Ten Percent

Some debts get paid. Some get collected. Some take more than money to settle.

Tommy Dalton isn't a cop. He isn't a soldier. He owns a café in a college town in western Massachusetts.

Five months ago, his murdered father left him a secret worth nearly half a billion dollars — and a problem Tommy was lucky to survive. He thought it was over.

Then Loretta Weston is dragged into a van outside her niece's wedding while her husband — a man who protects billionaires for a living — bleeds on the asphalt. The men who took her can't get what was stolen. They want what was kept: Isaiah Weston's ten percent. His finder's fee. Forty-nine million dollars, in exchange for his wife.

But Tommy is convinced the kidnapping tracks back to him, his father's bequest, and the kind of dirty money that doesn't forgive loose ends. And that his path to redemption runs south — through a gated Florida enclave, a Saudi diplomat's son, and finally back to a lighthouse on the Connecticut shore.

Some debts get paid. Some get collected. Some take more than money to settle.

Ten Percent is the second Tommy Dalton mystery — a character-driven crime thriller that keeps the violence off the page and the tension on it, built for readers who like their suspense tense, their plots twisty, and their heroes real.

If you're drawn to the ordinary-man-in-over-his-head pull of Harlan Coben, the moral weight of William Kent Krueger, or the twist-driven suspense of Robert Dugoni, Tommy Dalton is your kind of company.