Fiction Writer
Part mystery, part misadventure and as dry as the desert air.
Noir fiction from the off-strip roads of Las Vegas.
There's a version of Las Vegas that exists in the imagination — louder than the real one, stranger, more desperate — and Dave Baylis has been living there for years.
A career as a data scientist gave him a useful education in the gap between how things appear and how they actually are, and his fiction lives on those off-strip roads.
The Man with the Blue Suede Shoes is his debut novella and the first book in his series, The Kings of Clark County.
He is based in the UK. He writes whenever the opportunity presents itself, which is never quite enough.
Get in touch: author@davebaylis.com
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Novella
Elvis Presley has left the building. Now Cal Chance has 16 days to find him.
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Novel
Chester Herding has been given a lifeline; Find a penguin that has been stolen from a Las Vegas Zoo. A story of misused animals, misplaced loyalty and coming back from never quite getting started.
January 2027
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Cal Chance is looking for Elvis Presley. But in the deserts that surround Clark County he instead finds a ghost from the past, a link to the Chinese Mafia, and more questions than answers.
And whatever Cal gets up to next.
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