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by Eugene Meese

Solstice Publishing Createspace A late-night phone call yanks J.T. Stringer from a fitful sleep and drops the veteran newspaper columnist into the middle of a domestic dispute between a woman caller, Adrienne Ward, a single mother he wrote about years before, and “Vince,” her boyfriend. “He’s here!” she whispers, terrified. ”He won’t...” Then the line goes dead. Stringer heads out into the night, to learn what happened. Later, cowering in her home, still shaken, she tells him. For some reason she can’t go to the police. When Vince’s body is discovered a couple of days later, suspicion immediately falls on Adrienne. Stringer sets out to clear her. His unofficial inquiry parallels and confounds the official police investigation and sets him on a collision course with his good friend Det. Sgt. Frank Zakariasen. No matter. The old reporter is on the story now. He has to follow it... wherever it leads. It’s a twisted tale of murderous rage, biker intimidation, drugs, corruption and betrayal – with an ending as surprising as a sudden gunshot.

226 pages, Paperback

Published June 14, 2012

About the author

Eugene Meese was an editorial writer and columnist with The Albertan during Calgary's first boom in the 1970s, and a reporter and editor with the Daily Journal Record in Oakville, ON. His writing has also appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, The London Free Press, and The Ottawa Journal; and in the magazines Atlantic Insight, The Novascotian, and The Owl. For 25 years, he was a professor of journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax, NS. He now lives in Truro, NS, with his wife, Donna.

His first mystery novel, A Magpie's Smile, will be released in May 2009.