[OPLINLIST] Author John Billheimer Available for Speaking Engagements

[Jim Gill]

Dear Library Friends,
If you are looking for an author to come to your library in this fall, you
may want to contact mystery writer John Billheimer.
http://johnbillheimer.com/

Our library had him speak last fall about his book, Field of Schemes: A
Lloyd Keaton Mystery and he did a great job. For info on that book:
http://www.amazon.com/Field-Schemes-Five-Star-Mystery/dp/1432826174/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368710207&sr=1-7

The next book in the series comes out in August: A Player to be Maimed
Later:  Lloyd Keaton – who killed a successful sportswriting career with a
gambling addiction – gets a second chance at the big time. Blaze
Stender, a retired major-league superstar, asks his old friend
Keaton to write his biography in the hope that the book will ensure
the popular pitcher’s election to baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Keaton is barely on the job two weeks when Stender’s pleasure
boat crashes into a Lake Erie breakwater; the pitcher is missing
and presumed dead. With the help of Stender’s widow, Keaton
continues work on the biography. He soon discovers, however,
that the facts of his old friend’s life are at odds with his popular
mage, and that Stender was keeping some dark secrets, including
blackmail payments that could be related to a mysterious death.
Stender’s widow tells him to stop: She doesn’t want her husband’s
image tarnished by a tell-all biography. But Keaton can’t stop
following a story, even when it leads to another killing and the
reporter himself becomes a moving target.
The answers lie beneath the ice of Lake Erie, and when Stender’s
body is finally discovered, those answers threaten Keatons ethics,
his career, and even his life.

Anyway, if you are interested in a speaker for the fall you may want to
contact John. He did not charge us anything, though that may have changed.
 He will appeal to sports lovers as well as mystery lovers.  Here is how
you can contact John: *

*john.wbill at batnet.com
Thanks,


-- 
Jim Gill
Director
Dover Public Library
525 N. Walnut St.
Dover, Ohio  44622
330-343-6123
gillja at oplin.org
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