Grandin Road

About the Book

After a near-fatal hunting accident, Jim Johnson started his second term as mayor of Grandin Road. It’s a challenging task, one that only a few can handle. Johnson isn’t used to arguments in the corporation boardroom and has always demanded undivided attention to the project at hand and those that take part in them. When the city council members become argumentative and downright hostile to his proposals, he calls on CW Coleman to settle the disputes between the members and himself. “Ain’t no damn fool going to stick his head in a gator’s mouth, and that’s just what you’d be doing if you cross Coleman,” he tells his daughter, Katie. Coleman, who is a member of the council by right but not an active participant, suddenly finds himself surrounded with a multitude of petty problems that he has no time for and far less patience. He and Johnson begin to resolve each issue in a timely fashion until one of his employees disappears. Johnson has an idea of who’s involved, but for reasons of his own, he hesitates to tell Coleman. The same reasons that his daughter, Katie, left Taylor County for twenty years. Johnson doesn’t want to reveal that there might be a mob connection and have to deal with Coleman’s reaction to that small fact.

About the Author

CW Coleman is the author’s pseudonym. CW is a native Alabamian and has always loved to hunt and fish. He started hunting and fishing when he was about twelve years old and has made a number of fishing trips to Florida and Louisiana. He would still be an avid hunter and fisherman if it were not for his present profession. CW also loves to travel, and he and his wife of more than twenty-five years have traveled to Antigua, West Indies, several times and once to Israel and have traveled to many different places here in the United States. CW became interested in writing while convalescing from surgery and has continued writing ever since.