About The Dead Giveaway: A Ghost story in the High Desert
Lewis Price settles in the small town of Joshua Tree near the park and rents a room from a charming widow. He was recently released from a mental hospital with medication to treat his bipolar diagnosis of talking to people no one sees. The once famed ball player reacts unexpectedly to a bank robber when waiting to deposit his first retirement check. The bank situation sets off an unexpected chain of. Price later connects with a man who resembles a bygone-era prospector stuck in the afterlife.
The characters, from Price to Bill Keys to his landlady and to the bank robber work, interact in concert to deliver a delightful, action-packed adventure. Brisk dialogue with touches of honesty, anger, humor, and regret teases out the three-dimensional world in The Dead Giveaway. The story has several exciting twists of multiple story threads that meet in the unexpected conclusion.
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Author Bio:
After a long career as a graphic artist and one-of-a-kind jewelry designer, I've now decided to channel my creative effort into writing fiction. My early working life had not always afforded me the luxury of working in creative fields. Taking jobs that were available to me (including various types of maintenance, auto mechanic, ranch foreman, and U.S. Census worker), provided a rich backdrop of characters and places for my writing, I didn't realize at the time that those people and events were living research.