The Fifth Slug - Paperback

by Peter Georgas (Author)

Art critic for a metropolitan daily, Bill Kouros is looking forward to reviewing the hot new exhibit, "Pop Goes the Easel", but is assigned instead to cover a murder - his hard-boiled city editor convincing him that he could provide a novel approach to crime reporting by reviewing the murder as he would abstract art. Kouros accepts the assignment only to discover the crime was committed in his home town, making him an unwitting insider as he rekindles a teenage romance, reunites with his mentor, the weekly newspaper editor, and embroils himself in the seamy underbelly of small-town life gone terribly wrong. His investigative reporting causes fear and retribution, and turns Kouros into an armchair detective as he searches for the secret meaning of the Fifth Slug.

Author Biography

Peter Georgas grew up in Waseca, a small town in southern Minnesota where his father owned the Crystal Café and Candy Kitchen. He earned a BA in Journalism from the University of Minnesota. After graduating, he went on active duty for two years as an enlisted man aboard a destroyer. Upon his return home, he worked for a decade in newspaper advertising, then joined the staff of Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as the museum's first full time publicist. Later, along with his family, he moved to Austria, where he was Director of the Salzburg Seminar. He and his wife now live in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis. This is his third book.