Daily Dose

Great News Town, a mystery/thriller about a fictional Illinois town that is terrorized by a serial killer, opens on June 26, 1984. So on June 26, 2012, a free, serialized version of the book was launched on this Web site. Weekly installments are posted on Thursdays. Check back often.

A special summer

There's something special about this summer. The Fourth of July comes in the middle of the week. And a little over a week later, is Friday the 13th. Those are two key dates in in Great News Town. Those are two of the dates when a serial killer struck. That's the way the dates fell in 2001 when I wrote the book. That's the way the dates fell in 1984 when the story happens. And that's the way the dates fall this year. Kinda gives you the creeps.