Book Corner: "Dead Air"

By Staff
November 10, 2004
Beautiful young television anchor Shawn Forrest is found dead in her Jackson apartment, an apparent victim of foul play.
Homicide detectives Jerome Washington and Tim McDaniel discover that although Shawn was adored on camera, she made her Channel 5 colleagues miserable and they despised her.
Did one of them kill her? Or was it Shawn's husband, who is also in television and admits to an affair with a college student? Was it the fast-talking, drug-dealing bartender who admits he stalked Shawn and had a key to her apartment or was she murdered at all? Even the medical examiner isn't sure.
Author Joe Lee answers these questions and more in his new novel "Dead Air," released by Dogwood Press.
The book sets the stage for a highly anticipated trial which attracts the attention of the national press, but a stunning series of events leaves the case against Shawn's husband in pieces and many questions about her death unanswered.
Lee, 39, is a native of Jackson and a graduate of Mississippi State University. He lives in Brandon with his family. Lee lived in Meridian in 1996, where he was creative services producer and a weekend weatherman at WTOK-TV.
His first novel, the legal thriller "On The Record," was released in late 2002.
Book: "Dead Air"
Publisher: Dogwood Press
How to order: Available in stores for at www.dogwoodpress.com
Cost: $19.95
Book signing: Saturday at noon at Meridian's Books-A-Million.