Shadow of Innocence - Hardcover

Wasley, Ric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1601640064 ISBN 13: 9781601640062

Publisher: Kunati Inc., 2007

Synopsis

The Newport Folk Festival provides a groovy backdrop for this drug-and-sixties-music-soaked mystery, featuring partners in love and danger, Mick and Bridget, hopping on their motorcycles and into action. As the family of detectives quip, banter, and swing into action, posh Newport is threatened by a perverse, shadowy secret. Mick and Bridget's exuberance and optimism manage to glimmer through even the darkest of perils, as they delve into a seamy world of drugs and sex, and are forced to match wits with both the the mob and a shadowy psychopathic killer.

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About the Author

Ric Wasley is the author of Acid Test. He was a musician in New England in the 1960s. He lives in Boston.  

Reviews

Newport, Rhode Island, 1968. A headstrong, adventurous, flirty young woman is dead. Her accused killer, Cody Ewing, maintains his innocence. But his case seems hopeless until Cody's cousin calls up his best friend, private investigator (and Vietnam vet) Mick McCarthy and asks for help. Set against a raucous 1960s backdrop--the famous Newport folk festival had brought sex and drugs to the staid "rich folk" town--the novel puts Mick and his beautiful companion, Bridget, up against gangsters and a particularly nasty killer. The plotting may be a little clumsy in places, and the prose a tad clunky, but the story is also colorful and exciting. Wasley is well versed in the 1960s New England music scene (he was a folksinger and rocker), and he is able to make us feel as though we are in that time and place. Not perfect, but a lot of fun all the same. David Pitt
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Edition details

• Publisher: Kunati Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1601640064
• ISBN 13: 9781601640062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304