Paper Story

About the Book

Money’s Not the Only Thing Bleeding at Del Guarini Paper.

A once great family-owned company, Del Guarini Paper is steadily going into the red – blood red.

No wonder: the company’s got relatives in no-show jobs on a “wax dummy” payroll, their head of security watched his work boots melt when a disgruntled former employee showed up to pour acid on the timeclock and their CPA has never successfully balanced his books.

But the business of keeping the company afloat has become murder, as one by one, someone begins picking off the Del Guarini brothers.

All the killing triggers a life-changing wake-up call for the company’s chief counsel, Arthur Van Gloss, a guy who´s spent more time at the race track than the law library. At 42, he’s a mercurial, womanizing slouch who desperately wants out of the legal profession and doing the Del Guarinis’ gophering. As the murders put the fear of God into Van Gloss, he begins following his natural instinct for reading other people and connecting the dots on the trail to find the killer.

As the resourceful Van Gloss learns to trust those instincts and overcome the doubt that has plagued his failed legal career, he also undergoes a moral transformation from that of an incorrigible and self-absorbed cad to a mature, caring soul who suddenly discovers the key to his own heart.

Packed with comic scenes and irony, “Paper Story” takes the reader through a fast-paced, suspenseful journey as Van Gloss tackles overwhelming odds and the prospect of career-ending mistakes in hopes of unraveling the mystery of the Del Guarini Paper company murders. But to solve the case, Van Gloss knows he has to sacrifice everything, maybe even the only love he has ever known.

About the Author

A first-time novelist who recently completed his first screenplay, Philip J. Gimson now lives in Doylestown, PA, with his wife, Joanne, and daughter, Kassandra.