Show Control

Jason Keltner Mystery #1

by Keith Snyder

Jason Keltner, an electronic musician in Pasadena, California, meets Monica Gleason at a yearly arts and technology convention. During a chance encounter, Jason is able to talk Monica, a high-tech performance artist, out of her stage fright and onto the stage. While performing, she is killed by one of her stage lasers.Recently divorced and in need of a mission, Jason neglects his job and finds the killer with the help of his two best friends, his computer/electronics studio and a mysterious online stranger. With its focus on music, sound and gadgets, Show Control will be a hit with musicians, artists and computer users.

"The archetype of the amateur detective is taken to a new level of wit ... Snyder certainly shows control, deftness, diversity and a wealth of talent in this first effort " Mystery Scene

"A brilliantly unique and mesmerizing Its witty use of modern premise and humor make it one of those books you don't want to put down " Scott R. Garrigus, Recording Magazine

"If Gibson is the Gibson of cyberlit, then Synder is the Fender " Buck Dharma, The Blue Oyster Cult

Genres: Mystery

286 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[N.S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just re-read this and loved it every bit as much as I did the first time. The technology described is now laughingly outdated, and anyone under thirty will wonder what on earth it all means, but the friendships described are timeless and universal. Jason Keltner and his friends are smart, talented, funny, flawed, compassionate, and very believeably human. I love hanging out with them for a few hundred pages, watching them right wrongs in their little universe.