Rossmoor author Derek M. Wade announced this week that his latest book, Murder in Marin County, will be released by Rogue Phoenix Press in all formats July 15.
In Murder in Marin County, Jack Brubaker, veteran sailor and private investigator, becomes embroiled in a gruesome Marin County murder case while searching for his missing sister. In his hunt for the murderer, the world-weary Brubaker teams up with homicide detective Ellen Jacobs and is aided by a collection of local eccentrics in the San Francisco Bay town of Sausalito. Hired by the victim’s wife, Jack himself becomes the focus of the police investigation as he delves into the murky side of Marin County, complete with trailer parks, meth houses, and Cult compounds. During Jack’s investigation he is forced to revisit the sailing death of his father, while coming to terms with his failed relationship with his sister Lucy.
According to Wade, he studied under novelists Ben Percy (The Red Moon, Dead Lands) Bonnie Jo Campbell, Pam Houston and others in pursuit of my MFA at Pacific University. Ben Percy has reportedly called Wade “the real deal,” at times causing him to have to “re-read Wade’s work” simply “because I forgot to edit, caught up, as I was, in the gripping story.”
Percy says Wade has “an extraordinary eye for detail” who writes “seafaring stories that take us to faraway places.”
In addition to novels, the Rossmoor resident also writes teleplays, screenplays and literary short fiction. Wade was a finalist for the Frances Kerr Award in 2008 for his work in short fiction and he has a Master of Fine Arts from Pacific University.
More information is available at wadegroup@hotmail.com.
