Six-foot-seven-inch ex-cop Suds Ferguson is a big man with an even bigger problem. He is a prime suspect in a string of murders that begins when a private investigator is crushed under a skid of beer on the loading dock of Hop Central Craft Brewery where Suds works as director of security.
Suds’s ex-wife, Evie, is chief of the local police force. Still stinging from Suds’s spectacular infidelity, captured on tape in the evidence room of the police department, Evie relishes the chance to throw her ex-husband in jail on a murder rap as people close to the case keep dying under the influence of beer — an assistant brewer, overcome by CO2 spewing from an open-tank fermenter, a lawyer, drowned in a beer bath, and the promiscuous wife of the brewery’s owner, shot dead in the head with Suds’s personal handgun, a Walther PPK.
Suds is a suspect with an airtight alibi, having crawled back into Evie’s heart and into her bed. They join forces to unmask who-done-it and rebuild their relationship which was destroyed by Suds’s infidelity and the cancer death of their five-year-old son.
Other books by Wade Fowler
Investigative reporter Revere Polk of the Daily Telegraph is stunned when Pennsylvania Governor Casey Lawrence, a liberal Democrat, suddenly reverses course and decides to back the privatization of the state lottery, a proposal of the far right.
When a colleague is murdered while investigating whether the governor is being blackmailed, Polk picks up the gauntlet. Catastrophes pile up like a chain-reaction accident on Interstate 95.
The answers to everything lie in The Honey Trap.
John Franklin Kincaid clocks out at 4 PM on Thursday, August 27, 1953, after his shift at New York Shipbuilding Corporation’s sprawling shipyard and is never seen or heard from again.
A decade later, a little girl is assailed by a recurring nightmare of being buried alive in the bowels of a ship.
On November 16, 1963, President Kennedy helicopters to that ship, now a US Naval vessel called the USS Compass Island.
And so topple the first dominoes in a chain of events leading inexorably to the president’s assassination one week later in Dallas, Texas.
Who killed JFK — the president and shipyard worker? The answers abide on the Compass Island.
As journeyman journalist Revere Polk investigates the 40-year-old murder of his grand greatuncle, Jacob Wissler Addison, a cold case suddenly comes to a full boil. What did Uncle Jake’s top secret, but ill-fated, mission to Tokyo in August of 1945 have to do with a modern-day plot to assassinate the president of the United States? And was the atom bombing of Japan really necessary?
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