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Books by Tambler Wallace
THE NEW MOTEL
What begins as a father’s disappointment snowballs into a life that bends rules, family loyalties, and sexual identities, as they struggle to please a parent, morphs into a deviant and deadly lifestyle. The opening of a new motel in rural Oklahoma coincides with the disappearance of a local girl. An off-handed joke becomes a rumor and permanently links the event with the motel’s reputation. The discovery of several bodies and one survivor presents a full-time challenge to the obnoxious new sheriff and his deputies. Their search for the killer(s) takes them across the state and rustles up a host of suspects, who eventually unite in an unusual and unexpected way. The scope of the crimes grows and spreads until the perpetrators run out of resources, both human and otherwise, for they are all eventually consumed. Forensics, sporadic witness accounts, good police work, hunches, and mistakes by the ‘untouchable’ evildoer(s) eventually pile up to bring a violent end to one of the perps, and the incarceration of… the rest.
PAYPHONE
As a young man’s long-distance love affair fails, bodies surface on his parents’ rural farm. He starts anew with – he believes – the girl of his dreams, whom, it turns out, is associated with one of said bodies.
In a setting of bars and billiards, a ‘weekend warrior’ motorcycle club gets crossways with an outlaw biker gang, and a small-scale war of brains-versus-brawn ensues, pitting friends, families, and business professionals against each other, where no one is safe, no one is innocent, and no one is untouchable.
‘High-Tech’ amounts to VHS and dial-up modems. Car phones are for the rich, or at least the most important. Treasure is found in silicon chips, as well as where the pirate legends placed it – buried in the ground.
ODDS
When a man retires from middle-management to become a multi-millionaire, he learns that money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy revenge. His struggle to understand and overcome a devastating loss culminates in a glimmer of hope for the endurance of love and eternal connections to loved ones despite disappointment and death. As he immerses his mind and his money into a search for the soul and the paths it takes through multiple lifetimes, he sees as he gets closer just how far away the answer is - beyond any mortal’s reach. Ultimately, through a chance reunion, he learns that success in life and success at living are two very different things, that some broken hearts never heal, and that some hearts never break. In the desert hills of Mexico, evil and justice cross paths, as past lives and present lives become intertwined in the search for the immortal soul. What are the odds of encountering a lost progeny reanimated as a not-so-total stranger? The circle of life becomes a Mobius strip.
ENDS
An attempt at a normal life for a billionaire and his international crime fighting reincarnated wife is elusive, as their mercenary associate inadvertently rescues the kidnapped daughter of a Brazilian drug queen.
In this sequel to ODDS, Wallace breathes new life into his characters and introduces colorful allies and adversaries.
As Francois expands his horizon and holdings, his world gets more exciting and dangerous. Ultimately, it caves in around him.
TAMBLER WALLACE
