Book of Days: Book #5 of the JP Kinkaid Chronicles

by Deborah Grabien

Overview

The release of Blacklight's double CD, Book of Days, looks like business as usual. The relaxed tour showcases a revolutionary new set design, as well as Bombardiers keyboard ace Tony Mancuso along as a guest. No one can predict what happens next: the CD goes multi-platinum, generating the need for a very different kind of tour.

At first, everything seems fine. It takes a while before guitarist JP Kinkaid realises something very dark is going on: a string of deaths, following Blacklight show nights. Things come to a head when a longtime member of Blacklight's extended touring family is killed.

At the band's request, Homicide detective Patrick Ormand investigates, but uncovering the reason behind the deaths may be a lot easier than healing the wounds those deaths have caused.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013705623
Publisher:	Plus One Press
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Series:	The JP Kinkaid Chronicles , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	306
Sales rank:	374,184
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Deborah Grabien can claim a long personal acquaintance with the fleshpots—and quiet little towns—of Europe. She has lived and worked and hung out, from London to Geneva to Paris to Florence, with a few stops in between.

But home is where the heart is. Since her first look at the Bay Area, as a teenager during the peak of the City’s Haight-Ashbury years, she’s always come home to San Francisco, and in 1981, after spending some years in Europe, she came back to Northern California to stay.

Deborah was involved in the Bay Area music scene from the end of the Haight-Ashbury heyday until the mid-1970s. Her friends have been trying to get her to write about those years—fictionalised, of course!—and, now that she’s comfortable with it, she’s doing just that. After publishing four novels between 1989 and 1993, she took a decade away from writing, to really learn how to cook. That done, she picked up where she’d left off, seeing the publication of eleven novels between 2003 and 2010.

Deborah and her husband, San Francisco bassist Nicholas Grabien, share a passion for rescuing cats and finding them homes, and are both active members of local feral cat rescue organisations. Deborah has a grown daughter, Joanna, who lives in LA.

These days, in between cat rescues and cookery, Deborah can generally be found listening to music, playing music on one of eleven guitars, hanging out with her musician friends, or writing fiction that deals with music, insofar as multiple sclerosis—she was diagnosed in 2002—will allow.

Visit her website at www.deborahgrabien.com

Editorial Reviews

Grabien captures both the excitement and the incredible effort that goes into making a major music tour a success. The members of the legendary Blacklight band are launching a double CD, Book of Days, with a world tour. Two of the band's crew members die in unfortunate accidents. When more deaths occur and signs point to murder, Kinkaid's unease grows to the point that the band hires a San Francisco homicide detective to provide security. Brilliant descriptions of making music.

Publisher's Weekly - . .

The fifth JP Kinkaid caper sees rock band Blacklight gearing up for a major tour after its latest CD goes multiplatinum. A massive, high-tech set and the high enthusiasm of fans old and new all combine to give the band new life. Sidetracked by the hoopla and the demands of touring, the band members eventually realize that their shows have been trailing a string of violent murders. Another satisfying entry in a series that is as much about music as it is about mystery.

Booklist - Joanne Wilkinson