Dead Air

By Scott Overton,

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It’s a hard thing to accept that someone wants you dead. It forces you to decide if you have anything worth living for.
When radio morning host Lee Garrett finds a death threat on his control console, he shrugs it off as a prank. Until a series of minor harassments…

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Radio morning host, Lee Garrett, finds a death threat on his radio console one morning.

At first, he thinks it’s a joke. The message refers to the Skins, a local neo-Nazi group, but is the answer that simple? After a few near-fatal accidents, Lee realizes that someone is really trying to kill him. He needs to find out why and by whom before it’s too late.

Overton, a former radio announcer, writes an enthralling mystery that will leave you breathless until the final page. Spine-tingling and suspenseful.

This story hit home because it is set within my own community, so it could have really happened. We never know who our neighbors are and what they do behind closed doors.

Dead Air portrays radio morning host, Lee Garrett, who comes to work one morning to find a death threat taped to his radio console. At first, he thinks it’s a joke, but one accident after another convinces him that someone is really out to kill him. Can it be a member of the local neo-Nazi group, the Skins, a jealous radio personality for his or another station, or…

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