I have finished the first draft of a short novel about a detective who lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I'm hoping to have it e-published in time for Christmas giving.
I'm not sure what made me decide to write detective fiction. Maybe it was a good idea; maybe not. I'll have to wait and see the response from my readers.
The main character, Theodore Lemoyne has several nicknames. To his family, he is Teddy. To everyone else, he is Tuba. The book tells how he got the nick name Tuba, as well as fills the reader in on his background.
Tuba is like no other detective I can remember reading. He is not swift on the up-take, logical, methodical, fastidious, strong, or even good looking. He considers himself well groomed when he has more food in his stomach than on it.
In this introductory book to what might or might not become a series, Tuba, who became a private detective shortly after graduating from high school, is asked by an old school mate, Debbie Benton McGee, to help her investigate a series of murders that have taken place since they graduated. Each murder occurred exactly seven years after the previous one. More strangely, each fell between two specific dates in December. The earlier date coincided with the death of the former Chief of Police who had become a child's party clown (The Clown). The latter with the deaths of five members of one family who were found frozen to death at a home construction sight (The Corpsecycles).
At first, Tuba is reluctant to investigate what he sees as nothing more than a series of coincidences. When Debbie goes missing, he has a change of heart. But it isn't until after several attempts are made to removed him from the picture, and another death, that he turns up the heat on the investigation in an attempt to find the perpetrator before another murder is committed.
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