Blood Was Everywhere
While watching the Atlanta evening news, private eye Vern Wister learns of a shocking murder-suicide at local technical documentation firm. The gunman, just before pulling the trigger, had uttered some cryptic words. Intrigued, Wister researches and discovers a connection to a different, unsolved, execution-style double-murder in a small town in Ohio...25 years earlier. Wister informs his boss, Nick Montaigne, who has just returned from an aborted ski vacation. Montaigne-Wister are soon hired by the gunman's daughter, anxious to clear her father's name of a hate crime. The two gumshoes travel to Springbrook, Ohio, a town seemingly stuck in time, and begin interviewing a host of strange characters, assisted by a crusading news reporter with a substance abuse problem. They become embroiled in COVID-era espionage and the byzantine workings of the military-industrial complex. Can they solve this 25-year-old cold case? (Based on a true crime.) If so, will Wister have to keep his vodka bottle capped? Will Montaigne have to keep his zipper zipped?
On May 11, 2024, 4-9 pm, I will again be signing copies of The Shades Dripped Red and my other three books at Mulberry Street Books in Lebanon, Ohio. Then on June 29, 10:30-3:00 pm, I will be at the Ohio Authors Book Fair at Destination Outlets in Jeffersonville, Ohio. Look forward to meeting and talking with readers at both of these fun events!
On Saturday, November 11 I joined other local authors at Mulberry Street Books in Lebanon, Ohio for a book signing. The event went really well. I not only shifted copies of "The Shades Dripped Red" and my other books, but networked with other Cincinnati-area authors. A good time was had by all!
