Drawn and Buried - Dana J Summers - Bog

Winner of the Florida Writers Association's Royal Palm Award for best suspense novel, and The Mystery Writers of America Freddie Award.Political cartoons are supposed to tick people off, not drive them to violence. Tim Ryder finds out the pen is not only mightier than the sword, but is the sword. Ryder is trying to bury the past, but it's a stubborn corpse. Seven years ago he drew a cartoon series that earned him a Pulitzer, but drove a presidential candidate to put a bullet in his head. After drinking himself out of the profession, he moves to Orlando, Florida to draw for a small daily. He gets into an altercation with a reader over a Middle East cartoon. The man threatens him, and is arrested. Ryder goes back to the drawing board. But his troubles expand like a fat man at a free buffet, when local politicians begin turning up dead and the murder scenes are staged to resemble cartoons Ryder has drawn. Now the cartoonist must face not only the demise of the newspaper industry, but also demons from the past and those in the present that will change him forever.