Lost Tomorrows
-
-
4.1 • 100 Ratings
-
-
- $1.99
Publisher Description
Winner of the Shamus Award and Lefty Award
Would you risk your own soul to avenge the death of a loved one?
A phone call thrusts Rick Cahill's past and all its tragic consequences into his present. Krista Landingham, his former partner on the Santa Barbara Police Department, is dead. When Rick goes to the funeral in the city where his wife was murdered and where he is seen as guilty for her death in the eyes of the police, he discovers that Krista's death may not have been a tragic accident, but murder.
Hired by Krista's sister, Leah, to investigate, Rick follows clues that lead him to the truth, not only about Krista's death, but about the tragedy that ruined his life. Along the way, Leah shows him that his life can be salvaged, and he can feel love again if he can just move beyond his past. But the past is Rick's present and will always be until he rights his one great wrong.
In the end, Rick is left with a decision that forces him to confront the horrific actions he'll need to take to exact revenge and achieve redemption.
A hard-boiled PI thriller perfect for fans of Robert Crais and T. Jefferson Parker
While all of the novels in the Rick Cahill PI Crime Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:
Yesterday's Echo
Night Tremors
Dark Fissures
Blood Truth
Wrong Light
Lost Tomorrows
Blind Vigil
Last Redemption
Doomed Legacy
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Coyle's exiting sixth novel featuring San Diego, Calif., PI Rick Cahill (after 2018's Wrong Light) opens with Rick getting a call from Leah Landingham asking him to come to Santa Barbara to attend the funeral of her sister, Krista, who was his training officer when he was a rookie cop 17 years earlier. Three years later, his wife, Colleen, was murdered, and he hasn't been back to the city since. He hesitates because he knows that within the Santa Barbara PD he's still unjustly despised as "the cop who got away with murdering his wife." At the funeral, Leah asks him to investigate Krista's death. The police think it was a hit-and-run accident, but Leah is sure it was murder. When Rick, whose creed is "Sometimes you have to do what's right even when the law says it's wrong," learns that Krista had reopened the cold case file on Colleen's murder just one week before her death, he knows that the two crimes are connected. The twisty plot takes readers down some false trails before reaching the explosive climax. Noir fans will be well satisfied.
Customer Reviews
Excellent
Terrific story, the continuation of Rick Cahill as he tries to figure out which way is up and who killed his wife 14 years ago coupled with a couple of good guys, and a whole lot of very interesting bad guys, the book is very, very good. If you like John Sanford with his character Lucas Davenport or the character Virgil Flowers, you will enjoy reading along with Rick Cahill as he tries to figure things out.
Lost Tomorrows
An OK plot but not much character development except a lot of excess verbiage about the troubled life of the protagonist. The worst part — and really distracting after awhile — was the editing. It’s OK if a writer can’t spell or necessarily use decent grammar, but an editor is supposed to catch that sort of thing before publication. A few of many examples: “stationAry” was used to write a letter; a sandwich was dipped in “au JOUS”, and “LESS million-dollar homes” were somewhere. Oceanview Publishing should be embarrassed.