Merenyi, Louis William, Kidder, Robert
Description
“Dust to Dust-Back From the Grave” (see the YouTube video) is a modern historical fiction tale with a supernatural slant. The book takes the reader on
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a fast-paced ride through modern day Cochise County, Arizona as newly minted deputy sheriff Jake Kidder must deal with three long dead ghosts of lawmen who rise from the grave to help Jake solve crimes. One of the ghosts is his distant relative Jeff, an Arizona Ranger who was murdered in a border town by corrupt Mexican federal police in 1908. Another ghost is Jeff’s fellow Ranger, Billy Old, who avenged Jeff’s death.
As the story unfolds, the three ghosts poke and pull in humorous and serious ways at the tensions between how things were in their day and how things are today. Why did the three ghosts rise from the grave at this specific time, in this specific place in southeastern Arizona? And why show themselves to Jake? There are metaphysical aspects to the story that build to a climax around an underground drug smuggling tunnel in the sleepy border town of Naco-Mexico/USA. Our ghostly characters are historic figures who actually were Arizona Rangers in the early 1900s. Okay, so one of the ghosts is a dog but he historically existed too and he adds the kind comic relief that only a dog can when the group stops by a brothel in Nevada, visits Las Vegas and investigates a drug cartel.
The target audience will be readers who enjoy western crime stories that ask the reader to think about deeper issues than crime. “Dust to Dust” exposes a light touch of the metaphysical/philosophical contemplation every lawmen both living and “dead” ask themselves; why did they answer the call and what keeps them going? “Dust to Dust” will fill the gap in the western fiction genre that is not well populated with stories that explore the now blurred line between life and death that Jake Kidder and the ghosts experience.
“Dust to Dust” is a collaboration between two first time book authors Louis W. Merenyi and Robert D. Kidder have both lived in southeastern Arizona but are now residents of San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Kidder is distantly related to one of the ghosts in the story and has extensive experience in the border area described in the book. The book is suitable for 18 years and older.
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