Land of the Brave: A C.T. Ferguson Crime Novella

Written by Tom Fowler

Narrated by Ryan Haugen

A dead veteran. A little county with a major problem. 

 What will happen when a big-city PI noses around?

Hacker-turned-private investigator C.T. Ferguson gets a client he never expected: his police detective cousin Rich. In rural western Maryland, Rich's old Army friend Jim died in an apparent suicide.

Jim got help from a charity called Land of the Brave. He had a job and a purpose again, and he was happy. Jim's heartbroken widow doesn't believe he killed himself.

As C.T. and Rich investigate, they come to doubt the suicide angle but can't prove anything. When C.T. makes a shocking discovery, he and Rich attract the wrong kind of attention. Can they survive against a backwoods crime syndicate?

Land of the Brave is the second C.T. Ferguson crime novella. It makes a terrific short listen for mystery fans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Widening Gyre Media
• Release date: May 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669644835

Tom Fowler

Tom Fowler was born and raised in Baltimore and still resides in Maryland. He is an unabashed homer for Baltimore sports teams. His full-time job is in the field of computer security. Even from a young age, Tom wanted to write. He was about seven or eight, so the stories were brief and awful. Among them was a "murder mystery" in which young Tom, a polite lad, referred to everyone as "Mr. Patrick" or "Miss Jane." The most interesting thing about the alleged murder mystery was that no one died (and, in fact, everyone recovered quite nicely in the hospital). In the intervening years, Tom has gotten over this problem with killing characters in his stories. When not working or writing, Tom enjoys spending time with his family and friends, reading, sports, movies, and writing brief bios in the third person.