Special Operation Groups, specializing in high tech surveillance equipment. After a seemingly chance encounter with a beautiful blond, large men with handguns are suddenly chasing them through the streets of Washington DC. When Colin questions their interest in her, he can hardly believe her assertion that it’s Colin they’re after. She is a Private Investigator hired to find Gary Jackson, a Senior Policy Advisor for FEMA who disappeared three weeks earlier. Does Gary's disappearance have something to do with the covert recording device Colin recently loaned him? Not knowing if his attraction is to the adrenaline or the beautiful girl, he joins her in the search for Gary. On the run from both sides of the law, they stumble onto a sixty-year-old Nazi plot to infiltrate the US government.
© Kyle R Fisher, 2021
TURBULENT REENTRY
Wade Evans may be out of prison, but the hard part is just beginning. Instead of college exams and dorm parties, twenty-two year old Wade Evans spent the last four years at Dayton Correctional on a rape charge. Her name was Elisabeth and they dated for six months before her testimony clinched his conviction. Wade couldn’t honestly tell them it didn’t happen but would the jury have believed it was her idea? She was beautiful and experienced and taught him so much. Four years later, he still can’t figure out why she lied to the jury. Now he’s out and working at Scene Cleaners where he cleans crime scenes after the police are through with them. Wade’s new life outside the prison walls is challenging. His partner, Scraper, who found his life’s calling in this work, seems to have nothing but disdain for him but the attractive redhead who handles the front desk keeps flirting with him. Does she know he’s considered a sex offender? Does she care? In spite of the risk, Wade can’t keep himself from driving by Elisabeth’s palatial home, a definite violation of his Reentry Program. All he wants is one glance to see how the last four years have treated her – to see how her new lawyer husband is treating her. Then the unthinkable happens - the next murder scene he has to clean is at her house.
Book Review of Judith
February 2022 Mensa Bulletin,
Caroline McCullagh, editor
Judith, by Kyle R. Fisher is such a good book that I’m going to lead with the one negative I have about it — the cover. Picture a background of swirling greenish clouds; foreground: a woman, her back to the observer, in a windblown, blood-red dress. In her hand, a large dagger. Superimposed on her dark hair, the word Judith, also in blood- red type. So, what kind of book is it? I was expecting it to be about a female serial killer. I would never have picked this up to have a second look and find out how wrong I was if I didn’t have to read it for the review. I lead with the negative because other people may react as I did to the cover and never discover what a fine historical novel this is. I’ve reviewed favorably two of Fisher’s previous novels, Transplant Unlimited (2016) and Memorabilia (2019). I complained about the cover of Memorabilia, too.
This fascinating and well-written story is
about Judith, a granddaughter of
Charlemagne, who lived in a time (800s C.E.)
when a woman’s choice was to marry a man
of her father’s choosing or spend her life in
a religious institution. Judith was married off
twice, both times to kings, but ultimately
wanted to live life on her own terms by
marrying the man she loved.
Wow, is this good writing. It starts with a
battle scene. I find in many books that those
are so muddled that I can’t follow them very
well. Not so in this one. Fisher puts us right
in the middle of the action. He really gives us
a feel for what the times were like all the
way through the story. And there are many
characters in this book. He makes each one
come alive as an individual
So, action good, characters good,
dialogue good, scene-setting good, plot
good. And ultimately, research good. What
more can we want. This one gets five starts.
Visit KRFisher.com.
San Diego Mensa 2010 Creative uRGe Contest
Turbulent Reentry was selected as the winner of the San Diego Mensa 2010 Creative uRGe award for Best Unpublished Novel.Turbulent Reentry voted best unpublished
novel in 2010
© Kyle R Fisher, 2021
Novels
JUDITH
Twice married, twice a queen, twice
widowed. All before she was sixteen.
As the daughter of King Charles of
Frankia and the great-granddaughter of
Charlemagne, Judith could
have anything she wanted — except a
chance to fall in love. She would be
forced to either enter the church
or to marry a king from some distant
land in pursuit of a strategic alliance.
She wanted to fall in love with a
man of her choosing, but princesses did
not get to choose. Not wanting to live
her life in a monastery, she
felt a combination of relief and
apprehension when her father
announced she would marry King
Æthelwulf of Wessex. She knew little of
this small kingdom on the island of
Britain. The recently widowed
Æthelwulf was returning from
pilgrimage to Rome and felt the
Frankish princess would bring status
and sophistication to Wessex. However,
before the newlyweds had even left
Frankia, word reached them that
Æthelwulf’s son intended to steal the
crown. As Judith sailed to Wessex with
her new husband to face an unknown
land and an unfamiliar culture, she
pushed all hope of love from her mind.
Based on the true story of this amazing
woman’s life.
MEMORABILIA
A mystery stretching from the beaches
of Normandy June 6, 1944, to present
day Atlantic City.
When Elyse, the beautiful memorabilia
collector, came into Sean Barrick’s pawn
shop, she was searching for historic
photographs of the D Day landings. It was
no coincidence that Sean’s grandfather
was a war photographer and one of the
few men on Omaha Beach that day
shooting with a camera instead of a gun.
