EIGHT YEARS DEAD

Due to be released January 10, 2017

A CONTEMPORARY POLICE PROCEDURAL SET IN THE MIDWEST.

WHERE I CAN SEE YOU

by Larry D. Sweazy

• Number: 9781633882119
• Release: January 10, 2017
• Author: Larry D. Sweazy
• Availability: Print-Book
• Genre: Suspense
• Tags: * Susp: Action / Thriller
• Publisher: Seventh Street Books

Haunted by the disappearance of his mother when he was eight years old, detective Hud Matthews begins his own investigation to find out what really happened so many years before. When a rare murder occurs in the lakeside community, Hud's veteran skills are called upon to capture the killer. Pulled deep into the threads of the community with ties to the past, Hud quickly beccomes a target, not only of the killer, but of  those  who wish the past to be left alone.

As Hud gets closer to discovering the truth about the crimes, he has to face a choice of enforcing the law, or stepping outside of it to make sure that his version of justice is served.

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THE AUTHOR

Larry D. Sweazy (www.larrydsweazy.com)  is the author of See Also Deception, See Also Murder, A Thousand Falling Crows, Escape from Hangtown, Vengeance at Sundown, The Gila Wars, The Coyote Tracker, The Devil's Bones, The Cougar's Prey, The Badger's Revenge, The Scorpion Trail, and The Rattlesnake Season. He won the WWA Spur award for Best Short Fiction in 2005 and for Best Paperback Original in 2013, and the 2011 and 2012 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Fiction for the Josiah Wolfe series. He was nominated for a Derringer award in 2007, and was a finalist in the Best Books of Indiana literary competition in 2010, and won in 2011 for The Scorpion Trail. He has published over sixty nonfiction articles and short stories, which have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine; The Adventure of the Missing Detective: And 25 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories!; Boys' Life; Hardboiled; Amazon Shorts, and several other publications and anthologies. He is member of ITW (International Thriller Writers), WWA (Western Writers of America), and WF (Western Fictioneers). 

MY THOUGHTS

A mystery that takes place in a small town.  The author gives you so many surprises that you don't know what will happen when you turn that page.   The main character, Hud Matthews is quite the man, he is intelligent, stick to your guns, good looking and is very alert to people's feelings.   That may come from being haunted since he was a little boy

and his mother had been murdered.  He's been in pain ever since and is bound and determined to find the answer to her murder. Not only that but he wants to know the answers to some of the secrets of his home town.  It seems like there's a darkness around every corner and every closet holds a ghostly skeleton. The town used to be a favorite vacation spot, now it's full of drugs, violence and decay.  WHY?   Those skeletons grip hold of you and don't let go, not even after the last page is turned.  The author doesn't use  that nitty gritty graphic violence to get his point across.  Instead he uses his characters to catch the reader's interest. He slowly picks at that wound inside Hud until it is exposed and Hud goes on the search of his life.  He has to solve this and while doing so, he may come across more than he had any idea was there.  

Three things are digging at Hud's heart:

 A young woman's body found by Demmie Lake.

What happened to him in Detroit that made him come back and go back to being a Detective?

Then there's the mystery of his mother's death.

This book is a bit of a take away from the author's normal western novels.  

The emotions this book brings out are pure raw.  You hurt for Hud and at the same time you're pushing  him forward, knowing he's got the guts of steel that will bring him out on the winning end.  At least you hope so!

 The author not only gives you a solid plot, very well described characters but brings those emotions and feelings into play.  It's written on a serious note, and serious Hud is. 

This could happen in your small town. Think about it!

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author and Night Owl Reviews and voluntarily decided to review it.

I would give this book 4 STARS. 

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