Dismayberry

On his first day at the dream job he lied like crazy to get, greenhorn Mike Otter meets his one-eyed boss, a sharp-tongued grandma office manager, a geeky genius co-worker and a splattered body thrown from a 500-foot cliff. Then things get weird.

This ain't Aunt Bee's Mayberry.

In this fast, funny mystery / adventure / romance, bartender-turned-reporter Mike Otter leaves Washington, DC, to start a new life in the high country of Appalachia. Just beginning to fall under the spell of the beauty — both geographic and human — he finds the hills, hollows and his love interest hide secrets that make his own secrets look like amateur hour. 

The latest in PEET.ink's collection of "snackable fiction" is the best yet. The author's love letter to Western NC in the time of Reagan delivers unforgettable characters, a plot twistier than a corkscrew, storytelling that rips along at a breakneck pace with an ending you won't see coming until it lands like a body thrown from towering cliff.  In short, this ain't Aunt Bee's Mayberry.