by
D. James Eldon
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GENRE:
Crime Fiction
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When
a little girl is found brutally murdered, veteran NYPD homicide
detectives Hiro Masimoto and Ryan Sullivan are determined, against
all odds, to solve the case.
In
the midst of the worst heat wave in New York City’s history and
with personal and professional pressures mounting, the detectives
pursue the mother’s ex-boyfriend and former criminal, Nick
DeSantis.
But
DeSantis, a two-time felon, has skipped town and the detectives
struggle to collect enough hard evidence to extradite him before he
slips completely out of their grasp.
With
a cast of outlaw characters and more twists and turns than a coiled
spring, Brooklyn Heat delivers a taut thriller of the highest
caliber.
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Excerpt:
Dawn,
hot as fresh blacktop, creeps over Brooklyn. Aggie Jones, in a worn
yellow bathrobe, sits at her window enjoying the breeze from the air
conditioner and watching the sky change color. The street below is
empty of last night’s hipsters and thugs. Drunk vampires crawled
back to whatever hole they sleep in, she thinks.
This is
Aggie’s favorite time of day: quiet enough to hear the birds chirp;
cooler and slightly less humid after the concrete has shrugged off
the triple-digit temperature of the previous day. The noise and heat
of the city is turned low for an hour or so between the denizens of
night and citizens of day.
As the
tea kettle begins to softly whistle, she sees a man leaving the house
across the street. The one with that nice woman and her little
daughter, she thinks. Seems awfully early to be leaving, unless you
got somewhere very important to be.
The
streetlights flicker off as the kettle screams. Aggie rushes to the
kitchen, leaving the quiet and the changing sky behind.
An hour
later, she’s squeezed into a seat on the 6 train with sweaty,
unhappy others. The serenity of early morning is forgotten, as are
the birds, sky, and the man across the street.
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Review:
You can almost see this story playing out right before your eyes as if you are watching tv! That's how well this book is written! The characters are left to be pondered as you read. But the plot keeps you so wrapped up in what's going on that you can't flip through the pages fast enough! I have to say, if you have yet... It's a MUST to read this book!
You can almost see this story playing out right before your eyes as if you are watching tv! That's how well this book is written! The characters are left to be pondered as you read. But the plot keeps you so wrapped up in what's going on that you can't flip through the pages fast enough! I have to say, if you have yet... It's a MUST to read this book!
D.
James Eldon is a poet, novelist, and short-story writer from New York
City. His work has been published online and in print, in the US,
Canada, and Europe, in both English and French.
His
debut novel, All The Way Gone, the first of the Brooklyn Homicide
Investigations, is available as an ebook and paperback in English as
well as paperback in French (under the title Sur Le Fil).
The
latest Brooklyn Homicide Investigation, Brooklyn Heat, is available
now in both ebook and paperback.
And,
in 2017, look for the third Brooklyn Homicide Investigation, The
Pope’s Guard.
Author
Links:
Website
- www.djameseldon.com
Facebook
- https://www.facebook.com/djameseldon
Twitter
- @djameseldon
Kindle
(& paperback) - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JH4FRVQ
Nook
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http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/brooklyn-heat-d-james-eldon/1124360495
Kobo
- https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/brooklyn-heat
iBookstore
- https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/brooklyn-heat/id1143801990?mt=11
The
new paperback version of Brooklyn Heat is available at the
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And
if people use the coupon code - 9NYHU7HL at checkout they can get 20%
off the retail price (the paperback through CreateSpace retails for
$15.99, the discount is $3.20, so the final price is $12.79). The
discount will remain in effect through October.
The
ebook retails for $4.99 and remains unchanged.
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