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Shadow of Innocence
The Newport Folk Festival provides a groovy backdrop for this drug-and-sixties-music-soaked mystery, featuring partners in love and danger, Mick and Bridget, hopping on their motorcycles and into action. As the family of detectives quip, banter, and swing into action, posh Newport is threatened by a perverse, shadowy secret. Mick and Bridget's exuberance and optimism manage to glimmer through even the darkest of perils, as they delve into a seamy world of drugs and sex, and are forced to match wits with both the the mob and a shadowy psychopathic killer.
- GenresMystery
304 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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About the author
Ric Wasley
25 books1 followerRic Wasley thrived on music in the sixties and performed as a folksinger and in rock several bands all over New England. He met the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.
In a recent interview Ric said, I started keeping a kind of a journal of my own 'adventures on the road' traveling around on my motorcycle, playing as a single folk act, and later in a VW Mini-bus touring with my rock band. Equally fortunate, I kept these journals which many years later became much of the source material and inspiration for the adventures of Mick and Bridget, my two main characters of the McCarthy Family detectives featured in Shadow of Innocence.
The sixties was just so cool, Ric added. The largest segment of Americas
population, myself included, grew up in the sixties. It remains the most influential decade of social and cultural change in the past 200 years.
Ric has been writing for over 30 years. He has been published in several literary magazines in L.A. and San Francisco while living in California. He currently lives outside of Boston with his wife and three children, works for a major media company and retains his love of music and writing.
His other works include:
Acid Test (a novel) October 2004
Various Literary Magazines
"
In a recent interview Ric said, I started keeping a kind of a journal of my own 'adventures on the road' traveling around on my motorcycle, playing as a single folk act, and later in a VW Mini-bus touring with my rock band. Equally fortunate, I kept these journals which many years later became much of the source material and inspiration for the adventures of Mick and Bridget, my two main characters of the McCarthy Family detectives featured in Shadow of Innocence.
The sixties was just so cool, Ric added. The largest segment of Americas
population, myself included, grew up in the sixties. It remains the most influential decade of social and cultural change in the past 200 years.
Ric has been writing for over 30 years. He has been published in several literary magazines in L.A. and San Francisco while living in California. He currently lives outside of Boston with his wife and three children, works for a major media company and retains his love of music and writing.
His other works include:
Acid Test (a novel) October 2004
Various Literary Magazines
"
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March 7, 2021
This was really bad. It was so bad that towards the end I became so fascinated by its badness that I couldn’t put it down.
October 4, 2007
ULTRA COOL
We're in Newport, home of the famous jazz festival. But this is 1968, the early days, when the festival was more a happening than an event. It was "be there, or be square", and Ric Wasley's "Shadow of Innocence", is definitely not square. Everything's cool, man, as with the summer festival as a backdrop, smart-aleck amateur sleuth Mick and clever girlfriend Bridget seek to take things easy and at the same time clear Mick's Viet Nam buddy's brother of murder charges. Just as it should be in a murder mystery, powerful forces are at work behind the scenes. Nothing is the way it seems on the surface, and the outlook for the brother quickly darkens. Mick's bike, a 650CC BSA, gets plenty of play as sinister forces close in. When Mick and Bridget get going and the Irish brogue flows like ale in a Dublin Inn, what killer would stand a chance? If you enjoy mystery, there's plenty to go around, action too, and if you're into sixties music the scenes will resonate all the more. A definite buy.
We're in Newport, home of the famous jazz festival. But this is 1968, the early days, when the festival was more a happening than an event. It was "be there, or be square", and Ric Wasley's "Shadow of Innocence", is definitely not square. Everything's cool, man, as with the summer festival as a backdrop, smart-aleck amateur sleuth Mick and clever girlfriend Bridget seek to take things easy and at the same time clear Mick's Viet Nam buddy's brother of murder charges. Just as it should be in a murder mystery, powerful forces are at work behind the scenes. Nothing is the way it seems on the surface, and the outlook for the brother quickly darkens. Mick's bike, a 650CC BSA, gets plenty of play as sinister forces close in. When Mick and Bridget get going and the Irish brogue flows like ale in a Dublin Inn, what killer would stand a chance? If you enjoy mystery, there's plenty to go around, action too, and if you're into sixties music the scenes will resonate all the more. A definite buy.
January 29, 2012
Based on the other reviews of this book, I was excited to read it. Sadly, I was disappointed at the end. The story just didn't come across as believable to me. I've read a lot of dark crime novels so I had no problem with the idea of a serial killer but the aspect of Mick and Bridget who are college students out pursuing a murder mystery on all their own just didn't come across as believable. Every time they got into trouble they would seek it out again. While the basic plot line of a Blair and her brother killing her was a good one the way it unfolded just didn't do it for me.
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October 5, 2007
You'll search for a long time before you find a better depiction of the music,sex and party scene of the early seventies. I get the feeling that Ric Wasley was there.
Apart from the atmosphere of Newport and the Folk Festival which infects it every year, Wasley has constructed two excitiing sleuths and a juicy crime for them to solve.
One of the five best mysteries of the year.
Lynn Hoffman, author of bang BANG.
Apart from the atmosphere of Newport and the Folk Festival which infects it every year, Wasley has constructed two excitiing sleuths and a juicy crime for them to solve.
One of the five best mysteries of the year.
Lynn Hoffman, author of bang BANG.
December 31, 2012
Too many characters to effectively track. Many had no real bearing on the story which was rather lame at best. Probably the WORST book I have read in quite a long time. Definitely DO NOT waste your time on this book.
August 27, 2007
Yes, it's my Dad.
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September 15, 2012I won a copy of this eBook from Imajin Books' #ImajinAuthors Twitter party.
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