PERMANENT FATAL ERROR

A long-missing novelist, a string of murders and a new brand of heroine fire Permanent Fatal Error, a sexy, Hitchcockian literary thriller

Everett Hyde: Cult-writer extraordinaire, once regarded as the voice of his generation; an author in the reclusive tradition of J.D. Salinger and Thomas Pynchon but now presumed dead. Chase Alger: Award-wining biographer specializing in studies of famous people—writers all—who've come to mysterious ends. Chase is a self-made man with his own ambiguous past. When Chase receives an invitation from Everett Hyde's widow, a disarming offer to write her husband's sanctioned biography, sinister things begin happening around the would-be biographer. Chase's initial replies to Mrs. Hyde's emails are swiftly returned, marked “Permanent Fatal Error.” Further inquiries after Hyde are first met with stonewalls, then menacing phone calls and emailed death threats. But the hook is set, and Chase, along with his lover, Ashley, an aspiring young novelist, agrees to be taken under extreme security to the remote estate of the mysterious author's equally reclusive daughter, Shelby Hyde HADLEY COLT is the pseudonym for an internationally acclaimed author. Hadley Colt's previous novels were published in several languages to excellent reviews and high praise from fellow writers who've declared the author's work, "subtle, moving and tragic", "non conformist", "bold and extravagant", "reviving", "an explosive mix of humor and action”, and who has been described as “an erudite with formidable imagination” and a “master of suspense”.