Trust only Me by McGarvey Black

Author:McGarvey Black [BLACK, MCGARVEY]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-27T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

Several weeks passed and the police continued their investigation of the “Silver Man Murder”. Given my weird connection to the case, I found myself checking the news several times a day. I couldn’t help it. There had been no arrests that I was aware of. The local news station reported that Argos, the unconscious man, and the dead man whose name I didn’t know, had both been heavy drug users. The local and state police were working together but had turned up zilch. Occasionally, there were tiny mentions online about the case. From a writer’s perspective, the story arc wasn’t moving forward at all.

Life goes on for everyone and it’s no different for law enforcement. With new crimes to investigate each week, the police rarely contacted me. I remembered a few years earlier, an extremely attractive mother of six in Bakersfield CT went missing, her face was plastered all over the local news and made the national news, too. That missing mother was a top headline for weeks. Her husband was soon the prime suspect. It’s always the husband or boyfriend, isn’t it? Silver men who used drugs weren’t nearly as sexy as a hot, wealthy, thirty-nine-year-old woman with six kids who vanishes.

Her story dominated the news for weeks until they found various parts of her body in a dumpster in New Haven. Before they arrested her husband, (like I said, it’s always the husband), he took a swan dive off a New York City skyscraper. Case closed.

The Anabel Ford story had also been front page news for months, but with no new developments, she only made the news once in a while. Like Anabel, the Silver Man Murder mystery had gone from a bold print headline to a back page mention.

* * *

I’m not going to lie; the fires, assault and murder had been good for my book business. Now that none of it was in the news, my literary star was falling and it stung. Only a few weeks before, I had been a trending topic of conversation all over social media. A month later, nobody was interested and sales of all my books slowed to almost nothing.

By then, it was only my agent, the Linton Books PR lady and me who were keeping the Jillian Samuels’ brand out there. I had been so close to having a viral moment, I could practically taste it. When the public interest shifted, I was left floating adrift. With my book launch still many months away and public interest dead, Matthew and I discussed strategy for “our little problem” each week on our Zoom catchups.

“Your buzz on Twitter and Instagram is flat,” said Matthew, his bedside manner leaving something to be desired. “We’ve got to pump it back up.”

Apparently, writing a damn good thriller accompanied by an actual dead body and a murder investigation was not enough. “I’ve been tweeting and posting until my fingers bleed,” I said. “I’ve followed and liked a gazillion people. I don’t know what else to do.

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