Night and Day is 2007 Faulkner Finalist · July 27, 2007

From the St. Louis Writers Guild Members’ Blog… “Claire Applewhite Novel on Short List of Finalists for 2007 Faulker Writing Competition”

Check out wordsandmusic.org – under Bulletin, Claire Applewhite’s novel, Night and Day is on the Short List of Finalists for the 2007 Faulkner Writing Competition.

Here’s the wrap-up on Night and Day…

A case of mistaken identity or delicious deception?

Barbara Lacey, a sultry blonde, saunters into the Night and Day, a St.Louis bar owned by Alfie Greenblatt. She waits with an envelope for a Somebody who never arrives. Minutes after entrusting it to Alfie, she is gunned down in the street. If only Somebody had told Alfie that sexy blondes mean trouble; if only Somebody had told him an envelope would kill him. But, Alfie wouldn’t have listened to Somebody. Besides, the blonde’s name isn’t really Barbara Lacey…

Night and Day is the third book in the detective series featuring the Vietnam vets of the Grapevine Detective Agency. Facing bankruptcy, Elvin Suggs, Dimond “Di” Redding, and ex-sniper Cobra Glynes struggle to uncover identities, unravel lies, deliver an envelope, night and day…before another Somebody dies.

— Claire Applewhite