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Wilde Crimes #2
Shank
From the author of Dope Sick: A Love Story comes the second book in the A Wilde Crime Series, SHANK.
Money can't buy happiness.
Ian Wilde knows a bluff when he hears one. The tattooed ex-con is so sure the twelve million dollars of stolen money sitting in a bank on Grand Cayman Island will buy his happiness, not to mention his best friend's life, that he risks everything in a desperate con game.
But the tables are soon turned on the gambler when a new player, Frankie Hurley, a feisty woman from Ian's troubled past joins the mix. With the aid of a mismatched crew of friends and the love of Lady Luck, Ian could walk away a winner, or dead.
One thing is for sure, he can't just walk away.
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Money can't buy happiness.
Ian Wilde knows a bluff when he hears one. The tattooed ex-con is so sure the twelve million dollars of stolen money sitting in a bank on Grand Cayman Island will buy his happiness, not to mention his best friend's life, that he risks everything in a desperate con game.
But the tables are soon turned on the gambler when a new player, Frankie Hurley, a feisty woman from Ian's troubled past joins the mix. With the aid of a mismatched crew of friends and the love of Lady Luck, Ian could walk away a winner, or dead.
One thing is for sure, he can't just walk away.
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260 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 4, 2012
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About the author
J.A. Kazimer
48 books163 followersJ.A. (Julie) Kazimer lives in Denver, CO. When she isn't looking for a place to hide the bodies, she spends her time with a pup named Killer. Other hobbies include murdering houseplants and avoiding housework.
She spent a few years as a bartender and then wasted another few years stalking people while working as a private investigator before transitioning to the moniker of WRITER and penning over 15 titles.
Visit her website at jakazimer.com and sign up for her THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO MURDER Newsletter.
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She spent a few years as a bartender and then wasted another few years stalking people while working as a private investigator before transitioning to the moniker of WRITER and penning over 15 titles.
Visit her website at jakazimer.com and sign up for her THIS LITTLE PIGGY WENT TO MURDER Newsletter.
Links:
http://www.jakazimer.com
http://www.facebook.com/JulieAKazimer
https://twitter.com/jakazimer
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June 25, 2021
I would have loved to give this book five stars, but I can't, there are far too many grammatical errors. It nearly made reading it unbearable.
June 4, 2014
J.A. Kazimer’s Shank is a wild ride, a graphic novel in word pictures, populated by a phalanx of Irish-Americans, denizens of Hell’s Kitchen (aka Clinton; aka Midtown West), a once infamous New York, New York neighborhood.
The protagonist, Ian Wilde, possessed of the requisite superhero badass creds (ex-Navy SEAL, brawler, ex-con, son of a mobster, more scars than skin on his body) owns a dive bar, usually tended by a pal’s kid sister, Frankie—a full-on, electrified, Irish-girl stereotype--redhead, fabulous body, hot temper, warm heart. Frankie’s in love with Ian—loved him since they were kids on the tenement steps sort of thing. Ian is five or six years older, and subject to be hated --and possibly murdered-- by Frankie’s brother—who is also Ian’s pal-- if he lays a hand on Frankie. Kazimer does a great job of reading the male mind (a mind which can be read by people who can’t read) and putting it out on the page from the honorable, heroic Ian’s point of view. Result: a full sleeve tattoo of sexual tension, to which Kazimer adds a plot that won’t quit, street life, casino life, nonstop violence, and all of it lived by characters who consume enough Jameson to kill an elephant.
The protagonist, Ian Wilde, possessed of the requisite superhero badass creds (ex-Navy SEAL, brawler, ex-con, son of a mobster, more scars than skin on his body) owns a dive bar, usually tended by a pal’s kid sister, Frankie—a full-on, electrified, Irish-girl stereotype--redhead, fabulous body, hot temper, warm heart. Frankie’s in love with Ian—loved him since they were kids on the tenement steps sort of thing. Ian is five or six years older, and subject to be hated --and possibly murdered-- by Frankie’s brother—who is also Ian’s pal-- if he lays a hand on Frankie. Kazimer does a great job of reading the male mind (a mind which can be read by people who can’t read) and putting it out on the page from the honorable, heroic Ian’s point of view. Result: a full sleeve tattoo of sexual tension, to which Kazimer adds a plot that won’t quit, street life, casino life, nonstop violence, and all of it lived by characters who consume enough Jameson to kill an elephant.
April 1, 2013
Excellent. Read Dope Sick before Shank. It is not a must, but recommended. I loved both of them and would recommend them to all lovers of crime fiction. Lots of violence and keeps you guessing until the very end. I liked Zoe in Dope Sick more than Frankie in Shank. Hopefully Kazimer will write another book in "The Wilde Crime" series. Highly recommended.
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