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- I am a former journalist turned PR professional living in Springfield, Mo. I am married to a wonderful woman and we have two awesome sons. I am also a writer working toward earning a master's in English-creative writing.
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- I like books of all shapes, sizes and styles. I enjoy a good novel, but appreciate great twists and elements of mystery and suspense. My guilty pleasure has been Agatha Christie, and I'm a big fan of Ten Little Indians.
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Preetham Grandhi
Early Endorsements for “A Circle of Souls”
Linda Fairstein, NYT Bestselling Author: "A fascinating debut - this novel takes the reader to the darkest places in the human soul, from a writer with the authenticity to lead us there. A stunning thriller and an important read."
Judge Judy Sheindlin, star of the Judge Judy Show: "The seminal work of this fine author kept me glued to my chair until the adventure was over and the mystery solved. A great read!"
Book Synopsis:
The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered. The town s top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury s hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings devastating nightmares. Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya s parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.
The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams. Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents. Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya s crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.
In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.
Went to Cooperstown twice, in 1995 and 1997. Lovely town. Got drunk in the Bold Dragoon, just round the corner from the Hall of Fame, and learned that throwing a fast ball is skill as well as power: managed 37mph, which I think is about the level of an eight-year old.
That's the source of my complaint about crime conventions being outside of summer: I want to watch baseball but tell the taxman that it was a literary trip and write it off to tax.
I thought 2004 took some of the appeal away from the Red Sox. I think it was the fact that they always blew it that made me like them, and to see them as winners isn't quite the same. Not sure I would hear the same view in Beantown.
My mother visits St Louis regularly; she has really taken to the place. We both watch baseball, and she regularly goes to St Louis to watch the Cardinals. I'm more of a Red Sox fan, and spent a few years travelling over there to watch them at the end of the 90's and early zeroes, in the days of Mo Vaughn and Pedro Martinez. Even Saw Clemens pitch for the Red Sox once, in 1995. You could buy tickets for Fenway then, even along the first baseline, but not anymore it would seem.
www.swhitfield.com
I noticed that you're standing by Babe Ruth's Hall of Fame plaque. Wrong Side of the Wall should be available from Amazon or direct from the publisher - Lyons Press, and depending on where you are some bookstores still have copies - The Mystery Bookstore in Westwood in Los Angeles, and I think a few others around the country. let me know if you find it or not and how you like it if you do.
Eric
Thanks for the invite and good luck with the master's program. That's something I no doubt should have done years ago. Alas. But I still enjoy writing anyway. Thanks again. Glad to be part of your circle!
Russ