Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Woonplaatsen: Warsaw, Missouri, USA
Beroepen: carpenter
roofer
software engineer
writer
Korte biografie: Richard is working on his third career. He worked as a carpenter for 20 years while taking college classes whenever he could. With a BS in Math he spent the next twenty-five years as a successful software engineer by working on the Space Shuttle at both Vandenberg AFB, and Johnson Space Center. He then went on to start Master Mind SofTools where he developed software for fortune 500 companies. Although he found success in those professions, he always dreamed of writing a novel. He honed that craft by taking every creative writing class he could. Somehow his poems and short stories usually had a dog as a major character. One in particular, "Begging Not for Love", was published by the Mendocino Review.

After taking early retirement in 2007, he moved to Warsaw, Missouri and built a home on the water with a view to die for. He now lives and writes at his lake home in Missouri where he and his wife are raising their granddaughter, two dachshunds, and a rescue dog that is mostly Golden Retriever. [adapted from Amazon.com]

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Letters to Die For (To Die For #4) door Richard Houston

Meh. Through this book I learned that I will plow through a very poorly written book if one of the main characters is a dog named Fred.

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A View to Die For door Richard Houston

Jake is summoned by his sister to her house in the Lake of the Ozarks area. She is charged with murder of her husband, but was is suicide instead. A few twists and turns, and addition of quite a few folks, that seem to drink more than anything, including Fred the dog. Finally tidied up in the end with the real killer fessing up

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A View to Die For (To Die For series, #1)

I'm holding off rating this one - better than a 3, not quite a 4.

Jacob Martin has been laid off from his computer programming job, and is trying to fill in his days and income with writing and handyman jobs. His wife is divorcing him, and he's left with his wonderful golden retriever dog. Then his sister calls him when she's been arrested for the murder of her husband, and his father is in the hospital in critical condition.

I liked Jacob and his dog. His sister annoyed me, to be honest, and Mom wasn't much better.

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A Treasure to Die For (Books to Die For Book 3) door Richard Houston

There is a treasure high in the Colorado Rockies waiting for someone to find it. Jake Martin couldn't care less. Since the death of his wife, all Jake wants is to be left alone in his mountain cabin where he and his dog, Fred, can get on with life. But when it becomes known that an old miner used a copy of Tom Sawyer as a key to a coded message for the location of the treasure, someone wants that edition so bad he's willing to kill for it. Can the amateur sleuths decode the message and stop the murderer, or have Jake and Fred finally met their match?

This story was somewhat convoluted and sometimes hard to follow. Jake was likeable but did some risky and silly things once he got involved. His friend Bonnie and Jake’s dog Fred were also likeable and there were some humorous moments.… (meer)

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