Half Brother Blues

Memoir, the Author’s Real Life Detective Experience of Discovering Family Secrets

A ghost sends the author on a search. His mother once told him he was named after a man she knew who died during World War II.

Was this the ghost of the man who peered into authors crib in 1953? Why had he come back? His mother, now deceased, could provide no answers. The search would lead to his mother’s secret past, and that of her father’s.

This story reads like a detective novel as the author, who was working on a different story entirely, is confronted with information that leads him to doubt the relationship he had with this mother.

The novella is a tale of family intrigue and secrets kept from the sons for over 70 years, and a story of pain the mother would never divulge.

The author remarked, “I always like shows like Downton Abbey, but never knew how close my own family was to their storylines.”