Red City Blues: A C.T. Ferguson Crime Novella

Written by Tom Fowler

Narrated by Ryan Haugen

Two rival gangs. Four dead innocents.

One beleaguered city caught in the crossfire.

Erma Johnson lives in a rough part of Baltimore. Gangs are a fact of life. She lost her daughter and grandson to their violence.

She's convinced, however, that her grandson wasn't in a gang.

Hacker turned private investigator C.T. Ferguson takes her case. The more he looks around, the more he thinks she's right.

Then another woman and her son are gunned down.

With violence on the streets boiling over, C.T. races to figure out what happened. If the four casualties weren't part of a turf war, who's responsible, and what does it mean for Baltimore? It may cost C.T. his life to find out.

Red City Blues is the third C.T. Ferguson crime novella. It makes a terrific quick read for mystery fans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Widening Gyre Media
• Release date: Sep 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669654889

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.