Frank Shima

Frank J. Shima is a past winner of the Lake Superior Contemporary Writers Series for fictional prose. He has been a member of Tornado Alley Writers’ Group since 1983. He was also the screenwriter for Doing Time, an original half-hour comedy produced by the Screenwriters’ Workshop, and wrote and produced Junkyard Dog, an original half-hour comedy in 1994. His book, Dead Letter, begins in the late 1980s, where two bachelor farmers, brothers in their eighties, are brutally killed in their farmhouse in rural Southern Minnesota. Martin Prescott, a mailman relatively new to the area, happens upon the bodies of his two friends. Martin has doubts about Sheriff Trout’s explanation of the deaths. Diane Kraus, the attractive niece of the two brothers, also disagrees with the sheriff. Martin and Diane face danger when they decide to investigate the murders on their own.

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Frank Shima

“Shima's writing style is folksy and precise. The book is a quick read, because he pulls the reader in from page one. This whodunit is particularly cunning, and Shima proves himself an adept at constructing a tale in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock. Great read!” --Midwest Book Review

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