The Honey Bee

When his best childhood friend is found shot in the local lover's lane, Tom Britton, Sheriff of New Hamilton County, is determined to bring his friend's killer to justice. When he begins his investigation, though, he hasn't a clue of the long-buried secrets that he will bring to light, or the degree that these secrets will disrupt the tranquility of the town he loves and defends, threaten his close friends, and disturb his own well-being. Once started on a relentless pursuit of justice, however, his professional integrity forces him to follow the path of truth to its inexorable end, wherever that may prove to be.

About A K Gunn: A K Gunn’s writing benefits from a diversity of experience. He is a surgeon, an educator, a military officer, a hospital administrator, a scientist, and a world traveler. His publications include newspaper articles, textbook chapters, scientific research, short stories, and novels. He has published three novels to date, A Tale of Two Planets, Red Exodus, and If Pigs Could Cry, published under the nom de plume Alain Gunn. He also contributed a short story to Mystery in Paradise: 13 Tales of Suspense and Intrigue. He did residency training as an orthopaedic surgeon in Honolulu, Hawaii, after earning an MD degree from Case Western Reserve University and a BS in physics from Yale University. He served in the US Army for over twenty years, including service during the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm, and achieved the rank of Colonel. Following his military career, he was Chief Surgeon and chief of the medical staff at a hospital in Honolulu. This hospital served patients throughout the Pacific basin, including Micronesia, Polynesia, and Fiji. For his work, he was named an Honorary Ambassador by the Governor of Guam, and was commended by the legislature of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas. He has taught as a Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics in Hawaii and Texas, and has lectured or worked in over thirty-five countries, on all the inhabited continents. He serves on the editorial board of one prominent orthopaedic journal, reviews submissions to two others, and is author or co-author of more than forty scientific articles published in orthopaedic surgery or genetic journals. He was born and raised in Lakewood, Ohio, and currently lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is married and has three children. Hobbies include scuba diving, underwater photography, ocean kayaking, playing banjo in a jazz band, and singing in a choir. For further information, see his web site at www.alaingunn.com.