Greg: Welcome back to the Cross-Canada Society for Mental Health video blog and podcast. I’m your host Greg Dumont and, for the next few episodes I’ll be talking to the stars of our upcoming Calgary fundraiser, A Big Night for Mental Health. As always, I’ll post a transcript on the website. Today I’m speaking with one of Canada’s best-known musicians, an international chart-topper with fans around the world… it’s Jack Lowe! Jack, welcome to the show. Jack: Thanks. It’s great to be here.   Greg: And I see your partner Ben Ames is with us. Ben: No, I’m not. Jack: I told him I had this interview and had to get home and he said we had time to get an oil change and now we’re stuck in the car waiting to get in, so I said fine, you’ll be in the interview and he said do not drag me into this and that’s where you came in.   Greg: Do we need to reschedule? Jack: Not at all. This is Ben, everyone. You might remember him from catching a murderer in Kananaskis last fall. Greg: It sounds exciting, dating a private investigator. Do you often get involved in Ben’s…

This is an exclusive excerpt from The Girl Whose Luck Ran Out by Gayleen Froese, coming out June 14, 2022 from DSP Publications. Find out more or place an order here.   The story so far: It’s been a busy few days for private detective Ben Ames, who has taken on the case of a missing university student, and found himself looking after his ex-boyfriend Jesse. Jess is a musician who goes by the stage name Jack Lowe, and a case of pneumonia caused him to cancel the rest of his tour on the night he came through Ben’s town. Now Ben is trying to solve his case, keep an eye on Jess and deal with his resentment about their break-up seven years ago. We join them in Ben’s car, chasing down a lead in a mountain town. I left the radio on. It was one of those “hits of the past five decades” stations, the furthest possible thing from cool, but I didn’t think Jess would mind. However he might have acted in public, the truth was, he approached most music with the uncritical joy of a  Labrador throwing itself in a lake. “Did I do an interview with…