Events
« Wednesday September 15, 2010 »
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Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
A reporter in Florida, Jake Arnett, covers the baffling murder of a
mother and daughter seeking a new life - a story that requires every
ounce of investigative skill, commitment, and compassion he can muster.
Arnett works against a backdrop of decline and despair in print
journalism that jeopardizes the newspaper he works for, and the life and
career of his closest friend. "Journalist David Holmberg has
defined a fictional Florida of post-modern bleakness, where hurricanes
prowl menacingly and nearly every place seems a venue for anxiety, fear,
failure, and even suicide - especially after a chillingly
hard-to-fathom murder of a mother and daughter. Haunted by the story,
reporter Jake Arnett becomes obsessed with finding their killer or
killers, with putting at least one thing right. This is a noir that goes
even deeper into the darkness than our foundational writers of the
genre." - Jack Vitek, author of The Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope
Jr. and the National Enquirer. "David Holmberg, a veteran reporter,
brings all the accumulated knowledge of years in the news business to
The Hurricane Murders. In relentlessly fast-paced prose that's as strong
as a category five storm, he captures the passion of the Florida
journalists who hunt out the truths concealed behind the sun and fun
images we associate with that beckoning locale.
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