The Last Dance

Bill Potter is charged with murdering his Friday night squeeze. Michael Jellico, Bill's bumbling lawyer, steps out of a dead-end job of contracts and leases to save Bill from being strapped to "Old Spanky." Bill's wife returns after a twenty year absence to muddy the waters and it's up to her and Pepe, the womanizing Resistance Fighter and WWI spy from France, to help Jellico solve the case.Author BiographyAs an accountant in a small west Texas town, I spend my days studying bank statements and tax returns of other people's businesses. I classify, summarize, and display their financial transactions in some meaningful format. I love creating order out of chaos. I'm middle-aged and twice married--with the second blessed from heaven. Four grown children, their children, two bobbing tails of barking energy, and one sly cat round out my cache of treasure. Over the years I have owned and operated two boutique retail stores, several service businesses, one ranch, and one restaurant. I have been prosperous and poor, with wild fluctuations in between. At present, being neither rich nor poor, I consider my status as deeply entrenched in middle class--a term bandied about by politicians and economists. In an effort to restore my youth I purchased an old sofa on two wheels. For the past ten years, I have occasionally strapped sacks of clothes, maps, and a compass that doesn't seem to work onto the back cushion. After kissing my wife, I set out for adventure and story. Usually, after only a week or so, I realize what I left behind was more important than what I set out to find and drive a day and a night hell-bent-for-leather back home. I then settle into an old and comfortable routine. I read a few books, attend a few plays, daydream of new horizons, and plan my next adventure. I kept a journal on my first excursion. It was such an exhilarating experience: rewriting the journal and incorporating the pictures I took, that I became intoxicated to the point I wrote a novel. At present, with pen on fire, I am working on my eighth book. If you're looking for an evening spent with colorful characters, if you want to immerse yourself in a rollicking good story, enthrall yoursef to madness, go two days without bathing, then have I got a story for you.