Political / legal thriller
Welcome Rain Publishers,US Justice Deferred
Book SynopsisBased on a true story: My son Michael disappeared in 1980. He was sixteen. In 1989 the FBI informed me that a "lifer" had confessed to killing Michael and burying him in a swamp. I went to meet that prisoner near an alligator slide in the Alabama woods so he could lead us to where he had buried my son. This novel is the result of my journey there, looking for a corpse and finding live ones. --Len Williams Billy Ray Billings grew up dirt poor and tough, and he got into petty crime early on. When he's wrongly convicted of a fourth felony, he is sentenced to life, a victim of Alabama's three-strike law. In prison he meets an inmate who encourages him to take advantage of an education program, and he thrives on it. Yet his intellectual awakening fuels his ambitions and he dreams of escape. Seeing the story of a missing child on a milk carton, Billy Ray falsely confesses to burying the child in a swamp, and gets away while supposedly leading authorities to a grave. Beginning his life anew as Harry Brown, he earns a law degree and achieves success, but he can't forget the two cops who framed him and nearly stole his life. That's when he and an old friend devise a complicated and daring strategy to get finally the justice that'd been deferred for many years.
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Coffee House Press The Revolutionaries Try Again
Book SynopsisExtravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador's austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends--an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright--who are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they are unsure of everything else, including each other. Everyone thinks they're the chosen ones, Masha wrote on Antonio's manuscript. See About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson. Then she quoted from Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam, because she was sure Antonio hadn't read her yet: Can a man really be held accountable for his own actions? His behavior, even his character, is always in the merciless grip of the age, which squeezes out of him the drop of good or evil that it needs from him. In San Francisco, besides the accumulation of wealth, what does the age ask of your so called protagonist? No wonder he never returns to Ecuador. Mauro Javier Cardenas grew up in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and graduated with a degree in Economics from Stanford University. Excerpts from his first novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again, have appeared in Conjunctions, the Antioch Review, Guernica, Witness, and BOMB. His interviews and essays on/with Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Javier Marias, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Juan Villoro, and Antonio Lobo Antunes have appeared in Music & Literature, San Francisco Chronicle, BOMB, and the Quarterly Conversation.Trade Review"Cardenas's exuberant debut novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again, profiles a group of Ecuadorans trying, some harder than others, to change the political situation in their country. Stuffed with dizzying leaps from character to character, from street protests to swanky soirees, and from lengthy uninterrupted interior monologues to rapid-fire dialogues, the novel also includes some wonderful long sentences." --Publishers Weekly "The Ecuadorian writer has delivered his debut, The Revolutionaries Try Again. While it is, indeed, very much a novel rather than a political manifesto--it depicts four childhood friends as they regroup in adulthood and aim to change their country's politics for the better--Cardenas reveals, via some stunning and shapeshifting prose, that politics in Ecuador isn't as straightforward as it appears on its surface, and very often it amounts to little more than a vain exercise in egobuilding and self-fantasy." --Kenyon Review "This is an original, insubordinate novel, like his grammar, like his syntax, but fabulously, compellingly readable, with endearing characters like Leopoldo's grandma, who would tie a white plastic bag on her head like a wig and perform Macbeth for him at her farm, proclaiming in unintelligible English, 'Blo win, crack you cheek, rage! Blo!'" --New York Time Sunday Book Review "Mauro Javier Cardenas's debut, The Revolutionaries Try Again, tells the tale of three Ecuadorian friends--one living in exile in San Francisco, the other two still in Guayaquil--who come together in a quixotic attempt to take the country's Presidency. 'Everyone thinks they're the chosen ones,' one character reminds another, and Cardenas's gift is to show, through long, brilliant sentences, the charm of inaction and delinquency." --The New Yorker "Drawing on everything from pop culture to Ecuadorian politics, and posing questions about faith, morality, and devotion to one's country and ideals (all expressed in a deviant postmodern style), Cardenas's spellbinding book should appeal to McOndo devotees and Bolano fans alike. But The Revolutionaries taps into something more comprehensive and universally conscientious... It's a novel that redefines the Latin American identity in a world characterized by social technology and ever-blurring ethnic boundaries."--Los Angeles Review of Books "There's an infectious warmth in the recollections of the friends' school days, and the prose often draws blood..."--The New Yorker "Each story's hook is keenly sharpened, pulling you into the center of a tortured psyche...Revelations come through a steady drip of plot tinged with unease, with each story wholly delivered and wholly strange." --The Stake "Exuberant, cacophonous ... Cardenas dizzyingly leaps from character to character, from street protests to swanky soirees, and from lengthy uninterrupted interior monologues to rapid-fire dialogues and freewheeling satirical radio programs, resulting in extended passages of brilliance." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Even if Cardenas isn't quite ready to run for office in Ecuador, The Revolutionaries Try Again is a rare book--it's political without drowning in politics, it's innovative without languishing in theatrics, and it also blends the historically accurate with the personal. It's part satire, part social commentary, and 100% a good story with rich, compelling characters." --Kirkus Reviews "Cardenas displays an ambitious intelligence that eschews easy answers. His inclusive sympathy is balanced by an unsparing eye. By the end, Antonio questions his own motives for returning, asking himself 'how are we to be humans in a world of destitution and injustice.' A strong debut written with nuance and authority." --Kirkus Reviews "This inventive novel shares some of the revolutionary spirit of Ecuador's ill-served people who, as one character puts it, 'want to trounce the same old narratives.'" --Publishers Weekly "Cardenas brilliantly transforms his "book of ideas" into an unraveling interrogation into Antonio's past, employing unorthodox paragraph structures that slip seamlessly between long passages of fast-paced stream-of-consciousness, unexpected song lyrics, and sudden dialogue." --Booklist "An unhinged novel about three childhood friends contemplating a presidential run against the crooked Ecuadorian president Abdala "El Loco" Bucaram. This is double-black-diamond high modernism, so do some warm-up stretches before you crack this baby." --Shelf Awareness "Cardenas's The Revolutionaries Try Again is a delirious account of several Ecuadorians attempting to wrest control of their country from the hands of brutal oligarchs and buffoonish populists." --Publishers Weekly "The style of this book is as ambitious as its territory, moving fluidly from voice to voice, from luminous long sentences to syntactical fragmentation. Cardenas, an Ecuadoran now living in San Francisco, has made the Nabokovian move of claiming adoptive English as his own, and he gives us many beautifully eloquent moments." --San Francisco Chronicle "Told in winding sentences propelled by interjections and an almost manic energy, The Revolutionaries Try Again... is both ambitious and irreverent, its language as suffused with childhood jest as with profound, urgent questions of purpose." --San Francisco Chronicle "Then along came The Revolutionaries Try Again... a high-octane, high-modernist debut novel from the gifted, fleet Mauro Javier Cardenas." --Harper's Magazine "The novel veers toward the nonlinear and the fragmentary, gesturing at the brokenness and inadequacy of available narratives and their inability to represent the tangled, messy realities of lives caught in the snare of failed neoliberalism. From this brokenness emerges an exuberant, virtuosic language that encompasses song, colloquial speech in English and Spanish, rapid-fire dialogues, fragmentary, elegiac interior monologues, narrative in verse form, and two chapters written exclusively in Spanish." --Guernica "The Revolutionaries Try Again dissects a decade of Ecuadorian austerity and idealism through often jarring and always stunning literary montage." --The Millions "Cardenas uses the trappings of Modernism to traditionally Modernist ends?--?mirroring the workings of consciousness, and depicting a society, reeling from violence, that has lost faith in itself?--?but The Revolutionaries Try Again is set in a country and time that we don't normally associate with Modernism: the Ecuador of the mid-90s, in the months leading up to the demagogue 'El Loco' Bucaram's election." --Electric Literature "Like Tulathimutte in particular, Cardenas is conjuring a modish and streamlined maximalism that soaks postmodernism and hyperrealism in multicultural and social media colloquialism. The Revolutionaries Try Again could be spun as the The Recognitions of our age, with Otto reborn as Antonio. In any case, it's revolutionary." --Culture Trip "It's a particularly galvanizing novel to read in the aftermath of Election Day as it considers the questions--what do we owe? and to whom to we owe it? Of course, The Revolutionaries Try Again ... is much more than that: experimental, funny, many tongued."--Brooklyn Magazine "Like its cast of characters, the novel is colorful and disarming, bristling with idealism and disillusionment and profoundly embattled intelligence; like the country it brings to life without ever fully inhabiting, it's noisy and claustrophobic and a dizzying thrill to get lost in." --Electric Literature "Antonio returns to Ecuador with dreams of saving his country from corrupt oligarchs and (also corrupt) populist demagogues; but everybody feels like they've been chosen, and Cardenas picks brilliantly at this scab- the tension between the call to service and the desire for more, the strangeness of having seen miracles while knowing the power of mass delusion." --The Rumpus "Cardenas's first novel The Revolutionaries Try Again has the trappings of a ravishing debut: smart blurbs, a brilliant cover, a modernist narrative set amongst political turmoil in South America, and a flurry of pre-pub excitement on Twitter." --The Millions "All told, The Revolutionaries Try Again is a remarkable achievement; Cardenas' expansive voice and vision are too brilliant to let pass you by." --BuzzFeed "The first time a so-called industry person asked me about The Revolutionaries Try Again, a novel of voices in an altered state of recollection, I said it was about alien chickens. Somewhere in the clouds the ghost of Gombrowicz nodded in approval. Somewhere in Minnesota my editor is nodding in disapproval." --Flavorwire "Its style is ambitious, yes, entirely unique, one could even say difficult if one were so inclined, but the most difficult theme of the novel for an American audience is the degree to which we American readers are also complicit in the degraded existence of the poor and oppressed below our southern border." --The Scofield "Filtering the saga through Cardenas's defiantly experimental writing style, means readers are left with an extraordinary, unapologetic book, an almost unbelievable debut." --Music & Literature "An amazing book rife with intelligence and love for the potential of one's homeland." --Electric Literature "All told, The Revolutionaries Try Again is a remarkable achievement; Cardenas' expansive voice and vision are too brilliant to let pass you by." --Buzzfeed "Followers of Latin American literature won't want to miss the American debut of Ecuadorian writer Mauro Javier Cardenas, The Revolutionaries Try Again." --BookPage "The prose [in The Revolutionaries Try Again] darkens into avant-garde genius." --Artforum "This dazzling debut by Mauro Javier Cardenas reads like Antonio Lobo Antunes having a cup of coffee (or a beer) with Garcia Marquez." --Lit Hub "In The Revolutionaries Try Again, Cardenas explores the many facets of friendships, the things we leave unsaid, and all of the ways nostalgia acts as a fun house mirror on our memories." --Lit Hub "Cardenas' fiction does compute, though not by traditional means. It speaks instead like a wise but fevered man -- exalting in digression, pining for something lost, planting profundity amid little clouds of chaos." --The Dallas News "[The Revolutionaries Try Again] is stylish, daring, dense and polyphonic; voices and ideas are braided together seamlessly. It is also a Latin American novel written in English by a native of Ecuador and it's astounding." --Brazos Bookstore "Mauro Javier Cardenas' debut novel The Revolutionaries Try Again ... has evoked comparisons to great Latin American novels like Roberto Bolanos The Savage Detectives and Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch." --KQED "He's a tremendously skilled storyteller and monologuist; his writing is so exuberant." --Paul Yamazaki "In The Revolutionaries Try Again, Mauro Javier Cardenas has taken the edifice of arch modernism and suffused it with tender details of a boyhood in Ecuador. The long, unraveling sentences reveal an extraordinarily musical ear. This is a debut that will last." --Karan Mahajan "The Revolutionaries Try Again is a daring novel that pits youthful idealism against persistent and inescapable corruption. Mauro Javier Cardenas is an exciting new voice in Latin American literature, and his debut crackles with an exuberance that readers of Valeria Luiselli, Julio Cortazar, and Horacio Castellanos Moya will love." --Stephen Sparks "Beware of this writer! The book you're holding bites. If the reader dares enter after this warning, he'll never forget it, and the memory will stay just as sharp as the humor and velocity in the stories themselves. Incisive, forceful, and written in an English that's fiercely subversive, The Revolutionaries Try Again evokes a pair of great Latin American novels: Bolano's The Savage Detectives and Cortazar's Hopscotch. But this book goes even further: it's the novel we've been waiting for, witness to the most recent wave of immigration from Latin America to the US, told through the eyes of a privileged class that forces their conationals out of their countries. It's been ten years since a book this alive, this incandescent, has fallen into my hands." --Carmen Boullosa "Irreverent, shape-shifting, and wise, The Revolutionaries Try Again is as relentless in its indictment of political depredation as it is heartfelt in its devotion to the friendships and wild idealisms of youth. This forceful debut novel is a blast of fresh air, and I had a blast reading it." --Justin Taylor "What begins as an Ecuadorian political farce in Mauro Javier Cardenas's The Revolutionaries Try Again quickly becomes the most exciting experimental novel in years--a vision so uncompromising in form and sensation that readers will leave sighing, swearing, and returning to page one." --Tony Tulathimutte "The Revolutionaries Try Again transfixes on every page--across every world-devouring sentence--with a rigorous, incandescent language rarely seen in contemporary fiction. It's a bit early to say, but Cardenas's debut is either the jubilant beginning or the rapturous end of the Latin American novel: a revelation of a book." --Hal Hlavinka, Community BookstoreTable of ContentsPART ONE: ANTONIO & LEOPOLDO I. LEOPOLDO CALLS ANTONIO II. ANTONIO IN SAN FRANCISCO III. LEOPOLDO AND THE OLIGARCHS IV. ANTONIO EDITS HIS BABY CHRIST MEMOIR V. ANTONIO IN GUAYAQUIL VI. ANTONIO’S GRANDMOTHER GIVES ADVICE VII. ANTONIO & LEOPOLDO AT DON ALBAN’S PART TWO: ROLANDO & EVA VIII. ROLANDO & EVA IX. ROLANDO LOOKS FOR EVA PART THREE: DISINTEGRATION X. FACUNDO AT SAN JAVIER XI. LEOPOLDO’S GRANDMOTHER GIVES ADVICE XII. LEOPOLDO & ANTONIO AT JULIO’S PARTY XIII. EVA ALONG VICTOR EMILIO ESTRADA XIV. ROLANDO FINDS EVA PART FOUR: FACUNDO SAYS FAREWELL XV. FACUNDO SAYS FAREWELL XVI. ANTONIO EDITS HIS BABY CHRIST MEMOIR XVII.THE NIGHT BEFORE ALMA’S FIRST VOICE OF WITNESS INTERVIEW
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Milkweed Editions Into the Sun
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Milkweed Editions The Orange Grove: A Novel
Book SynopsisTwin brothers Amed and Aziz live in the peaceful shade of their family's orange grove. But when a bomb kills the boys' grandparents, the war that plagues their country changes their lives forever. Blood must repay blood, and, in order to avenge their grandparents' deaths, one brother must offer the ultimate sacrifice. Years later, the surviving twin -- now a student actor in a wintry Montreal -- is given a role which forces him to confront the past. Tremblay, an actor and director himself, poses the difficult question: can art ever adequately address suffering? Both current and timeless, written with the sharp purity of desert poetry, The Orange Grove depicts the haunting inheritance of war and its aftermath.Trade ReviewPraise for The Orange Grove "This is a tale of the innumerable tragedies of war--bereavement, brainwashing, aftermath--told with the lyricism of an epic parable or fairytale, one the reader will not soon forget."--Publishers Weekly Winner: Prix des Libraires du Que'bec Prix litte'raire des colle'giens Prix litte'raire des enseignants (AQPF-ANEL) Prix roman & Prix des lecteurs du Salon du livre du Saguenay Lac St-Jean Prix coup de coeur des Irre'sistibles "Writing as sober as it is convincing... an essential book."--Chatelaine "The Orange Grove acts as a detonator of conscience and can leave no one indifferent." --L'actualite "A novel which denounces the absurdity of war. The luminosity of the text, which is extremely poetical, contrasts with the horrors of his subject."--La librairie francophone | Radio-Canada "In a literary world which is fueled by easy emotion and writing ravaged by sentimentality, Larry Tremblay keeps the rigor of a true artist who knows it is only emotion that matters..."--Zone occupee "The willing simplicity of [Tremblay's] writing recalls the story of Cain and Abel or the parable of the prodigal son... With The Orange Grove, Larry Tremblay gives us a novel we ought to read...not once but twice."--Chantal Guy, La Presse "A fluid and troubling fable; a subtle and fine poetry."--Marc Cassivi, La Presse "A must read!"--Telejournal Radio-Canada Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean "[A] real literary punch."--Stanley Pean, Le libraire The Orange Grove is a work of great topicality that should be read with the heart of a child and the conscience of an adult.--Impact Campus "With a poetic pen, the author presents a fable on identity, filiation and lies. A story at once hard and touching which is devoured in an evening."--Coup de pouce "Another novel about war...but exceptional because of the purity of the writing... A little jewel, finely chiseled. Perhaps the best Quebecois novel of 2013."--Elle Quebec "This moving account is served by writing of perfect restraint and crisp strokes."--Lettres quebecoises "It's a very lovely book which is brutal... inhabited...haunted, truly superb."-- Sorj Chalandon, Prix Goncourt nominee "The Orange Grove tugs at the heart and, even though very current, carries all the qualities of a timeless fable."--Bible urbaine
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Milkweed Editions 2 A.M. in Little America
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Autonomedia ATTA: Volume 9
Book SynopsisA disorienting fictionalized portrayal of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and the meaning of madness.Ours is a century of fear. Governments and mass media bombard us with words and images: desert radicals, “rogue states,” jihadists, WMDs, existential enemies of freedom. We labor beneath myths that neither address nor describe the present situation, monstrous deceptions produced by a sound bite society. There is no reckoning of actuality, no understanding of the individual lives that inaugurated this echo chamber.In the summer of 1999, Mohamed Atta defended a master''s thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style skyscrapers in the Middle East and called for the return of the “Islamic-Oriental city.” Using this as a departure point, Jarett Kobek''s novel ATTA offers a fictionalized psychedelic biography of Mohamed Atta that circles around a simple question: what if 9/11 was as much a matter of architectural criticism as religious terrorism? Following the development of a socially awkward boy into one of history''s great villains, Kobek demonstrates the need for a new understanding of global terrorism. Joined in this volume by a second work, “The Whitman of Tikrit”—a radical reimagining of Saddam Hussein''s last day before capture—ATTA is a brutal, relentless, and ultimately fearless corrective to ten years of propaganda and pandering.
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Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Zabiba and the King
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Other Press LLC Beyond All Reasonable Doubt: A Novel
Book SynopsisBest Thriller and Mystery of the Year – Washington Post Best Thriller and Mystery of the Year – San Francisco GateFrom the award-winning author of Quicksand, a gripping legal thriller that follows one woman’s conflicted efforts to overturn what may be a wrongful conviction. I'm giving you a chance to achieve every lawyer’s dream, said Sophia Weber’s old professor. Freeing an innocent man. Thirteen years ago, a fifteen-year-old girl was murdered. Doctor Stig Ahlin was sentenced to life in prison. But no one has forgotten the brutal crime. Ahlin is known as one of the most ruthless criminals.When Sophia Weber discovers critical flaws in the murder investigation, she decides to help Ahlin. But Sophia doing her utmost to get her client exonerated arouses many people's disgust. And the more she learns, the more difficult her job becomes. What kind of man is her client really? What has he done? And will she ever know the truth?
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Rowman & Littlefield The Whore-Mother
Book SynopsisJohn McManus joined the Provisional wing of the IRA, to assuage his conscience. Now he wants nothing more that to escape the world of mindless violence and brutality in which he finds himself enmeshed. Pursued by IRA gunmen, he flees the length of Ireland—by automobile, by bus, on foot—desperately struggling to outrun the consequences of his past. Two women conspire to help him flee his pursuers: Kate Burker who passion for Joh and her for her country rages even in the shadow of gunmen; and Brendine Healy, an American girl who should never have left Boston. He cuts a wide swath across Ireland, encountering romantics and killers, and the courageous and decent people of both the North and the South. If one of the tests of a good novel is that its characters stick with the reader for weeks on end, and if another is that it informs him and makes him think, then The Whore-Mother is by both measures a superior novel. In it the agony of Ireland becomes a metaphor for the nature of violence itself.Trade ReviewA beautiful and frightening story -- Ring LardnerNot since Liam O’Flaherty’s The Informer has there been as powerful and honest a novel about Ireland’s ‘troubles’ as this. * Publishers Weekly *
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Select Books Inc A Minor Fall
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Select Books Inc KNOLL: The Last JFK Conspiracist
Book SynopsisTheir list keeps getting shorter. Pray you aren’t on it.” A young protégé of Edward Snowden flees the NSA after she learns that her project (KNOLL) is designed to detect and destroy any person with new facts about the conspiracy to assassinate JFK. The project’s latest target: a small-town attorney, son of a mysteriously murdered cop, who has just discovered his family’s involvement with deceased Mafia Kingpin Carlos Marcello, and the events that day in Dallas. All paths lead to a small Louisiana town that still hides its secrets, and converge on the doorstep of Marcello’s still-active savant of assassins. He is unstoppable. His creed: Omerta Is Forever.
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Select Books Inc Washington Power Play: A Political Thriller
Book SynopsisIn typical Topol style, Washington Power Play spins a tale of international intrigue, deception, and corruption at the highest levels of power. Kelly Cameron, a young FBI agent, has just thwarted a terrorist attack on the Walter Reed hospital in Washington, and is now put in charge of a task force to find a mole in the U.S. Government. She soon finds evidence of a plot initiated by the Chinese government supporting General Cartwright to be elected as the U.S. President. Kelly's efforts to thwart this plan are hindered by Xiang Shen, a Chinese diplomat who was once her lover, and Andrew Martin, a powerful Washington lawyer, who has strong ties to the Chinese. Kelly faces danger with repeated attacks on her life and her daughter's kidnapping. At stake in the Washington Power Play is the global balance of power.
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Select Books Inc Race to Judgment
Book SynopsisFast paced legal thriller and powerful urban drama from Frederic Block, the Brooklyn based federal judge who sentenced Peter Gotti of the Gambino crime family. Based partly on fact and seething racial tensions and political corruption, it doesn't get any more 'New York' than Race to Judgment! Race to Judgment is a 'reality-fiction' debut novel loosely based on a number of high-profile cases handled by its author, a federal trial court judge, over his 23 years on the federal bench in Brooklyn-such as the Crown Heights riots and the Peter Gotti trial. It tracks the rise of the fictional African-American civil rights protagonist Ken Williams (in real life, the recently deceased Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson) from his days as an Assistant United States Attorney through his meteoric rise to unseat the long-term, corrupt Brooklyn DA because of a spate of phony convictions against black defendants, including another one of the judge's real cases (JoJo Jones in the book) for the murder of a Hasidic
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Select Books Inc City of Grudges
Book SynopsisJournalism in the South is journalism of the possible. An independent newspaper in the South must balance its investigative reporting and thought-provoking commentary with advertising revenue, the paper’s sole income source. For the past decade, Walker Holmes has published the Pensacola Insider, a free alt-weekly that struggles to stay solvent while reporting on corruption, racism, poverty and injustice in a Florida Gulf Coast town that is probably too small to support more than one voice. Situated on the Florida Panhandle on the Florida-Alabama border, Pensacola was Spain’s first attempt to settle land that would pass through the hands of the Spanish, French, and British before it became a U.S. territory under General Andrew Jackson. For over 450 years, the coastal town has struggled to reach its potential, but progress has always been held back by grudges, many of which have spanned generations. Holmes is the paper. As publisher, he is the one that holds it all together. But when he publishes an article revealing that Bo Hines, his friend and one of Pensacola’s most beloved leaders, has stolen funds from an arts council he might have gone too far. When the police arrest Hines, the town attacks the publisher for “falsely” accusing Hines, costing the newspaper ad sales and possibly his control of the Insider. The trial is Holmes’ only chance at redemption, and that is a month away. It doesn’t help when Hines’ wife is found dead, and the corrupt sheriff, daily newspaper, and a wealth of enemies blame Holmes. With his young staff, a few loyal friends, and his chocolate lab-mix, Big Boy, Holmes fights back, uncovering secrets and grudges that may cost him much more than his reputation.
