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It's Christmas Eve on Nantucket and prominent businessman Jackson Blum is about to live out his own version of A Christmas Carol. No visions, no ghosts-just the exhumed skeleton of his old partner Ted Coddington with a bullet from Blum's Ruger pistol in its skull. Ted was a horribly mistreated employee. The discovery reveals Blum as the Scrooge he is. Plus a family crisis threatens to further ruin his life-Past, Present and Future, all colliding on the same dark night of the soul.Nantucket Police Chief Henry Kennis is investigating the so-cold Coddington case with Blum as the main suspect while he roots out a plot to rig the traditional five-thousand-dollar Red Tickets raffle and struggles to close down a local opioid dealer who's selling to high school kids from a house on Tuckernuck Island-a bleak vista of wild moors, dirt roads, and unpainted homes a century old.
About the Author
Steven Axelrod was born in New York City and raised in Manhattan and Beverly Hills. He grew up in the movie business watching his father, screenwriter and playwright George Axelrod, work on films like "The Manchurian Candidate' and "Breakfast at Tiffany's". After a wasted youth pitching and rewriting screenplays, Mr. Axelrod remains member of the WGAw, and holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College. Poisoned Pen Press will be kicking off his Henry Kennis Nantucket mystery series in January, with Nantucket Sawbuck. The second installment,Nantucket Five-Spot, is scheduled for 2015. He's also publishing his dark noir thriller Heat of the Moment next year, with Gutter Books. Two excerpts from that novel have appeared in the most recent issues of "BigPulp" and "PulpModern" magazines. Newly elevated to the masthead at Canadian author Douglas Glover's on-line arts journal "Numero Cinq", his most recent articles include a review of Dave Eggers' new novel The Circle, and a multi-media biographical essay about his father. Steven's blogs often at ThreGoodmenProject and occasionally at Salon.com. A father of two, he lives on Nantucket Island where he writes novels and paints houses, often at the same time, much to the annoyance of his customers.
