C.T. Ferguson is shot and left for dead.

Will he live to solve his own attempted murder?

After wrapping up a routine case, private investigator C.T. Ferguson is gunned down and left floating in the Baltimore Harbor.

His police detective cousin Rich is frozen out of the investigation. No one thinks it was a random act of violence. It leaves two big questions.

Who did it? And why?

C.T. sets out to solve both, but any investigation in his diminished capacity threatens his life. When he gets a lead, he ignores the risks and pursues it even knowing he might learn the truth at gunpoint.
Who nearly killed C.T., and why? The answers will shake the Ferguson family to its foundation.

In the Blood is the ninth pulse-pounding mystery novel in the C.T. Ferguson crime fiction series.

Tom Fowler was born and raised in Baltimore and still resides in Maryland. He is an unabashed homer for Baltimore sports teams. His full-time job is in the field of computer security.
Even from a young age, Tom wanted to write. He was about seven or eight, so the stories were brief and awful. Among them was a "murder mystery" in which young Tom, a polite lad, referred to everyone as "Mr. Patrick" or "Miss Jane." The most interesting thing about the alleged murder mystery was that no one died (and, in fact, everyone recovered quite nicely in the hospital). In the intervening years, Tom has gotten over this problem with killing characters in his stories.
When not working or writing, Tom enjoys spending time with his family and friends, reading, sports, movies, and writing brief bios in the third person.