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Select Books Inc Bad Lies: A Story of Libel, Slander, and
Book SynopsisEddie Bennison is at the top of his game, one of the most successful and popular golfers out there, until Tee Time, a national golf magazine, publishes a story that destroys his reputation. Now Eddie, championed by cunning lawyer Charlie Mayfield, must defend himself in court. But proving libel is extremely difficult, and the truth has a way of coming out, especially when the trial becomes a national spectacle. Eddie and Charlie are in for the fight of their lives: proving that what was written in that article was nothing but bad lies.Trade Review"Simply put, the game of golf often unveils the truth about someone. The same could be said for a courtroom, and much like a golf tournament, there are highs and lows in every legal battle. My longtime friend, Tony Jacklin, and author, Shelby Yastrow, understand these similarities and have managed to wonderfully weave them into a fascinating, fictional page-turner." -- Jack Nicklaus, World Golf Hall of Famer, 18-time Majors Champion
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Red Hen Press On Hurricane Island
Book SynopsisAs a major hurricane threatens the northeast, math professor Gandalf Cohen is abducted by federal agents and flown to a secret interrogation center off the coast of Maine. Austin Coombs, a young local resident, is a newly hired civilian guard assigned to the detention center. Henry Ames, a man of personal secrets, is the FBI special agent in charge of Gandalf’s case and doubts the professor’s terrorist involvement; Tobias, his second-in-command, disagrees, preferring violent interrogation. As the hurricane slams the shore, conflict detonates and each character must choose a side if they’re to survive the storm. Told over the five days approaching the anniversary of 9/11, by varying voices on both extremes of the political divide, On Hurricane Island is both a fast-paced political thriller and a literary examination of the sociopolitical storm facing our society. How far should government go in the name of protecting our national security? What happens when governmental powers of surveillance and extra-legal interrogation are expanded? How free are we?
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Red Hen Press Kinship of Clover
Book Synopsis***Named one of "the 7 best books from indie publishers right now" in 2017 by PBS From the author of House Arrest and On Hurricane Island comes a thrilling new activist novel that begs the question, “How far is too far?” He was nine when the vines first wrapped themselves around him and burrowed into his skin. Now a college botany major, Jeremy is desperately looking for a way to listen to the plants and stave off their extinction. But when the grip of the vines becomes too intense and Health Services starts asking questions, he flees to Brooklyn, where fate puts him face to face with a group of climate-justice activists who assure him they have a plan to save the planet, and his plants. As the group readies itself to make a big Earth Day splash, Jeremy soon realizes these eco-terrorists’ devotion to activism might have him—and those closest to him—tangled up in more trouble than he was prepared to face. With the help of a determined, differently abled flame from his childhood, Zoe; her deteriorating, once–rabble-rousing grandmother; and some shocking and illuminating revelations from the past, Jeremy must weigh completing his mission to save the plants against protecting the ones he loves, and confront the most critical question of all: how do you stay true to the people you care about while trying to change the world?Trade Review“Ellen Meeropol has an uncanny knack for examining the big topics of our contemporary world and putting a human face on them. In Kinship of Clover, she does this with intelligence and a big generous heart. An important book by a unique writer, it’s a must read.” —Ann Hood, The Knitting Circle “Ellen Meeropol’s new novel, Kinship of Clover, is a stunning kaleidoscope of humanity, with characters so real and complicated and full of life that you’ll want to linger with them over coffee long after the last page is turned. She treats them all with tremendous generosity, but it’s her creation of Flo, the feisty revolutionary whose mind is devoured a little more each day by Alzheimer’s, who won my heart through and through.” —Emily Crowe, Odyssey Bookshop (South Hadley, MA) “Midway through this wonderful novel, you will find a woman dancing in her wheelchair. That scene is one of many memorable moments in a story about young people organizing for a sustainable future, even as their once-radical elders try to hold on to a gradually disappearing past. This is a book about time and love, politics and family, and it is sharply observant and deeply compassionate.” —Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love “Ellen Meeropol, writing with heartbreaking truth, clarity, and empathy, illustrates how deeply entwined are the search for justice, the cost society imposes on political beliefs, and the price children can pay for their parent’s convictions. Kinship of Clover weaves strands of family and friends who go back decades, in connections and beliefs, until you are desperate to see the final fabric. Meeropol had me turning pages deep into the night, forcing me to think, making me cry, and, finally, having me believe in the possibility of a better world. I loved this book.” —Randy Susan Meyers, author of Accidents of Marriage “Ellen Meeropol brings her keen political sense and psychological understanding to this story of family secrets and family trauma. Kinship of Clover is compelling and the characters stay with you long after you’ve finished the book.” —Nancy Felton, co-owner of Broadside Bookshop (Northampton, MA) “Ellen Meeropol writes with courage and tenderness about characters who are under overwhelming threat. The dangers include a trauma too difficult for a young man to integrate, an activist’s fine brain under assault by Alzheimer’s, and the destruction of our precious eco-system. Yet even when defeat and disaster seem inevitable, Meeropol weaves a tale full of heart and hope.” —Jacqueline Sheehan, author of The Center of the World “Kinship of Clover counters our culture’s typically insular fiction. From a teenage girl in a wheelchair experiencing her first romantic relationship, to an older activist suffering from Alzheimer’s, to a father adjusting after years in prison, to a young man affected by childhood trauma, to environmentalists worried about global destruction, to biracial characters accepting their heritage, Kinship of Clover depicts our diversity. Meeropol’s social concerns drive issues that surround these sensitively drawn characters. But the novel’s subjects are secondary to the story, one as elaborate and engaging as its ideological undercurrent.” —Nan Cuba, author of Body and Bread “This smart, lyrical novel cooks up a cast of quirky characters dealing as best they can with a host of 21st century issues: climate change and biodiversity loss, physical and mental illness; personal tragedy, alternative lifestyles and the enduring love among friends and family. Ellen Meeropol’s deep knowledge of the environment, health care, progressive politics and the human heart shines through on every page. A thought-provoking delight to read; I couldn’t put it down!” —Jennifer Browdy, Ph.D., What I Forgot…And Why I Remembered: A Journey to Awareness and Activism Through Purposeful Memoir
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The Library of America Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (LOA #341): Salvador
Book SynopsisLibrary of America continues its definitive edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her iconic reporting and novels from mid-careerThis second volume in Library of America''s definitive Didion edition includes two novels and three remarkable essay collections with which she extended the compass of the extraordinary journalistic eye first developed in the celebrated books Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album. Gather here are Salvador, a searing look at terror and Cold War politics in the Central American civil war of the early 1980s; Miami, a portrait not just of a city but of immigration, exile, the cocaine trade, and political violence; and After Henry, in which she reports on Patty Hearst, Nancy Reagan, the case of the Central Park Five, and the Los Angeles she once called home. The novels Democracy and The Last Thing He Wanted, the latter recently adapted for film by Netflix, are fast-paced, deftly observed narratives of power, conspiracy, and corruption in American political life. Taken together, these five books mark the remarkable mid-career evolution of one of the most dynamic writers of our time.
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Pegasus Books The Verdict: A Novel
Book SynopsisTerry Flynt is a struggling legal clerk, desperately trying to get promoted. And then he is given the biggest opportunity of his career: to help defend a millionaire accused of murdering a woman in his hotel suite. The only problem is that the accused man, Vernon James, turns out to be not only someone he knows, but someone he loathes. This case could potentially make Terry's career, but how can he defend a former friend who betrayed him so badly? With the trial date looming, Terry delves deeper into Vernon's life and is forced to confront secrets from their shared past that could have devastating consequences for them both. For years he has wanted to witness Vernon's downfall, but with so much at stake, how can Terry be sure that he is guilty? And what choices must he make to ensure that justice is done?Trade Review"A propulsive legal thriller. The Machiavellian plotting, Old Bailey fireworks, and almost Dickensian richness of character and setting make this a standout." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This fast-paced legal thriller by the award-winning author of The Clarinet is destined to grab the attention of American readers for its complexity of plot, its depth of character development, and for the nitty-gritty portrayal of -London's seamier side. Fans of the BBC's numerous popular crime series can now curl up with similar sophisticated fare in book form." -- Library Journal (starred) "A fast-moving British legal thriller filled with tension and surprises. No reader (one hopes) will root for the defendant. But they'll fret over Flynt, the underdog clerk who has so much to prove. The suspense never lets up in this terrific courtroom drama. Fans of John Grisham will love it. It's definitely movie material." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "A terrific legal thriller in which long-buried secrets acquire the force of deadly weapons. The writing is vivid and energetic, and Stone has John Grisham's flair in the court scenes." -- The Guardian "This is a taut, skillfully written, and engaging legal thriller. Major characters are very sharply drawn, and Stone's insights into the English legal system are plausible and eye-opening." -- Booklist "Nick Stone has been described as the London John Grisham. This is terrific stuff. An unrelenting narrative grip right up to its courtroom climax. The Verdict is a rattling good read." -- The Daily Express, Best Books of the Year "Terrific stuff. An unrelenting narrative grip right up to its courtroom climax." -- The Daily Express
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Oceanview Publishing Wyatt's Revenge: A Matt Royal Mystery
Book SynopsisBest-Selling and Award-Winning AuthorLike an action adventure movie—a roller coaster of action On balance, retired trial lawyer-turned-beach-bum Matt Royal is a pretty laid-back fellow. But when Laurence Wyatt, one of Matt's best friends, is murdered, Matt trades in his easygoing ways for a hard-hitting quest for revenge. Matt knows the Longboat Key police will do their job in investigating. But for Matt, finding Wyatt's killer isn't a job; it's personal. Determined to do whatever it takes to solve Wyatt's murder, Matt takes matters into his own hands and embarks on a clandestine investigation. Soon, Matt finds himself in hot pursuit of a cadre of remorseless criminals and trained killers, but the tables turn, and Matt becomes the pursued. Faced with mounting danger, Matt calls for backup from his buddies Jock Algren and Logan Hamilton. Matt Royal would go to the ends of the earth to exact revenge for Wyatt's murder, but will he go outside the law? Expect the unexpected in this wild and dangerous ride from Longboat Key, Florida, to Frankfurt, Germany—because hell hath no fury like Matt Royal scorned.Perfect for fans of John Sanford and Robert Crais While all of the novels in the Matt Royal Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Blood Island Wyatt’s Revenge Bitter Legacy Collateral Damage Fatal Decree Found Chasing Justice Mortal Dilemma VindicationTrade Review"A super-charged thriller. Griffin weaves a convincing, creative tale, smoothly increasing the level of suspense. The breakneck pace never slows." Lansing State Journal"If you like an adventure-packed story with a little history lesson thrown in, this book is for you." The Bismarck TribunePraise for the Matt Royal Mystery Series " Bitter Legacy is another solid cruise in the sun with H. Terrell Griffin. This story takes you in and holds you to the very last page. I enjoyed the ride!" Michael Connelly, New York Times best-selling author"Witty, smart and highly entertaining. An intriguing mix of hopes and fears that combine into a pulse-pounding treat." Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author"Welcome to the world of Matt Royal, the fun-loving beach bum lawyer who is as tough and smart as any character in modern American fiction." âRandy Wayne White, New York Times best-selling author"Full of Florida flavor and spiced with tension and humor." -- James O. Born, New York Times best-selling author"This is an entertaining mystery . . . reminiscent of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels, with a dash of Lee Child's Jack Reacher thrown in for good measure." Booklist"Highly recommended for thriller fans who enjoy the works of David Baldacci." Library Journal (Starred Review)
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Oceanview Publishing Stuff to Spy For: A Novel
Book SynopsisBest friends James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead-end jobs, still living in their ratty apartment in Carol City, Florida, and still dreaming of hitting the big time. It seems those dreams are finally within reach when James lands a job to install a state-of-the-art security system for Synco Systems. There's a huge commission-and plenty of strings-attached. To collect on the cash, James will have to provide additional services by assuming the role of pretend boyfriend of Sarah Crumbly, an employee who's having an affair with Sandler Conroy, Synco's married president.When Sandler's wife offers James a tidy sum for the dirty details about what's going on at Synco, James and Skip resurrect their entrepreneurial dreams and go into the business of being spies. The spymobile-their beloved, rattletrap of a boxtruck-is on its last legs, and they'll have to spend a small fortune on spy equipment, but there's no business like spy business.In this spy game, James and Skip may be the ones who get played-or worse.
