The Wrong Kind
by Austin
S. Camacho
GENRE: Mystery
BLURB:
A
distraught woman hires private investigator Hannibal Jones to track down her
daughter who has run away, trying to escape the homeless shelter life her
mother has come to accept. When Hannibal finds Connie Blanco she is entwined in
a gang war and somehow connected to a murder. The corpse is barely cold before
a second murder follows and Hannibal finds himself entangled in a complex plot
revolving around stolen drugs…but who is the mastermind of this twisted scheme?
Excerpt:
As Chico’s foot hit the first step
he noticed Sophia for the first time. Just as his eyes met hers, Hannibal’s
right foot thumped into Chico’s chest, slamming him back into the man whose
jacket said he was Dave. Then Hannibal leaped from the porch, smashing his
right fist across Billy’s jaw. A side stamp dislocated Jimmy’s right knee. Dave
swung past Chico and clipped Hannibal’s cheek. Sophia gasped at the
flesh-on-flesh sound of the blow.
Hannibal blocked the follow-up punch
and snapped two crisp jabs into Dave’s face, staggering him into the tree
growing up out of the sidewalk. Chico tried to slip past Hannibal, still
driving for the door.
“Not tonight,” Hannibal said through
clenched teeth. Sophia didn’t think Chico ever even saw the three punches,
left-left-right that put him on his back, barely conscious.
With no standing attackers, Hannibal
stepped back up onto the porch. “That was fun, but now I’m running out of
patience with you boys.” Hannibal reached inside his suit coat, under his right
arm, and pulled out a pistol. He pointed its muzzle down at Chico’s face.
“There is nothing lower than a man
who beats his woman, although anybody helping him is mighty close. I’d beat
your asses some more, just for fun, but I don’t feel like answering questions
at a hospital. Now, all of y’all, drag your sorry asses out of here. And if I
ever hear you came back here, or if you tell anybody where this shelter is, I
will hunt you down and end you.
My Review:
Private investigator Hannibal Jones is hired to find a woman’s
daughter who she has not heard from in a while. It is unlike her daughter not
to check in with her mother on occasion. It doesn’t take Hannibal long to track
Connie down but once he does he finds himself in the middle of drug deals gone
bad and murder.
Hannibal thought once he found Connie his job would be done
but boy was he wrong. After finding Connie Hannibal is pulled into the middle
of a gang war a place he never intended on being but to save Connie and himself
he may have no choice but to comply with the gang especially when Connie goes
missing again.
The Wrong Kind is filled with mystery, suspense, secrets with
twists after twists. Just when you think the crime may be solved bam you are
hit with more secrets and twists.
The Wrong Kind is like one of those slow burn mysteries that
release its secrets one at a time and very slowly slow enough to keep you
hanging on and wanting more trying to figure out where it will lead on down the
line. It will keep you on your toes and glued to your seat page after page
until the last page is turned.
The Wrong Kind is the first Hannibal Jones mystery and the
first book by Austin S. Camacho that I have read but I hope it won’t be the
last. I can’t wait to check out more of the Hannibal Jones mystery novels.
If you like mystery and suspense books then I believe you
will like The Wrong Kind.
AUTHOR Bio
and Links:
Austin
S. Camacho is the author of seven novels about Washington DC-based private eye
Hannibal Jones, five in the Stark and O’Brien international adventure-thriller
series, and the detective novel, Beyond Blue. His short stories have been
featured in several anthologies including Dying in a Winter Wonderland – an
Independent Mystery Booksellers Association Top Ten Bestseller for 2008. He is
featured in the Edgar nominated African American Mystery Writers: A Historical
and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey. Camacho is also editorial director for
Intrigue Publishing, a Maryland small press.
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5 comments:
Good morning, Avid Reader, and thank you so much for your kind words about The Wrong Kind! :-)
Sounds like a great read.
Sounds like a book I'll enjoy :)
This sounds great!
Thanks so much for sharing a book description and giveaway also. Sounds great!
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