Martin MisunderstoodUS pub July 2008 (AudioGO)2 CDs; 2.5 Hours; ISBN-13: 978-0-7927-5485-5; $19.95 Also available as a digital download. Dutch pub June 1 2008 (De Bezige Bij) UK pub September (Random House U.K.) Germany 2009 (Random House Germany, Blanvalet) French film clip Novella written to celebrate the Month of the Thriller in the Netherlands, an annual project sponsored by the CPNB. A darkly comic tale about Mr Less-Than-Average in an average world. 
Martin Reed is the proverbial butt of everyone's jokes. Working as a glorified accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his cantankerous mother, he has become resigned to the world in which he lives -- the school bullies now pick on him in the workplace, women still spurn him and his arch enemy is now his supervisor. So when he leaves home one morning to find his car bumper hanging right off, he thinks it's nothing more than the usual pranks his toxic colleagues like to play on him.
But everything soon conspires against Martin when he arrives at work to find the police on site, including a beautiful Dutch detective with a gold badge in one hand and a list of questions for Martin in the other. A co-worker has been brutally murdered and her body abandoned in a ditch. And the overwhelming evidence points to Martin - especially when he can't or won't admit that he has an alibi.
When a second victim is found in the company bathroom, things really conspire against Martin. The one bright star on his otherwise bleak horizon is the beautiful and sympathetic Detective Anther Albada, but even she's beginning to have her doubts about his innocence. Could Martin be guilty? Or is he just misunderstood? Additional informationListen to an interview with Wayne Knight, fellow Georgian and reader of the Martin Misunderstood audio book. He's probably best known as "Newman" on Seinfeld. |
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