Grand Delusion

Matt Witten's first mystery, Breakfast at Madeline's, won the Malice Domestic Grant for Best Unpublished Novel and introduced readers to screenwriter and amateur sleuth Jacob Burns. Writer Jacob Burns is getting used to the good life - with money in the band, a screenplay in production, and a loving family at home - he's never been happier. Except for the fact that his drug-dealing neighbors' rowdy antics keep him up all night... Residents of Saratoga Springs' West Side have been trying to clean up their down-and-dirty neighborhood, and Jacob's been doing his share, battling a powerful landlord who's notorious for his brutish behavior. But when his nemesis is shot dead, Jacob's the prime suspect - and he begins to search for the real culprit. He finds that the murdered landlord had a very unethical arrangement with his tenants...and that many people had reason to want him dead. Jacob's getting close to the truth, but he has to stay one step ahead of the law - because he's been framed for another murder...