Jeff Crook Signing The Sleeping and the Dead
Off-Square Books, 5 pm
Tuesday – 07/10/2012
A new mystery series starring a Memphis crime scene photographer with ghostly assistance.
Jackie Lyons is a former vice detective with the Memphis Police Department who is trying to put her life back together: her husband has sent divorce papers, she’s broke, and needs a place to live. But a failed marriage, unemployment, and most recently a fire in her apartment aren’t her only problems: she also sees ghosts.
Since Jackie left the force, she’s been making ends meet by photographing crime scenes for her old friends on the force, and for the occasional collector. When she is called to the murder scene of the Playhouse Killer’s latest victim, she starts seeing crime scenes from a different perspective–her new camera captures images of ghosts. As her new camera brings occasional ghostly visitors into sharper relief, it also points her toward clues the ex-detective in her won’t let go: did the man she has just started dating kill his wife? Is the Playhouse Killer someone she knows?
As Jackie works to separate the natural from the supernatural, friend from foe, and light from dark, the spirit world and her own difficult past become the only things she can depend on to solve the case.
A technical writer/editor for the U.S. Postal Service, Jeff Crook is also the author of several fantasy books in the Dragonlance series, including Conundrum and The Thieves’ Guild. He lives in Mississippi with his wife and two sons. This is his first mystery.
