Keep A Happy Ghost, Or None

About the Book

Confronted by an election campaign for which he has no heart, Sheriff Conor Gifford moves to Richmond where he joins two old friends, Governor Graham Martin and Attorney General Samantha Darrow. On the very day that he assumes command of his new organization, the Office of Special Investigations, an assassin's bullet kills Martin and Darrow. Shunted aside by the Commander of the State Police who resents the very existence of Gifford's peculiar new organization, Gifford conducts a parallel investigation that leads him into the depths of Virginia politics where he finds himself besieged by politicians of both parties as they maneuver to attain the Commonwealth's highest office.

About the Author

A graduate of Potomac State College, West Virginia University and a teaching assistant at the University of Wisconsin where he worked on his doctorate in American History, Robert L. Skidmore spent thirty-five years in the foreign service of the United States whose assignments took him to tours in Iran, Greece, New Zealand, Laos, Malaysia and Portugal. Now, long retired, Mr. Skidmore indulges in two lifelong passions, researching history and writing, both of which enable him to play with his computers and avoid travel at all cost.