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, why they are asking forgiveness, and what they are capable of doing tomorrow.

T.J. Miller, also known as T. Jerome Miller, is a storyteller, voice actor, and entertainment executive. T.J. has spent 20 plus years in upper management for major record labels such as PolyGram, Motown, Capitol, and Warner Music Group. For film and TV, he has served as music supervisor and has placed music in popular TV shows and commercials and produced independent movies. Prior to that T.J. 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 University in Nashville. Murder By The Collar is the first in a series of murder mysteries featuring Detective-Lieutenant, Bridget Love of the Nashville Police Department. The next story in the series is "Sinners and Vigilantes; the next Love story." Nashville has a serial killer who never touches his victims. They call him the Counselor, and he’s nasty, arrogant and angry. After Bridget finds out that The Bishop and her father The Chief of Police are on his list to die next, she knows it’s a chess match to catch him before his next murder. To make a bad situation worse, an old enemy who she's never met is back and wants her dead.