Ex-boxer's Demise Subject of Crime Novel Set in Northern Minnesota Town

March 1, 2012 - PRLog -- It's early March and a battered, steaming wreck lays at the bottom of a 50-foot cliff. Former boxing champion Johnny Beam is found crumpled and broken behind the steering wheel. Beam was a gambler, in trouble with the law—and now dead. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? How did the former hero end up like this? In the lily-white northern town of Zenith, Minnesota, only one thing was certain: Johnny Beam stood out like a fly in a bottle of milk.

Fly in the Milk is a work of crime fiction, a provocative tale of death, betrayal and hypocrisy spanning three generations. Bluestone Press recently released T.K. O’Neill’s latest crime fiction exclusively as an ebook. O’Neill has also authored three books under the pseudonym Thomas Sparrow: Northwoods Pulp: Four Tales of Crime and Weirdness; Fatally Flawed; and Northwoods Standoff. The critically regarded novel "Social Climbing," one of the Northwoods Pulp stories, was also released in Japan by publisher Fushosha. Its Japanese title is roughly translated as "Fang of Winter."

Bluestone Press was established in early 1999 in Duluth, Minnesota. Fly in the Milk (ISBN 978-0-9672006-4-4) is available as an ebook through major online retailers, including Google, iBookstore (Apple), Amazon, Sony Reader Store, Barnes and Noble, Kobo (Borders), Ingram Digital and ebookit. Excerpts from Fly in the Milk are available online at www.bluestonesblog.com.