In Glenn Rogers' mystery, THE IMMORTAL Carnage, the third installment of THE IMMORTAL series, the mayor of Los Angeles and two other of the Southern California super rich are murdered: one by rifle shot, one by lethal injection, and one by arrow shot. Along with LAPD Captain, Frank McGarry, Aaron wonders if the murders are simply random events or if they are somehow connected.
As Aaron begins to look into the background of the victims, he discovers that all three grew up together in a small town in Iowa. And then all three are murdered within a ten-day period? Aaron becomes convinced that the killings were not unrelated events, but planned assassinations. But why those three people? At first, as he interviews people in Southern California connected with the victims, there doesn't seem to be a motive for killing them. Aaron eventually discovers that one of them had plans for a business in Iowa that would generate millions of dollars of income for him and his investors but at the expense of a number of small farmers-farmers in the town where the three of the three victims grew up.
When a fourth victim is killed, the wife of one of the original victims and one of the group of friends who grew up together, Aaron travels to Iowa to discover why four childhood friends were murdered.
Rogers, who grew up in Southern California but now lives in a small town in Iowa, brought both of those contexts together in THE IMMORTAL Carnage. As in all his novels, Rogers creates a rich variety of characters and puts them in difficult circumstances. "I think readers enjoy interesting characters in challenging situations," Rogers says. "Characters need to be multidimensional and realistic, reacting the way real people react to the joys and difficulties of life."
THE IMMORTAL Carnage is Rogers' third mystery in THE IMMORTAL series. It is available through Amazon as a Kindle book or as a paperback or hardback. All of Rogers' novels are highlighted on his website: booksbyglennrogers.net
