RELEASE BLITZ: Method to Madness by Thomas Grant Bruso (Excerpt & Giveaway)

Method to Madness
by Thomas Grant Bruso

GENRE: Mystery, LGBT

BLURB:
Five years ago, Jack Ballinger was a police officer.
He has since moved from the small upstate New York town of Black Falls for greener pastures
and a peaceful life alone in the Green Mountain State. Time has changed Jack — he is no longer
the man he used to be. A significant challenge for him has been the heartbreaking loss of his
boyfriend, companion, and one true love, Steve.
Now alone, Jack has yet to deal rationally with the immediate changes of his new life. After
losing his partner, Jack drank heavily to numb the pain and forget his life-changing loss. Now,
he must find a way to move forward without Steve and the life he built for himself. Joining an
Alcoholics Anonymous group helps quiet the voices that still keep him awake at night. But
something much darker has followed him to his life in the quiet corners of Vermont.
When Jack thinks he has buried the scars of his past, a new nightmare emerges. How far will
Jack go to end the imminent evil in his life and kill it for good?
Trigger warning: this story addresses suicide and suicidal ideation.

EXCERPT:
I thought of the ginger-haired boy from earlier, recalling the incident on the escalator and in the restroom. Had he waited for me after hours, lurking in the parking lot, ready to scare me? My mind skipped over the events playing from earlier in the day. The incident in the men’s restroom, the smartass young man apologizing for his careless behavior, making wisecracking excuses for his friends, and blaming his actions on being an idiot. “I’m sorry, man. Really -- we didn’t mean anything by it. We were being dumb sixteen-year-olds.” I remembered the sound of his laugh, a
meaningless, sarcastic attempt at a reassuring apology.

I stared out into the night. The only light in the area illuminated from a lamppost wavering back and forth in the stirring wind. The mysterious driver’s gray hoodie concealed most of their face.

“You got a problem?” I yelled out the window.

A big, meaty palm rose in the air like a warning, a middle finger miming the shape of a gun, as in a caution or scare tactic.

“Prick.” I turned the key in the ignition, shifted
my truck in reverse, and floored it.

The driver didn’t have much time to register my sudden actions, but he -- or she -- managed to switch pedals. The vehicle sped off, tires shrieking, seconds before I came a hair-fracture away from nicking the driver’s side door.

In the middle of the road, I shifted into DRIVE, and followed the vehicle at an unsafe speed. I was close behind him, noticing him reaching into the passenger side for something.

Racing through the parking lot, the driver took me on a twisty ride, swerving and taking sharp curves. I followed him for a few minutes through the winding lanes, leading around the mall’s perimeter to a larger parking area on the other side of the building.

I didn’t have time to 
register the events, my mind feeling scrambled and numbed from the chaotic commotion. I gripped the steering wheel and turned it sharply, the back tires screeching as I rounded the sharp bend, nearly smacking against the guardrail on my right.

I heard a gun going off. The driver was firing a round of shots out his window.

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Thomas Grant Bruso knew he wanted to be a writer at an early age. He has been a voracious
reader of genre fiction since childhood.

His literary inspirations are Ray Bradbury, Dean
Koontz, Stephen King, Jim Grimsley, Karin Fossum, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Bruso loves
animals, reading books, and writing fiction, and prefers Sudoku to crossword puzzles.

In
another life, he was a freelance writer and wrote for magazines and newspapers. In college, he
won the Hermon H. Doh Sonnet Competition. Now, he writes and publishes fiction and reviews
books for his hometown newspaper, The Press-Republican.

He lives in upstate New York.

Links:
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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Method-Madness-Thomas-Grant-Bruso-
ebook/dp/B0CLKJD64Y?ref_=ast_author_dp

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