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Nov. 22, 2010 - PRLog -- Don't Look Down deals with four men, age 18 to 81, who have murdered, and now share a room in the secure forensic psychiatry ward. Who better to get inside their heads, and find both the tragedy and comedy of their lives than psychiatrist and novelist David Laing Dawson.

Frank has just completed a ten year sentence in a Federal Prison for manslaughter. He is remanded for an assessment in the Forensic Ward of a Psychiatric Hospital. On this ward Frank shares a four bed room with Joseph, a man suffering from severe depression and delusions of jealousy, David, a young schizophrenic man, and Henry Thornton, 81 years of age, sometimes confused, and possibly guilty of the mercy killing of his companion and lover.

Dawson explores the comedy as well as the tragedy of these four lives as they intersect in a dramatic way in a place none of them wishes to be.

This story has the ring of truth and insight only an insider can provide. And though the characters and events are tragic, the author finds many moments of shared humanity, warmth and good humor.

Reviews have described this book as "thought-provoking and inspiring too";  "disturbing yet compelling" with   "unexpected moments of comedy as well as tragedy"  and "quite a reading adventure"  (all from Amazon)

Dawson draws upon his many years as a practicing psychiatrist and the former chief of psychiatry of a large psychiatric institution to bring readers a reality that they likely are not familiar with. His earlier works have been translated into 7 languages and Publishers Weekly once described him as a competitor of Robin Cook. His last mystery, Slide In All Direction, was described as a "a little Elmore Leonard, a little Seinfeld" and with "Compelling characters (who) find their way through a storyline bursting with crime, murder, addiction, tough love and tenuous redemption. Yet it doesn't feel crowded. You may not root for the characters but I'm betting you'll end up pulling for them."

This is your opportunity to experience his work free simply by signing up at http://bridgeross.com/dawsonserial.html Simply follow the suggestions to subscribe to the list and get one section of the mystery each Monday for eight weeks starting November 29. If you don't like the book, you can unsubscribe.

And, for checking out the site, you can download one chapter from the very funny collection My Life and Other Lies: Tales From the Writer's List by Steve Pitt. Steve is a humorist who has been compared to David Sedaris and Garrision Keillor as well as to Bob Newhart.

The review on Blog Critics declared "Pitt displays an ability to weave wit, humor and nostalgia into artful story-telling similar to the works of Garrison Keillor, the celebrated author of Lake Wobegone Days, and Jean Shepherd whose collected anecdotes eventually became the holiday classic A Christmas Story."

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Now available - My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery From Mental Illness by Sandra Yuen MacKay - "remarkably compelling" - Library Journal and The Adolescent Owner's Manual by Dr. David Laing Dawson - "understated sense of humor translates well to text. While there are a plethora of books available on parenting teens, his to-the-pointness recommends this for busy readers." Library Journal