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Barney Starr rolls into a bucolic Oregon wine country town as a recently demoted newspaper reporter forbidden to write anything more interesting than a fluff piece on a local celebrity dessert diva. But when his car literally crashes into what looks suspiciously like a crime scene, his investigative journalist instincts kick into high gear. Soon he's obsessed with a peculiar barber he meets, a man who carries around a straight razor and a Beanie Baby plush toy-and hides a suspicious array of mounds and excavations in his backyard. Before Barney knows it, he's embroiled in the colorful lives of many local townspeople, embarked on a new romance, and investigating a mystery that goes far deeper than the mysterious holes in the barber's backyard.
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Bruce Toien lives with his wife in Sherwood, Oregon. He has written stories and poetry since adolescence and has published two prior pieces: an analysis of T.S. Eliot's poetry in the DeKalb Literary Journal in the late 1970s and, more recently, a novel, The Yamhill Barber, which he also illustrated. He has bachelors degrees from the University of California in English Literature and Physics (and continued in the graduate program with a focus on high energy physics). Like his wife, Gail, Bruce is an avid outdoorsman, enjoying running, cycling and nordic skiing. In 2004 he joined a Norwegian ski trek across Spitsbergen Island near the North Pole. In the process of learning Norwegian, he wrote two poems in that language, which he later translated into English and those appear in this volume. He is currently working on a new science fiction novel based on his Spitsbergen adventure called Signatures in the Ice.
