An old flame.
To find more information about Jack/Scott\'s other work, go to scottwilliamcarter.com..
He lives a stone\'s throw from the Oregon coast with his wife and two children.
His most recent book for younger readers, Wooden Bones, chronicles the untold story of Pinocchio and was singled out for praise by the Junior Library Guild.
Since then, he has published ten novels and over fifty short stories, his fiction spanning a wide variety of genres and styles.
Critics raved that The Gray and Guilty Sea, the first book featuring the crippled and curmudgeonly Garrison Gage, was "irresistible" and "a fascinating character study." Under his own name, Carter\'s first novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, was hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "touching and impressive debut" and won the prestigious Oregon Book Award.
About author(s): JACK NOLTE is the Mystery and suspense pen name of award-winning writer Scott William Carter .
And the man who claims he doesn\'t need anyone will discover he may just lose everything.
Before the Mystery can be unraveled, Gage\'s abilities and beliefs will be put to the ultimate test.
A Desperate plea from an old flame - his first love, in fact - soon entangles Gage in a high profile case involving a famous and brazenly outspoken lecturer on evolution and atheism, a crazy fundamentalist cult that uses all means necessary to silence its critics, and a brutal local murder of a far more personal nature.
That\'s just for starters.
But grumpy as Gage can be, he still finds that life on the Oregon Coast has settled into a comfortable if not happy routine - until the man who murdered his wife shows up in town.
Why? Then somebody might call him.
Or any phone, for that matter.
And even with a certain blonde bombshell a persistent part of his life, he still can\'t be bothered to buy a cell phone.
He still prefers to drink his bourbon alone.
His right knee is still mostly worthless.
Nearly a year has passed since Garrison Gage became the reluctant guardian of a troubled teenage girl, but neither fatherhood nor the the intervening months has improved his mood.
A crazy cult on the rise.
A killer on the loose.
An old flame
