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In The Beginning: The Caller

After getting The Radio Murders: The Collectors in the libraries and in the hands of many readers, the clock has started on the next book. The Radio Murders: The Caller was my first effort and began in the late summer of 2002. It was inspired by a simple news story on WKYC-TV3. A home invasion was reported, but the victim refused to show her face, we just heard her claim and a description of the events.

I have been in a business that is audio driven and voice driven for a very long time. There is something about listening to a person's voice without seeing the body language and other emotional attachments that serves as a lie detector. It is not perfect, but to the trained ear it is significant. I was convinced that the woman, the victim of the crime was lying. She was covering up something.   Read more...

Barbicas

“Young lady, I could lift you from the ground with my palm between your thighs. I could send you to different worlds and give new meaning to ecstasy.” Barbicas stood and handed the girl back her phone number. “But not today.”

Elias shook his head and picked up the phone. “Such intrigue.” He mumbled. It was necessary for his safety, and that of the mission, he supposed, but costly and sometimes comical.  From here he knew what to do, they would take care of the foolish girl's improvising and he may be the last to see her alive. Barbicas pressed the 'send' button. 

The passage you have just read is part of the introduction to one who has been called "the most interesting person," in The Radio Murders: The Collectors and The Radio Murders: The Caller, excerpted below. It was not my intension to make a killer and clearly the antagonist in this story someone with such attraction. But as many mystery writers will tell you, it often happens this way. 

Barbicas will play a very different role in The Radio Murders: The Caller. In The Radio Murders: the Collectors he was searching his soul. In Caller he discovers that he just might have one. It is not a pleasant revelation.

The Radio Murders: The Caller is in the writing lab now and will be ready for you to visit by Spring 2012. Thanks again for your support. 

The Radio Murders: The Caller

Many of you have asked for an update on the next book in The Radio Murders series. I am happy to announce that The Radio Murders: The Caller is in the works. It is a book that was finished in 2003, but with new vision created by The Radio Murders: The Collectors, Caller is undergoing a major rewrite. I am personally thrilled to get this on a solid time-line for release early next spring. But for those of you who have supported my efforts I am anxious to get some of your feedback through previews of the work.

Here is a sample of the opening of this exciting story.

…Sometimes you gotta be dead before anybody knows you’re alive.

- Gene Minues,

Talk Radio Caller

Prologue

The Partners

Run! That was all the Spode could do.  For those moments in the wee hours, it was as natural as breathing and considerably easier.  He ran from the moment the back windshield smashed beneath his hand.  It was a fist - his fist - that came down on the Cadillac; a fist clinching a steel ingot, just heavy enough to make sure the job was done.  Once done, the Spode ran.