Bolero (A Nick Sayler Novel) - Softcover

McDonell, Joanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612184405 ISBN 13: 9781612184401

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer, 2013

Synopsis

Bolero is one of those rare thrillers you truly can’t put down. Introducing noir detective, Nick Sayler, it is a nonstop ride to an unexpected twist ending.

Despite his bronze star with its prized V for valor, Nick Sayler was once a thief, junkie, and prime suspect in a murder case. Now he’s a mostly changed man, a private investigator with a long list of rich clients and a good life. But even after ten years there’s not enough whiskey in the world to wash away acid-etched memories of Julia Carteret, the beautiful woman who took a bullet meant for him.

He never expected a second chance to make things right until he got a midnight call from a distraught young doctor and a plea from a fragile dancer with no money, no memory, nothing in her pocket except Sayler’s card, and the number 44 carved across her back. With bewitching violet eyes she looks so much like Julia, Sayler thinks keeping her safe could put him back on the road to redemption. But not long after he takes her home to his Hudson River barge, he learns that she has a past as dark as his own, and soon he’s protecting her from a patient sociopath with seemingly preternatural power to be in two places at once.

Sayler needs his wingman Meriwether, the brilliant savant, and his restless backup, Tommy Fallon NYPD homicide, whose dicey investigative methods keep them under the radar, which is the only place to be when Sayler taunts danger. As he nears old secrets linking the dancer to a strange group: a voluptuous redhead, a concert pianist, a skateboarder, and a Polish nanny, he starts to learn why the murderer’s sex-stoked obsession can’t end until the girl is dead. When the killer who never sleeps gets the best of an exhausted Sayler on an isolated island off the coast of Connecticut, in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, and on the streets of Harlem, smart money might bet both ways, except for one sure thing: in spite of his bad leg and worse habits, no matter what the cost, Nick Sayler will not let another woman die.

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About the Author

Joanie McDonell, who once spent a lot of time aboard a barge very much like the Dumb Luck, now lives on the beach near the eastern end of Long Island. She’s written poems, screenplays, the novel Half Crazy, and The Little Book of Hope. She is currently at work on the next book featuring Private Investigator Nick Sayler.

From Booklist

Guarded, emotionally scarred Nick Saylor has finally found contentment as a reputable private investigator and bodyguard, happily sharing a Hudson River barge-turned-homestead with his psychiatrist father-figure and his sidekick, an investigative genius. Their contented domesticity seems unshakable until a desperate ER doctor awakens Nick one night, claiming that a Saylor Security business card is the only link his brutally assaulted, amnesiac patient has to her former life. Nick reluctantly rides to the rescue and begins the daunting task of identifying the woman, whose battered ballet dancer’s feet provide the only useful clue. Further complicating matters, the dancer’s attackers pursue them to Nick’s barge, and he has his hands full protecting her and his boatful of roommates. Nick simultaneously hunts and fights off the attackers as the action shifts from hospital to barge to multimillion-dollar mansion to fabulous NYC apartment to NYC expressway. At the same time, he’s fighting attraction to his client, who hauntingly resembles a lost love. An action-filled, exhilarating escape with thrills similar to those of Michael Koryta’s Lincoln Perry adventures. --Christine Tran

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1612184405
• ISBN 13: 9781612184401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 374