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Oceanview Publishing In Their Blood: A Novel
Book SynopsisBorn into a life of privilege, Jeremy Stroeb loves freedom, loathes responsibility and drops out of college to start backpacking across Europe. But this free-spirited drifter crashes back to brutal reality when his parents, Rachel and Daniel Stroeb, are murdered in their home on Miami Beach. When he returns to Miami, Jeremy assumes guardianship of his teenage sister, Elise, who is traumatized and convinced the killer will be back for her. With steely, urgent resolve, Jeremy vows to find out what really happened to Rachel Stroeb, the respected CPA and Daniel Stroeb, the controversial professor. Determined to get on the inside of his parents' lives, Jeremy takes a job at the accounting firm where his mother worked, and enrolls at the university where his father taught. But too many details don't add up. With mounting certainty that his parents were anything but the people he thought they were, Jeremy must face the toughest questions of all. Who were Rachel and Daniel Stroeb? And when will the killer be back for the next of kin?
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Oceanview Publishing The Fallen: A Derek Stillwater Thriller
Book SynopsisTwenty world leaders meet for the G8 Summit at the beautiful Cheyenne Resort in Colorado Springs. But an ugly plot lurks beneath the surface: a terrorist group, The Fallen Angels, plans to wreak havoc on the Summit.With the Secret Service, the FBI, Homeland Security, the military, and security from twenty different governments on-hand, shouldn't the resort be the safest place in the world?It seems impossible that a terrorist group could infiltrate the Summit. And yet they do. Within minutes, twenty world leaders are taken hostage, and Richard Coffee, the group's leader, makes his first demand: release twenty detainees from Guantanamo Bay, or he'll execute one leader each hour until his demands are met.Only one man can disrupt this plot. Derek Stillwater is that man.Working undercover as a maintenance man at the resort, Stillwater will wage war on the world's deadliest, most sophisticated terrorist organization, picking off the terrorists one by one-until he comes face-to-face with an evil force from his past, Richard Coffee, The Fallen Angel himself.
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Oceanview Publishing Frame-Up: A Knight and Devlin Thriller
Book SynopsisGold-Medal Winner of the Foreword Book of the Year Award Deadly, high-stakes art fraud case—Enter at your own risk! After graduating from Harvard Law with his closest friend, John McKedrick, Michael Knight practices with the U.S. Attorney’s office and with a prestigious trial firm in Boston. Then Michael and his mentor, the legendary trial attorney Lex Devlin, form Devlin & Knight to do criminal defense work, while John becomes sole associate of a notorious mob lawyer. Michael never lost hope that John McKedrick would escape to “cleaner pastures”—until John is murdered in a car bombing bearing the signature of his questionable clientele. How could two friends who were so close have taken such wildly divergent paths? In the wake of McKedrick’s murder, three men who took their own deviating paths will meet for the first time in forty years. Matt Ryan, a priest; Dominic Santangelo, a Mafia don; and Lex Devlin put the past aside to focus on a present concern—Dominic’s son has been charged with John McKedrick’s murder. At Lex’s urging, Michael Knight reluctantly agrees to represent the alleged bomber. In building a defense, Michael is drawn into a high-stakes art fraud that leads him from the seediest parts of Boston to the sophisticated Amsterdam inner sanctum of international crime.Perfect for fans of Dennis Lehane and John Grisham While all of the novels in the Knight and Devlin Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Neon Dragon Frame-Up Black Diamond Deadly Diamonds Fatal Odds High Stakes
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Oceanview Publishing Hot Stuff: A Novel
Book SynopsisAn attractive sous chef at the famous restaurant L’ Elfe is murdered and half the employees are suspect.Lacking confidence in the police to solve the murder, Chef Jean Bouvier seeks a quicker solution. He hires private eyes James Lessor and Skip Moore to go undercover and discreetly investigate his restaurant staff.But their investigation turns up far more than they bargained for. Skip’ s charming girlfriend, Emily, confesses that the murder victim and she had been close friends at one point in their lives and had shared a very dark secret.But Emily refuses to elaborate, building a wall of defense between herself and the two young detectives. The more Skip and James investigate the background of the victim and the people she knew, the more they are convinced that this shared secret has far-reaching implications that may lead to the motive for the murder.The closer they get to the answer, the more desperate someone is to stop them.
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Oceanview Publishing Too Much Stuff: A Novel
Book SynopsisA 1935 hurricane in the Florida Keys destroyed the East Coast Railway, killed five-hundred people and blew away the town of Islamorada. Lost in that storm was Mathew Kriegel, a finance director for the railroad, and one and a quarter million dollars in gold. Now newly minted private investigators Skip More and James Lessor, of More Or Less Investigations have been hired to find that lost treasure. Fighting off competitors, scuba diving, digging in a spooky cemetery and almost getting killed is only part of their job. Skip and James have stumbled onto the biggest most dangerous adventure of their lives.
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Oceanview Publishing Reel Stuff: A Novel
Book SynopsisIs it suicide or murder when Academy Award winning actor Jason Londell leaps to his death during the filming of a TV show in Miami?Londell’ s actress girlfriend hires private investigators James Lessor and Skip Moore to investigate. They uncover a plot loaded with twists and fueled by money and greed.The case sends James, Skip, and Skip’ s girlfriend Emily to Los Angeles where the blonde beauty goes undercover in Hollywood and is “ discovered” by a talent agent. The normally level-headed Emily gets carried away by the dream of a career in pictures, but true to the cause of the case, she works with the guys to bring down the killer.Caught up in the world of movies, actors, actresses, and Hollywood, the trio finds that it really is the land of make-believe — but murder is still the real thing.
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Oceanview Publishing The Deal
Book SynopsisEverything about Jonah Gray screams success -movie-star good looks, expensive clothes, a Park Avenue penthouse, and a seven-figure income. A cutthroat, rainmaking New York city commercial real estate broker, Jonah craves opulence and power. He beds models, romps the globe on the weekends and sees the world as his for the taking. Jonah Gray has it all. Or at least he had it all. When a friend presents Jonah with the deal of a lifetime, Jonah jumps at the chance. All Jonah has to do is act quickly, invest half a billion dollars in prime NY office buildings, and collect a huge payoff. But this golden opportunity is anything but. Within days of signing on, Jonah is mysteriously thrust into the epicenter of an international and personal scandal. Forced to explore a whole new territory where he can trust no one, and where danger, death and deception lurk at every corner, Jonah will learn some painfully hard lessons about the quest for easy money. Closing this deal could mean losing everything.
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Oceanview Publishing The Deal: About Face
Book SynopsisNew York City commercial real estate power-broker Jonah Gray has finally resurfaced and he has a lot of unfinished business. Since becoming a fugitive and fleeing his own country, the road traveled has been a long and shocking one. It has been a road of singular purpose: the methodical preparation for his return.
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Oceanview Publishing Secretariat Reborn: A Novel
Book SynopsisWhen Christian promises his father that he'll race the colt, he's plunged into the underworld of horse racing. To navigate his way he naively hires Ed Price, a heartless Miami trainer. And when his colt shows potential — a surprising resemblance to Secretariat — a dubious wealthy sheik wants to buy him, but Christian vows to keep his promise to his father. With a sizable debt still owed on the horse, Christian is forced to take out a loan, his only recourse, Vince, a New York mobster. If the money is not repaid on time, Christian's life and that of Allie, his colt's trainer, are threatened. To add to his rollercoaster of troubles, he faces fraud charges since his father illegally registered the colt, and he is being stalked by a psychotic ex-girlfriend.
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Oceanview Publishing Collision of Centuries
Book SynopsisA vicious murder with a broadsword leaves a man dead at a remote and ancient castle in the Bavarian forests. Shortly thereafter, the bubonic plague—a hideous disease believed to be eliminated centuries ago, is detected in Bavaria, killing its victims. German police Kommissar Franz Waldbaer strongly suspects a link to the castle, but his investigation is impeded by the master of the castle, the arrogant Count von Wintelock. As Waldbaer painfully extracts information from the Count, more people die, and it becomes apparent that the deadly plague is spreading—and fast. Waldbaer and his team of international infectious disease specialists find themsleves on a collision course with a twisted genius who wants to plunge the world into the Dark Ages, leaving millions dead. To make matters worse, the killer has a terminal disease. With nothing to lose, he accelerates his efforts.
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Oceanview Publishing The Disposables: A Novel
Book SynopsisBest-selling author of the Bruno Johnson Crime Series Ex-cop, Ex-con, Committed Vigilante . . . With a Soft Spot for Kids Bruno Johnson, a tough street cop, member of the elite violent crimes task force, feared by the bad guys, admired by the good, finds his life derailed when a personal tragedy forces him to break the law. Now he’s an ex-con and his life on parole is not going well. He is hassled by the police at every opportunity, and to make matters even more difficult, his former partner, Robby Wicks, now a high-ranking detective, bullies him into helping solve a high profile crime—unofficially, of course. Bruno’s girlfriend, Marie, brings out the good, the real Bruno, and even though they veer totally outside the law, he and Marie dedicate themselves to saving abused children, creating a type of underground railroad for neglected kids at risk, disposable kids. Caught between police brutality, the demands of his rogue ex-partner, and the precarious circumstances of the children, Bruno is forced into a brutality of his own as he pulls out every stop to save these children from a warped system of justice.Perfect for fans of Robert Crais and Michael Connelly While all of the novels in the Bruno Johnson Crime Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:The Disposables The Replacements The Squandered The Vanquished The Innocents The Reckless The Heartless The Ruthless The Sinister Trade Review"For those who crave fast-paced, noir-like thrillers, The Disposables is a novel that won't disappoint." Foreword Reviews"This novel gives off heatthere are a number of unique and startling plot twists. But what really recommends the book is the high-octane presentationthe occasional clunky sentence doesn't detract. Rather, they add somehow to the sense of urgency and authenticity, the feeling that this is the real deal, set down by somebody who was there and still hasn't gotten over it. The SWAT-like assault on the crime house is an impressive set piece." Booklist
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Oceanview Publishing Yesterday's Echo: A Novel
Book SynopsisWinner of the Anthony Award for Best First NovelA dishonored ex-cop’s desperate chance for redemption While never convicted of his wife’s murder, Rick was never exonerated either. Not by the police. Not by the media. Not even by himself. Eight years later, police suspicion and his own guilt remain over his responsibility in his wife’s death. When he meets Melody Malana, a beautiful yet secretive TV reporter, he sees a chance to love again. When she is arrested for murder and asks Rick for help, the former cop says no, but the rest of him says yes and he grasps at a chance for love and redemption. Rick’s attempt to help turns terribly wrong, and he, too, becomes a suspect in the murder and the target of a police manhunt. On the run, Rick encounters desperate people who will kill to keep their pasts buried. Before Rick can save himself and bring down a murderer, he must confront the truth about his own past and untangle his feeling for a woman he can never fully trust.Fans of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch will love Matt Coyle’s Rick Cahill While all of the novels in the Rick Cahill PI Crime Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Yesterday’s Echo Night Tremors Dark Fissures Blood Truth Wrong Light Lost Tomorrows Blind VigilTrade ReviewCoyle does a superb job of drawing the reader in and keeps a steady pace of action along with solid character development. This celebration of the crime noir novels of old with a modern sensibility in Rick Cahill as hero will strongly appeal to fans of classic hard-boiled PI novels. -- Library Journal (Starred Review)Outstanding debut - Don't miss this one! Wow, thumbs up for Matt Coyle!...Coyle is going to give some of the mystery writers a run for their money. -- Fresh Fiction... a flawlessly executed debut novel... Told in the first-person, Mr. Coyle's flawlessly executed debutnovel, Yesterday's Echo is crime noir at its best, teeming withmemorable characters and unexpected plot twists. The warts-and-all Rick Cahill is a breath of fresh air and one of themost exciting protagonists to hit the pages of a novel in a long time. A cool, compulsively readable crime story from beginning to end. -- New York Journal of BooksA sharp, compelling read, Coyle's Yesterday's Echo conjures images of Chandler's California, while reverberating with an energy and style all his own. Watch out, mystery fans, Matt Coyle has entered the scene! -- Stephen Jay Schwartz, Los Angeles Times best-selling author of Boulevard and BeatAnyone who wishes, as I do, that Raymond Chandler had written more novels ought to read Matt Coyle's Yesterday's Echo, which zings with wit while it convinces us that police, politicos, and business folk can be as mean and corrupt as ever. -- Ken Kulken, award winning author of the Tom Hickey's California crime novels."Coyle's promising debut introduces ex-cop Rick Cahill, a tarnished knight who battles internal and external demons...Cahill turns out to be both tough and resourceful when forced to confront his past. Readers can hope his future will be brighter." Publishers Weekly"Yesterday's Echo is plotted with a sure hand, and the prose flows fast and crisp like a mountain river. It will captivate you so that you don't want to put it down, and you don't want it to endat least not until the next installment is available." Suspense Magazine"Readers looking for a smart new spin on the classic P.I. novel will find it in Matt Coyle's terrific debut, yesterday's Echo. Coyle turns the difficult trick of paying the proper respect to the traditions of the classic hardboiled novel while stamping it all with his own distinct, contemporary take. A great read." Gar Anthony Haywood , author of Assume NothingPraise for the Rick Cahill PI Crime Series "Coyle knows the secret: digging into a crime means digging into the past. Sometimes it's messy, sometimes it's dangerousalways it's entertaining." Michael Connelly, New York Times best-selling author"Sharp, suspenseful, and poignant, Lost Tomorrows hits like a breaking wave and pulls readers into its relentless undertow. Matt Coyle is at the top of his game." Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author"Following an Anthony Award-winning debut isn't easy, but Matt Coyle slammed a homer. Hard, tough, humane Night Tremors is outstanding!" Robert Crais, Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus Award-winning author"Matt Coyle's Dark Fissures is a meticulously plotted detective novel with such fast and continuous action that neither the cars nor the gun barrels ever cool down."Thomas Perry, Edgar Award-winning author"Readers will root for Rick Cahill, hard-boiled PI and one-man wrecking ball, as he searches for the truth about his police officer father in Blood Truth ." Hallie Ephron, New York Times best-selling author
