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Seventeen-year-old Dalton Rev is a private eye who dresses like a hipster and rides a scooter to school. When Wesley Payne, one of Salt River High School’s most popular students, is found murdered and duct-taped to the goal posts, his sister, Macy, hires Dalton to take on the case. Not one to say no to a pretty girl (and a hefty fee), Dalton transfers to Salt River to investigate, but soon finds himself at the mercy of greedy cliques and a corrupt principal. For Dalton to sleuth out Wesley’s killer, he must infiltrate the powerful cliques and hit them where it hurts the most—their rackets.

While Dalton appears to be confident and in control, his personal life is in shambles. His father is unemployed and his oldest brother is fighting overseas. Meanwhile, his attraction to Macy is clouding his judgment and hurting his case. Dalton’s only help is Lexington Cole, a literary detective whose impossibly close-call exploits offer Dalton lots of inspiration, but little actual help.

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Sean Beaudoin has used his B.A. in film/photography as a springboard into the following jobs: construction laborer, circus roustabout, busboy, used book buyer, hotel desk clerk, outdoor education counselor, statue repairman (really), seller of jazz vinyl, and a nine-day stint as The World’s Worst Telemarketer.

Sean Beaudoin likes to list his publishing history in the third person, as if someone else—a pimply young assistant, for instance—were writing it for him. He loves blueberries, garlic, hot sauce, bagels, almonds, and Turkish coffee. He hates the phrase "It is what it is." When people say "It is what it is," he snaps back, in a much deeper voice than necessary, "NO, IT ISN’T!" When they look at him quizzically and say "Excuse me?", Sean yells "DON’T EVEN GO THERE, GIRLFRIEND!" He also likes old vinyl and French movies and books about unhappy people from the Fifties. He’s not particularly crazy about police procedurals, hospital dramas, ketchup, rap-metal, pass interference penalties, cell phones, or Escalades.

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"Never fall for a girl named after a constellation or a European city. Especially not twice."

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Literary Lions 2012: Sean Beaudoin Interview

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Sean Beaudoin "I Stop the World, You Melt Alone"

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The thing about tough guys is they tend to be as tough as you let them be.

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"Always speak truth to authority.
If you have no idea what truth is,
speaking obnoxious to authorities sometimes works too."

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He did a western six-shooter routine, spinning imaginary colts on his fingers. "Huffing up to Chuff? Trusts me, no one huffs to Chuff."