Collected Short Stories

The stories from A Quiver Full of Arrows take us on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance of cutthroat business and kindly strangers of lives lived in the realms of power. Fortunes are made and squandered honor betrayed and redeemed love lost and rediscovered. The stories from A Twist in the Tale lead us on a journey of thwarted ambition undying passion and unswerving honor - to places weve never visited and people well never forget. Readers will meet an extraordinary cast of diverse characters: a philandering husband who thinks hes committed a perfect murder a self-assured chess champion who plays a beautiful woman for stakes far higher than cash a finance minister who needs to crack the secrets of a Swiss bank. From his third collection Twelve Red Herrings come a dozen delectable morsels in which human beings are given opportunities to seize crucial problems to solve or dangers to avoid. And buried in each is a red herring Archer challenges his readers to uncover.