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Oceanview Publishing Deal Master
Book SynopsisPower Broker Jonah Gray is home. But does that mean Amsterdam, or New York City? Will he be Ivan Janse or Jonah Gray?One thing is certain—Jonah, as always, is steeled to get where he needs to go.This time around, the stakes couldn't be higher. Someone from Jonah's past is back in a big way. Jonah has been strong-armed into using his knowledge of the business of skyscrapers to assist in a nefarious, global scheme—and failure, as has been made clear, is simply not an option. There are monstrous deals and piles of cash to be made. There are reputations—even lives—to be lost.Facing the horrors of the past, Jonah's own demons start to encroach as Perry, the woman he loves, seems to sink deeper and deeper into drugs—or insanity. Jonah could be cracking under stress just as he needs maximum focus. He has always been able to call up his resolute strength of character and it's never been needed more than now. Jonah is in for the fight of his life. Not just for himself—not just for Perry—for an entire industry. Trade Review"Jonah Gray, the New York real-estate dealer who spent many years living abroad under an assumed identity ( The Deal , 2008), is back in NYC. He's putting together some very big, very expensive deals, but when the body of a murdered man is found in one of his buildings, Jonah suspects it's not a coincidence. And when an old friend shows up unexpectedly, asking Jonah to broker some real-estate transactions, Jonah is convinced that he hasn't left his past behind him, after all. Although the writing is less sure-handed than in the previous novels in the series, the story is well constructed and suspenseful. Fans of financial thrillers should enjoy this one." Booklist"A smart, complex plot that occasionally stretches credulity yet he crams enough into the mystery that readers will feel compelled to stay on the fast-paced ride." New Jersey Star-Ledger"At the outset of Gittlin's racy, fast-paced third Jonah Gray novel (after 2014's The Deal: About Face ), power broker Jonah is enjoying his fame as the head of one of the hottest boutique real estate firms in Manhattan. But all is not well. Perry York, his business partner and the love of his life, is slipping into a world of alcohol and pills, and Jonah is suffering unbearable guilt for the trauma he put Perry through while they were on the run in Europe in the previous book. To add to their woes, a security guard is found dead (possibly murdered) in one of their buildings, and a security breach threatens to cost them a major client. Worst of all, European commercial real estate mogul Cobus de Bont, "one of the most corrupt, wanted men on the planet" to whom Jonah owes a lot, demands that Jonah and Perry acquire some properties for him. The plot takes some unexpected turns before reaching the satisfying if open-ended conclusion." Publishers Weekly"Power Broker Jonah Gray is home. But does that mean Amsterdam, or New York City? Will he be Ivan Janse or Jonah Gray? One thing is certainJonah, as always, is steeled to get where he needs to go. This time around, the stakes couldn't be higher. Someone from Jonah's past is back in a big way. Jonah has been strong-armed into using his knowledge of the business of skyscrapers to assist in a nefarious, global scheme -- and failure, as has been made clear, is simply not an option. There are monstrous deals and piles of cash to be made. There are reputations (even lives) to be lost. Facing the horrors of the past, Jonah's own demons start to encroach as Perry, the woman he loves, seems to sink deeper and deeper into drugs and/or insanity. Jonah could be cracking under stress just as he needs maximum focus. He has always been able to call up his resolute strength of character and it's never been needed more than now. Jonah is in for the fight of his life. Not just for himself, and not just for Perry, but for an entire industry.Another terrific read from the mind and imagination of Adam Gittlin, Deal Master is an original and riveting read from beginning to end. Very highly recommended for community library General Fiction collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that Deal Master is also available in a Kindle edition." Midwest Book Review"Fame, fortune, loss, and redemption, it's an age-old story told here in an innovative way. Sharp as a piece of broken glass, the plot is snappy and entertaining, the tension steadily ratcheted up with nothing less than pedal-to-the-metal pacing. This is a winner." Steve Berry , New York Times & International best-selling author of The Patriot Threat"I loved The Deal , The Deal: About Face was even better, but Deal Master is Gittlin's best yet. Sophisticated, page-turning intrigue packed with high drama, the MASTER rules." Robert Dugoni , New York Times best-selling author of My Sister's Grave"Gittlin's at it again--and Deal Master is his best yet. What Grisham and Turow did with the legal realm, Gittlin is doing for the intense world of high-end commercial real estate. Artfully, skillfully, showing thriller readers that when you take the power-business of skyscrapers and blend it with loyalty, power, revenge, and murder--you get one sexy, sophisticated thrill ride." David Black , award-winning journalist, screenwriter, and author of Fast Shuffle" Deal Master delivers. A slick, slithery, cool-as-can-be thriller about the world of big money, big-time real estate, and the bigger than life characters who play the game. It's express elevator entertainment that will pick you up on the first page and rocket you right to the top of the skyscraper. Don't miss it." William Martin, New York Times best-selling author of City of Dreams and The Lincoln Letter
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Oceanview Publishing Extraordinary Rendition: A Novel
Book SynopsisUSA Today Best-Selling Author Terrorism, Corruption, Torture, and That’s Just for Starters . . . When Ali Hussein, suspected terrorist and alleged banker for Al Qaeda, is finally transported from Guantanamo Bay to the US mainland to stand trial, many are stunned when Byron Carlos Johnson, a pre-eminent lawyer and son of a high-profile diplomat, volunteers to represent him. On principle, Johnson thought he was merely defending a man unjustly captured through rendition and water-boarded illegally. But Johnson soon learns that there is much more at stake than one man's civil rights. Hussein's intimate knowledge of key financial transactions could lead to the capture of or the unabated funding of the world's most dangerous terror cells. This makes Hussein the target of corrupt US intelligence forces on one side, and ruthless international terrorists on the other—and puts Byron Carlos Johnson squarely in the crosshairs of both.Perfect for fans of Nelson de Mille While Extraordinary Rendition is a standalone novel, here is the publication order of Paul Batista’s legal thrillers:Death’s Witness Extraordinary Rendition The Borzoi Killings (Raquel Rematti Legal Thriller Series #1)Manhattan Lockdown The Warriors (Raquel Rematti Legal Thriller Series #2)Accusation (Raquel Rematti Legal Thriller Series #3) —coming in March 2022
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Oceanview Publishing The Lost Concerto
Book SynopsisBenjamin Franklin Award Silver Medal Winner Finalist - National Indie Excellence Award Finalist - International Book Award Loss, Vengeance, Courage and Love A woman and her young son flee to a convent on a remote island off the Breton coast of France. Generations of seafarers have named the place Ile de la Brume, or Fog Island. In a chapel high on a cliff, a tragic death occurs, and a terrified child vanishes into the mist. The child’s godmother, Maggie O’Shea, haunted by the violent deaths of her husband and best friend, has withdrawn from her life as a classical pianist. But then a recording of unforgettable music and a grainy photograph surface, connecting her missing godson to a long-lost first love. The photograph will draw Maggie inexorably into a collision course with criminal forces, decades-old secrets, stolen art and musical artifacts, and deadly terrorists. Her search will take her to the Festival de Musique, Aix-en-Provence, France, where she discovers answers to her husband’s death, an unexpected love—and a musical masterpiece lost for centuries. A compelling blend of suspense, mystery, political intrigue, and romance, The Lost Concerto explores universal themes of loss, vengeance, courage, and love.Perfect for fans of Sandra Brown and Iris Johansen While the novels in the Maggie O’Shea Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:The Lost Concerto Dark Rhapsody Shadow MusicTrade Review"Taking the form of a concerto, this second novel from Mario (Firebird) is divided into three action-packed emotional movements. Consumed by grief, recently widowed Madgalena O'Shea is disengaged from her life as a concert pianist. When her best friend Sofia is murdered and her godson disappears, Maggie becomes embroiled in a conflict that is at once global and deeply personal. The agent investigating Sofia's death shares with Maggie a photograph recently taken in Paris and a recording of an unpublished concerto. She recognizes the piece as a composition by her first love, lost in war-torn Beirut 30 years ago yet impossibly alive in the Paris photo. Vowing to find her godson and the truth, Maggie hastens to France, unaware that the trail she follows will lead to stolen art, musical artifacts, criminals, and terrorists.VERDICTMusic is not just backdrop here but also a character that permeates Maggie's life. With the help of a vigilant retired colonel and bolstered by the transformative power of classical music, Maggie finds what has been lost, including herself. Brava!" -- -Library Journal (Starred Review)"With a musician's attention to the emotions that help us create a picture of our world, Helaine Mario weaves imagery with a thrilling plot." -- -ForeWord Reviews"Picturesque, passionate and pulse-pounding, Helaine Mario's second novel is a gem of a thriller that has the taste and aroma of a perfectly blended wine. The author has given us entrances into classical music, art theft, terrorism, clandestine government operations and romanceâ¦This is a bravura thriller performance from a writer whose lyrical prose works well in counterpoint to the music aspects of the story line. She hits all the right notes." -- -Florida WeeklyHoly smokes, this story takes a reader on an intriguing journey! There are twists and turns that one never sees coming, making this a real page turner. Even after having to set it down for a few days, one will pick it back up and be sucked right back in. Mystery, murder, intrigue, terrorism, stolen music and artifactsâ¦.there is a lot going on in this story, but Ms. Mario keeps the flow going so well that it's easy to keep track of all the players. Maggie is heartbroken but finds the strength she needs even in the face of danger, and a love interest to help her find her way back to lifeâ¦sigh. Brava Ms. Mario, Brava!!!" -- -InD'tale Magazine"It's powerful and evocative. It's also brutal and graphic at times, sparing the reader nothing. Other times, it's funny and poignant. And throughout the whole winds a love of music that is tangible. The Lost Concerto might not follow genre conventions, it might play games with what the reader knows that are author intrusion in keeping secrets even when we're in the POV of characters who know, but the story itself is one to keep you reading, the flaws minor in comparison to the power of deep characters and complex situations." -- -Tales to Tide You OverPicturesque, passionate and pulse-pounding, Helaine Mario's second novel is a gem of a thriller that has the taste and aroma of a perfectly blended wine. The author has given us entrances into classical music, art theft, terrorism, clandestine government operations and romanceâ¦This is a bravura thriller performance from a writer whose lyrical prose works well in counterpoint to the music aspects of the story line. She hits all the right notes. -- Florida Weekly"At the start of this suspenseful, heartrending novel from Mario ( Firebird ), Sofia Orsini and her young son, Thomas, are in flight from Sofia's husband, Victor, the target of U.S. Justice Department special agent Simon Sugarman, who suspects Victor of funding an impending terrorist attack on American soil. Sofia and Thomas take refuge in a church on an island off Brittany, where a killer strikes Sofia down. Thomas disappears. Ten months later in Boston, Simon uses some devious arguments to persuade recently widowed music shop owner and concert pianist Maggie O'Shea, Sofia's closest friend and Thomas's godmother, to help him locate Victor and the missing boy. Maggie becomes ensnared in a perilous game of cat and mouse that moves between France and America and brings her into contact with murderers, terrorists, and CIA agents. Musical artifacts and stolen art also figure in the action, which builds to a highly satisfying resolution...fans of