For Keeps: A Green Marble Mystery
by Aaron Paul Lazar
When retired family doctor Sam Moore gets a call from the coroner to come to The Twin Sisters Inn to consult on a murder victim, he’s puzzled. Why would Lou call him? He’s retired now, and just wants to spend time with his beloved Rachel, his grandsons, and to work in his gardens.
Lou asks him if he knows the murder victim, a woman who circled Sam’s name in the phone book before she was killed. Sam recognizes Ginger Kennedy, a fleeting memory from his past, where he spent three wild and completely prurient days with her on spring break.
When Lou shows up dead in her own morgue the next day, life once again spirals out of control. Sam’s questioned by the police regarding both murders, and it seems someone has tried to set him up as a suspect.
Sam’s world falls apart when he returns home to find a family member dead in the laundry room, stabbed with his own garden shears. Rocketed into a world of denial and temporary insanity, he faces his worst fear, and is locked up in the very same psych ward he was in when his brother Bill died fifty years ago. Sam is determined to ask his long dead brother to help him. Billy, who communicates through a little green marble, has the ability to propel him through time and has helped him unwrap baffling mysteries in the past.
Sam’s plan: to change time, and bring his loved one back to life.
Lou asks him if he knows the murder victim, a woman who circled Sam’s name in the phone book before she was killed. Sam recognizes Ginger Kennedy, a fleeting memory from his past, where he spent three wild and completely prurient days with her on spring break.
When Lou shows up dead in her own morgue the next day, life once again spirals out of control. Sam’s questioned by the police regarding both murders, and it seems someone has tried to set him up as a suspect.
Sam’s world falls apart when he returns home to find a family member dead in the laundry room, stabbed with his own garden shears. Rocketed into a world of denial and temporary insanity, he faces his worst fear, and is locked up in the very same psych ward he was in when his brother Bill died fifty years ago. Sam is determined to ask his long dead brother to help him. Billy, who communicates through a little green marble, has the ability to propel him through time and has helped him unwrap baffling mysteries in the past.
Sam’s plan: to change time, and bring his loved one back to life.
