She Was Found in a Guitar Case
2021
First Published
4.28
Average Rating
475
Number of Pages
When the police knock on his door to tell him his wife was found dead in a guitar case, Dave does something he’s done all his life: reacts badly. Recently fired from his job, a manic, misguided quest for answers sends him up the food chain of law enforcement corruption and down the increasingly bizarre Florida coastline. Battling cops, biker gangs, backwoods Bigfoot hunters, and getting tangled in tourist traps (both figurative and literal), Dave eventually stumbles onto a conspiracy involving body cameras, love locks, and a grand psychological experiment which may reveal the invisible walls of the nation's prison system. He also rescues a creature that may or may not be a cat, and it's not talking.
Avg Rating
4.28
Number of Ratings
29
5 STARS
55%
4 STARS
28%
3 STARS
10%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
3%
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Author
David James Keaton
Author · 12 books
David James Keaton received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and was the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flywheel Magazine. His first collection of fiction, FISH BITES COP! Stories To Bash Authorities, was named the 2014 Short Story Collection of the Year by This Is Horror and a finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award. Kirkus spotlighted his debut novel, THE LAST PROJECTOR, calling it "rapidly paced and loaded with humor... a loopy, appealing mix of popular culture and thoroughly crazy people." His second collection of fiction, STEALING PROPELLER HATS FROM THE DEAD, received a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly, who said, "The author's joy in his subject matter is obvious, often expressed with a sly wink and a wicked smile. Decay, both existential and physical, has never looked so good.” His most recent novel, HEAD CLEANER, was recommended by Booklist and Library Journal, who called it "light and breezy with dark undercurrents that keep the reader off-kilter" as well as "great fun." He also teaches composition and creative writing at Santa Clara University in California.
