LITTLE BOXES by Robert Coburn is Now Available

Bob Coburn spent his career grinding out ad copy. Darn good ad copy, mind you. For products like Volkswagen.

Coburn worked at major advertising agencies in New York and Los Angeles. And his ads won top awards both nationally and internationally.

When he retired he decided to try his hand a writing mysteries. Why not? He knew how to plot a good story.

And that he did.

Absolutely Amazing eBooks published his first mystery, a tightly plotted story titled A Loose Knot. And after the success of that debut novel came A Deadly Deception. And then The Pink Gun.

With each new outing, Bob Coburn's writing was showing signs of something bigger in the offing -- growth.

And the result was his new breakout novel, Little Boxes.

A historical puzzler, Coburn got the idea during a recent trip to Key West, the Southernmost City in the Continental United States. Walking along the fenced perimeters of the Key West Cemetery, he noticed an unbroken row of 43 sad little graves -- children who all died within seven years of each other, from early 1963 through 1970. Twenty-nine lived less than 24 hours, others lived only a few weeks or months. In one year alone -- 1965 -- thirteen infants died, though there was no epidemic or natural disaster, such as a hurricane, at the time. The row also includes nine undated small graves.

That got his imagination churning. The resulting story is strictly fictional, but it seems so real:

Questionable deaths of children buried in the Key West Cemetery have gone unanswered for years. Rumors point to a pair of doctors from an old and prominent Key West family as being responsible. Hearsay? Or something more substantial? Jack Hunter determines to find the truth. And soon realizes that he has taken on more than he can handle. He brings in Detective Earl Gleason. But the KWPD is not interested in pursuing rumors. Jack and the detective begin a clandestine investigation on their own. And violence becomes Jack's companion in the journey to an evil conclusion.

"Bob Coburn's best storytelling yet," says Hollis George, editorial director of Absolutely Amazing eBooks. "So good in fact, we've published it under The New Atlantian Library, the imprint we reserve for our finest fiction."

Priced at $3.99 for an ebook edition, and $14.95 for the 6" x 9" paperback, you can instantly purchase a copy from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, or the Absolutely Amazing eBooks online bookstore.

"This is what fiction is all about," adds Hollis George. "Taking something real and transforming it into a story that's more interesting than reality."

Literary critic Hayes Brandwell says, "Little Boxes is more than a good mystery; it's good storytelling."

And H.L. Osterman, author of Short Changed, says, "I couldn't put the book down."

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