Ex-cop-turned-P.I. Frank Pavlicek leaves New York for Charlottesville, Virginia, where, while engaging in his passion for falconry, he stumbles upon the brutally murdered body of a teenage boy whose wallet contains the telephone number of Frank's own teenage daughter, Nicole, who quickly becomes the prime suspect in the crime. Original.
Publisher's Weekly has featured Andy Straka as one of a new crop of "rising stars in crime fiction." His books include A WITNESS ABOVE (Anthony, Agatha, and Shamus Award finalist), A KILLING SKY (Anthony Award Finalist), COLD QUARRY (Shamus Award Winner), KITTY HITTER (called a "great read" by Library Journal), RECORD OF WRONGS, hailed by Mystery Scene magazine as "a first-rate thriller," and his most recent thriller THE BLUE HALLELUJAH.
Andy is a licensed falconer and has worked as a book editor, movie production accommodation agent, commercial building owner and consulting vice president for a large specialty physician's practice, surgical implant and pharmaceutical sales representative, college textbook sales and manuscript acquisition representative, web offset press paper jogger, laborer on a city road crew, summer recreation youth director, camp counselor, youth basketball coach, assistant parts manager at an auto dealership, assistant manager at a McDonalds restaurant, and even been registered as a private investigator. (Not to mention a longstanding stint as a stay-at-home Dad to six, which makes neurosurgery look like tiddlywinks.)
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