Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold

by Tim Chapman

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Pub Date May 06 2013 | Archive Date Jul 26 2015

Allium Press of Chicago

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

Description

Tim Chapman’s Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold (Allium Press of Chicago, Trade Paperback $14.99, E-Book $6.99) tells a powerful story that will rivet readers’ attention as it explores the lives of three men in search of elusive goals. Part contemporary thriller, part historical novel, and part love story, Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold masterfully weaves a tale of conflicted scientific ethics, economic hardship, and criminal frenzy, tempered with the redemption of family love.

McKinney, a forensic scientist, struggles with his deep, personal need to find the truth behind the evidence he investigates, even while the system shuts him out. Can he get justice for a wrongfully accused man while juggling life with a new girlfriend and a precocious teenage daughter?

Delroy gives up the hardscrabble life on his family’s Kentucky farm and ventures to the rough-and-tumble world of 1930s Chicago. Unable to find work, he reluctantly throws his hat in with the bank-robbing gangsters Alvin Karpis and Freddie Barker. Can he provide for his fiery young wife without risking his own life?

Gilbert is obsessed with the search for a cache of gold, hidden for nearly eighty years. As his hunt escalates he finds himself willing to use ever more extreme measures to attain his goal...including kidnapping, torture and murder. Can he find the one person still left who will lead him to the glittering treasure? And will the trail of corpses he leaves behind include McKinney?

About the Author
Tim Chapman is a former forensic scientist for the Chicago Police Department who currently teaches English composition and Chinese martial arts. His fiction has been published in The Southeast Review, The Reader, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and the anthology The Rich and the Dead. He lives in Chicago with his wife, Ellen.

CONTACT INFO
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A Note From the Publisher

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Advance Praise

“Chapman…blends his expertise in analyzing evidence with a cunning plot. [He] obviously knows his stuff, from what happens at the bench in the lab through what happens in court, a stark contrast to many mystery writers who just skirt along the edges of forensics…[He] also knows his history and vividly brings to life the old Karpis/Barker bank-robbing gang of the 1930s…An intriguing and enlightening read.”

—Connie Fletcher, Book List

“This beautifully structured first novel reads like the work of a seasoned pro, with three separate storylines leading to a stunning conclusion…Ostensibly, the hero of this tale is Sean McKinney, the forensic scientist…but it is Delroy who is the heart of this multi-level thriller. Delroy’s experiences in the Depression’s hobo jungles contrast great hardship with great compassion, and the pages describing the camps’ desperate inhabitants are reminiscent of Steinbeck…A story this complex is hard to pull off, but author Chapman has the right stuff. A former forensic scientist himself, he knows that in a good novel crimes aren’t committed by cardboard characters, and they aren’t solved by them, either. The best fiction reveals great truths, and there are plenty to be had in Bright and Yellow, Hard and Cold.”

—Mystery Scene