Greg Messel
Greg Messel has now written four novels and two unpublished memoirs. His fourth novel The Last of the Seals is now available in softcover and all ebook formats. The Last of the Seals will be the first of a trilogy of mysteries set in San Francisco in the 1950s.
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He has spent much of his life in the Pacific Northwest living in Portland, Oregon and in the Seattle area since 2008. He has been married to his wife, Carol, for over 40 years. Greg has lived in Washington, Oregon, California, Utah and Wyoming. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from Mt. Diablo High School in Concord, Calif. He also attended a year of junior college, then went to Brigham Young University before beginning a newspaper career in rough and tumble Wyoming town of Rock Springs. Greg and Carol have three married children and ten grandchildren.
Greg has always loved writing. He worked as the news editor and sports editors of the Daily Rocket-Miner newspaper. He won a Wyoming Press Association award as a columnist. He also submitted and had published articles in various magazines. He left the newspaper business in 1981 and began a 27-year career in the corporate financial world with Pacific Power. Greg retired in 2008 and moved to the Seattle area.
Messel has now returned to his first love of writing. He has written two unpublished memoirs about his life. He published his first novel, Sunbreaks, with Trafford Publishing in September 2009. The second novel Expiation was published in the spring of 2010 with Trafford. The third novel The Illusion of Certainty was published in the summer of 2011.
Currently, Greg and Carol live on the Puget Sound in the ferryboat town of Edmonds, Washington, just north of downtown Seattle. He also enjoys running, he has been in several races and half marathons.
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Follow news about Messel’s writings and books at
www.gregmessel.com.
He has spent much of his life in the Pacific Northwest living in Portland, Oregon and in the Seattle area since 2008. He has been married to his wife, Carol, for over 40 years. Greg has lived in Washington, Oregon, California, Utah and Wyoming. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from Mt. Diablo High School in Concord, Calif. He also attended a year of junior college, then went to Brigham Young University before beginning a newspaper career in rough and tumble Wyoming town of Rock Springs. Greg and Carol have three married children and ten grandchildren.
Greg has always loved writing. He worked as the news editor and sports editors of the Daily Rocket-Miner newspaper. He won a Wyoming Press Association award as a columnist. He also submitted and had published articles in various magazines. He left the newspaper business in 1981 and began a 27-year career in the corporate financial world with Pacific Power. Greg retired in 2008 and moved to the Seattle area.
Messel has now returned to his first love of writing. He has written two unpublished memoirs about his life. He published his first novel, Sunbreaks, with Trafford Publishing in September 2009. The second novel Expiation was published in the spring of 2010 with Trafford. The third novel The Illusion of Certainty was published in the summer of 2011.
Currently, Greg and Carol live on the Puget Sound in the ferryboat town of Edmonds, Washington, just north of downtown Seattle. He also enjoys running, he has been in several races and half marathons.
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The Illusion of Certainty
“The Illusion of Certainty” follows two parallel storylines. Marc is a successful businessman who seems to have everything—a great job, a beautiful wife, a house in an upscale neighborhood of Portland, Oregon and two great kids who are preparing for college. But something is not right. Marc is unsettled by the sudden change in his wife, Aimee, who seems distant and unhappy. What is going on with her?
The second storyline involves a successful young attorney Alexandra Mattson. Alex, as she is called by her friends, meets a handsome young cop, Sean, during an unexpected crisis in her neighborhood. Sean and Alex seem made for each other and begin to merge their futures in a world of uncertainty.
The only certainty in life is that we will face uncertainty. Despite all of the technology and controls available in the modern world, sometimes the only comfort comes from the human touch.
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Expiation
In 1968, Dan and Katie are one of the hottest couples at Ballard High School in Seattle. He is the hero football player, and she is the beautiful cheerleader. These high school sweethearts believe theirs is a love that will never die.
Life changes when Dan leaves Washington to start college at the University of California Berkeley and pursue his dream of working for a big time newspaper in the glamorous city of San Francisco. The quest for his dream occurs against the turbulent background of Berkeley and San Francisco in the 1970s as Dan and Katie go their separate ways.
Now, thirty years later, Dan is back in his hometown of Seattle attending his mother’s funeral. He’s never stopped thinking about Katie, his long-lost love. But the two former high school sweethearts reconnect in a most unexpected way as the rest of the world grows more fearful of Y2K and the dawn of the twenty-first century. They are hoping that their love, once lost, can now be reclaimed.
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Life changes when Dan leaves Washington to start college at the University of California Berkeley and pursue his dream of working for a big time newspaper in the glamorous city of San Francisco. The quest for his dream occurs against the turbulent background of Berkeley and San Francisco in the 1970s as Dan and Katie go their separate ways.
Now, thirty years later, Dan is back in his hometown of Seattle attending his mother’s funeral. He’s never stopped thinking about Katie, his long-lost love. But the two former high school sweethearts reconnect in a most unexpected way as the rest of the world grows more fearful of Y2K and the dawn of the twenty-first century. They are hoping that their love, once lost, can now be reclaimed.
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Sunbreaks
Tom is a middle-aged man who is trying to emerge from two years of grief after the death of his wife. The gloom lifts when a dazzling young woman named Erika comes into his life. The results are both poignant and humorous as the unlikely couple tries to find happiness. Their relationship begins as a platonic relationship. However, Tom finds he is falling in love with Erika and waits patiently.
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THE LAST OF THE SEALS: Book 1 of a mystery trilogy
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The year is 1957 in San Francisco. Sam Slater is a lifetime minor league baseball player for the San Francisco Seals. The Seals have just one more season left as San Francisco is about to become a major league city. The Giants are coming to town in 1958 and the Seals will be displaced. Sam has come to the end of his baseball career and is going to join the private detective agency of his best friend. When his friend is brutally murdered, Sam must go it alone and try to find out why. Along the way he is swept off of his feet by a beautiful Elvis-obsessed TWA stewardess named Amelia Ryan. Sam and Amelia try to unravel the mystery together. Sam's best friend, Jimmy inadvertently saw something he shouldn’t have. Sam and Amelia have pictures in their possession that have crime families in San Francisco and Chicago very worried. Then a young woman Sam has been searching for is found dead on the beach. Suddenly, Sam and Amelia find themselves in danger. On dark and foggy San Francisco nights, trouble is lurking just around the next corner.
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The year is 1957 in San Francisco. Sam Slater is a lifetime minor league baseball player for the San Francisco Seals. The Seals have just one more season left as San Francisco is about to become a major league city. The Giants are coming to town in 1958 and the Seals will be displaced. Sam has come to the end of his baseball career and is going to join the private detective agency of his best friend. When his friend is brutally murdered, Sam must go it alone and try to find out why. Along the way he is swept off of his feet by a beautiful Elvis-obsessed TWA stewardess named Amelia Ryan. Sam and Amelia try to unravel the mystery together. Sam's best friend, Jimmy inadvertently saw something he shouldn’t have. Sam and Amelia have pictures in their possession that have crime families in San Francisco and Chicago very worried. Then a young woman Sam has been searching for is found dead on the beach. Suddenly, Sam and Amelia find themselves in danger. On dark and foggy San Francisco nights, trouble is lurking just around the next corner.
Available in softcover and Nook at Barnes & Noble
Available in softcover and for Kindle at Amazon.com
