Chasing the Dead

Is Allison Shafer dead or alive? Finding the answer is the only thing that will save John Standard’s life. Standard is scratching out a meager living as a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon, when the young and beautiful Shafer shows up at the door of his seedy downtown apartment. She tells him she is dying of cancer, is going to kill herself using a physician-assisted suicide law, and that she wants Standard to tell her story … after she’s dead. But did she really die? Shafer’s gangster boyfriend wants her back and tells Standard it his job to find her. The search takes him half way around the world. “A riveting tale of suspense and intrigue. I couldn't put it down.” Lori Tobias, author of “Wander,” winner of the 2017 Nancy Pearl Literary Award