Brooklyn Heat
by D. James
Eldon
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GENRE: Crime
Fiction
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BLURB:
When a
little girl is found brutally murdered, veteran NYPD homicide detectives Hiro
Masimoto and Ryan Sullivan are determined, against all odds, to solve the case.
In the
midst of the worst heat wave in New York City’s history and with personal and
professional pressures mounting, the detectives pursue the mother’s
ex-boyfriend and former criminal, Nick DeSantis.
But
DeSantis, a two-time felon, has skipped town and the detectives struggle to
collect enough hard evidence to extradite him before he slips completely out of
their grasp.
With a
cast of outlaw characters and more twists and turns than a coiled spring,
Brooklyn Heat delivers a taut thriller of the highest caliber.
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EXCERPT
Dawn, hot as fresh blacktop, creeps over Brooklyn.
Aggie Jones, in a worn yellow bathrobe, sits at her window enjoying the breeze
from the air conditioner and watching the sky change color. The street below is
empty of last night’s hipsters and thugs. Drunk vampires crawled back to
whatever hole they sleep in, she thinks.
This is Aggie’s favorite time of day: quiet enough
to hear the birds chirp; cooler and slightly less humid after the concrete has
shrugged off the triple-digit temperature of the previous day. The noise and
heat of the city is turned low for an hour or so between the denizens of night
and citizens of day.
As the tea kettle begins to softly whistle, she
sees a man leaving the house across the street. The one with that nice woman
and her little daughter, she thinks. Seems awfully early to be leaving, unless
you got somewhere very important to be.
The streetlights flicker off as the kettle screams.
Aggie rushes to the kitchen, leaving the quiet and the changing sky behind.
An hour later, she’s squeezed into a seat on the 6
train with sweaty, unhappy others. The serenity of early morning is forgotten,
as are the birds, sky, and the man across the street.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
D. James Eldon is a poet, novelist, and
short-story writer from New York City. His work has been published online and
in print, in the US, Canada, and Europe, in both English and French.
His debut novel, All The Way Gone, the first of
the Brooklyn Homicide Investigations, is available as an ebook and paperback in
English as well as paperback in French (under the title Sur Le Fil).
The latest Brooklyn Homicide Investigation,
Brooklyn Heat, is available now in both ebook and paperback.
And, in 2017, look for the third Brooklyn
Homicide Investigation, The Pope’s Guard.
Author Links:
Website - www.djameseldon.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/djameseldon
Twitter - @djameseldon
Brooklyn Heat Purchase Links:
Kindle (& paperback) -
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JH4FRVQ
Nook (& paperback)-
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/brooklyn-heat-d-james-eldon/1124360495
The new paperback version of Brooklyn Heat is available at the
CreateSpace eStore at this link:
And
if people use the coupon code - 9NYHU7HL at checkout they can get 20% off the
retail price (the paperback through CreateSpace retails for $15.99, the
discount is $3.20, so the final price is $12.79). The discount will remain in
effect through October.
The
ebook retails for $4.99 and remains unchanged.
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION
The author will be
awarding a $20 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter
during the tour.
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