My plan is to publish my new novel, "The Obituary Writer: a Murder Novel" by July 4.
Here is the cover blurb:

Something just didn’t seem right when Wallace McRae got word in the middle of the night that an eminent chemist he’d just interviewed had taken his own life by slashing his wrists.
McRae’s job, which he’d been forced to take after getting fired for drinking, was to prepare obituaries of famous, older people so his new employer, dead.com, could respond to a person’s death with a quick story, ideally full of dirt and rumors that would attract online viewers – and advertising.
McRae, known to all as just Mack, had traded his skills as a prize-winning investigative reporter for health insurance that covered the mounting medical bills of his dying wife.
Mack had often interviewed the dead chemist, who was obsessed with winning the Nob el Prize. As he told his boss the night he got the word of the man’s death: “He didn’t have a suicidal bone in his body.”
Intrigued, his boss ordered him to dig into the matter, mostly because he saw the possibility of millions of eyeballs coming to his obituary website to read a juicy, viral story. Mack saw something different: a chance to redeem himself with a legitimate scoop that showed the man’s supposed suicide had been something more sinister.
As Mack would find, others were willing to resort to threats and even murder to muzzle him before he could print the truth.