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Swindle
Reporter Pinky Harper has always been one to accept the oddities of life, so when a homeless boy shows her a pocket full of hundred-dollar bills containing clues that, according to him, lead to a missing six-year-old girl, the boy immediately has her attention. But no one else has filed a police report matching the girl’s description, and Pinky can find no real proof that the child exists. Just as Pinky begins to decode the messages written on the money, the Mad Bowl rears its head changing the perspective of the search. Is the missing girl a figment of the boy’s imagination? If she’s real, why is no one else looking for her? And can Pinky find her before she disappears forever?
364 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 30, 2022
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About the author
Cynthia Rogan
10 books31 followersThere were five kids in my family and lots of noise. I learned early on that if I woke up in the middle of the night, I’d better take advantage of the silence. I’d write under the hall light until my eyes were heavy with sleep. Back then, I had a lot to say about how I wanted things to be. Like many writers, I wrote what I couldn’t bring myself to say aloud.
Once I discovered eavesdropping, I was amazed. I realized characters are everywhere. I’m one, you’re one, the jerk you just broke up with, the girl next door with Down’s syndrome, that boy in sixth grade who blushed every time his name was called, the man behind the counter at the pharmacy. And we all have our stories and our problems and our own way of looking at the world. And we all have the ability to touch someone else. We are never really alone.
As a fiction writer, I get to fabricate everybody’s history, try to see from different points of view. But I always do my best to understand who each character is and what made them the way they are. I believe that’s why people talk about my characters after they’ve finished reading the story.
I write novels, plays, poems, essays, short stories, do a bit of acting, and am a self-proclaimed doodle-ist.
Once I discovered eavesdropping, I was amazed. I realized characters are everywhere. I’m one, you’re one, the jerk you just broke up with, the girl next door with Down’s syndrome, that boy in sixth grade who blushed every time his name was called, the man behind the counter at the pharmacy. And we all have our stories and our problems and our own way of looking at the world. And we all have the ability to touch someone else. We are never really alone.
As a fiction writer, I get to fabricate everybody’s history, try to see from different points of view. But I always do my best to understand who each character is and what made them the way they are. I believe that’s why people talk about my characters after they’ve finished reading the story.
I write novels, plays, poems, essays, short stories, do a bit of acting, and am a self-proclaimed doodle-ist.
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October 1, 2022
I went into this with zero expectations, and it became a really wild ride. I really didn’t think that this book would
pull me in the way that it did.
It’s a well written, fast paced novel that will keep you on your toes every step of the way! Two thumbs up!
pull me in the way that it did.
It’s a well written, fast paced novel that will keep you on your toes every step of the way! Two thumbs up!
November 13, 2023
Where is the Mad Bowl??? Families??? I enjoyed this story and recommended the book.
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