Al Lamanda

Broschiertes Buch

For Better or Worse

Beschreibung

John Bekker is finally enjoying life in semi-retirement. His relationship with his daughter is better than ever after moving into their new home, his close friend Oz is on the mend from a recent minor heart attack, and Bekker’s romance with Sheriff Jane Morgan is in full bloom. Bekker is called back into action when his friend and former partner Police Captain Walt Grimes, on the eve of his retirement, is unexpectedly charged and arrested with extortion and racketeering. Bekker and Sheriff Jane Morgan are allowed to visit Grimes where he is being held without bail. The evidence against Grimes is overwhelming, but Bekker and Morgan refuse to believe that someone they know as well as Grimes is guilty. Bekker organizes a ‘Dream Team’ of old friends to help him in the investigation: Carly Simms, a retired prosecutor; her spouse Campbell Crist, very wealthy daughter of a deceased mobster; the attorney for that deceased mobster, Frank Kagan; Sheriff Jane Morgan, of course; and even Wally Sample, the dysfunctional computer genius from the Bekker novel With Six You Get Wally. Bekker is sure that Grimes is being set up, and he is determined to find the responsible party and bring them to justice before his friend sees the inside of a prison cell.

Autor

Al Lamanda was born and raised in New York City. For his work, he has been nominated for the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award, and won the Nero Wolfe Award for Best Mystery of the Year for his novel, With 6 You Get Wally, book five in the John Bekker Mysteries. The series continues with Who Killed Joe Italiano? (2018), For Deader or Worse (2019), and The Case of the Missing Fan Dancer, published by Encircle Publications in March 2022. In addition to his many mysteries, Al also writes Western novels under the name Ethan J. Wolfe, which have been highly received by the Western Historical Society. He served in the United States Marine Corps, and worked as a private investigator and professional bodyguard in New York, Massachusetts, and Florida. He also served as a security and loss prevention consultant for many large corporations. In his free time, Al studied boxing, mixing it up in many amateur fights, and still trains today.His historical fiction novel set in New York City in the late 1940s, City of Darkness, was published by Encircle in January, 2021. He has published two Rollie Finch Mysteries, Once Upon a Time on 9/11 (April 2021), and Rollie and the Missing Six (August 2022). Al is always working on his next novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Encircle Publications, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 305g
• ISBN-13: 9781645990079
• ISBN-10: 1645990079
• Artikelnr.: 58293265