Sycamore Secrets

Cody Houston Series, Book 4

By: Jerome Stewart

Narrated by: Mark Armstrong

Maisie Davis brings her granddaughter and her granddaughter’s boyfriend to a meeting with Detective Sergeant Cody Houston to reveal an amazing, decades-old tale of betrayal, abandonment, and twisted psychoses involving a juvenile incarcerated for the murder of his own stepfather and trapped in a never-ending tortured recall of his painful early life. That juvenile grows up to be a secretive, quiet, mathematics professor in a small rural Oklahoma college with a fixation on the legendary outlaw D. B. Cooper and a wicked hit list only he can understand. Maisie is now on her death bed with detailed knowledge about her former patient that she needs to pass on to someone who will document the past and watch out for the future.

Unknown to Maisie, Detective Sergeant Cody Houston is the uncle of the newly elected Sheriff of a county in Oklahoma and has no police training or criminal justice experience. In fact, their meeting takes place on his first day on the job. He is merely stepping up as a trusted person to help the department with unexpected openings. Houston may not be a trained police detective, but he has skills. The meeting with Maisie touches him deeply, and he is impacted by her decency and concern.

Houston proves up to the challenge, in fact, and devotes his own time to investigate. His dogged surveillance, intuition, smarts, and research put him onto a secretive, psychotic murder spree engineered by the professor that only he can stop. In the end, his unconventional tactics not only solve the case but oversees the ultimate, final justice that becomes the Sycamore Secret.

Sycamore Secrets is a hard charging adventure plot woven around themes of redemption, family, love, and loyal friendship. It features complex interpersonal relationships combined with a measure of psychological thriller to produce a gripping and entertaining tale.

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