When Hell Freezes Over

The protagonist of Rick Blechta's taut, new thriller is Michael Quinn, a former rock star. Twenty-four years earlier, he turned his back on a band, which was on the verge of superstardom, and has spent his life since hiding from everything he'd been. Stopped at a red light one night, his passenger door is wrenched open and a woman jumps in. Three thugs are pelting down the street after her. What can Michael do? He does "the right thing" and races off into the night. But doing so sets in motion a chain of events, which ultimately turns his and several other lives upside down. First, a close friend is brutally murdered and the girl disappears. Then he finds out that everything she told him was a lie - or was it? He hires a private investigator who picks up the girl's trail and begins to discover the quarry is not at all what she seems. The situation becomes deadly serious for them both when the thugs come looking for Michael.

Rick Blechta has been a musician all his life. All four of Blechta's novels, Knock On Wood, The Lark Ascending, Shooting Straight in the Dark, and Cemetery of the Nameless have been critically praised for the insider's knowledge of the music world which he injects into his plots. He is the current President of the Crime Writers of Canada.