After a divorce and an early retirement from newspaper reporting, Hank Fowler’s life is back on track—he has a girlfriend, steady freelance work, a teaching job—that is, until he gets a call from his old pal Chris Beckwith. Beckwith, his college roommate and a former drug-addict turned motivational speaker, is found dead not too long after. Following up on Chris’s sudden death, Hank begins to unravel a series of gruesome murders, all involving motivational speakers.
Meanwhile, Rachel, newly divorced and trying to write a book, enrolls in Hank’s writing class. With her help, Hank must track down the killer before the killer tracks him. In this suspenseful and tightly woven narrative, Jonathan Black creates a fast-paced murder mystery for the digital age. An homage to Chicago,
Speaking of Murder is a noir whodunnit and a gripping read for lovers of the mystery genre.
Tentang Penulis
Jonathan Black was managing editor of
Playboy for sixteen years and before that, executive editor at
GQ. He is a contributor to the
New York Times,
Inc.,
Forbes,
GQ, and
American Spectator. He is also the author of two previous books,
Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds, and Passions Shaped Fitness History and
Yes You Can! Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz, and has taught at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He lives in Chicago.