Chapter Break with Robb Grindstaff

This Chapter Break episode features Robb Grindstaff and his latest publication Bones of Dead Man’s Bluff.

Bio: Robb’s journalism career took him from small southern towns to Washington DC, five years in Tokyo, and nine years in Wisconsin. He has five novels and a short story collection published with a small press. Robb is also a fiction editor and teacher, having edited more than 200 books, and has taught writing courses for writing organizations around the world, including the Novel-in-Progress Book Camp in Racine, Wisconsin. Robb’s writing is best classified as contemporary southern lit, although he experiments a bit to keep things interesting. Robb currently lives in the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri with his wife and his neurotic dog.

Logline: Even the most powerful men can’t prevent dark secrets of the past from washing ashore.

Synopsis: Worth Sullivan is the celebrity pastor of the globally renowned Harvest Fields megachurch. Kirk Madison is an esteemed former US Army general and popular US senator. Both men came from humble beginnings in the Ozarks, but today are highly successful beacons of hope and leadership in a nation torn apart by political and social divisions. Then Kirk announces he’s running for president.

Decades earlier, Worth and Kirk witnessed the death of a young girl and agreed to never speak of it. While Kirk seems to have made his peace, Worth still dreams of the dead girl every night. The deep forensics of presidential campaigns makes it likely this indiscretion will soon come to light—taking down Kirk’s campaign, destroying Worth’s life, and possibly pushing the nation into full-blown civil war. Can Worth set things right, or will the dead girl seek justice on her own?