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    The Case Of The Missing Rocker
    The Case Of The Missing Rocker
    The Case Of The Missing Rocker
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    The Case Of The Missing Rocker

    By Michael Kingswood

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    Detectives Dominic Trejo and Alexandra Okada search for a famous rock 'n roll guitarist who vanished just before his new tour kicked off.

    The Case Of The Missing Rocker is a short mystery set in a near-future science fiction Los Angeles.  7,200 words (about 40 printed pages) in length.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSSN Storytelling
    Release dateMar 16, 2022
    ISBN9798201284237
    The Case Of The Missing Rocker
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    Michael Kingswood

    Michael Kingswood has written numerous science fiction and fantasy stories, including The Pericles Conspiracy, The Glimmer Vale Chronicles, and the Dawn of Enlightenment series. His interest in scifi/fantasy came at an early age: he first saw Star Wars in the theater when he was three and grew up on Star Trek in syndication. The Hobbit was among the first books he recalls reading. Recognizing with sadness that the odds of his making it into outer space were relatively slim, after completing his bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University, he did the next best thing - he entered the US Navy as a submarine officer. Almost seventeen years later, he continues to serve on active duty and has earned graduation degrees in Engineering Management and Business Administration. Fitting with his service onboard Fast Attack submarines (SSNs), he does his writing on Saturdays, Sundays, and at Night. He is married to a lovely lady from Maine. They have four children, and live wherever the Navy deems to send them. Sign up to receive email announcements of Michael's new releases and other exclusive deals for newsletter subscribers here: http://eepurl.com/eND22 .

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      The Case Of The Missing Rocker - Michael Kingswood

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      About This Book

      Detectives Dominic Trejo and Alexandra Okada search for a famous rock ’n roll guitarist who vanished just before his new tour kicked off.

      The Case Of The Missing Rocker is a short mystery set in a near-future science fiction Los Angeles. 7,200 words (about 40 printed pages) in length.

      Enjoy the book! After you’re done, please come to Michael’s website and sign up for his mailing list. Guaranteed to be spam free, he uses it to announce new releases and special promotions for his fans.

      The Case Of The Missing Rocker

      W hat's with the hat?

      Dominic was looking at a holopic that was hanging on one of the beige-painted walls of the waiting room he and his partner, Alex, had been pacing around in for the last fifteen minutes.

      The 3D image showed a slender yet muscular man, stripped to the waist and wearing tight-fitting black pants that might have even been real leather. He was wailing on a golden electric guitar, the instrument up nearly vertically in front of his body as his fingers ran up and down the fretboard in a repeat of an intricate riff. His head moved to the beat of some off-scene drummer.

      And the great big pink top hat he wore, well past oversized to the point of being comic, flopped along as well.

      The image was on a loop, so the hat just kept on going, and Dominc found he couldn't look away from it.

      Alex chuckled softly. Dominic could tell she was shaking her head in amusement as well; she always did.

      Shoulda known you'd never seen one of his shows. That's his schtick; his trademark.

      Dominic forced his eyes away from the holopic and toward his partner.

      She was svelte, almost tiny. Maybe five foot even, with long black hair tied back in a ponytail and slightly slanted eyes that told of an east-Asian ancestry, despite their green color. She wore a grey-blue suit and open-collared white

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