Frank Adams Series, Book One
Murder/Mystery Thriller
Date Published: 05-16-2023
Publisher: BQB Publishing
It was cold and rainy, with low visibility. A perfect morning for sabotage. The company jet carrying a Senior VP mysteriously crashes shortly after taking off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says it was an accident. The victim’s wife says it was murder. Frank Adams, an independent aviation accident investigator has been hired to find out. Mounting evidence and an additional murder convince Adams that there was indeed foul play.
As what seemed to be disparate events become increasingly linked, Frank reveals a crime of international dimensions. Accustomed to working independently, Frank is forced to call on the help of an old girlfriend as well as a retired DC cop. But unraveling the truth could cost him his life as well as the lives of his friends.
Is There a Message in Your Novel That You Want
Readers to Grasp?
There is motivation and dreams within us all. GUIDANCE
TO DEATH shows how far some people will go to get what they want. Murder?. It is also a reminder that greed and
ambition are definitely great motivators but can lead to the downfall of the
human race. We always should be reminded to be grateful for what I have today.
Is there anything you find particularly
challenging in your writing?
I
find that getting started with a plan for the entire book is a challenge. I’d
like to say that I write an outline and follow it throughout the book. But I often don’t. I begin with an
idea—stimulated by something in the human condition—and it develops from there.
The outline exists, but usually, only in my head. And the characters develop on
their own and reintroduce themselves repeatedly throughout the book.
How many books have you written and which is your
favorite?
I’ve written six published books:
MENDOZA’S TREASURE: Mystery/thriller 1980
THE DUNG BEETLES OF LIBERIA, A Novel Based on
True Events: Historical Fiction, 2019
NO BIRDS SING HERE: Historical Fiction, 2021
BLOODROOT: Historical Fiction, 2021
BLOOD BEFORE DAWN, Historical Fiction and the
sequel to THE DUNG BEETLES OF LIBERIA December 2021
GUIDANCE TO DEATH (Book one of the Frank Adams Investigator
Series) May 2023
Asking me to tell you which one I like best is
like asking a mother which child she loves best. All the books have their own separate identities,
and I am very proud of them all.
If You had the chance to cast your main character
from
Bob Odenkirk
from BETTER CALL SAUL
He
plays a believable hero with “a past.” He is strong but sensitive. His flaws and strengths are universally human.
When did you begin writing?
I
started writing in my twenties, when I was in college. I was a History major,
but took a lot of literature classes also. I started submitting my work in the
college literary magazine and later I worked briefly as a journalist for The
Washington Business Journal. In 1980, Leisure Books published a mystery/
thriller, MENDOZA’S TREASURE, that I wrote under the ‘nom de plume’ Vince Daniels.
How long did it take to complete your first book?
MENDOZA’S TREASURE, being a ‘genre’ book took
about 3 months to write. My later novels that were more in depth and complex
took from one to two years to complete.
Did you have an author who inspired you to become
a writer?
In college, when I was first inspired to write, I
was inspired by the work of Thomas Pynchon. His work is dense and complex, and
his work encompass a vast array of genres and subject matter.
What is your favorite part of the writing
process?
The thrill of “throwing words on paper!” It is an
engaging and thoroughly satisfying experience.
Describe your latest book in 4 words.
A
clever, stylish mystery with page-turning twists.
Can you share a little bit about your current
work or what is in the future for your writing?
I’ve
decided to return to the Murder Mystery genre, so I am writing Book 2 in the
Frank Adams Investigator Series. I have
spent my whole life in aviation, one way or the other, and I enjoy writing
about something I am thoroughly familiar with.
About the Author
A retired Aviation Safety Inspector for the FAA, Daniel V. Meier, Jr. has always had a passion for writing. During his college years, he studied History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington (UNCW) and American Literature at The University of Maryland Graduate School. In 1980 he published an Action/Thriller, Mendosa’s Treasure with Leisure Books under the pen name of Vince Daniels.
He worked briefly for the Washington Business Journal as a journalist and has been a contributing writer/editor for several aviation magazines. Guidance to Death is a return to a favorite genre of his, Action/Thriller/with the added intrigue of Murder/Mystery.
Other books by Dan are Blood Before Dawn, the sequel to the award-winning novel, The Dung Beetles of Liberia. Bloodroot, also an Historical novel is about the Jamestown settlement in the early 1600’s and No Birds Sing Here, is a work of Satirical Literary Fiction.
Dan and his wife live in Owings, Maryland, about twenty miles south of Annapolis and when he's not writing, they spend their summers sailing on the Chesapeake Bay.
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