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Synopsis
“Keith Snyder brings a delightful new voice to the mystery scene. . . . smart and laugh-out-loud funny.”—G. M. Ford, author of Slow Burn
A score to die for. . . .
There’s a heat wave in Pasadena, California. A soul band is playing down on Crenshaw. And a musician named Jason Keltner has put down his latest composition, “Untitled #23," for a real job: spying on Paul Reno, a slacker who might be involved in a big-time cyber scam. For a struggling composer, it seemed like an easy gig—until guys with guns start showing up at Jason’s house, Paul Reno vanishes, and the guest of honor at a party makes his exit wearing a toe tag. And on the road strewn with seedy nightclubs, bad hotels, and friends gone wrong, Jason won’t slow down until he unravels the truth: about Paul Reno, one strange little computer device, and a gig that paid good money—because the score was murder.
“Constantly fascinating . . . falling-down funny.”—The Plain Dealer
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Review
An edgy thriller that moves from the underground music scene of southern California to the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, Keith Snyder's latest is a return trip with Jason Keltner, a starving artist and composer of electronic music who's drawn into a world where reality is a construct that depends on the hardware that creates it. When multimedia guru Huey Benton dies at a party in front of Jason's eyes, it seems at first to be an alcohol-stimulated accident. But things are not always as they appear. Jason begins to suspect that Paul Reno--the computer genius he's been asked to watch--may be involved in the death. All Jason really wants is to finish his latest composition and find a title for it, but when mysterious men start following him and threatening his life, not to mention his somewhat stalled career, he's forced to take a more active role in protecting a piece of computer hardware known as a dongle from people with no compunctions about committing murder to get their hands on it. Coffin's Got the Dead Guy on the Inside is an interesting take on a part of the music world that will be new to many readers. It is written by a multimedia designer, composer, and filmmaker who introduced his unlikely hero in Show Control. --Jane Adams
From the Back Cover
What Jason Keltner wanted to do was finish Untitled #23, his favorite among thirty incomplete fragments of music he'd created in the last several months. Then Norton Platt made him an offer he could refuse - if he weren't worried about things like rent. Because he was, Jason agreed to babysit Paul Reno. The deal, after all, included expenses. And mileage. But no information about whom he was really being employed by. His first order of business: Take Paul to a party for Huey Benton and see what happens. What happens is that Huey Benton drops dead. What happens next is that Jason and his roommates at the Manor, Robert and Martin, find themselves in the middle of a search for the "dongle". All they know about it is that it has something to do with computers and that far too many people are willing to kill to get their hands on it . . . and that Paul, somehow, is in the middle of it all. Jason and his gang, who wouldn't even think of shooting straight, race through California subcultures looking for answers that will let them live to play another day, and when they find them they face a final problem: what to do with what they've learned when they no longer know whom to trust.
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