Plot Twist

by Kevin Collins

When his fictional main character Brandt shows up on his doorstep with a gun, unhappy where the storyline is going, it's a plot twist a struggling author never saw coming. Brandt has every reason to be upset. After all, the writer has given him a look similar to Barry Manilow and a full-time job too embarrassing to talk about and, even worse, gotten him entangled in the cover-up of a murder Brandt had nothing to do with. As a nighttime jazz piano player, he simply played a song, which a woman interpreted as a secret signal for her to kill her mobster boyfriend. What unfolds then is two Brandt's fictional story the unpublished author continues to write, somehow getting them both in worse trouble, and Brandt's foray into the real world, which the writer finds both terrifying and fascinating. How will the aspiring author balance his creative vision of a story out of control with his desire to not be the first ever killed by a fictional character of his onw creation? Its complicated. .

420 pages, Paperback

Published April 4, 2023