A 2016 Kansas Notable Book!
To Leave a Shadow
Michael D. Graves
· Paperback: 204 pages
· Publisher: Meadowlark (November 12, 2015)
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 0692567798
· ISBN-13: 978-0692567791
Pete Stone hadn’t always been a private eye. He’d lost his
dairy business at the toss of a coin when the depression hit. His children grew
up, as children do, and his wife left him for a chinchilla farmer. He had
learned to like his solitude. When Mrs. Lucille Hamilton walked through his
door searching for her missing husband, Pete was the only one who believed her
husband’s death hadn’t been a suicide.
“With a clean, detailed, vigorous style, Graves introduces
us to Detective Pete Stone, his worldly and lovable gumshoe. Set in 1930’s
Wichita, Midwesterners will take particular joy in Graves’s depiction of the
city and the jazz age in this compelling mystery.”
--Kevin
Rabas, Lisa’s Flying Electric Piano
Michael D. Graves teaches Intensive English and TESOL
courses at Emporia State University. His writing has appeared in Cheap Detective
Stories, Thorny Locust, Flint Hills Review, and elsewhere. He is an author of Green
Bike, a group novel, along with Kevin Rabas and Tracy Million Simmons. When
life conjures its riddles, he turns to back roads and baseball for answers.
