GUY HALE chats to Paul Burke about his new novel Blood on the Tracks, character Jimmy Wayne, The Come Back Trail sextet, humour, Basil Exposition and Shakespeare.

BLOOD ON THE TRACKS Jimmy Wayne is headed for LA to make the new album that will hopefully make him a star. In a quiet, deserted canyon a few miles outside Blackjack lie the bodies of his victims who inspired each song – all his secrets are buried in that dry and arid ground. Can he leave his past behind or will the ghosts of his past come back to haunt him?

First in the Come Back Trail Series:

KILLING ME SOFTLY In the town of Blackjack, Nevada, washed-up singer Jimmy Wayne is down on his luck, playing covers to a limited and uninterested audience in a third-rate casino. One morning he awakens to find that everything has changed. Not only has he accidentally murdered Wendy, his girlfriend, but he's also written the best song he's ever produced. Is it the act of killing that helps him create his finest work? And if it is, should he go for a full album? Wrestling for his desire for success, his grasp of morality and haunted by his past mistakes, Jimmy starts searching for the most terrible people he has ever known.

GUY HALE is based in England and is branching out from an adventurous background in the music industry. He has two transatlantic recording labels under his belt along side song writing credits for prominent blues musicians such as Kid Anderson, Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia. Most would stop there but not Guy. During the global pandemic Guy began his journey in fiction writing with a novel steeped in inspiration from his adventures on the road in America. Now working exclusively with Hillside Global Ltd and Whitefox Publishing Ltd on a set of novels titled “The Comeback Trail”. Blood on the Tracks follows “Killing Me Softly”...

Hillside Global/Guy Hale

Recommendations
Music:
John Blues Boyd - What My Eyes Have Seen
Mike Zito Blues For The Southside
                       Resurrection
Books:
Minnie Driver Managing Expectations
Gore Vidal Essays and Fiction
Imran Mahmood All I Said was True
Victoria Selman Truly Darkly Deeply
Vaseem Khan The Lost Man of Bombay

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Paul Burke writes for Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network. He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2022 .

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