A warm welcome to author john Petrie joining us today to talk about new release “Buried Secrets”.

Everyone likes Batman. I get it. I mean, he’s cool. (Fair warning: he’s not my favorite superhero, but he’s still cool.) I like the fact that he’s a good-looking man and has all the cool gadgets. I’m sure I’m not the only one who idly thinks about swinging from rooftop to rooftop, if for not other reason than to avoid a bad commute.

But what I really love about Batman is that he’s smart. I’ve always loved smart people. Wonder Woman (my favorite!) has the wisdom of Athena, Nancy Drew can fly a plane, ski jump, sail, ride a horse, and anything else needed to solve that mystery, Batgirl (the Barbara Gordon version) runs the world with her computers and computer like mind. Marilyn Monroe played dumb, but trust me, you have to be smart as a fox when you play dumb. All of the Gilmore Girls. You can’t talk that fast unless you’re really smart.

Timothy Mitchell, the main character in Buried Secrets thinks he’s the smartest person in any room. He’s not the nicest, but, still, smart. He doesn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but he usually does it anyway, without thinking. He can’t fly a plane yet, but, maybe if I get to write a sequel.

Blurb:

The son of an alcoholic mother, Wyatt Courtland skips school to work construction to help the family survive. When he finds a lockbox containing a series of articles about Bobby LaFleur, a student who went missing four years ago, he enlists the help of sheriff’s son Timothy Mitchell to learn what happened to Bobby.

Timothy wants to go into law enforcement, even if it’s against his father’s wishes. He figures solving this case will convince his dad he can handle police work, but as he digs deeper, he uncovers a string of missing boys—and the truth about Wyatt’s desire to find out what truly happened to Bobby. As the two grow closer, they realize the mystery is far more sinister than they imagined—and it’s a secret someone is willing to kill to protect.

Buy links:

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Harmony Ink

John R. Petrie grew up in Boston and now lives in the Bronx, NY. Almost his entire working career has been spent around books, from his first job in the town library to more than twenty years bookselling in one of the biggest bookstores in the US. He’s also worked for the Housing Works thrift stores in NYC, Valiant Entertainment Comics, and is now a bookstore manager, which gives him too much access to books and not enough time to read them.

He’s had stories published in True Romance magazine, had a play he wrote produced at his college, acted, danced, and was nominated for a Barrymore award playing Belize in Angels in America.

He stays up too late, eats too much junk food, and has been reading Wonder Woman comics for over forty years.

He is very, very happy to be published by Harmony Ink Press. He hopes to write stories which make people smile.

Twitter: johnpetriewrite