Bridge to Nowhere

A Rascal Todd Mystery

De: Dan Antion

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Note: If you’re interested in the Virtual Voice audio version of this or any of my books, please read to the end of this introduction.

Is a crime solved when the criminals are identified, or only after they are brought to justice? This is a mystery born from that question. The story includes many twists and turns, even after one crime is solved. It features characters, including the bad guys, who grow in ways that might surprise you—in fact, you may come to like some of the bad guys. The book includes well-researched circumstances that will take you from delight to frustration while moving you close to the edge of your seat—sound interesting? If it does, this book is for you.

Pittsburgh reporter Rachael Todd has a hard deadline—and it’s personal. Her friend is a murder suspect. He knew the victim. The police attribute a strong motive to him, and he has a very weak alibi. Worse yet, even the news that he is a suspect can ruin his chances to emerge from a depression that caused him to commit suicide and settle into his new career. Rachael believes him when he says he is being framed, but she’ll have to live up to her nickname “Rascal” to clear him.

Rascal sees a connection the crime story that opened the book. The clock is ticking as she digs through multiple layers of legal and bureaucratic misdeeds, crimes, and evidence the police ignored. She has to wade through potential suspects in a connect-the-dots exercise that helps her to solve the crime. The question remains, will she solve it in time.

In the printed version of these books, I make use of a variety of symbolic typefaces, indentation and visual separators. The Virtual Voice translates most of these into pauses of various lengths. The most prominent reason for these transitions is to indicate when the character is lost in thought or processing information “behind the scenes.” I've listened to the audio book, and I think the Virtual Voice does a pretty good job of handling these sections.