"Sunnyside Road is a book of razors edge intrigue while introducing a humorous twist to killings that are mostly those considered unthinkable. (...)" - Alison Runyan

A sociopath serial murderer walks silently, avoiding detection, on beautiful Sunnyside Road, a toney paradise neighborhood in West Side, a small city in Western Massachusetts. 

The FBI, state and local police are stumped. The neighborhood becomes an isolated island of potential blood and pain lurking to destroy the lives of some of its most precious members, twelve year old children. Its beautiful landscaped homes and woods are no longer important and there is nowhere to run. Neighbors cannot get out because there are no buyers for their homes. We know many residents through their expressed fear for who is next. 

Captain Beauregard, lead detective of West Side Major Crimes Unit, works with his team to identify the sociopathic murderer. Their diligence and the efforts of an interesting partnership with a criminal defense attorney bring an unexpected resolution.  

Kathleen lives with her husband Joe and their dog Othello midst their large family in Springfield, Massachusetts. 

 “My love affair with plots, murder, mystery, spies and, in general, with crime novels began at an early age when I would raid my father’s suitcase after his return from each of his frequent business trips. There lay one, two and sometimes three paperbacks. O’ the temptation to steal them before my older sister got them. And I read and read – probably have read 2,000 crime novels since then. Even at that early age, I developed my own plots if only to cover up my misdeeds to the chagrin of my family and teachers. Some less creative called it fibbing!

Add to that my service as a Springfield Police Commissioner and a ward political party leader, 20 years in an earned professorship at Westfield State University and service as Chairperson of the Department of Economics and Management, my education at Boston University as an engineer and later an MBA from Western New England College, my licenses as a Certified Public Accountant, a Massachusetts Construction Supervisor and Massachusetts Justice of the Peace, my experience in rehabbing historic residential and commercial buildings, my solo practice in taxation, my leadership as Executive Director of the Springfield Parking Authority, and most importantly my love of being a Springfield storyteller; I write now from those experiences.  

I have always written but alas only to the narrow constraints of business and law; certainly often much more long winded and with far less interesting turns of events. Now I write from the love of plot – of people and their ways – of life – of philosophy – about crime – about the sociopath/psychopath.”

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