Cold Call

About the Book

Cold Call is a crime mystery about greed, deceit, pride and betrayal and the things that people do to avoid them, fight them, or forget them. The book’s characters know that money can move people. But they learn that money is just a metaphor. What is important to people is where they stand in relation to each another. Tragedy is when things do not always work out well. Crime is when someone gets hurt along the way for reasons we all know are wrong. Mystery is when you do not understand the reason.

About the Author

Ren Foster claims Detroit as his birthplace. The claims that people make, of course, can sometimes be affected by considerations of perception more than by considerations of fact. That is important because it was facts that drove Ren Foster to record some of the experiences of his work as a car salesman and a private investigator. These experiences come alive in Cold Call. It is not exactly a record, but a first novel. And, while it is essentially factual, some of the persons and places have been adjusted to conform to necessities. Nothing surprising in that. Not now living in Detroit, Foster is living in what he calls temporary quarters. “That’s the nature of life,” Foster says. “None of us in this world are owners. We are all renters.”