Keith Edwards begins each day looking out of his second floor apartment window and across Elm Street into Forest City Park. He is struggling with acute amnesia trying to remember who he is. Keith Edwards is unaware of Six, his diabolical nemesis, who has blackmailed many unwilling participants to carry out a second attempt on his life. "Signal to Murder" is a mystery rich in culturally diverse characters. From each character's vantage point, he or she tells of their lives before, during, and after their involvement in the planned murder attempt. As you will note the dialog is not repetitious, but a common situation recounted by various individuals. Each individual reflects their involvement and happenings at the crime scene as though they are preparing themselves to be interrogated by homicide detectives. "Signal to Murder," as told by all of the characters, gives a different spin to the facts accompanied by multiple flaws. Flawless memory is not possible. Each character remembers, quite differently, the facts and certain truths before, during and after the premeditated murder attempts on Keith Edward's life. The first attempt on Edwards' life was unsuccessful. He was in a coma for several months. When he woke from the coma, Keith Edwards had total amnesia and two distinct personalities. A second and third attempt to murder Keith are planned and carried out as Keith works at recovering his memory, his life. The murderers meet with opposition from Keith Edward's newly found family which includes his faithful therapy dog, Dillon, his deceptive Grandfather, Francis Rene Sorrell, and his resourceful Grandmother, Marguerite Teller Sorrell. In self-defense, the family utilizes all of their martial arts and weapons training. They are ever vigilant, mentally and physically prepared for unforeseen attacks from dark sinister forces.

I am Rhone, a 68 year old Caucasian American, a Cajun, code named Pop, and I have been writing my memoirs, about assimilation, faith, symbolism, and patriotism, in my head for most of my life. I, Rhone, dared not write most of my life experiences down on paper for fear of ridicule, until my experiences could be related with some semblance of credibility. I, Rhone Sonnier Louviere, a US Army Vietnam Era Veteran, 1962-65, have visions, dreams, and or nightmares of incidents from long ago. Names have been withheld from military accounts in order to observe military decorum (code names have been used). There is no malintent in this, my memoir, towards the Vietnamese people, US Military or other entities. One particular incident was a special black covert operation that occurred in Vietnam in July 1962, and it is this recurring nightmare and subsequent spiritual experience which propels me even deeper into my past to a point where I am obsessed with finding the facts about my military brothers, Snicker and Nickel. The truth surrounding my own family, and that of my Soulmate and childhood sweetheart, Barbara Miller Sonnier's family (wife of fifty years) are written to describe cultural assimilation in Biloxi. I have experienced tragic incidents during my entire life. When a child of less than five years of age, I was was confronted by a castaway dog named Gumbo and an alligator, and much later in my life in a harrowing experience where I, along with two of my men, are saved by a Phantom Spirit. A mental plague of visions, dreams, and nightmares compel me to mentally exploit the past through conversations with my Daddy, wife Barbara, brother Joe, and research. This is a search to separate embellished fact from outright fiction. Memories of my mentors words and actions are always paramount in my mind, as I trudge on with life's new and challenging experiences. I realize that with each new incident I have the experience and acumen to handle it and move forward. I, Rhone, from a young age had fantasies of completing higher education. I have a Bachelor of Science Degree from The University of Southern Mississippi; a Master of Science from Abilene Christian University; and I have aspirations toward a Doctorate in Public Policy/Sociology from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (I dream it and then I do it). I roamed restlessly as I changed career paths, traveling state to state, and to countries throughout the world. I want to write it all down in a quest to try and make some sense of my worth in life, to my wife and my children, and to myself. In my timorous visions and dreams, Biloxi, Mississippi is the back drop early on, and throughout my life, while an ominous warehouse occupied by French speaking fisher people, and farmers, in Vietnam, is at the epicenter of my most dreaded nightmare.