Author(s): Michael Collins

Fiction

E. Robert Pendleton, once-promising author now failed academic, lies in a coma after a suicide attempt. Adi Wiltshire, a graduate student battling her own demons of failure and thwarted ambition, discovers a novel hidden in Pendleton's basement, with a gruesome murder at its core. When the novel is published, and declared a masterpiece, Pendleton looks set to achieve the success he's always wanted, until questions arise about the resemblance between the fictional crime and an unsolved local murder.