With two psychological thriller novellas in one book, Murders Downtown and Up North provides the reader with two very different murder mysteries in opposite settings.The first novella is Last One Standing is an intense, desperate struggle to survive in the highly competitive world of investment brokerage. Who is behind the deaths of the probationary brokers as they strive to be the one chosen for an elite position in their firm? Who will live?The second novella is Murder and Big Momma deals with a different type of competition. Several professional fishing guides have their sites set on landing the legendary musky named "Big Momma" by those who claim to have seen it. When one of them is killed in a hit-and-run boat attack, the rest are all suspects. They each have motive and each of their usual boats have damage that could have been caused by the attack. Suspicion and fear fill their thoughts. Who killed Kenny Cranston? Why? Would they, could they, be the next victim?