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About the Book:
Title: A Dead End in Vegas
Author: Irene Woodbury
Publisher: Synerg Ebooks
Pages: 248
Genre: Women's Fiction
Format: Paper/Kindle
Author: Irene Woodbury
Publisher: Synerg Ebooks
Pages: 248
Genre: Women's Fiction
Format: Paper/Kindle
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As Dave Sloan is leaving for the Denver airport to
pick up his wife, Tricia, the phone rings. It’s the cops in Las Vegas. His wife is dead. Her nude body was found that morning in a
hotel room at the Bellagio.
Dave is stunned and devastated.
He thought she was in Phoenix at a week-long
teachers’ conference. A lie, of course,
concocted by Tricia, who flew to Phoenix, then drove to
Vegas to meet her Internet lover, the handsome, charming, and very much married
Joe Daggett of Chicago.
When Joe can’t join her, Tricia’s a mess. He calls a close friend, Al Posey, who lives
in Vegas, and asks him to take her to dinner.
Al and Tricia hit it off and wind up in bed. On Saturday morning, he walks out of her
hotel room at nine. Three hours later,
her lifeless body is found by a maid.
A DEAD END IN VEGAS is a searing exploration of how Tricia Sloan’s
tragic, mysterious death shatters, and later transforms, the lives of her
family and friends.
Book Excerpt:
Dave interrupted Pam.
“Excuse me,” he said
sharply. “Your husband claimed the
suggestive e-mails were written by a hacker?
Who on earth could that be?”
“How should I know?” she snapped. “Maybe some
disgruntled student who didn’t like the grade
they got on a term paper, or a tech major trying to make a name for
himself. This is a college campus. There are always precocious students who are
bored with regular class-work and amuse themselves by hacking into professors’
e-mail accounts to make trouble. They
have some laughs over a few beers and move on to the next victim. It’s everyday life on a college campus.”
Dave sighed.
“So you’re telling me that
my wife was an Internet
stalker, and the e-mails and photos came from
some student hacker?”
“Yes, that’s right,” she
confirmed with a nod. “My husband was
the victim, not the perpetrator.”
“Excuse me, Mrs. Daggett,
but I can’t sit here and listen to this garbage one more minute. Your husband is a liar!” Dave charged, rising from his chair and
grabbing his briefcase. He opened it
with a flourish and dumped the contents on her desk.
About the Author:
Irene Woodbury’s second novel, A DEAD END IN VEGAS, is a dark,
probing look at marriage, infidelity, revenge, and grief. Immersing herself in drama and dysfunction
for months on end was a challenge for this upbeat author, whose first book, the
humor novel A SLOT MACHINE ATE MY MIDLIFE CRISIS, was published by SynergEbooks
in 2011. At first glance, the two novels
seem quite different, but both deal with midlife confusion and chaos, and the
complexities and unpredictable nature of the human heart. And both, of course, are partially set in Las
Vegas, a city Irene got to know well during her
years as a travel writer. Between 2000
and 2005, her stories appeared in major newspapers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Irene,
who graduated from the University of Houston in 1993,
lives in Denver with her
husband, Richard, a retired correspondent for Time Magazine who edited both of
her novels. The couple miss traveling,
but, after two novels, Irene insists there’s no greater journey than the one
into your own heart and mind.
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