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richard-mcmasterTHE ATTIC

The Attic is an emotional story about facing adversity and overcoming loss. When Byron Kelly’s wife dies, he faces assault charges and a lawsuit. He flees to Chicago and takes up a new identity. He takes a low lever computer support job with an international investment banking company where he discovers the company’s CEO is embezzling over 26 million dollars.

When Byron Kelly becomes a whistleblower on the run from the FBI, he hides in the attic of a dying old man, Henry Steele. Byron cares for the old man and learns he is estranged from his daughter over the death of her mother, his wife, because of the family secrets he has kept from her.

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August 15, 2025

THE ATTIC IN MY MEMORY

The Attic in My Memory The second house I lived in was a three-story house south of University Avenue on 36th Street, Des Moines, Iowa-- the house with the attic…
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July 26, 2025

The Attic – Number One

What a pleasant surprise that my novel, The Attic, achieved the lofty Amazon rank of #1 in Contemporary American Fiction and #6 in Psychological Thrillers.  My five novels were published…
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Hudson Weekly Article

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Just Released – The Attic

The Attic story is told in three parts.  Part I—SybilPart II—Chicago Part III—The Attic.Roosevelt classmates might remember a fellow student, Karen Sounds, who was a victim of the disease Non-Patella…
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January 4, 2018

The Attic

Richard McMasterThe attic is an emotional story about facing adversity and overcoming loss. When BYRON KELLY’s wife dies, he faces assault charges and a lawsuit, and flees to Chicago and…