Song Girl: A Mystery in Two Verses by Keith Hirshland


Publisher:  Beacon Publishing Group (January 21, 2022)
Categories: Mystery Thriller, Detective/Police Procedural
Tour Dates April and May, 2022
ISBN: 978-1949472400
Available in Print and ebook, 388 pages

Description Song Girl by Keith Hirshland

Detective Marc Allen is ready to leave the Raleigh, North Carolina, Police Department. Two murders that happened on his watch have apparently been solved thanks to a suicide note confession written by a distraught father. But Allen isn’t buying it. He’s convinced that the man’s adopted daughter, Teri Hickox, is the one responsible for the heinous crimes. With his personal life a muddle and his professional career unsettled he decides the best thing for him is a change of scenery.

The detective, now in Colorado Springs, is working new cases and making new friends. One of those friends is Hannah Hunt who, after suffering a freak accident, finds herself only able to speak in song titles. Another is a mysterious drifter who lives out of an old Dodge van and goes by “the champ”. But as Allen builds a new future, events unfold showing him that he can’t escape his past.

Song Girl is…

Part sequel to The Flower Girl Murder

Part stand-alone mystery

All entertaining

My Thoughts Song Girl by Keith Hirshland

Guest Review by Mark.

‘Song Girl: A Mystery in Two Verses,’ tells the kind of story that you just don’t see often enough. This story is about several different characters, a down-on-his-luck detective, the murderess who has thwarted both him and justice, a homeless man with a suspicious background and a brother who only wants the best for his adopted sister.

All of these character’s storylines are intricately combined, and it isn’t until the end of the novel that the reader turns around and realizes exactly how all of the stories are going to come together.

Hirshland’s writing is a great example of using the different perspectives of characters to create a mystery from several angles.

You’ve got the detective, Marc Allen, the do-gooder who is disappointed in his inability to convince his superiors to continue working a double murder that he feels was not properly solved. Teri Hickox, the woman who actually committed the crimes—and framed her father for them. Reg Byrd, a former biker gang member who left town after shooting a cop and has now returned in order to reconnect with his family, but who has to live under an assumed name. And finally, Rampart Haynes, a young former boxing champ whose sister suffers a freak accident that leaves her unable to communicate with anything but song titles.

These are four very disparate perspectives that Hirshland weaves intricately together in a way that creates a very robust and stunning narrative. Marc Allen, in particular, was a great character that I would love to read more books about. I found his parts of the book to be my favorite, although I have to confess I really enjoyed Teri’s evil perspective as well.

‘Song Girl’ is just the type of book that any mystery-lover would enjoy, and definitely one to be added to your TBR list immediately!

5/5

Mark received the ebook for his honest opinion.

Awards and Recognition for Keith Hirshland

Book Talk Radio Club Book of the Year 2020 (Murphy Murphy and the Case of Serious Crisis)

Top Shelf Award First Place (mystery) for Murphy Murphy and the Case of Serious Crisis

New Apple Awards Solo Medalist True Crime Category (Big Flies)

Shelf Abound Award Winner Indie Book Competition (Big Flies)

About Keith Hirshland

Keith Hirshland is an Emmy Award–winning sports television producer with more than three decades of experience producing live and pre-recorded programs that aired on ESPN and ESPN2. Among the first forty people to be hired by the Golf Channel in 1994, Hirshland was in the middle of the action when that network debuted in 1995. He provided his talents for Golf Channel, as its live tournament producer, for two decades.

Cover Me Boys, I’m Going In: Tales of the Tube from a Broadcast Brat is a memoir about his experiences in the television industry. Published by Beacon Publishing Group, Cover Me Boys was recognized as the Book Talk Radio Club Memoir of the Year. Hirshland’s second book, and first work of fiction, Big Flies, was published in 2016 and is the recipient of the New Apple Awards “Solo Medalist” in the True Crime Category. Hirshland followed that success with his third book, The Flower Girl Murder. In 2020 Beacon Publishing Group released Murphy Murphy and the Case of Serious Crisis, Hirshland’s third mystery novel. It was a Top Shelf Magazine First Place award winner and was named the Book Talk Radio Club Book of the Year for 2020.

Song Girl Hirshland’s fifth book is the sequel to The Flower Girl Murder and was released in January of 2022.  All five books are available at www.keithhirshland.com,  Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other bookstores.

Keith Hirshland lives in Colorado with his wife and their Pyredoodle Mac.

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