This writer is looking for an agent.

What's this guy's story?

Dick Peterson's six-word memoir at Smith Magazine's site about wordsmithing goes like this:

Bank shooter. Seven women. Killer fiction.

Nowadays he hides out in a bank on weekdays but was a shooter in his high school and college basketball days. The seven women are a mom, an ex-wife, twin daughters, a shiny new wife, and her two daughters. He has written an agent-hungry novel about a serial killer.

Dick spent his first 42 years in Baton Rouge and moved to the Kansas City area in 1992. By the Light is his first novel. Under the name Red Stick Writer, he writes a blog and provides commentary at other blog sites. He is currently at work on a short story.

What's he got?

Complete at 72,000 words, By the Light, is a fabric of suspense highlighted with threads of romance. It is a tale of a man and woman drawn into the pursuit of a serial killer that leaves two nude bodies at the foot of the Biloxi Lighthouse.

The man is a profiler who returned to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to care for his Alzheimer’s-stricken father. The woman is an Atlanta crime reporter whose curiosity is piqued when she spots a wire report of the double homicide in her hometown.

They have a past. As they discover from the corpses of couple after couple at lighthouse after lighthouse, so does a murderer that eliminates practitioners of infidelity and by signature comes to be known as Rose.