When The Poisoned Pen Bookstore owner Barbara Peters recently interviewed debut thriller writer Chad Dundas, he revealed his family history. With writers, a librarian, and a teacher in his family, he was born to be a writer. The Blaze, his first thriller, was a featured book during January at the bookstore. You can still buy a signed copy through the Web Store. https://bit.ly/2v9WGf2
Here’s the description of The Blaze.
“In Dundas’ assured hands, one man’s search for answers makes for a lyrical, riveting meditation on memory.”–EW
One man knows the connection between two extraordinary acts of arson, fifteen years apart, in his Montana hometown–if only he could remember it.
Having lost much of his memory from a traumatic brain injury sustained in Iraq, army veteran Matthew Rose is called back to Montana after his father’s death to settle his affairs, and hopefully to settle the past as well. It’s not only a blank to him, but a mystery. Why as a teen did he suddenly become sullen and vacant, abandoning the activities and people that had meant most to him? How did he, the son of hippy activists, wind up enlisting in the first place?
Then on his first night back, Matthew sees a house go up in flames, and it turns out a local college student has died inside. And this event sparks a memory of a different fire, an unsolved crime from long ago, a part of Matthew’s past that might lead to all the answers he’s been searching for. What he finds will connect the old fire and the new, a series of long-unsolved mysteries, and a ruthless act of murder.
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You can see the entire event with Chad Dundas here.