romantic thrillers will be enthralled." (July) Publishers WeeklyAs tension mounts, it is so easy to put yourself in Maggie's shoes. The Lost Concerto by Helaine Mario races to a conclusion that kept me almost breathless. Maggie's determination and courage drives this work to an ending I did not expect But one that was the right one. Don't miss The Lost Concerto ." Bookloons.com"An island off the coast of France. the perfect place for a young mother and her son to hide -- until there is a murder and the little boy disappears. Maggie O'Shea is horrified to hear of the disappearance of her godson. She is still trying to get over the deaths of her husband and best friend. An old photo that puts Maggie in mind of both the lost boy and her first love sets Maggie on a trail that will take her to a French music festival where she will encounter international terrorist plots, recall a lost love and finally understand her husband's death." Five Stars Books For Avid Readers"Ostensibly the story of a search, this book is much more, as we learn about the world of classical music, lost art seized by the Nazi's in World War II and unending international intrigue. Maggie's deceased husband, numerous CIA agents and counter agents, as well as the missing father of her now adult son all play interesting parts in the story. With a full cast of characters, this novel is evocative of its many locales, fast-paced and full of excitement that never stops. Helaine Mario is a talented writer who spins a compelling tale that is hard to put down, especially for lovers of intrigue told with a cosmopolitan and historical flair. There are terrorists, doubles crosses, CIA agents, blackmail and danger galore as Maggie tries to make sense of what has happened and is happening. I found this book very difficult to stop reading, to the detriment of my much needed sleep! When the novel ends in a crescendo of excitement, we can only hope that Maggie O'Shea will have further adventures and we will have another opportunity to experience the world of international intrigue through her prism of music, extraordinary intelligence and compassion." Rants, Raves, & Reviews"The Lost Concerto is a unique mystery intricately entering the world of professional musicians while still maintaining the passion for the music, her loyalty to her godson and friend, and the story. Each page masterfully unfolds to reveal a small piece of this intricately woven puzzle into an outstanding novel with realistic characters who are driven to their limits in achieving what they believe is right." Midwest Book Review
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Oceanview Publishing Chasing Justice: A Matt Royal Mystery
Book SynopsisBest-Selling and Award-Winning Author After a multi-year absence, Matt Royal returns to the courtroom. Reluctantly. Matt Royal is going back to the courtroom. He has agreed to defend his good friend and wife of Longboat Key’s Police Chief. Abby Lester has been charged with the murder of Nate Bannister, an unlikeable, shady character. He was found shot to death in his downtown Sarasota condo and the evidence points to Abby as the killer. Matt cannot refuse Abby’s pleas for help, despite having retired from the practice of law several years earlier. Now, he must face a hotshot prosecuting attorney with a record of twenty-two wins and zero losses in murder trials. As he begins to investigate, Matt finds that nothing is what it seems. Police, politicians, academics, real estate moguls and other powerful forces are tied together in a cauldron of issues that Matt must untangle to get at the truth. Can he rekindle his legal skills and outwit the prosecution pitted against him? Matt knows he must, as the life of his friend hangs in the balance.Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly’s Lincoln Lawyer While all of the novels in the Matt Royal Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Blood Island Wyatt’s Revenge Bitter Legacy Collateral Damage Fatal Decree Found Chasing Justice Mortal Dilemma VindicationTrade ReviewThis was one fantastic read! That says a lot coming from someone who normally shies away from these kinds of Mike Hammer-style detective whodunnits. As a self-proclaimed dialogue freak, this reader found H. Terrell Griffin's dialogue sharp as an axe - witty, intelligent, and always entertaining. The knowledge of the inner workings of law enforcement and trial law, right down to picking the jury, is downright genius. The tying up of every possible loose end was admirable and brilliantly done. What could have come off reading like a huge info dump at the end came off smooth as silk. This was well written, delightfully descriptive, and filled with twists and turns from beginning to end. Mr. Griffin has gained another fan! -- InD'tale MagazineChasing Justice is another winner in this delightful murder mystery series. I love the playful banter between Matt and J.D. Both are strong main characters with a number of quirky supporting characters. Numerous feds from all letter name agencies are swarming on this case. You almost need a program to keep up. Terrell Griffin keeps the reader engaged with the many twists and turns that the cases take as Matt and J.D. try to find the real murderers. Mr. Griffin gives us a lesson in courtroom decorum and procedure as he details Abby's trial. He has certainly done his research on this island community and paints us a beautiful picture of a beach bum life. Chasing Justice is a great adventure for summer reading. Matt Royal goes back to the courtroom to defend Abby Lester, his friend and wife of Longboat Key's police chief, who is accused of murder. He must overcome his extended absence from the practicing law when pitted against a hotshot prosecuting attorney, opening a Pandora's Box of issues, characters, and activities with more twists than a corkscrew. -- Fresh FictionNothing is what it seems especially where politicians, police, academics, real estate moguls, drug dealers, undercover agents, homeland security, killers, a hint of titillating sex and a trail of murdered bodies are all bound together in a smorgasbord of issues that eventually are untangled and where the truth ultimately prevails. This is a yarn that manages to have its amusing moments even as it perplexes and intrigues with plots and subplots, which at times can be confusing. Nonetheless, to make matters more interesting, Griffin throws into the plot good old fashioned treachery and deception to keep readers turning the pages. -- BookPleasures.com"At the start of Griffin's excellent eighth Matt Royal mystery (after 2013's Found), Royal, a 'lawyer and mostly retired,' is enjoying life on Longboat Key, Fla., with those whom he considers 'the best people on earth.' One is his lover, J.D. Duncan, the island's lone police detective, who's investigating the murder of a beautiful nude woman found in a ritzy beach house. Another is Abby Lester, the local police chief's wife, who's arrested for killing a shady developer. Though Matt has nothing to gain and maybe much to lose, he agrees to defend Abby. Meanwhile, J.D. uncovers sleazy connections that link her case to Abby's. Griffin, a former trial attorney, often contrasts how things used to be with how they regrettably are now, showcasing today's 'devastated hell' of Florida's 'forgotten ones' and damning a system where too many lawyers are unscrupulous, too many policemen are corrupt, and politicians dare to threaten honest judges. Even so, Royal ensures that justice triumphs in this highly satisfying courtroom drama." Publishers Weekly - Starred Review"Bestselling author H. Terrell Griffin's novels lean heavily to the action side, but Chasing Justice is a rocket-ride legal thriller with shrewd investigative acumen. The courtroom drama rivals Matlock and Perry Mason, with the cunning of Atticus Finch tossing Tom Robinson a glass. Matt portrays himself as a beach bum attorney, but his investigation techniques and demeanor resemble those of Columbo. Matt has become jaded by the legal system, thinking 'Lawyers spent more time chasing the dollar than they did justice.' Ultimately justice prevails, 'and a lawyer can ask for no better result than that.' Chasing Justice is a rocket-ride legal thriller with shrewd investigative acumen." Bookreporter.com"Royal ensures that justice triumphs in this highly satisfying courtroom drama." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)" Chasing Justice is a rocket-ride legal thriller with shrewd investigative acumen." BookreporterPraise for the Matt Royal Mystery Series " Bitter Legacy is another solid cruise in the sun with H. Terrell Griffin. This story takes you in and holds you to the very last page. I enjoyed the ride!" Michael Connelly, New York Times best-selling author"Witty, smart and highly entertaining. An intriguing mix of hopes and fears that combine into a pulse-pounding treat." Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author"Welcome to the world of Matt Royal, the fun-loving beach bum lawyer who is as tough and smart as any character in modern American fiction." -- Randy Wayne White, New York Times best-selling author"Full of Florida flavor and spiced with tension and humor." -- James O. Born, New York Times best-selling author"This is an entertaining mystery . . . reminiscent of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels, with a dash of Lee Child's Jack Reacher thrown in for good measure." Booklist "Highly recommended for thriller fans who enjoy the works of David Baldacci." Library Journal (Starred Review)â
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Oceanview Publishing Gumshoe
Book SynopsisUSA Today best-selling author IRS agent, feared and despised—a gumshoe for only four hours—finds Reno’s missing mayor’s head For nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing. Vanished without a trace. Their vehicles were found parked side-by-side at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Did they fly somewhere together? They aren’t on any flight manifest. Did the two of them take off with a big pile of the city’s money? If so, the city accountants can’t find it. Were they murdered? There’s no sign of foul play. Their disappearances have finally made national news. Enter Mortimer Angel, who’d just quit a thankless job as an IRS agent. Mort is Reno’s newest gumshoe, a private-eye-in-training at his nephew’s detective agency. Just four hours into his new career, Mort finds the mayor—make that, the mayor’s head—in the trunk of Mort’s ex-wife’s Mercedes. The news-hungry media speculates: Did Mort kill the mayor? Did Mort’s ex? As events begin to spin out of control, Mort realizes things have been out of control since the night before he started his new career, the night he found the unknown naked blonde in his bed.“Mortimer Angel is my new favorite Private Eye.” —John Lescroart, New York Times best-selling author While all of the novels in the Mortimer Angel Gumshoe Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Gumshoe Gumshoe for Two Gumshoe on the Loose Gumshoe Rock Gumshoe in the Dark Trade ReviewGumshoe is by a large margin the best and most entertaining mystery I've read in at least the past couple of years.Rob Leininger captures the voice and heart of the classic PI mystery and manages to make it completely original at the same time. No small feat. And Mortimer Angel is my new favorite Private Eye. -- John LescroartAt the start of this complex, seductive thriller from Leininger (Killing Suki Flood), Mort Angel has quit a dead-end job as an IRS agent and is about to embark on a new career as a PI trainee in Reno, Nev. Meanwhile, Mort's ex-wife has been heating the sheets with Reno's mayor, but the mayor has mysteriously disappeared along with the city's DA, and Angel's first assignment is to hunt down the two missing politicians. What looks like a straightforward hard-boiled tale takes one surprising turn after another, propelled by Mort's snappy narrative voice and wry observations. While Mort's astonishing success in the romance department is more than slightly far-fetched, Leininger keeps the action rolling fast enough to keep any willing reader turning the pages. Eventually, Mort unravels a family history that would make Ross Macdonald proud. There's no violence and very little gore for most of the novel, but after a long and complicated buildup, the climax arrives with screaming intensity. -- Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEWFor the first third of this novel, readers are likely to wonder, along with hero Mort Angel, just what they're getting into. Mort is a former IRS agent seeking to reinvent himself as a PI. He and his author push all the buttons. He's solitary, he drinks too much, he banters with hookers. Is this a parody? An homage? A clumsy attempt to have it both ways? Hard to tell, even when Leininger has Mort, just like Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep, come home to find a gorgeous naked woman in his bed. Then Mort is asked to solve a couple of grisly murders; he pairs with a female PI, who is also a judo champ, and the mood darkens beautifully. She teaches him how to be a real detective, not the storybook version, by making him sit in a library and read dull documents until his eyes burn. They're drawn into a story of madness, incest, and revenge that ends in a stunning set piece that roars for nearly 40 pages. A fine, thrilling read. -- BooklistFive-Star Review: "All Mortimer Angel wants to do is shed the skin of his previous incarnation as a disaffected IRS field agent, and begin his exciting new life as a Private Investigator. Full of fanciful ideas and preconceived notions of what being a P.I. means, Mort soon finds himself in the thick of an ongoing mystery involving the missing mayor and the D.A. of Reno, NV. As the dead start cropping up all around him, and a naked blonde shows up out of nowhere, his new life is turning out to be almost too much for this gumshoe to handle! Will Mort be able to use his newly acquired detective skills to solve this case? Or will Mort's P.I. days be over before they truly begin? Rob Leininger has spun an electrifying suspense novel, full of twists and turns! Mortimer Angel is the shining gem in this tale. His rapier wit and tongue-in-cheek manner are an ongoing source of amusement. Likeable characters, crisp dialogue, and an intriguing storyline add up to a flawless execution of this hardboiled thriller. Mr. Leininger does a masterful job of intensifying that "pins and needles" feeling that will have one on the edge of their seat right up until the very end! Gumshoe is a standout novel with a finale that will leave the reader stunned and eagerly awaiting the next effort from the talented Mr. Leininger." InD'tale Magazine
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Oceanview Publishing Final Crossing
