Excerpt from the book
THE DEAD LETTER
by
Finley Martin
It’s night. Always night. Dreams guard against the evil forged by nightmares. Infinite shooting stars illuminate a moonless sky. A city stands alone, surrounded by a darkened field. On its fringes, a man watches one star separate from the masses and fall. What survives the crash will unveil a secret centuries long hidden.Molly hasn’t slept well since the night of her twenty-fourth birthday. Being struck by lightning might have something to do with it, but then again, her chicken did look a little undercooked at dinner. Whatever the culprit, her life quickly catapults from mundane to insane as, night after night, Molly is transported through her once dreamless sleep to a mysterious land illuminated by shooting stars.There she meets the captivating but frustrating Dev, and together they discover Molly possesses a power coveted by his people—the ability to conjure almost anything she desires into existence. Seduced by the possibilities of this gift, Molly shifts her attention from waking life toward the man, the magic, and the world found in her dreams.But Molly must ask herself—does something truly exist if you only see it when you close your eyes?Faced with the threat of losing everything—her job, best friend, boyfriend, and most importantly, that little thing called her sanity—Molly will learn just how far she’ll go to uncover what is real and what is merely a figment of her imagination.
The DEAD LETTER
It is 2001 and the police constable's girlfriend is murdered in
a fit of jealous rage. When the constable realizes what he has done, he manages
an elaborate cover-up. Only one person knows the truth. Flash forward to 2012.
Anne Brown is still running her late uncle, Bill Darby's, detective agency
after spending four or five years as his assistant.
One day, the postman
delivers an eleven year-old letter. The letter is addressed to her uncle from a
woman named Carolyn Jollimore. She says she has evidence about a murder and
begs for help from Darby. But Bill Darby is dead. And when Anne looks up the
letter's author, she finds that Jollimare too is now dead. Troubled with the
evidence at hand, Anne must decide if she should investigate this eleven-year
old murder.
Finley Martin was born in Binghamton, New York
and grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. degree in
English at the University of Scranton, and during the 1960’s he served as an
officer with the United States Marine Corps at posts in America, the Caribbean,
and Asia.After he returned to civilian life, he worked as a free-lance writer, p.r. consultant, and photographer and became public relations director at International Correspondence Schools.
In the 70’s he received an M.A. from the University of Ottawa and a B.Ed. from the University of Prince Edward Island. For many years he taught English literature at high school and writing courses at university. He has also worked as a truck driver, labourer, carpenter, boat builder, and deckhand aboard commercial fishing vessels and passenger ferries.
During his writing career he published numerous magazine and newspaper articles, poetry, and short stories in Canada and the U.S. He produced a mini-series for CBC Radio and has given numerous poetry readings.
He authored three books: New Maritime Writing, Square Deal Pub., Charlottetown, PE; A View from the Bridge, Montague, PE; and The Reluctant Detective, The Acorn Press, Charlottetown, PE.
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