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FROM THE BOHEMIAN HILLS
My new historical fiction novel is a multi-generational saga about desperate people searching for a new life on a new continent. It is a saga not unlike the story of many of your ancestors who defied the dangers of such a journey. This book will bring you closer to your forbears who took those risks. It will also instill in you an understanding and sense of pride in your own family story.
Praise for FROM THE BOHEMIAN HILLS
[FROM THE BOHEMIAN HILLS takes] “the reader on the emigrant-immigrant’s journey as imagined from the perspective[…]of a cast of both real and imagined characters that together, present a variety of contemporary viewpoints and thus a more greatly nuanced story. Thus, Reyman’s approach gives us a primer in Czech history that further puts his fictional story into a larger historic context. Besides its not insubstantial entertainment value, his story illustrates the overwhelming poverty, a rigid (and humiliating) class system and the lack of opportunity for social and economic mobility for most people in the oppressive police state of the Hapsburg monarchy. The reader of Bohemian Hills will not soon forget its history lessons through Reyman’s unforgettable characters. Its compelling plot made it hard to put down.” D.J.B., Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International
“Fiction and fact are nicely woven together to tell a story of the life of Bohemian villagers under kings and empires, their struggles and the difficult decision to leave Bohemia, journey across the sea, and begin new lives in a new country. Randall Reyman’s author’s notes, acknowledgements and supporting images were very helpful and appreciated.” R.L., Czech and Slovak American Genealogy Society of Illinois
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The Cyrus Brandt Series
Book 1
TWISTER'S WAKE
The Cyrus Brandt Series begins with Twister's Wake (see synopsis below). Set in Central Illinois, this thriller/mystery is a fun read. I hope you enjoy it.
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Cyrus Brandt’s life is falling apart. Amid a disintegrating marriage and a failing career, he returns to his childhood home on an Illinois farm to make a new start.
Adapting to the slow pace of his new environs, Cyrus quickly finds himself in a burgeoning romance with Annie, who owns a diner in the nearby town. But when a spring tornado deposits the body of a murdered man on a nearby rural roadside, Cyrus’ quiet new life is turned upside down. Annie’s brother, Sheriff Thomas Bales, is now caught up in a manhunt, and Cyrus volunteers to assist the sheriff’s under-staffed department in the search for Byron Patterson, the prison escapee and prime suspect.
This is a tale of a man reborn, who discovers that the memories of his violent past, which he has tried so hard to repress, are now useful for confronting his immediate future.
Adapting to the slow pace of his new environs, Cyrus quickly finds himself in a burgeoning romance with Annie, who owns a diner in the nearby town. But when a spring tornado deposits the body of a murdered man on a nearby rural roadside, Cyrus’ quiet new life is turned upside down. Annie’s brother, Sheriff Thomas Bales, is now caught up in a manhunt, and Cyrus volunteers to assist the sheriff’s under-staffed department in the search for Byron Patterson, the prison escapee and prime suspect.
This is a tale of a man reborn, who discovers that the memories of his violent past, which he has tried so hard to repress, are now useful for confronting his immediate future.
Book 2
THE PATH
THE PATH
Having returned to his childhood home in Central Illinois, Cyrus Brandt is now navigating a new career as an official deputy sheriff. But it isn’t long before he becomes embroiled in two simultaneous cases; one involving the mysterious disappearance of two local high school girls, and the other finding the people responsible for the drug-related deaths of two boys from the local Amish community.
Struggling to manage, the overtaxed Cane County Sheriff Department must join forces with an Illinois State Police Crime Scene Investigator to try to solve the cases. But just as hope begins to fade, Cyrus boldly acts on his suspicions of corruption of a neighboring county sheriff’s department, and the two investigations suddenly converge in a way no one could have anticipated.
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Struggling to manage, the overtaxed Cane County Sheriff Department must join forces with an Illinois State Police Crime Scene Investigator to try to solve the cases. But just as hope begins to fade, Cyrus boldly acts on his suspicions of corruption of a neighboring county sheriff’s department, and the two investigations suddenly converge in a way no one could have anticipated.
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Book 3
DEADLY CROP
DEADLY CROP
Deadly Crop
Cyrus Brandt Series continues with DEADLY CROP. Rachel Bales has joined the department as a new deputy. The Cane County Sheriff's Department confronts four murders in succession and struggles to find the connections.
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Cyrus Brandt Series continues with DEADLY CROP. Rachel Bales has joined the department as a new deputy. The Cane County Sheriff's Department confronts four murders in succession and struggles to find the connections.
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Book 4
The TALOS MANDATE
The TALOS MANDATE
Two kids are murdered, one an Eastern Indian and the other an African American. Sheriff Brandt suspects that these murders were motivated by racism, and the town soon finds itself in a race war between a black militia and a white supremacist group called the Talos Mandate. Brandt discovers that his own grandfather was once a member of the Talos Mandate, and he wonders if the town will ever trust him again.
The TALOS MANDATE is the fourth novel in the Cyrus Brandt Series, the saga of Cyrus Brandt, a man with a troubled past who has returned to his childhood home to make a fresh start.
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