Book SynopsisUSA Today and #1 Denver Post Best-selling Author An Expedition to the Depths of Wickedness Rudiger doesn't kill because he wants to. He kills because he needs to. When the sadistic Preacherman stole the last bit of Rudiger's already troubled childhood soul, Rudiger lost himself forever. He has committed atrocities even he cannot explain in his quest for the End of Days, a release from his pain by finding and crucifying The One. Jonas Osborne, an Army Ranger and Senatorial Chief of Staff, recognizes Rudiger’s disturbing capacity based on a terrifying firefight in Somalia almost two decades earlier. Now Jonas—and the beautiful psychic criminologist he’s enlisted to predict Rudiger’s next brutal attack—become targets. Only on the biggest international stage—a summit for Middle East peace talks—will Jonas and Rudiger meet again for one final confrontation.Perfect for fans of Stephen King or Dean Koontz
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Oceanview Publishing Passenger 19: A Jammer Davis Thriller
Book SynopsisUSA Today Best-Selling Author Florida Book Award Silver Medal Jammer Davis has investigated many aircraft crashes—but never one with his daughter on board Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen…but for one terrible detail—his young daughter, who was en route to a semester abroad in South America, is listed on the passenger manifest. A distraught Davis rushes to Bogota and bulls his way into the inquiry. When the wreckage is located, it becomes clear the crash was unsurvivable. As the investigation gains momentum, the facts go astray. Two pilots had been shot before the crash, along with one passenger. The possibility of a hijacking looms large as the search begins to focus on two passengers who boarded the plane, yet their remains cannot be found. Davis uncovers an even more sinister plot behind the entire disaster—one that goes to the highest levels of the United States government. But how could it possibly involve his daughter?Perfect for fans of Daniel Silva, Tom Clancy, and Michael Creighton While all of the novels in the Jammer Davis Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Fly by Wire Fly by Night Passenger 19Trade Review"The stakes are personal for Jammer Davis in Larsen's exciting third thriller featuring the airplane crash investigator (after 2011's Fly by Night ). Larry Green, head of the National Transportation Safety Board's Office of Aviation Safety, calls on Davis when an ARJ-35 passenger plane goes down in southern Colombia. Three crew members and 21 passengers were aboard, including Davis's 19-year-old daughter, Jennifer. Davis flies the same day to Bogotá. At the jungle crash site, two are missing among the deadJennifer and another young woman, Kristin Stewart, who happens to resemble Jennifer. Other anomalies, such as bullet wounds in the back of the pilot's and copilot's heads, suggest a hijacking. When both Colombian and U.S. officials prove uncooperative, a frustrated Davis takes matters into his own hands. Aided by a drone and some hastily recruited allies, Davis goes on the offensive in some nice action scenes that are followed by some satisfying payback." Publishers Weekly"I love thriller authors who live what they write about. Ward Larsen is an airline captain who also flew combat missions and worked on aircraft accident investigations. In Fly By Wire , he brings his expert background to a gripping, entertaining, informative thriller that feels authentic on every page." -David Morrell, New York Times best-selling author"Larsen is fast becoming a thriller writer to watch. He clearly knows his subject matter and has a knack for writing about technology without it getting in the way of the story or the characters. Fans of the aviation thrillers of John Nance and of Michael Crichton's Airframe (1996) will find much to enjoy here." - Booklist" Fly By Wire combines the complexities of aircraft technology, international conspiracies, terrorism, oil shortages, falling financial markets, and a father's love for his teenage daughter with an ease that is breathtaking." - Mystery Scene Magazine"The descriptions of the crash scene and of Jammer's investigative work are masterfully done, and there is a superb fight scene or two with Jammer and cohorts." - Sacramento Book Review/San Francisco Book ReviewPraise for the Jammer Davis Series "Larsen, a former Air Force fighter pilot who's flown many combat missions, is a skilled writer who knows his technology, but does not let it overwhelm his story. His latest [ Fly By Night ] is a solid action novel that will appeal to aviation thriller junkies who enjoy John J. Nance and Dana Haynes." - Library Journal"This book [ Passenger 19 ] is highly recommended for suspense/thriller readers who want authentic characters and a plot so well written that they immediately want to read it all over again." Suspense Magazine"The threads of a sinister conspiracy corrupting the United States government entangle this tense mystery [ Passenger 19 ], highly recommended especially for connoisseurs of the genre." Midwest Book Review
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Oceanview Publishing The Replacements
Book SynopsisBest-selling author of the Bruno Johnson Crime Series High Octane—Urgent—Authentic Bruno Johnson, ex-detective with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and an ex-convict, is hiding out from the FBI in Costa Rica, tending bar to support eight children he illegally rescued from abusive homes. Partway through a normal day, Barbara Wicks, a former colleague and the chief of police for Montclair, California, walks into his bar. Bruno is shocked to the core. Is she there to arrest him and take him back to California? Turns out she’s there to request Bruno’s help—two children have been kidnapped. The kidnapper, Jonas Mabry, was himself a victim whom Bruno rescued as a small child. Now Mabry demands a fool’s retribution—a million-dollar ransom and that Bruno must put his own life on the line to secure the money. In this twisted turn of fate, Bruno returns to California as a wanted criminal. Despite the risk of arrest and jeopardizing his life, he cannot turn his back on these kids.Perfect for fans of Robert Crais and Michael Connelly While all of the novels in the Bruno Johnson Crime Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:The Disposables The Replacements The Squandered The Vanquished The Innocents The Reckless The Heartless The Ruthless The Sinister Trade Review"Putnam's thrilling sequel to 2014's The Disposables finds Bruno Johnson, a former L.A. sheriff's cop, settled in Costa Rica with his wife, Marie, and the eight abused children they rescued and took (illegally) from the U.S. Early in his career, Johnson intervened in a violent domestic case and managed to save the life of five-year-old Jonas Mabry. Now an adult, Jonas has kidnapped two young girls and will deal only with Johnson. Johnson is unable to resist the appeal of Montclair, Calif., police chief Barbra Wicks, and returns to California to track down Jonas. Jonas proves to be a diabolically clever opponent as he runs circles around Johnson, leading him down one blind alley after another and forcing him to make desperate moves. Putnam steadily ratchets up the tension, while memorable supporting characters, like the courageous Marie, help engage reader interest." -- Publishers WeeklyThe hero of this rowdy novel made his first appearance two years ago in The Disposables. The sequel makes quick mention of the earlier adventure in an opening chapter, then gets down to the violent life of ex-cop, ex-con Bruno Johnson. The plot motor is a twist on a detective-story standby: a long-forgotten crime surfaces to haunt the hero. But here it's Johnson's good deed that sets things off. In a stunning opening, we flashback to a day when Johnson rescued a child shot by his mother. Now the child is grown up and mean, and he's seeking, for reasons the author withholds till the finale, a nutty revenge. Johnson had hoped for the tamer life of a bartender, but he must go rogue again and, this time, battle thieves and killers before bringing the story home. The narrative charges ahead full tilt, like a bullet train. Readers may find the plot overcomplicated, and the good-hearted heels a bit of a stretch, but that hardly matters when the action won't slow down, and we're with the story all the way. -- BooklistThe Replacementsis listed as a thriller. And it is just that. As the plot thickens, Bruno's heart is racing as will yours as you read of his exploits. You know that he is wanted by the FBI. But on realizing that he is giving his kids a life free of fear and torture, you just have to be on his side. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am anxiously awaiting the next episode. -- Bookloons.comThe three-dimensional characters (especially the villain) turn this urban jungle sequel toThe Disposables into a fantastic cat and mouse thriller. Loaded with suspense that intensifies throughout, Jonas proves a very competent puppeteer pulling the strings of valiant desperate Bruno and equally brave Marie. -- The Midwest Book ReviewThe novel is fast paced and entertaining. At some points, the plot does become a bit tangled and more complex than it needs to be, but the book's saving points are always its adventure and characters. Unlike most action novels, the narrative does not shy away from being emotionally complicated, delving into the mental repercussions of kidnapping and murder. This allows the book to carve a unique identity for itself in a genre riddled with similar plots and characters. Fans of action novels will get the most out of this book. While it is a sequel, reading the first in the series is not necessary to enjoy the second book. -- ForeWord Reviews
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Oceanview Publishing Off the Grid: Volume 1
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Oceanview Publishing The Third Coincidence
Book SynopsisTwo United States Supreme Court Justices and one Federal Reserve Board Governor murdered in past two weeks. When will the murderous rampage stop?Headlines scream across the nation as a country in near panic pleads for the capture of the killers. With little progress, U.S. President Samuel Schroeder asks Jack McCall, a veteran of the CIA and Defense Intelligence, to head up a special multi-agency task force to find the killers. A frustrated and unhappy FBI designates, as its representative, Rachel Johnstone, an agent with whom Jack has had some personal history. The Third Coincidence unfolds amidst continued assassinations, accusations that the president is attempting to form his own secret police, and confirmation hearings for reluctant nominees to fill the vacant positions while the Supreme Court struggles to sustain a quorum. Will a terrorist group or a mad assassin succeed in destroying these revered intuitions? In the spirit of The Day of the Jackal and The Manchurian Candidate, this story is juxtaposed through the eyes of both the hunter and the hunted as the devious plot to change America hurdles forward.For fans of The Manchurian Candidate and The Day of the JackalTrade Review"This is an exciting action-packed thriller that grips readers with the opening assassinations and never slows down until the final confrontation though there is a somewhat repetitiveness feel to the cat and mouse storyline. A romantic subplot seems a forced requirement, but fans will enjoy the heroics of Jack and Rachel as they play chess against a homegrown terrorist or more." The Midwest Book Review"a well-plotted story that will keep you on the edge of your chair until the last page is turned - and maybe keep your bedside light on all night, as well as bringing up the thought that this scenario could very easily be real. Frightening, isn't it? The Third Coincidence is very good reading and well worth the time." Bookloons
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Oceanview Publishing Relentless
Book SynopsisDetective Brick Kavanagh’s life is turned upside down. This murder is personal. Cherry blossom season is Washington, D.C.’s most beautiful time of the year. But as tourists flock to the city, this year’s festivities are marred by the discovery of the naked body of a young woman floating in the Tidal Basin. Veteran homicide detective Brian (Brick) Kavanagh is assigned to the case. He’s shocked when he learns the victim is connected to another homicide which makes the investigation very personal for him. Brick’s efforts to solve the case are thwarted by departmental politics and a rush to judgment. Convinced that justice has not been served and the wrong person is in jail, Kavanagh risks all to relentlessly pursue the truth. Overlooked evidence ultimately leads to a devastating conclusion in a heartbreaking case.Perfect for fans of police procedurals in the style of Harry BoschTrade Review"Wilson's Relentless lives up to its title and will keep you turning pages throughout the twisting mystery and final reveal. A gritty and engrossing tale that introduces Brick Kavanagh, a detective who's as smart as he is battle worn, and who takes his place among the best detectives in fiction." Jamie Freveletti, best-selling author"In Relentless , fans of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch will find a new hero in Brian Kavanagh, a detective with more brains than brawn who personifies the term "relentless." Throw in cherry blossom season in Washington, D.C. and you have the perfect mystery read." Patricia Gussin, New York Times best-selling author"Shawn Wilson takes readers on a roller coaster ride with twists and turns and a completely unexpected final destination in Relentless ." Matt Coyle, Anthony-award winning author"Shawn Wilson's novel, [ Relentless ] brings a crafty, engaging new detective to the mean streets of Washington, D.C. A relentlessly entertaining debut!" Daniel Stashower, Edgar Award-winning author" Relentless has a gritty, timely plot, an intriguing protagonist who surprises, and an emotional depth that keeps you turning the pages as a different side of Washington, D.C. is revealed." Sherry Harris, author of Let's Fake a Deal "The action is top-notch . . . Wilson does a good job whipping up some mysterious murders." Booklist"[In Relentless ,] Wilson has created a protagonist with the full complement of angst-inducing problems and an appealing white knight sense of decency." Publishers Weekly"In Relentless , Shawn Wilson has introduced a memorable hero, a plethora of supporting characters, and a story full of twists and turns to keep any amateur detective or criminal enthusiast on his or her toes." BookTrib
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Oceanview Publishing Diver's Paradise
