Untreed Reads discussion

Everything begins with something, somewhere. Sometimes it just starts a little rough:

In fact, I had a novella with a solid noir premise: a John Doe turns up after ten years in a shallow grave, with nothing to identify him except Diana’s phone number freakishly preserved in his pocket. The number is one that she used only briefly, when she was just weeks into her career as a prostitute. Rather than give the police a list of her clients—certain death for her business—she decides to investigate, with results that could be fatal for her.

The full essay is posted at Patricia Abbot's site. Read a book excerpt from The Same Mistake Twice at Untreed Reads.

The Same Mistake Twice by Albert Tucher:

For ten years the dead man lurked in an unmarked grave with a bullet in his head and no one to miss him. Now he has resurfaced, and the only clue to his identity is Diana's phone number freakishly preserved in his pocket. The police are demanding a list of her clients, and they threaten to stop looking the other way about her business. Diana must stall the cops and solve the case, and she’s running short of time. Her investigation will take her back to her earliest days as a prostitute. She will confront old mistakes and old enemies, and that's the best-case scenario. The worst could be another secret grave—for her.

A new Diana Andrews novella from the author of Value for the Money and The Retro Look: A Diana Andrews Story.