Shot to Pieces: a novel (The Detective Paddy Durr Series) - Softcover

O'Keefe, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1093524162 ISBN 13: 9781093524161

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Paddy Durr is a brilliant detective and his own worst enemy. A brutal upbringing filled with abuse, neglect, and abandonment has left him with an ingrained sense of worthlessness. When he catches a grisly gang-related street assassination in Brooklyn, he is on the verge of an emotional and psychological breakdown. His wife is divorcing him. His children won't speak to him. His murder case is a political nightmare. The mayor and the police department would rather it just go away. Paddy finds himself on his own. With the clock ticking, Paddy must hold it together long enough to solve the case, fix himself enough to rescue his family life, or implode, irrevocably destroying his career, his family, and himself.

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About the Author

Michael O'Keefe is a retired 1st GradeDetective from the NYPD.  He worked inthe toughest neighborhoods in New York for twenty-four-years, investigatingHomicides and other violent crime.  Bornand raised on the mean streets described in his fiction, his characters andsettings are drawn from the people he encountered there--on both sides of thelaw.  Shotto Pieces is his first novel, first published July of 2016. The book wasadopted into the curriculum by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice andSaint John's University's Criminal Justice Department.  Shot toPieces is now recommended reading for all criminal justice majors at bothcolleges.  He is presently nearcompletion on two follow-up novels, and a collection of short fiction entitled,13 Stories-Fractured, Twisted, & PutAway Wet, due to be published in May of 2019.  Michael lives on Long Island with his family,where he writes a little, and practices the ancient martial arts of lawn andswimming pool maintenance--when he is not coaching football.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1093524162
• ISBN 13: 9781093524161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 396