Crime Stories

Join me in a visit to our son-in-law's run-down Tacoma neighborhood where drug-dealing neighbors and frustrated cops engage in high-speed, late-night games.

Corporate Villain begins with an ordinary man stepping into the corporate world believing intelligence, honesty, and hard work are enough to survive, only to discover that success has nothing to do with fairness and everything to do with control. At first, the changes are subtle: a harmless clause in a contract, a promotion that costs more than it gives, a quiet meeting that decides hundreds of lives without raising a voice. But as the system reveals its true nature....

The story begins when a valuable diamond is stolen from a jeweler’s office. Suspicion falls on Reuben Hornby, the nephew of the jeweler.

Rodion Raskolnikov, a poor former student in St. Petersburg, believes that some people have the right to commit crimes if it benefits humanity. To test this theory, he murders an old pawnbroker and her innocent sister.

The novel tells the story of the Karamazov family, focusing on the conflict between the immoral father, Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, and his three sons: Dmitri (Mitya) who is passionate, Ivan who is intellectual and Alyosha who is kind-hearted.