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The Rat In The Kitchen
Available May 1, 2026!
A naive dishwasher gets mistaken for the nephew of a mafia boss.
Jimmy Viceno lost his car to a mechanic who convinced him it had a pilot light, lost his job after telling a customer that their Peking Duck was now known as Beijing Duck, and was blacklisted from every Chinese restaurant in San Diego County... but life is good. He lives in San Diego.
When he applies to be a dishwasher at Machiavelli's Ristorante, he doesn't know it's a mob front run by laid-back sun-softened mobsters who have been underperforming, and when they spot Jimmy, they think he's the Boss's nephew who's been sent from Chicago to spy on them.
Jimmy also doesn't know that there's a confidential FBI informant working at the restaurant who files a report confirming the same thing.
And he definitely doesn't know that when word gets back to the Boss that someone in San Diego is pretending to be his nephew, the Boss is going to send a real enforcer to find out who.
Jimmy doesn't notice these things, because he never notices anything. He's too busy daydreaming and talking to Rat Boy, his streetwise comic book creation who lives in reflections and dispenses advice that Jimmy mostly ignores.
When Jimmy starts reorganizing the kitchen and streamlining the delivery routes, he thinks he's being efficient. Everyone else thinks he's taking control.
The Rat in the Kitchen is a fast-paced comic crime novel for fans of Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, and anyone who's ever solved the wrong problem extremely well.
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American Crazies
A technical writer discovers that while he has ignored his "invisible" wife, eight million Russians have been watching her star in their favorite reality show.
When Sean and Janice Perkins see their new neighbor performing combat yoga on his front lawn while shouting at imaginary enemies, they make a critical mistake: they introduce themselves.
Tank is a self-appointed “tactical coordinator” who preps for everything from alien zombies to drivers who back into parking spaces. After he teams up with Sean’s brother-in-law Tommy, a disaster-prone inventor, their suburban experiments go viral, attracting eccentrics seeking community and a Russian film crew documenting American life.
Meanwhile, Janice is drowning. She works nights to keep her craft business afloat while a hostile HOA threatens to shut her down. She's exhausted, invisible, and reduced to background noise in her own marriage. When their son pressures Sean into running for HOA President, Sean convinces himself that winning will prove he's her hero, unaware that Janice is already planning to leave.
Then the Russian crew drops their cover: they've been producing AMERICAN CRAZIES, a reality show with millions of viewers. Janice, invisible at home, is a global icon under #StayStrongJanice, a symbol for women married to men who don't see them. Now Sean must figure out how to prove he sees her the way the rest of the world already does, and Janice must decide: does being seen by millions of strangers matter if your husband still looks through you?