Journalist, Carpenter, Manager, Consultant, Novelist.
She pinned photographs, birth certificates, and scribbled notes to the walls. She walked around the room, staring at the exhibits. There has to be an answer. In Santa Barbara? At that farm in Wisconsin? Or with someone I've yet to find?
I'll need to follow where you went to discover what happened. I have to know who you were then to understand who I am now. And who he was
When forensic accountant Gene Spaulding hands artist Lizzie Vaughn his business card at a gallery opening, it triggers events that link a mother, her daughter, their lovers, an art camp in the Sierras, an empty house in the high desert and Los Angeles in the 1980s. 100 Swings is a story of unexpected violence, the attraction of puzzles and lives imprisoned by the past.
Ray Innelli, down on his luck and out of options, signs on with developer Len Cummings to work in California's Gold Country. There he meets Wynn Hollingsworth, a once-famous climber now eking out a living panning for gold. Soon Innelli is ensnared in a dispute pitting Cummings and Hollingsworth. Ambition, failure and the desire for redemption play out on a rock wall rising above a river in the Sierra foothills.