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Of What You Hear: A David and Trait Mystery

March 15th, 2021

Shots ring out on the Chicago street. They’re meant for Joe Durkin. Good thing he’s made it to The David and Trait Detective Agency. If only he wasn’t a known storyteller. A habitual fibber. A liar.

When Trait and DeGrabber are asked to find who’s after him, where do they start? Is it revenge? Is it murder? Is it the mob, or someone closer to Joe? He couldn’t be a liar and a murderer, could he?

It’s a tough knot, and he needs babysitting. That’s before the mob hideouts, gambling joints, and estranged women. Makes for a long weekend when you can’t believe half, ‘Of What You Hear’.

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About the Author

Shane Chastain

Jonesboro AR.

My name is Shane Chastain, and I write the David and Trait Mysteries. I've always been fascinated by the genre, the clues, the cleverness. My books aim to recreate the energies of the classics that we all grew up reading. Before DNA would tell the killer by a stray hair, when the lean of a letter from a typewriter was as good a clue as any. When they wouldn't lock a guy away, if he walked up to a stranger's front door and knocked on it. My books aren't meant to reinvent the wheel, just ride on it.

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