Mens Rea: A Gripping Crime Thriller

Insurance Adjustor George Arrant is at odds with the world –

George is suffering a mental breakdown. The pressures of economic failure in an economy benefitting only the rich have culminated in the foreclosure and seizure of his home, which George's wife and two children know nothing about. He's been keeping his unemployment and destitution a secret from his family to avoid worrying them.

Hours before the sheriff, the bank representative, and the moving men are to arrive, he unlocks his gun cabinet, takes a shotgun and blasts his wife and children into eternity. He believes he's saving them from the brutality of poverty in America. Wandering in a fugue state to Wilmington, George encounters Rich Simony, the young VP of his foreclosing bank. George murders Rich for his credit cards, bank accounts and his Cadillac Escalade. George flees Delaware for Providence, Rhode Island's Crimetown – seat of the New England La Cosa Nostra.

George takes...