by Mike
Nettleton
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Neal Egan’s life has reached the tipping point. When the former cop turned golf hustler’s beautiful and manipulative ex-wife is accused in the brutal shotgun slaying of her washed-up action movie star lover and becomes a fugitive from justice, Neal is hired by her wealthy and powerful father to track her down. Suspected by the police as an accomplice and tormented by the explosive end of his turbulent marriage Neal fears success; finding Desiree Diaz means confronting his own unresolved feelings about her and facing his profound guilt about his relationship with his own family. Aided by his friends: an eccentric recording studio owner and information broker; a brilliant renegade computer hacker, and a roly-poly lothario of a private investigator, he tries to reconcile his memory of Dez with the overwhelming evidence that she is a cold-blooded killer. His quest leads him into a violent world of methamphetamine-stoked bikers, Mexican Mafia thugs, and twisted internet pornography. To find his way out, he must put everything on the line: his freedom, his self-respect, and the love of the woman who has long been his loyal friend and roommate.
A novel of suspense, mystery, betrayal and redemption, Shotgun Start plays out in the sun-baked high desert of New Mexico and in the seamy underbelly of its largest city, Albuquerque.
A novel of suspense, mystery, betrayal and redemption, Shotgun Start plays out in the sun-baked high desert of New Mexico and in the seamy underbelly of its largest city, Albuquerque.
AUTHOR BIO
Mike Nettleton is a retired radio gypsy who spent 43 years behind the microphone in a variety of cities in the western U.S. He’s co-written five books with his wife, Carolyn Rose: The Hard Karma Shuffle and The Crushed Velvet Miasma featuring the tie-dyed detective Paladin, The Big Grabowski and Sometimes A Great Commotion the Devil’s Harbor mysteries, and The Hermit of Humbug Mountain, a fantasy set on the Oregon Coast. His solo hard-boiled detective novel Shotgun Start is available through Krill Press as a paperback, Kindle or Nook. He lives in Vancouver, Washington with his wife and two incorrigibles dinky dogs.
Mike Nettleton is a retired radio gypsy who spent 43 years behind the microphone in a variety of cities in the western U.S. He’s co-written five books with his wife, Carolyn Rose: The Hard Karma Shuffle and The Crushed Velvet Miasma featuring the tie-dyed detective Paladin, The Big Grabowski and Sometimes A Great Commotion the Devil’s Harbor mysteries, and The Hermit of Humbug Mountain, a fantasy set on the Oregon Coast. His solo hard-boiled detective novel Shotgun Start is available through Krill Press as a paperback, Kindle or Nook. He lives in Vancouver, Washington with his wife and two incorrigibles dinky dogs.
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What an informative blog. Thanks for the chance to expose your readers to SHOTGUN START. If you get to the States, be sure to add New Mexico to your itinerary. It's a unique part of the country. And, I hope, if you like hard-boiled mystery with a conflicted protagonist (Ala Inspector Rebus in Ian Rankin's books) I hope you'll enjoy Neal Egan's peril-filled journey to find the killer.
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