That October

It's October 1984 and high school friends in an Indiana town should be thinking about football, MTV, Halloween hayrides and must-see movies.

But when a classmate is killed and another is taken, six friends are plunged not only into the mystery of who's responsible, but why some of the adults in town aren't pushing to solve the crime and save their missing friend. They quickly learn that lies and murder are common among the adults in the town - and even among the adults in their own family.

THAT OCTOBER is a story of coming of age, betrayal and the power of friendship.

Keith Roysdon is a writer of crime fiction, true crime and pop culture. His journalism career began in high school as the "teen columnist" for The Muncie Evening Press. He wrote about movies, TV, live music and live theater and wrote features for several years until he began covering politics in 1989. Thirty-plus years and 30-plus first-place state and national journalism awards later, he took a buyout and set out to discover life after daily journalism. He began writing fiction in 2019. His first novel, SEVEN ANGELS, won the 2021 Hugh Holton Award for Best Unpublished Novel from Mystery Writers of America Midwest. He's on social media but is ambivalent about that.