The Doughnuts

During their manhunt for the Unabomber, federal agents had erroneously arrested the reclusive novelist, Frank Baker, as he fit the terrorist’s profile, while living in shack in northern Ohio. After Baker’s identity had been revealed, author Lydia Gilmore used the opportunity to profile the infamous novelist in her book, Positive Identification. As The Doughnuts commences, Lydia is visiting a film set in Los Angeles where an adaptation of her book is being produced. It is now her intention to track down the movie’s equally mysterious screenwriter. This sets off a complex web of connections between more than a dozen filmmakers, screenwriters, novelists—and a couple of comically inept private investigators—as they travel from Hollywood to New York City to the Lake Erie Islands. As the plot progresses, the tale picks up so many odd characters, you’ll need a scorecard to keep track. Ultimately, The Doughnuts becomes increasingly complex and so flat-out crazy, it will have the reader thinking: “This has got to be 100% true!”