{"id":2604,"date":"2017-10-03T10:38:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T15:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2020-04-13T06:02:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T11:02:41","slug":"long-fall-from-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"Long Fall from Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Book Signing: Saturday, October 14th, 2017, 3:00-5:00 p.m.<\/h5>\n<p><strong>George Wier<\/strong>, joins us with his Galveston-set mystery thriller, co-written by Milton T. Burton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleurfinebooks.com\/product\/39235\/Long-Fall-From-Heaven-George-Wier\" style=\"color:red;\" ><span style=\"background-color:#bfe7ff;padding:5px 10px 5px 10px;border:1px solid #666\"><strong>Purchase<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/long-fall-from-heaven-cover-340w.jpg\" alt=\"long-fall-from-heaven-cover-340w\" width=\"340\" height=\"511\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2605\" srcset=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/long-fall-from-heaven-cover-340w.jpg 340w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/long-fall-from-heaven-cover-340w-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/>Cueball Boland and Micah Lanscomb, both ex-cops with troubled pasts, stumble into the path of a serial killer. The murderer leads them into the dark history of Galveston when the island was still Texas\u2019 Sin City. The killer has roots sunk deep into that history, but the authorities and the old Galveston families don\u2019t want these crimes solved. Now, the hazy memories of another serial killer, who stalked the city back during World War II, are resurfacing.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s <strong>George Wier<\/strong> befriended the older novelist <strong>Milton T. Burton<\/strong> and the two became close friends. In 1998, Burton, worried about his health, told Wier this story and asked him to be his collaborator and principal writer. The two friends talked back and forth, and Wier wrote the novel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Wier<\/strong> is the author of the Bill Travis Mystery Series. He plays classical violin and country fiddle, dabbles in art and photography. This is his first trade-published novel. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Sallie.<\/p>\n<p>Milton T. Burton (1947-2011) authored four crime novels published by Minotaur\/Thomas Dunne. Like Wier, Burton was a lifelong Texan who breathed the Texas lingo. Burton had been variously a cattleman, a political consultant, and a college history teacher. He died in December 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Signing: Saturday, October 14th, 2017, 3:00-5:00 p.m. George Wier, joins us with his Galveston-set mystery thriller, co-written by Milton T. Burton. Purchase Cueball Boland and Micah Lanscomb, both ex-cops with troubled pasts, stumble into the path of a serial &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2604\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Long Fall from Heaven<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}