The Poisoned Pencil Announces the Upcoming Release of The Shadow of Seth

The Shadow of Seth, a YA Mystery by Tacoma native Tom Llewellyn, will be available nationwide in August.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – The Poisoned Pencil announces the upcoming release of The Shadow of Seth by Tacoma native and resident Tom Llewellyn. The Shadow of Seth will be published in trade paper (ISBN: 978-1-9293-4518-2, 184 pages, $10.95) and eBook ($7.99) editions in August.

The Shadow of Seth’s sixteen-year-old protagonist, Seth Anomundy, is a product of his environment: in this case, Tacoma, Washington. What L.A. was to Chandler, Tacoma—a working-class port city now undergoing urban renewal—is to author Tom Llewellyn.

About The Shadow of Seth: Seth has grown up in Tacoma’s tough neighborhoods, where he’s perfectly at home in Choo-Choo’s boxing gym and Miss Irene’s soul food palace, the Shotgun Shack. With his mom working nights as a cleaner, Seth goes to high school, gets decent grades, and makes money where he can: filling in as cook at the Shotgun Shack, working as a sparring partner, and running errands for Nadel, the clock repairman. Life is hand-to-mouth, but okay—until he gets the news that his mother has been killed.

The police don’t care about the death of just another drug addict, so a bewildered Seth takes it upon himself to find the killer. On a clock delivery run, he meets a beautiful rich girl named Azura Lear, who encourages Seth and tries to help track down the killer. But instead of finding answers, Seth finds only trouble. He faces down a gang of baseball-bat-wielding high school jocks and deals with the contempt of Azura’s suspicious father. And then there’s King George—a teenage thug Seth has previously managed to avoid—who has for some reason let it be known that he wants Seth dead. Right now.

Tom Llewellyn is a writer, creative director, and street artist who lives with his wife and four kids in Tacoma, Washington. When he’s not writing, he plays bass, coaches soccer, and snow skis. Visit Tom Llewellyn online at:  www.tommyllew.com

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