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Fall 2021 Releases
Young Blood and Old Paint
William Frank
Tommy McNaul is an FBI agent with twenty-five years of service, a firm sense of law and order, a beautiful Irish wife, and a passion for fine art. He risks them all one snowy night when he and his partner, Kate Bacon, lead a sting operation in Boston. Their mission is to recover Johannes Vermeer’s The Concert, stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1995.
The alleged seller directs the FBI Art Crimes agents to a suburban house in Lexington where Kate, posing as a wealthy German buyer, enters the house alone. A phone rings inside the house. Seconds later, Tom hears a shot, draws his gun, and the war is on.
Forced into retirement, and pursued by the Boston mob, Tom seeks shelter in his native New Mexico. There, he teams up with his estranged older brother, Willie, an ex-Marine turned private investigator. As the McNaul brothers sink deeper into the dark, violent world of major art crime, they find that they also must struggle with the innate conflicts between justice and the law.
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William Frank
Tommy McNaul is an FBI agent with twenty-five years of service, a firm sense of law and order, a beautiful Irish wife, and a passion for fine art. He risks them all one snowy night when he and his partner, Kate Bacon, lead a sting operation in Boston. Their mission is to recover Johannes Vermeer’s The Concert, stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1995.
The alleged seller directs the FBI Art Crimes agents to a suburban house in Lexington where Kate, posing as a wealthy German buyer, enters the house alone. A phone rings inside the house. Seconds later, Tom hears a shot, draws his gun, and the war is on.
Forced into retirement, and pursued by the Boston mob, Tom seeks shelter in his native New Mexico. There, he teams up with his estranged older brother, Willie, an ex-Marine turned private investigator. As the McNaul brothers sink deeper into the dark, violent world of major art crime, they find that they also must struggle with the innate conflicts between justice and the law.
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Words Kill
David Myles Robinson
Famed reporter Russell Blaze is dead. It appears to be an accident, but after Russ’s funeral, his son, Cody, finds a letter in which his father explains that the death may have been murder. It directs Cody to Russ’s unfinished memoir for clues as to what may have happened. The opening words are: On the night of October 16, 1968, I uttered a sentence that would haunt me for the rest of my life. The sentence was, “Someone should kill that motherfucker.”
As Cody delves into the memoir, a window opens into a tragic past and thrusts the still-burning embers of another time’s radical violence into the political reality of the present. History that once seemed far away becomes a deeply personal immersion for Cody into the storied heyday of the Haight: drugs, sex, war protesters, right-wing militias, ground-breaking journalism—and the mysterious Gloria, who wanders into his father’s pad one day to just “crash here for a while until things calm down.”
Cody discovers aspects of his father’s life he never knew, and slowly begins to understand the significance of those words his father spoke in 1968.
Words Kill is a story of loss, violence, and racism; love, hate, and discovery. It is a story of then . . . and now.
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David Myles Robinson
Famed reporter Russell Blaze is dead. It appears to be an accident, but after Russ’s funeral, his son, Cody, finds a letter in which his father explains that the death may have been murder. It directs Cody to Russ’s unfinished memoir for clues as to what may have happened. The opening words are: On the night of October 16, 1968, I uttered a sentence that would haunt me for the rest of my life. The sentence was, “Someone should kill that motherfucker.”
As Cody delves into the memoir, a window opens into a tragic past and thrusts the still-burning embers of another time’s radical violence into the political reality of the present. History that once seemed far away becomes a deeply personal immersion for Cody into the storied heyday of the Haight: drugs, sex, war protesters, right-wing militias, ground-breaking journalism—and the mysterious Gloria, who wanders into his father’s pad one day to just “crash here for a while until things calm down.”
Cody discovers aspects of his father’s life he never knew, and slowly begins to understand the significance of those words his father spoke in 1968.
Words Kill is a story of loss, violence, and racism; love, hate, and discovery. It is a story of then . . . and now.
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War Train
Donald Willerton
To Mogi Franklin, it simply seemed like a better summer job than stocking supermarket shelves in Bluff, Utah. But the chance to help with his sister Jennifer’s architectural assessment of the newly refurbished, once-grand-and-glorious hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico, turned out to be much more—the kind of brain-testing mystery he loved and excelled at, along with a heavy serving of adventure and danger.
The mystery was more than seventy-five years old: the robbery of a local bank by two gunmen who’d walked out the door with thick stacks of hundred-dollar bills and simply vanished. Then unexpectedly, the link with the present-day hotel suddenly appeared amid a “ton of junk” from an unknown attic room uncovered in the building’s reconstruction. There among the old clothes, books, papers, and other remnants from the early days of World War II, Mogi finds a clue, then another and then more, leading far back in the hotel’s unique history.
As articles in a sensationalistic local newspaper seem to tie the clues together—and lead as well to false trails and blind alleys—Mogi digs deeper into the fascinating history of the Castañeda Hotel and its storied Harvey House restaurant to unravel the untold tale linking the robbery to a mother’s love for the twin sons she was never able to give enough to.
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Donald Willerton
To Mogi Franklin, it simply seemed like a better summer job than stocking supermarket shelves in Bluff, Utah. But the chance to help with his sister Jennifer’s architectural assessment of the newly refurbished, once-grand-and-glorious hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico, turned out to be much more—the kind of brain-testing mystery he loved and excelled at, along with a heavy serving of adventure and danger.
The mystery was more than seventy-five years old: the robbery of a local bank by two gunmen who’d walked out the door with thick stacks of hundred-dollar bills and simply vanished. Then unexpectedly, the link with the present-day hotel suddenly appeared amid a “ton of junk” from an unknown attic room uncovered in the building’s reconstruction. There among the old clothes, books, papers, and other remnants from the early days of World War II, Mogi finds a clue, then another and then more, leading far back in the hotel’s unique history.
As articles in a sensationalistic local newspaper seem to tie the clues together—and lead as well to false trails and blind alleys—Mogi digs deeper into the fascinating history of the Castañeda Hotel and its storied Harvey House restaurant to unravel the untold tale linking the robbery to a mother’s love for the twin sons she was never able to give enough to.
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