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A Stranger Lies There by Stephen Santogrossi (November 2013)
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Overview: On a very hot morning in Southern California, Tim Ryder brings his coffee out to the front porch. Before he can take a sip, he sees the dead body of a young man laid out on his lawn. Neither Tim nor his wife, Deirdre, has ever seen the man before, but the youth's death stirs up unhappy memories of the lives they were living twenty years earlier.
Up to this point, they had done a good job of leaving behind their troubled pasts. Deirdre overcame her drug addiction and now worked in a clinic helping other addicts to climb out of their private hells.
Tim was just a college student when he and his friends were led astray by an older man named Turret. They thought they were protesting the Vietnam War, but Turret was manipulating them in order to rob a local bank. The attempt went awry and both Turret and Tim ended up in jail. Tim's sentence was considerably shorter since he accepted a deal and testified against Turret.
When a detective shows up at Tim's house, all these years later, and tells him that Turret has just been released from prison, Tim is certain that the dead body on his lawn is some kind of revenge. And maybe it's only the beginning. Tim is determined to learn who the boy is, and, in turn, what else Turret has planned. But his search will require more of him than he ever imagined.
Since its beginning, the St. Martin's Press/Malice Domestic Contest has succeeded in discovering many amazing new mystery authors. Stephen Santogrossi joins that long, proud tradition with A Stranger Lies There, the prologue to what will surely be more excellent mysteries.
Genre: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller
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Requirements: ePUB Reader | 515 Kb
Overview: On a very hot morning in Southern California, Tim Ryder brings his coffee out to the front porch. Before he can take a sip, he sees the dead body of a young man laid out on his lawn. Neither Tim nor his wife, Deirdre, has ever seen the man before, but the youth's death stirs up unhappy memories of the lives they were living twenty years earlier.
Up to this point, they had done a good job of leaving behind their troubled pasts. Deirdre overcame her drug addiction and now worked in a clinic helping other addicts to climb out of their private hells.
Tim was just a college student when he and his friends were led astray by an older man named Turret. They thought they were protesting the Vietnam War, but Turret was manipulating them in order to rob a local bank. The attempt went awry and both Turret and Tim ended up in jail. Tim's sentence was considerably shorter since he accepted a deal and testified against Turret.
When a detective shows up at Tim's house, all these years later, and tells him that Turret has just been released from prison, Tim is certain that the dead body on his lawn is some kind of revenge. And maybe it's only the beginning. Tim is determined to learn who the boy is, and, in turn, what else Turret has planned. But his search will require more of him than he ever imagined.
Since its beginning, the St. Martin's Press/Malice Domestic Contest has succeeded in discovering many amazing new mystery authors. Stephen Santogrossi joins that long, proud tradition with A Stranger Lies There, the prologue to what will surely be more excellent mysteries.
Genre: Fiction, Mystery/Thriller
"In Santogrossi's engrossing, dark debut, the curiously endearing protagonist, Tim Ryder, wakes up one morning to find a dead body on his Palm Springs lawn. Ryder, a carpenter, wonders if the murder is connected to testimony he gave against a co-conspirator in a criminal case 30 years earlier, when he did time for a bungled robbery, a misguided attempt to raise money for anti–Vietnam War protests. With the next current-day casualty, the matter becomes more urgent, and even more personal, and Tim is determined to find the killer. On occasion, Santogrossi veers off into preachy description, breaking the cardinal show-don't-tell rule, but his well-drawn characters, unexpected resolution, and sharp casual insights make for an energizing read." ~Publishers Weekly
"There's no escaping the past in this debut novel. When an unknown young man is found murdered on his front lawn in Palm Springs, Tim Ryder suspects a connection to his college days in the 1970s, when he testified against Glenn Turret, who planned and led an armed bank robbery that went bad. As the getaway driver for the robbery (allegedly intended to support the antiwar effort), Ryder has paid his price in jail. But, with Turret just released from prison, the body on the lawn may mean unfinished business, prompting Ryder to settle old accounts -- and to endanger the lives of his loved ones in the process. Ryder is such a loose cannon that his dangerous odyssey occasionally strains credulity, and the plot wrap-up is a little too abrupt and convenient. Despite some flaws, this series bears watching -- but only by hard-boiled fans." ~Booklist
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