The fictional world of Father Stephan and Seth Pearson takes place in Chicago, where Seth owns a struggling second hand bookstore and Father Stephan, his good friend, is an eccentric, scholarly, Eastern Orthodox priest.
The first novel in the series, The Body In The Bookstore Sink, involves, besides the dead man found in the store, a lost Ed Wood movie, a now famous movie star who years ago had an unfortunate experience with the Manson family, a street gang run Chinese restaurant/clubhouse in Chicago's west side ghetto, and an unlikely crew of Ed Wood fans who call themselves the Brides Of The Monster.
A new work in progress, tentatively titled Lucky Buck, is being worked on. It involves the Chicago Cubs, the infamous Bartman ball, a poetry reading, a young kid from the southside ghetto who has an idea on how to escape his drug house milieu, and some rather creepy people who now occupy a house once rented by the wicked Dr. Holmes.