College Can Be A Killer

“The cops are working on Doug Bailey’s case. You don’t need me to make sure they are doing their job.”
“What about the dogs? Do you think they even care about dead dogs? Something strange is going on.”
“I’ll admit it’s strange. But there isn’t any reason to think the two are connected. It’s possible your friend died of natural causes.”
“You know as well as I do Doug was murdered, and the dogs are a clue.”

For being lazy, Bud is certainly busy, especially in this second novel of this series. Naomi’s car breaks down and private investigator, Jeff Terrell, along with his partner, Bud, give her a lift to her college night class. Jeff and Bud decide to wait for Naomi, only to end up finding a dead body. What at first appears to be an accidental death runs out to be a homicide, but this one brings in the FBI. Complicating the investigation is an attractive graduate student who has taken an avid interest in Jeff, and a bunch of dead dogs found in a dumpster behind a church kitchen feeding the homeless. A second homicide and an assault on another college student reveals this case is far more dangerous than originally thought as it becomes involved with a planned terrorist attack. It’s now a race against time to find the killers and stop the attack before bodies pile up.

Mark Zeid spent seven and half years as a military police officer for the U.S. Marine Corps. After leaving active duty, he completed an undergraduate degree in literature and graduate studies in English. But the Marines called to him and he reenlisted in the reserves, from which he retired in 2004. Along the way, he spent 25 years living and working in Japan, which included teaching criminal justice for a satellite campus on military bases in the Far East. He also completed graduate study in criminal justice and worked for the Center for Domestic Preparedness, a training facility ran by FEMA that prepares our nation's first responders to deal with mass casualty and terrorists’ events. His field experience includes helping several agencies with investigations and community policing, as well as being deployed to assist with disaster recovery efforts in Japan and the United States.