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A Killer Story
A Killer Story
A Killer Story
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A Killer Story

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Based in part on personal journals, A Killer Story is a vigorous 5-day crime noir thriller with a memoir undertone. A takeoff on vintage detective fiction updated to modern media-hacking times. It's the morally strangled tale of a regular Joe (Teddy) who is coerced to take photos for a gang of vigilante New Orleans ex-cops who dispense justice and pain for profit and pleasure. He tries to skip town, is tracked down, and commanded to kill someone or his daughter will disappear, never to be found. He concocts an outlandish scheme that goes wildly off the rails and then some. It's a rollicking ride to the end.  

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Release dateMar 26, 2020
ISBN9781393099024
A Killer Story
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Tom Vandel

Tom Vandel lives in Portland, Oregon and Big Sky, Montana. He is author of five books, including a collection of poems called "Goodbye Yellowstone Road", a book of short stories, "The Broken World", selected as a Finalist in the High Plains Book Awards, and a crime noir thriller titled "A Killer Story" that takes place in Montana, Portland, and New Orleans. He has also collaborated on two art books, one based on the pandemic called "Strange Days: A Pandemic Journey", and the other a snarky look at Uber driving titled "Driving Strangers  Diary of an Uber Driver". 

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