Sacrifice Fly
A Mystery
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Raymond Donne wasn't always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York's Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was until the accident that destroyed his knees. Unable to do the job the way he wanted, he became a teacher in the same neighborhood, and did everything he could to put the force behind him and come to terms with the change.
Then Frankie Rivas, a student in Ray's class and a baseball phenom, stops showing up to school. With Frankie in danger of failing and missing out on a scholarship, Ray goes looking for him, only to find Frankie's father bludgeoned to death in their apartment. Frankie and his younger sister are gone, possibly on the run. But did Frankie really kill his father? Ray can't believe it. But then who did, and where are Frankie and his sister? Ray doesn't know, but if he's going to have any chance of bringing them home safely, he's going to have to return to the life, the people, and the demons he walked out on all those years ago.
Intense, authentic, and completely gripping, Tim O'Mara's Sacrifice Fly is an outstanding debut from a stellar new voice in crime fiction.
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O'Mara's solid debut introduces Raymond Donne, ex Brooklyn cop turned Brooklyn school teacher, whose well-intentioned attempt to locate eighth-grade student Frankie Rivas takes him back into the world he left behind. Instead of the boy, Donne finds the body of Frankie's father, Francisco, in their apartment and Frankie and his younger sister, Milagros, missing. Seeing the police make little progress in their investigation, Donne tries to help, but is rebuffed by Detective Royce. A disparate cast of characters includes classic bad cop Jack Knight, a former colleague; Elijah Cruz of EC Medical Supplies, who looks after less fortunate fellow parishioners; and irritating oddball bar-fly techie Edgar "Emo" O'Brien. Donne pushes enough buttons to find himself kidnapped and his family threatened, until he has no choice but to pull out all the stops. Readers will enjoy meeting a complex, conflicted, and capable hero able to navigate the varied strata of Brooklyn despite the occasional bruising to body and soul.
