My Brother's Keeper
A Thriller
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
When Private Investigator Ed Traynor is summoned to a remote spot in the New Hampshire woods by his old friend County Sheriff Buck Buchanan, he's puzzled. Since leaving the force, Buck has never called him to a homicide scene before. But when he arrives, Ed learns that the victim is his brother, John. Though there was no love lost between them, Ed vows to find and catch the killer and get justice for his little brother.
The hunt leads Ed to New England's biggest drug kingpins, the Escobar brothers. Navigating a world where allegiances are up for grabs and motivations are never clear, his every step towards the truth could be his last.
From Vaughn C. Hardacker, acclaimed author of Sniper and The Fisherman and twice finalist for the Maine Literary Awards, comes the action-packed follow-up to Black Orchid, which Publishers Weekly called "hard-hitting."
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After a promisingly gritty opening, Hardacker's sequel to 2016's Black Orchid devolves into a run-of-the-mill crime novel. When the Rockingham County, N.H., sheriff asks PI Ed Traynor to identify a body, Traynor is stunned, though not surprised, that it belongs to his screwed-up brother, John, who was often on the wrong side of the law. John was shot in the head in a killing that appears to be a drug hit. Wracked with guilt, Traynor resolves to track down his brother's murderer. His investigation is complicated by his attraction to his now-widowed sister-in-law and the prospect that learning more about John will only cause her more pain. Sure enough, a business card in John's wallet leads Traynor to a nearby strip joint, where he meets the woman named on the card's reverse side, who claims to have been John's wife. Uneven prose ("Like the alluring sweet scent of a carnivorous plant, Traynor knew she was trying to lull him into a false sense of security") doesn't help. Hopefully, Hardacker will do better next time.
