Ten Fifty-Seven

“We’ve got a 10-57,” said the deputy sheriff, switching the radio off.

“A 10-57?” asked the recruit nervously.

“Yeah, it means missing person.”

Lima Skylar has been missing for three months now. Her family and friends grow increasingly unsettled as each day passes, and it isn’t long before they start assuming the worst. Each has their own conspiracies about what happened to Forrest High’s infamous girl. But it isn’t until an anonymous tip heads off the Forrest Hill sheriff’s department that their suspicions are finally confirmed: Lima Skylar didn’t go missing after all…
Hidden deep in the forest, they find Lima’s body, accompanied by empty eye-sockets and a light buzzing sound coming from somewhere inside the pretty rotten corpse…
Uncover the letters that piece together the mysterious disappearance of Lima Skylar in this five-part epistolary. Ten Fifty-Seven takes you on a psychological roller-coaster through the five stages of grief: denial, anger, guilt, depression and, finally, acceptance.

One jealous friend.
One heartbroken lover.
One overshadowed sister.
One misused pawn.
One dead girl.

M. K. Lazar trained as a classical pianist from the age of seven. His curiosity for creative writing became apparent during his early childhood when he wrote a series of short stories, which included an F5 tornado, a house that smelled horribly like cabbage, and a cat named Mr Whiskers. Since then, M. K. Lazar has worked on numerous writing projects, including a line of young adult books and several novelettes. He has also undertaken postgraduate training in clinical psychology at the University of Melbourne. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Ten Fifty-Seven is his debut novel.