Dashboard Elvis is dead - David F. Ross

A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician'
s resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times.

Renowned photo-journalist Jude Montgomery arrives in Glasgow in 2014, in the wake of the failed Scottish independence referendum, and it'
s clear that she'
s searching for someone.

Is it Anna Mason, who will go on to lead the country as First Minister? Jamie Hewitt, guitarist from eighties one-hit wonders The Hyptones? Or is it Rabbit -
Jude'
s estranged foster sister, now a world-famous artist?

Three apparently unconnected people, who share a devastating secret, whose lives were forever changed by one traumatic night in Phoenix, forty years earlier


Taking us back to a school shooting in her Texas hometown, and a 1980s road trip across the American West -
to San Francisco and on to New York -
Jude'
s search ends in Glasgow, and a final, shocking event that only one person can fully explain