Places the Dead Call Home
a novel
". . . a well crafted, exceedingly entertaining mystery. Highly recommended!"
ForeWord Clarion Reviews
Announcing the publication of
Places the Dead Call Home,
by Paul L. Hall
Places the Dead Call Home,
by Paul L. Hall
Frank McKnight, an ex-cop from Detroit with a secret as grimy as one of that city's abandoned factories, contacts his cousin, Josh Kincaid, in Arizona, to tell him he knows how to find out why Josh's father died in a shootout outside Oklahoma City in 1958. The answer, says McKnight, is at Mesa Verde, the home of the ancient Anasazi in Colorado.
At the same time, reporter Jeffrey Bonus is traveling to Arizona to interview Kincaid about a suicide in 1977 at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. The victim was an army officer and Bonus’s father. Kincaid had been an MP on duty the night of Bonus Sr.’s death.
Along the way, Bonus has picked up a beautiful hitchhiker, Jeanette Koskos, who is either on the run from her mother (from whom she claims to have stolen a quarter of a million dollars) or from Mafia button men, who want to silence her as a witness to murder.
Someone is certainly following them and the pursuit continues as the reporter and the hitchhiker hook up with Kincaid and McKnight for a drive up to Mesa Verde, where all the dots start to connect.
Places the Dead Call Home hijacks the reader on the road trip from hell with quirky characters, nonstop action and the mystery of two deaths nearly twenty years apart, drawing four misfits back into the past.
At the same time, reporter Jeffrey Bonus is traveling to Arizona to interview Kincaid about a suicide in 1977 at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. The victim was an army officer and Bonus’s father. Kincaid had been an MP on duty the night of Bonus Sr.’s death.
Along the way, Bonus has picked up a beautiful hitchhiker, Jeanette Koskos, who is either on the run from her mother (from whom she claims to have stolen a quarter of a million dollars) or from Mafia button men, who want to silence her as a witness to murder.
Someone is certainly following them and the pursuit continues as the reporter and the hitchhiker hook up with Kincaid and McKnight for a drive up to Mesa Verde, where all the dots start to connect.
Places the Dead Call Home hijacks the reader on the road trip from hell with quirky characters, nonstop action and the mystery of two deaths nearly twenty years apart, drawing four misfits back into the past.
Winner!
Places the Dead Call Home has earned the following honors:
-- 2006 MIPA Midwest Book Award
-- 2007 Independent Publisher Book (IPPY) Award
Places the Dead Call Home has earned the following honors:
-- 2006 MIPA Midwest Book Award
-- 2007 Independent Publisher Book (IPPY) Award
Places the Dead Call Home
iUniverse, Editor's Choice
ISBN 0-595-41071-5
278 pages
$17.95 USD
iUniverse, Editor's Choice
ISBN 0-595-41071-5
278 pages
$17.95 USD
