Murder By The Collar

MURDER BY THE COLLAR takes a gritty street view at a murder that happens in the gospel music community of Nashville Tennessee. When detective Bridget Love, of the homicide division shows up to investigate, everyone from the pulpit to the parking lot is suspect. The FBI gets involved when they discover that there are major cargo thieves attending Nashville’s largest mega church. MURDER BY THE COLLAR, will merge the worlds of street crime, the gospel music industry, and collegiate athletics, and converge them under the roof of Malachi Baptist Church. It will also blur the lines of good and evil asking who is who, and which side are they really on. Now, when there are 30,000 members at one church, there’s no telling who’s sitting next to who, what they did last night, what they are asking forgiveness for, and what they are capable of doing tomorrow.

T.J. Miller, also known as T. Jerome Miller, is an artist, voice actor, entertainment executive and an author. Currently a University advisor and storyteller, T.J. has spent the past 20 years in upper management for major record labels in the area of artist development, sales, marketing, music placement and publishing. He has worked for several major record companies including PolyGram, Motown, Capitol, and Warner. For film and TV, he has served as music supervisor and has placed music in popular TV shows and commercials. He co-wrote indy films and acted as assistant producer for the movie “The Company We Keep,” a Roy Campanella II film. Prior to that he performed with jazz, classical and theater groups traveling all over the country. T.J. studied formal music and theater at both Grambling State University and Tennessee State in Nashville. Murder By The Collar is T.J.’s latest project. It is a novel of murder, mayhem, mischief and ministers. Taking place in Nashville Tennessee the novel asks the question; what happens when a gospel music superstar, and favorite son of a mega church is murdered? Who killed him and why? Bridget Love of Nashville homicide is set to task to find out. Next in this series line staring Bridget Love, is “Sinners and Vigilantes.”