Author: Dave S (159.119.168.---)
Date: 08-03-08 21:42
After getting chewed up and spit out by Janet Reid on her Query Shark site - http://queryshark.blogspot.com - (see # 58), I have rewritten my query for the umpteenth time.
Any feedback appreciated.
Cancel the wedding-the groom is dead
The young man is found sprawled on a blood-soaked mattress, his sightless eyes staring at their final vision. The 500 guests who traveled to Stateline, Nevada for his wedding are stunned and mortified. And the victim’s prominent father, well, he’s coming apart at the seams, especially after the local police don’t seem too eager to investigate.
Enter Private Investigator Dan Reno, a casual guest at the wedding. Reno was hoping for a slow weekend, but when the father offers him roughly twice his annual salary to find the killer, he moves fast. After closing in on the murderer’s identity, Reno is nearly killed when a corrupt sheriff and his henchmen tell him to leave town. Haunted by his murdered father and a violent, hard drinking past as a bounty hunter, Reno wants no more blood on his hands. But once he discovers the sheriff is getting rich running a drug dealing ring, he’s forced to revert to his old ways to survive.
STATELINE is a 95,000-word mystery, set against the backdrop of the snowy alpine winter in the Sierras, and the lonely deserts of Nevada. It targets readers who enjoy books by authors such as James Lee Burke, Elmore Leonard, and Robert Crais.
I have a Bachelors degree in English, and live in Northern California.
Thank you for your consideration.
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