Brewster County: Farm for sale, complete with brand new barn, old Corvette, and one dead body. It was a hot and humid afternoon when ex-race car driver Jim Young and his brother Adam decided to check out Adam's new purchase-the childhood farm where so many memories lay. What the two never expected to find was Catherine Throckton's car with a mummified corpse in the driver's seat. It had been nearly ten years since Catherine was killed by a hit-and-run driver, the same time that a local teenage boy had disappeared. When the eyes of the law turn on Jim, he begins to engage in his own search for answers. But when his brother Adam is savagely attacked by an unknown group of assailants, the Young family bands together to try to solve the decade-old mystery. The more involved they become, the more neighbors keep turning up dead. You'd think the Sheriff of Brewster County would show a little more interest.
We are often asked, "How do you write together?"
Irene writes; Ford creates.
I need quiet and Ford likes backgound sound. His workspace is in the den in the basement and I work upstairs in the library. We send each other e-mails of new material then compromise during break time like the method used by Ellery Queen who mailed their work to each other.
Our pen name is Nash Black. We took the first four letters of Ford's last name, Nashett, and my maiden name, Black, to create a new person. Our families and friends call us Ford & Irene.
We're small town/country people with many (not all) the views of those living on the Cumberland Plateau. The land & lake area that runs west of the Appalachian Mts. on the Kentucky/Tennessee line to the Mississippi River.
Rural attitudes & customs are the heart of the characters in our murder mysteries, but it's their stories we tell not ours.
We're retirees from farming (trees, cattle, truck gardening, & tobacco), industrial x-ray, teaching, and librarianship. Neither of us has noticed a change in our workload as we now write, promote our books, and manage an anitque mall booth.
We indulge ourselves with live theater, photography, gardening, golf, boating, and fishing with two dogs and a cat who followed us home to take up residence.
