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Geoffrey Walters (aka Geoffrey Smagacz) is a former reporter for the
<i>Times Newsweekly</i> in Queens, New York, and the author of
<i>Never Say Murder</i> (republished in 2019)
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<i> A Waste of Shame and Other Sad Tales of the Appalachian Foothills</i>, which won the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction in 2014. Geoffrey is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Find out more at www.geoffreywalters.com or www.geoffreysmagacz.com.

"Gregory Thackery is a would-be reporter drowning in political intrigue, career stagnation, marital problems, and a deadbeat brother naked on his couch. Throw in one dead body and you have all the fixings for a fun ride through the ugly underbelly of small-time newspapers and back-stabbing community boards. Geoffrey Walters has a gift for imbuing his characters with the baffling, maddening, and ultimately endearing quirks that we see in real people every day. The dialogue has a fast-paced, off-kilter hilarity rivaling that of Elmore Leonard. You almost don't care who-dunnit, it's so much fun watching our hero flail his way to the answer...and the big scoop."—Lisa Reardon, acclaimed author of
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<br> "Really REALLY enjoyed reading
<i>Reportedly Murdered</i>. Lots of tension, fun characters, and humor. I see it being an independent film, too." —Julie McKee, author of
<i>The Adventures of Amy Bock</i>
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<br> “Geoffrey Walters brings deadpan wit and well-wrought prose to bear on a genre that too easily devolves into formulaic and unfunny noir, knowing all the while that—as Flannery O’Connor put it—‘evil is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be endured.’”
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<br> —Joshua Hren, author of
<i>Infinite Regress</i>