Suspect Quartet

<p><em>A Suspect Quartet</em> is the fourth book in <em>The Suspect Speaker Series</em>. It has four novelettes (well three longer short stories and one novelette) about people with aphasia. The stories are gritty tragic funny and romantic.</p><p></p><p>Aphasia is the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language due to disease or brain injury mainly stroke. </p><p></p><p>The other three books had shorter and longer versions for each story. This is not the case for <em>A Suspect Quartet</em> but each one has short chapters easier to deal with if your reading (or listening) stamina is limited. </p><p></p><p>The subjects are various: A celebrated but depressed artist and his protege a Sci-Fi tale about a survivor of an explosion a hunky adrenalin junky looking for meaning and a fantasy involving an apprentice magician and his friends.</p><p></p><p></p>