Book SynopsisWhy do people close to Roscoe Conklin keep showing up dead—and on the paradise island of Bonaire? After 25 years on the job, Detective Roscoe Conklin trades his badge for a pair of shorts and sandals and moves to Bonaire, a small island nestled in the southern Caribbean. But the warm water, palm trees, and sunsets are derailed when his long-time police-buddy and friend back home, is murdered. Conklin dusts off a few markers and calls his old department, trolling for information. It’s slow going. No surprise, there. After all, it’s an active investigation, and his compadres back home aren’t saying a damn thing. He’s 2,000 miles away, living in paradise. Does he really think he can help? They suggest he go to the beach and catch some rays. For Conklin, it’s not that simple. Outside looking in? Not him. Never has been. Never will be. When a suspicious mishap lands his significant other, Arabella, in the hospital, the island police conduct, at best, a sluggish investigation, stonewalling progress. Conklin questions the evidence and challenges the department’s methods. Something isn’t right. Arabella wasn’t the intended target.He was.Perfect for fans of Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford and Robert B. Parker's Spencer While the novels in the Roscoe Conklin Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Diver’s Paradise Paradise CoveTrade Review"[ Diver's Paradise is] a fun and heady combination of suspense and intrigue that appeals to the underdog in us all. It definitely delivers what readers crave."Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author" Diver's Paradise starts off with a bang and never lets up! A fantastic Caribbean mystery that will appeal to fans of Randy Wayne White. The ultimate beach read for those for who love sun, sand, and turquoise water!"Ward Larsen, USA Today best-selling author"Cops don't retire to laid-back Bonaire to be targeted for murder, but Roscoe Conklin is the exception. With the grisly murder of his former partner back in the States, Conklin finds himself tangled in a web of lies, deceit, killings and mistaken identity. And all he wants to do is play his banjo on the porch. Tightly written, Goodwin's debut novel captures the relaxed, easy going life in Bonaire, then shatters it with explosive energy. You won't put this book down till the last page!" Don Bruns, USA Today best-selling author"[ Diver's Paradise is an] impressive debut and series launch. Fans of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee will look forward to seeing more of Conklin." Publishers Weekly"Detective Roscoe Conklin's retirement to the Caribbean paradise of Bonaire is shattered when his old partner is murdered. His attempts to investigate the killing lead him down a convoluted and dangerous path where his own life is at stake. Diver's Paradise is a fast-paced and engaging thriller that will linger long after the final page." D. P. Lyle, Macavity and Benjamin Franklin Award-winning author"[ Diver's Paradise is] a dazzling debut thriller that grabs you by the throat with spell-binding action from the first page -- and never slows down. Davin Goodwin has created a fascinating character in Roscoe Conklin, a retired cop living in an island paradise who can't escape the deadly secrets from his past. The bodies soon begin piling up, along with one stunning plot twist after another. Highly recommended!" R. G. Belsky, author of the award-winning Clare Carlson series" Diver's Paradise had me hooked from the first pages, from its opening in snowy Rockford, Illinois to the sunny beaches of an island in the Caribbean. Roscoe Conklin, or R, as he's known, is a totally likable and engaging protagonist whom I can't wait to revisit in the next one. Davin Goodwin is a major new talent." Michael A. Black, award-winning author of Blood Trails"Make room at the table with Child, Grisham, and Coben. Davin Goodwin's debut novel Diver's Paradise is a stay-up-all-night page-turner in the best traditions of the American thriller." Renee James, author of Seven Suspects" Diver's Paradise starts off with a bang and never lets up! A fantastic Caribbean mystery that will appeal to fans of Randy Wayne White. The ultimate beach read for those for who love sun, sand, and turquoise water!" Ward Larsen, USA Today best-selling author"Tightly written, Goodwin's debut novel captures the relaxed, easy going life in Bonaire, then shatters it with explosive energy. You won't put this book down till the last page!" Don Bruns, USA Today best-selling author" Diver's Paradise is a fast-paced and engaging thriller that will linger long after the final page." D. P. Lyle, Macavity and Benjamin Franklin Award-winning author
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Oceanview Publishing The Last Scoop
Book SynopsisThe scariest kind of serial killer—one you don’t know existsMartin Barlow was Clare Carlson's first newspaper editor, a beloved mentor who inspired her career as a journalist. But, since retiring from his newspaper job, he had become a kind of pathetic figure—railing on about conspiracies, cover-ups, and other imaginary stories he was still working on. Clare had been too busy with her own career to pay much attention to him.When Martin Barlow is killed on the street one night during an apparent mugging attempt gone bad, it seems like he was just an old man whose time had come.But Clare—initially out of a sense of guilt for ignoring her old friend and then because of her own journalistic instincts—begins looking into his last story idea. As she digs deeper and deeper into his secret files, she uncovers shocking evidence of a serial killer worse than Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, or any of the other infamous names in history.This really is the biggest story of Martin Barlow's career—and Clare's, too—as she uncovers the path leading to the decades-long killer of at least twenty young women. All is not as it seems during Clare's relentless search for this serial killer. Is she setting herself up to be his next victim?Clare Carlson is perfect for fans of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone and Sara Paretsky's V.I. WarshawskiWhile all of the novels in the Clare Carlson Mystery Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Yesterday’s NewsBelow the FoldThe Last ScoopBeyond the HeadlinesIt’s News to MeBroadcast Blues (coming 2024)Trade ReviewPraise for The Clare Carlson Mystery Series -- "Below the Fold takes readers on a whiplash ride through a New York murder case. The television news investigation provides a fascinating lens for the story. Heroine Clare Carlson is formidable, human, and thoroughly authentic. R. G. Belsky knows his stuff." -- Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author"In today's world of fake news and alternate facts, R. G. Belsky reminds us why we need reporters like Clare Carlson more than ever before. She is what we want all our journalists to be -- honest, objective, and relentless in her pursuit of the truth." -- Lee Goldberg, New York Times best-selling author"Belsky's Yesterday's News elicits all parents' deepest fear -- the disappearance of a child. But this intelligent, gripping novel is about so much more: ambition, secrets, and, most shocking of all, truth. Read it." -- Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times best-selling author"What a terrific book! A complex and compelling nonstop cat-and-mouse chase -- and you're never quite sure which one's the mouse. Even the savviest of readers will be gasping in awe at Belsky's impressive story-telling skills." -- Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author"Belsky's behind-the-headlines thriller Yesterday's News is about truth, lies -- and how much of each we're willing to live with." -- Lori Rader-Day, Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author"Belsky's experience as a journalist provides fascinating insights and a sense of authenticity. Readers will look forward to seeing more of doggedly determined Clare." -- Publishers Weekly
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Oceanview Publishing Rigged
Book SynopsisLove triangle—motive for double murder? First loves are never forgotten. Ever. Certainly not for Tommy "Pancake" Jeffers. His first-kiss, sixth-grade love, Emily, who he has not seen since grammar school, is sliding toward divorce in the artsy Gulf Coast town of Fairhope, Alabama. Longly Investigations has been charged with looking into the finances involved. When Emily doesn't appear for their nervously anticipated meeting, Pancake's radar goes on high alert. Her body, along with that of Jason––one of two guys she has been dating––is found murdered, execution-style, Pancake calls in Jake, Nicole, and Ray. Who would have done this? Could it be the soon-to-be ex, who has an ironclad alibi; the other guy Emily was seeing––jealousy being a motive for harm; or do the drugs found in Jason's pocket indicate a drug-related hit? That world yields a host of suspects. As they peel back the layers of this idyllic community, dark secrets come to light and convoluted motives and methods of murder are revealed.Perfect for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich While all of the novels in the Jake Longly Thriller Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Deep Six A-List Sunshine State Rigged The OC (coming October 2021)Trade Review"We all know Lyle's erudition and expertisebut who knew he was this funny?" -- Lee Child, New York Times best-selling author"D. P. Lyle hits it over the fence with A-List . This mystery, featuring former Major League pitcher and reluctant PI Jake Longly, is fast-paced, slick, and funny. Bad times in the Big Easy mean a great time for readers. Head to New Orleans with Jake, and enjoy the trip." Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author"The release of a new D. P. Lyle book is a highlight of any year, and Sunshine State is his best yet! This is one of those rare novels where everything in your life stops until you read through to the end. Jake Longly rocks!" John Gilstrap, New York Times best-selling author"D. P. Lyle returns in superb form in Deep Six . Smart, wickedly funny, expertly constructed and deftly executed, Lyle is at the top of his game as he takes his readers on a romp on the Gulf Coast that goes down as smoothly as a cold beer on a hot day at a bar next to the beach." Sheldon Siegel, New York Times best-selling author"With an ingenious plot, lots of laughs, plenty of romance, and a hot, Florida locale, Sunshine State is the definition of the perfect beach read." Lee Goldberg, New York Times best-selling author"Corruption, vendettas, cartel killers, oh my! Deep Six puts the fun back into late-night reading with this fast-paced romp through murder and mayhem. Prepare to flip the pages." Lisa Gardner, New York Times best-selling author" Sunshine State sizzles with just the right mix of action and mystery, a rollicking roller-coaster ride on a track lined with thrills and spills." Jon Land, USA Today best-selling author
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Oceanview Publishing Blind Vigil
Book SynopsisSan Diego Writer’s Festival Mystery Writer of the Year for 2021 Winner of the Shamus Award and nominated for Macavity, Barry, and Lefty Awards A friend arrested for murder. A vicious killer lurking in the shadows. A world of darkness. Blinded by a gunshot wound to the face while working as a private investigator nine months ago, Rick Cahill is now sure of only one thing: he has to start a new life and leave his old one behind. He’s still trying to figure out what that life is when his onetime partner, Moira MacFarlane, asks for his help on a case she’s taken for Rick’s former best friend. The case is simple and Moira only needs Rick for one interview, but Rick is wary of waking sleeping demons. Ultimately, he goes against his gut and takes the case which quickly turns deadly. Rick’s old compulsion of finding the truth no matter the cost—the same compulsion that cost him his eyesight and almost his life—battles against his desire to escape his past. The stakes are raised when Rick’s friend is implicated in murder and needs his help. Can he help the friend he no longer trusts while questioning his own lessened capabilities? His life depends on the answer as a shadowy killer lurks in the darkness.Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly and John Sandford While all of the novels in the Rick Cahill PI Crime Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Yesterday’s Echo Night Tremors Dark Fissures Blood Truth Wrong Light Lost Tomorrows Blind Vigil Last Redemption Doomed LegacyTrade Review"A tense, fast-paced, hard-boiled mystery" -- ABC News"Rickstubborn, loyal, and suspicious of authorityis an intriguing character" San Francisco Chronicle"[ Blind Vigil is] told in a clear, unadorned style." Yahoo Entertainment"A tense, fast-paced, hard-boiled mystery" Los Angeles Times"[ Blind Vigil is] emotionally wrenching and haunting . . . a visceral tour de force of the PI tradition." T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times best-selling author" Blind Vigil is a masterful blend of hard-boiled, noirish, slow-burning, yet fast-paced storytelling, provingonce againthat Matt Coyle has earned his place as one of the great authors of classic PI fiction." Robin Burcell, New York Times best-selling author"With Wrong Light , Matt Coyle is on top of his game and Rick Cahill ascends to the top ranks of the classic private eyes. Coyle knows the secret: digging into a crime means digging into the past. Sometimes it's messy, sometimes it's dangerousalways it's entertaining. You'll find all of that and more in this great read." Michael Connelly, New York Times best-selling author"Sharp, suspenseful, and poignant, Lost Tomorrows hits like a breaking wave and pulls readers into its relentless undertow. Matt Coyle is at the top of his game." Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author"An equation involving everyone from the Russian mob to Irish Travelers to ex-cops, Coyle's Wrong Light is a fascinating, fast-paced, spidery-webbed novel." Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times best-selling author "[ Lost Tomorrows is] suspenseful, tightly written, full of curve balls and memorable characters and very, very smart. Welcome back, Rick. We're really glad to see you." Joe Ide, Shamus Award-winning author "Part pacy thriller and part fair-play puzzle, Wrong Light deliversCoyle honors the gumshoe tradition but confounds expectations; he both celebrates and laments masculinity; and he writes with respect of the price his hero pays for the life he lives." Catriona McPherson, Macavity, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author "Readers will root for Rick Cahill, hard-boiled PI and one-man wrecking ball, as he searches for the truth about his police officer father in Blood Truth ." Hallie Ephron, New York Times best-selling author "Matt Coyle knocks it out of the park with Last Redemption . Just when you think Coyle has reached the top of his gamehe does one better." Allison Brennan, New York Times best-selling author "Raymond Chandler-reincarnate Matt Coyle has set the private eye bar at skyscraper height. Authors who strive to traverse Coyle's caliber need a hot air balloon." Bookreporter "[In Blind Vigil ,] Rick Cahill is a moody PI, tough, hard-boiled, and unapologetic, in the tradition of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe." Midwest Book Review
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