(Entertainment-NewsWire.com, November 12, 2012 ) PORT HURON, MI – B. David Warner, author of Dead Lock and Freeze Frame 2016, two novels set in Michigan, will take part in the Port Huron Authorama on November 17.
The Authorama, featuring books set in Michigan, takes place this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Great Lakes Maritime Center in Port Huron.
“I’m delighted to take part in this great event,” B. David Warner said. “It includes authors like Dennis Hale and Marlene Miller. They’re great writers of novels set in Michigan.”
One of Warner’s novels set in Michigan, Dead Lock, takes place in the Sault Ste. Marie of World War II. Detroit Times reporter Kate Brennan is forced to leave town by a mob hit squad. She journeys to the Soo where she goes to work for her uncle’s newspaper. A close friend is murdered, and in investigating the crime, she encounters a Nazi plot to destroy the locks.
“Nearly 90% of the iron ore bound for our defense plants had to travel through the Soo Locks,” Warner says. “To destroy them could have changed the course of the war.”
Warner says the locks were heavily guarded. “We had almost 7,500 troops stationed there,” he says. They were armed with anti-aircraft weaponry.”
Both of Warner’s books are novels featuring strong female characters.
Freeze Frame 2016 is set in modern day Detroit. The upcoming presidential election is just days away when ad executive Darcy James discovers a dark secret behind the candidate leading in the polls. But she and her love interest, Sean Higgins, are being hunted for a murder they didn’t commit. They hide out in Gaylord, Michigan, looking for evidence that will prove their innocence, and the presidential candidate guilty of treason.
