Author of Action-Filled Thrillers

J. Stewart Willis’ novels are rich with insight and experience based on real-life events. While writing was always his goal, life had kept him too busy to pursue his passion for many years. In fact, for a long time, his only claim to authorship was a book he wrote in college. However, a busy work life did not diminish his passion for storytelling. Each path he took in life is woven into his writing, from his days in the military to his more recent time spent in technology and politics.
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Gestation Seven

Three government scientists go rogue and run an experiment designed to reduce the gestation period of the human race. The experiment goes terribly wrong and results in two babies being murdered. A young woman reporter investigates the crime to help unravel the mystery of all that happened while the youngest of the three scientists, innocent of the murders, is embroiled in the turmoil that ensues. The tragedy comes to the attention of the local congressman and results in a congressional hearing to find out why government oversight failed during the events of the experiment and its aftermath.

Deadly Highway: Super Highway Beta 1.0

What happens when ambitious and competitive people at a major tech company are involved in preparing a proposal for a lucrative contract that will ensure the future of the company and its leaders for years to come? Deadly Highway follows the competition of these people and their wives as they prepare the proposal. The competition is cutthroat, involving adultery, blackmail, drugs, and death. Deadly Highway delivers it all.

Three Degrees and Gone

In 2087, coastal flooding and extreme changes in the weather have turned the United States into a nation of migrants and tent cities. In this environment, three family groups struggle with their plights and their dreams for the future. They come together from different parts of the nation when they hire illegal traffickers to take them across the border with Canada where they will live as illegal immigrants. Crossing is not an easy task because Canada has established a border wall, both physical and electronic. The wall is constantly patrolled by low-flying drones and satellites. The traffickers take them to a crossing point in remote parts of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana from which they will attempt their crossing. In making the crossing, some are successful, and some are not, but even for those who succeed, life is not what they had hoped it to be.

One Vote

When the President-elect, a Democrat, dies shortly after the Presidential Election, the nation is thrown into Consitutional chaos as the Democratic Party tries to hold its 272 Presidential Electors together. One Elector balks and two are bought off, creating a stalemate. Read how one Faithless Elector affects the future of the entire nation.

Requiem for Geraldine Gerbil: A Police Detective Whodunnit

When acclaimed children’s author Daffy O’Hanlon is murdered in the front door of her northern Virginia home, everyone is suspect, including her family.
Detectives Drury Metzinger and Leslie Givens discover that the popular Geraldine Gerbil books are adored but Mrs. O’Hanlon has a lot of enemies.

A slow burn murder mystery of too many suspects and not enough evidence. Nosey neighbors, unmet obligations, and destructive family secrets reveal motives everywhere, but who whodunnit? Detectives Metzinging and Givens are at it again solving murder in the Washington D.C. metro area.

The Johnson Place: A Rappahannock County Story

In the Johnson Place, visit the story of tract of land, the site of a tragic hunting accident, the sexual enslavement of a seventeen year old girl, the murder of a farmer’s wife, the trial and hanging of the guilty party, an opportunistic purchase of the land, a family conflict over inheritance, the loss of the final vestiges of a great land holding, and the shattered dreams of many men trying to create a ski resort on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge.

Tent City Convoy

When the rising ocean, in the year 2086, engulfs the last vestiges of the Jamestown Visitors Center and drowns its manager, his wife, Margrethe Bernard takes her children away from the threatening sea and memories that haunt her and moves inland to temporarily live in a tent city of migrants. There, the source of her nightmares returns to threaten her. As the tent city moves south for the winter, she abandons the other migrants to try to escape her past, but in a raging hurricane, the past finds her. In the turmoil that follows, nature intervenes to destroy her pursuer, and she finds love, hope, and redemption.

Della B's Bleu Glo

A low-level scientist accidentally discovers a material that can serve as a dye that luminesces. He and his wife dream of avoiding his commitments to the company for which he works and making a fortune off the dye. The wife grows frustrated with the slow progress and misdirections of her husband as he develops the dye and seeks her fortune by divorcing her husband and marrying the son of the owners of the company her husband worked for. When the ex-husband achieves success, she backstabs him and reveals that he discovered the dye during company time. In the resulting suit, the company takes over the patent for the dye and, under the sponsorship of a noted hip-hop singer, launches a line of glowing blue cosmetics that becomes a worldwide fad.

Death In Disparate Famlies

“Death in Disparate Families” tells two parallel Alexandria, Virginia, police stories. In one case, the body of an ex-husband of two sisters is found in a cemetery. He is identified, and it is discovered that he has recently returned to Alexandria and, seeking money, has threatened the tranquility and integrity of the lives of the now 60-year-old sisters.

The son of one of the sisters and two friends of the sisters’ mother, living in a senior living facility, become the prime suspects. In the other case, a crippled and dying man, unable to live an everyday life, buys a Mexican woman who has been sex-trafficked to Virginia and imprisons her in his basement, where he can view her and play out his fantasies that she is either his wife or daughter. His game falls apart when a nosy reporter stumbles upon his scheme, is captured, and then is rescued by an inquisitive police acquaintance.

Scrape.It And The Dress

When Todd Whitlaw is offended by an author at a book signing, he decides to retaliate. With the support of his friends, he uses an AI software package called Scrape.it to create a poorly written murder mystery novel, publishing it under the author’s name to embarrass him. However, the book unexpectedly succeeds, earning the author more money than he ever made from his own works. Frustrated and losing touch with reality, Whitlaw, in a fit of sexual frenzy, reenacts the murder imagined by Scrape.it in the book.

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