Readers of this blog know I think very highly of Caleb Pirtle’s ability to tell a thought–provoking and heart–moving story.
It doesn’t matter if the story is a historical narrative, a biography, a gripping thriller, or a puzzling mystery. Caleb delivers the goods as few writers can.
He is one of the most successful writers who is not a household name. (You can read about him in my previous post.)
This month he released his latest book: Death in the Absence of Rain. It is the 15th book in the Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles series, and it is a winner.
There’s a dead man walking the streets of Magnolia Bluff.
A blazing hot sun is drinking up all the water for miles around. The drought is causing Burnet Reservoir to dry up.
And out of the receding waters rises a town drowned 50 years ago. A dead town with living secrets.
Then there’s a murder. Followed by a second murder.
Law enforcement is baffled. And so is Graham Huston, editor of the town newspaper. But Graham has an advantage law enforcement doesn’t. The dead man talks to him.
And Graham listens. But what is the dead man trying to tell him?
A trip out to the ghost town that’s rising back out of the lake reveals yet another murder. One that’s 50 years old.
Graham’s dogged pursuit of the truth brings an old, old secret to light. It also puts him on the receiving end of a shotgun blast late at night.
Caleb Pirtle tells us a suspense-filled tale and while doing so weaves in observations about life and death and living that only a person with a lot of years under his belt can give us.
Death in the Absence of Rain is a mystery only Caleb Pirtle could write, and one you won’t easily forget.
It is still only 99¢ on Amazon. If you’re a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you’ve already paid to read it. So go ahead!
Comments are always welcome! And until next time, happy reading!
CW Hawes is a playwright; award-winning poet; and a fictioneer, with a bestselling novel. He’s also an armchair philosopher, political theorist, social commentator, and traveler. He loves a good cup of tea and agrees that everything’s better with pizza.
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