The urban legend of his missing
photographs is well-known but her story
about those photographs pointing to a
cache of stolen Nazi jewels is new and
leads them on a search for answers
reaching back to 1944. Can Sean trust her
or should he believe the two Secret
Service agents who say she’s a criminal?
TRANSPLANT
UNLIMITED
Bad heart? No problem. We’ll print
you a new one.
Book Review of Memorabilia
January 2019 Mensa Bulletin,
Caroline McCullagh, editor
It’s difficult to tell you about Memorabilia by Kyle R. Fisher without giving away any of the intricate and interesting plot. I can tell you that Sean Barrick, a disgraced police officer and the grandson of D-Day photographer Paul Barrick, is drawn into a hunt for some of Paul’s long-missing photos that might be worth a lot of money. He’s brought into the search by the mysterious Elyse, a beautiful woman with a big secret. This is a cross-genre novel, part mystery and part science fiction. Yes, really. And it works. Memorabilia held my interest every step of the way. Fisher does an excellent job of bringing you into the scenes with the characters. The book has three potential problems - none of which disqualify it from being a good read. First, the cover does not give a sense of what the book is about, and, for me at least, was not appealing. Additionally, there were some longish quotes from Paul’s wartime journal that were too detailed to be journal writing. With minimal changes, they could have been handled as back story and would have worked much better. Finally, Sean’s (and the reader’s) understanding of what really happened depends on a coincidence at the end, but I didn’t care, and you won’t either.
It's the near future and the Organ
Donor Waiting List is obsolete thanks to
advances in 3D printing technology.
Nelson and Walt, best friends since
college, own Transplant Unlimited, a
company that prints human organs from
the recipient's own DNA for transplant the
same day. Hearts, lungs, kidneys… if the
surgeons can transplant it, Walt and
Nelson's equipment can print it. Nelson is
concerned when two hoods from the local
casino show up demanding the $2 million
Walt owes them but Walt assures him it is
not a big deal. Three days later, Walt's
corpse is at the bottom of a ravine amid
the scattered wreckage of his antique
sports car. It doesn't take long for Nelson
to suspect it wasn't an accident.
Nelson heard the rumors of Walt's
affair with Erika, the attractive, young
technician that worked for him but what
would she see in an out-of-shape, middle
aged, married man-unless it was the
casino's two million dollars? Walt's wife,
Lillian, loved him but they haven't been
getting along lately. A mistress could do
that to a relationship and, coupled with
Walt's ten million dollar life insurance
policy, would make for an plausible
motive but Nelson thinks there's more to
it than a simple murder. The deeper
Nelson digs into the questions
surrounding Walt's death, the more he
finds out he never really knew Walt at all.
PROJEKT HALF
LIGHT
"As Savanna twisted the doorknob, Colin
watched the second man burst from the
other doorway and raise his gun. He
heard three very loud explosions and
felt something hard strike his cheek."
Colin Studebaker works for the FBI,
but doesn't chase criminals. He is an
engineer with one of the FBI's
clandestine Special Operation Groups,
specializing in high tech surveillance
equipment. After a seemingly chance
encounter with a beautiful blond, large
men with handguns are suddenly chasing
them through the streets of Washington
DC. When Colin questions their interest
in her, he can hardly believe her
assertion that it’s Colin they’re after.
She is a Private Investigator hired to
find Gary Jackson, a Senior Policy Advisor
for FEMA who disappeared three weeks
earlier. Does Gary's disappearance have
something to do with the covert
recording device Colin recently loaned
him? Not knowing if his attraction is to
the adrenaline or the beautiful girl, he
joins her in the search for Gary. On the
run from both sides of the law, they
stumble onto a sixty-year-old Nazi plot to
infiltrate the US government.
TURBULENT
REENTRY
Wade Evans may be out of prison, but
the hard part is just beginning.
Instead of college exams and dorm
parties, twenty-two year old Wade Evans
spent the last four years at Dayton
Correctional on a rape charge. Her name
was Elisabeth and they dated for six
months before her testimony clinched his
conviction. Wade couldn’t honestly tell
them it didn’t happen but would the jury
have believed it was her idea? She was
beautiful and experienced and taught him
so much. Four years later, he still can’t
figure out why she lied to the jury.
Now he’s out and working at Scene
Cleaners where he cleans crime scenes
after the police are through with them.
Wade’s new life outside the prison walls is
challenging. His partner, Scraper, who
found his life’s calling in this work, seems
to have nothing but disdain for him but
the attractive redhead who handles the
front desk keeps flirting with him. Does
she know he’s considered a sex offender?
Does she care?
In spite of the risk, Wade can’t keep
himself from driving by Elisabeth’s palatial
home, a definite violation of his Reentry
Program. All he wants is one glance to see
how the last four years have treated her –
to see how her new lawyer husband is
treating her. Then the unthinkable
happens - the next murder scene he has
to clean is at her house.
Turbulent Reentry voted best
unpublished novel in 2010
San Diego Mensa 2010 Creative
uRGe Contest
Turbulent Reentry was selected as the winner of the San Diego Mensa 2010 Creative uRGe award for Best Unpublished Novel.
