Words Matter Publishing revives Steve Pizzolato’s ethical thriller series

Words Matter Publishing is bringing the first two books in St. Louis author Steve Pizzolato’s Perfect Match series to new readers while launching the third title, Lies, Spies, Everyone Dies. The novels braid together organ transplants, IVF, and artificial intelligence to turn current ethical debates into crime fiction with local roots and global stakes.

Why it matters: - Steve Pizzolato’s Perfect Match series turns high-stakes debates over medicine, reproduction, and AI into commercial thriller fiction. - The books connect real ethical pressure points to crime plots, which gives readers an accessible way into questions that now shape policy, health care, and technology. - The series could reach readers who want suspenseful fiction with clear real-world relevance.

What happened: - Words Matter Publishing is reissuing the first two novels in the series, The Perfect Match and Noah’s Ark. - Words Matter Publishing is also releasing the third book, Lies, Spies, Everyone Dies. - Pizzolato is a St. Louis-based author originally from Chicago. - The series centers on Detective Rhonda Simon and places much of the action in St. Louis before expanding overseas.

The details: - The Perfect Match grew out of Pizzolato’s family experience searching for a double-lung transplant for his brother-in-law. - The novel follows Detective Rhonda Simon as she investigates carjackings and murders tied to a new transplant center and a high-stakes medical enterprise. - The story also tracks a family racing to find a double-lung transplant. - Noah’s Ark focuses on in vitro fertilization, unused embryos, and the legal and moral questions around reproductive medicine. - In Noah’s Ark, a doctor at an IVF clinic asks Detective Simon for help after a crime, and the investigation widens into a broader network of suspects and competing agendas. - Lies, Spies, Everyone Dies moves from St. Louis to the United Arab Emirates. - The third novel starts with a murder and expands into a conspiracy involving artificial general intelligence, wealth concentration, and control over information and human behavior. - StevePBooks.com and the series’ Facebook page provide updates and book information.

Between the lines: - Pizzolato is using genre fiction to make abstract debates feel personal, which can deepen reader engagement with issues that often stay locked in policy language. - The St. Louis setting helps ground the series in a recognizable place even as the plots reach national and international flashpoints. - Tammy Corwin, founder of Words Matter Publishing, said the books give readers a compelling way into difficult subjects and ask who makes decisions, who bears the consequences, and what happens when people become part of someone else’s plan.

What’s next: - Readers can now discover the full three-book series as Words Matter Publishing pushes the first two novels and launches the third. - Pizzolato’s existing publishing and social channels are the main places for future updates on the series.

The bottom line: - The Perfect Match series aims to make today’s most fraught ethical issues feel immediate by wrapping them in a fast-moving detective thriller.