Who Sings to the Dead?

Who can you trust in a country haunted by its past? On the hunt for an abducted Indian beggar girl, Peruvian National Police officer Nina Flores is determined to track down the suspected kidnapper, a man who resembles what the locals call pishtacos: tall, pale ghosts who steal children. In spite of being jumped by a mysterious attacker, and the murder of a woman who gets too close to the truth, Nina is blocked at every turn by her superiors. Then she discovers links to a second case reaching back twenty years to the country's dirty war. Defying the powers that be, Nina forms a shaky alliance with a member of a brutal drug cartel and heads deep into the Amazon jungle. She will bring the lost one home, or die trying.

When Max Tomlinson isn’t writing he works as a software architect, which is a euphemism for a middle-aged computer programmer. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the ultimate beta reader, and a dog named Floyd, a shelter-mix who stops and stares at headlights as they pass by at night. There’s a story there, too. If only Floyd could talk. Max’s debut novel SENDERO, a literary thriller set in modern-day Peru, was awarded the Kirkus Star and selected as one of the top 100 Indie novels for 2012. WHO SINGS TO THE DEAD, the second in the SENDERO series, is slated for release in early 2013.