Dancing Blind - Softcover

Zeitler, Morgan W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997451602 ISBN 13: 9780997451603

Publisher: Land at Last Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

Is the death of populist reporter, Holly Morris, just a tragic accident, suicide or something else? And why has the Department of Justice asked a washed-up investigator from another agency to look into it?In this literary departure from a detective-procedural novel, a former police officer finds no sanctuary from risk and moral uncertainty after an officer-involved shooting goes horribly wrong. He is pulled out of the bureaucratic shell he has been hiding in ever since as he attempts to solve the unexplained death of a populist television reporter. In the process, he is forced to confront his past, his values, his ethics, and the escapist life he has created for himself by his fascination with art exhibits. 

As the story unfolds, the investigator also meets a painter he dated in college. Their encounters compel him to examine his failing marriage, and her to confront the loss of her husband, and her stunted art, which has become frozen in grief. 
The story crosses northern California from San Francisco to the back streets of San Jose, from the halls of power in Sacramento to a sleepy fishing village on the north coast.

About this title

From the Author

Any reader who has ever faced an ethical dilemma, or striven to find a balance between an artistic and a conventional life, the internal and the external world, will find much to enjoy in this darkly whimsical collage of love, art, politics and betrayal.

From the Back Cover

Three couples' upended lives collide after a drug-smuggling fisherman's boat capsizes, a Hispanic teen is shot by a panicked white policeman, and an attractive television reporter's car tumbles down a cliff in the Pacific Northwest. There are survivors, but no one escapes the deadly serious consequences of their choices in this darkly whimsical collage of love, art, politics and betrayal. 

The unlikely protagonist of this literary departure from a detective procedural is Michael Porter, an insurance investigator who appears ill-prepared for the case of his life. He has a form for every contingency except a broken marriage, his stillborn acting aspirations, and his black-listed prospects. Yet somehow he hopes to resolve the death of populist champion, Holly Morris. 

Morgan Zeitler has combined his experience in politics, police work, aesthetic inquiry and journalism to paint a cross-genre portrait of clashing perspectives and devotions. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Land at Last Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0997451602
• ISBN 13: 9780997451603
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 334