The Finger Trap by Johnny Worthen
Tony Flaner is a malingering part-time comedian, full-time sarcastic, who’s never had it hard, and never finished a thing in his life. He’s had twelve years to prepare for his divorce and didn’t. He had his entire life to choose a career and hasn’t. Now time’s up, and he’s in a world of trouble. But it gets worse—a first date and a drunken party ends with Tony facing prison for the murder of a girl he hardly knew.
But other than that, it was a pretty great party.
To save himself, wise-cracking Tony must discover who the mysterious girl was, what she was involved in and what the hell she saw in him in the first place. Their lives are linked together at the ends of a Chinese finger trap, like life and death, friends and enemies, arugula quiche and pigs knuckles.
Winner of the League of Utah Writers Diamond Quill for Best Book of the Year.
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Johnny Worthen is an award-winning, best-selling author of books and stories. Trained in stand-up comedy, modern literary criticism and cultural studies, he writes upmarket multi-genre fiction, symbolized by his love of tie-dye and good words. “I wear tie-dye for my friends, but I write what I like to read,” he says. “This guarantees me at least one fan.”
Johnny lives in Sandy, Utah, with his wife and sons.
Visit him at www.johnnyworthen.com
What inspired you to write your book?
My own personal journey for meaning and becoming a writer. Plus, I wanted to read it.
Here is a short sample from the book:
“She looked like a fish.
“Thirty dollars is too much,” she said.
I said, “I agree.”
People don’t usually look like fish. It takes a certain kind of physiognomy to pull it off. Very unique. In Mrs. Hall’s case, she needed to have parents with recessive face-pinching genes, a touch of jaundice, collagen-engorged lips caked in burgundy lipstick, wild, enraged eyes—which my company, Fly Away, could take credit for—and a hair dresser with a sense of humor to perfectly flare the dyed blond hair bob to mimic fins. Plant that handsome head over a seafoam business suit and you’ll find few wage slaves willing to take her seriously.
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