BOOK OF THE DAY: Fat Chance by R.J. Leahy

Fat Chance

by R.J. Leahy

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

Sean McDermott is private detective in New York City, it say so right on his business card. It's an ok job, but it isn't as exciting as most people think, and that's fine by him. He makes it a rule not to get involved in active police cases or in any case where people are likely to get hurt—especially him. So why does the mob suddenly want him dead? Sure it’s all a mistake, but dead from a mistake is still dead.

Taking advice from his friend, The Juke, he starts on a cross country drive to LA (what can I tell you, he has a few phobias, and flying is just one of them), and makes it as far as Mystic Falls, New Mexico before the borrowed Mercedes conks out. Mystic Falls? Think Green Acres—without the sophistication.

All he had to do was lie low and wait for the car to be fixed. A good plan too. It might have worked if only the local "character" hadn’t turned up missing, with him as the prime suspect. Now if he ever wants to get out of this sleepy desert asylum, he’s going to have to find her. Fat chance.

AUTHOR BIO

RJ Leahy was born in 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri, where has lived most of his life and where he presently practices as a physician. His first novel, TIGRA, was published by Zumaya Publications in 1996 and was a Dream Realm Award finalist for that year. His second book, THE OBSIDIAN SEED, the follow up to TIGRA, was published three years later. His two newest works, both ebooks, came out in 2013. The first, ANGEL OF THE CITY, is a dystopian view of the future, as seen through the eyes of a brain damaged ex-policeman. The second, FAT CHANCE, is a mystery/comedy about a private investigator marooned in a small New Mexico town who finds himself the prime suspect in a missing person's case.

OTHER WORKS

Angel Of The City  

The Obsidian Seed  

Tigra