Glenn Rogers Releases First Book of Mystery Series: "THE IMMORTAL Alabaster"
Estherville, IA, July 08, 2015 --(PR.com)-- In Glenn Rogers’ THE IMMORTAL Alabaster, philosophy professor and crime consultant, Dr. Aaron Archer, is hired by the LAPD to help solve the gruesome murder/mutilation of three religious leaders. In each case, the killer used a drug to immobilize the victims, cut their hearts out and left a small alabaster statue of an odd looking little man in the chest cavity.
“One feature of this story that makes it particularly intriguing,” Rogers explains, “is that Aaron Archer is five thousand five hundred and two years old. Aaron Archer is immortal. He’s not a vampire or supernatural in any way. But when he is killed, which has happened twelve times over the course of his long life, he simply wakes up after a couple of hours. Aaron doesn’t know why he’s immortal. He just is. And because he is, he has to move to some new location in the world every ten or fifteen years to keep his immortality secret.”
Aaron recognizes the little statue as an idol of Ipsis, the ancient Assyrian god of retribution and revenge. But why would someone be killing people the way the priests of Ipsis killed their victims three thousand years ago?
In addition to the investigation, Aaron finds himself in love with a beautiful anthropology professor, Alexis Fairchild. He knows that for there to be any chance of a serious relationship, he must be honest with Alexis, revealing his secret to her. But will she be able to deal with the reality of his immortality?
“One of the things I especially enjoy about writing THE IMMORTAL series,” Rogers says, “is that my detective, Aaron Archer, has personally experienced things the rest of us can only read about. And in the course of each of his investigations, he remembers previous cases that he’s worked on, sometimes a few hundred years ago, sometimes a few thousand years ago. So I get to write about not only the present case he’s investigating, but about mysteries he investigated ages ago. Being something of a history buff, that’s some additional fun for me.”
Rogers, a philosophy professor himself, chose to make his lead character, Aaron Archer, an adjunct philosophy professor and manages to weave a little philosophy into the fabric of the story.
THE IMMORTAL Alabaster, the first book of the series, is available from Amazon in Kindle format as well as paperback and soon a hardback as well. All of Rogers’ novels are highlighted on his website: booksbyglennrogers.net
“One feature of this story that makes it particularly intriguing,” Rogers explains, “is that Aaron Archer is five thousand five hundred and two years old. Aaron Archer is immortal. He’s not a vampire or supernatural in any way. But when he is killed, which has happened twelve times over the course of his long life, he simply wakes up after a couple of hours. Aaron doesn’t know why he’s immortal. He just is. And because he is, he has to move to some new location in the world every ten or fifteen years to keep his immortality secret.”
Aaron recognizes the little statue as an idol of Ipsis, the ancient Assyrian god of retribution and revenge. But why would someone be killing people the way the priests of Ipsis killed their victims three thousand years ago?
In addition to the investigation, Aaron finds himself in love with a beautiful anthropology professor, Alexis Fairchild. He knows that for there to be any chance of a serious relationship, he must be honest with Alexis, revealing his secret to her. But will she be able to deal with the reality of his immortality?
“One of the things I especially enjoy about writing THE IMMORTAL series,” Rogers says, “is that my detective, Aaron Archer, has personally experienced things the rest of us can only read about. And in the course of each of his investigations, he remembers previous cases that he’s worked on, sometimes a few hundred years ago, sometimes a few thousand years ago. So I get to write about not only the present case he’s investigating, but about mysteries he investigated ages ago. Being something of a history buff, that’s some additional fun for me.”
Rogers, a philosophy professor himself, chose to make his lead character, Aaron Archer, an adjunct philosophy professor and manages to weave a little philosophy into the fabric of the story.
THE IMMORTAL Alabaster, the first book of the series, is available from Amazon in Kindle format as well as paperback and soon a hardback as well. All of Rogers’ novels are highlighted on his website: booksbyglennrogers.net
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