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Helluva Week: A Dave Richards Mystery, Book 2
Dave "Richie" Richards, a hardcore PI and displaced northerner, has moved to New Orleans to start up his new detective agency. Five years down the line now, he is fully established there, with a lot of connections and more friends than he knows. He's a good man with some tarnish and a checkered past, emanating from his old days in Quincy, MA.
He's hired to find a runaway and does just that, but in the aftermath of the case, he helps the NOPD break up a child trafficking ring. During the raid, an innocent girl is killed on his watch, and he spirals into depression, and a drinking bender over it.
He takes on a case to follow the husband of socialite who she suspects is cheating on him, while at the same time agreeing to help a Cajun backwoodsman who is being wrongfully persecuted by the police. Richie also agrees to talk to a British banker that he knows, but this leads him to get involved with a nasty Russian mafia mobster.
As Richie delves more and more into things, the cases get more and more complex, involving white-collar crime, police corruption and the crime boss of New Orleans. Facing one dead-end after the next, Richie has to call on all of his skills, and his friends and colleagues, to navigate through the mess he's gotten himself into.
Could the socialite be involved with the backwoodsman? Is the banker not what he seems to be? Can the Russian mobster be reasoned with? The cases lead him through the streets of New Orleans and all of its colorful characters, and even to the Cayman Islands. But Richie needs to figure things out, and fast, because the clock is ticking, and his very life depends on it.
He's hired to find a runaway and does just that, but in the aftermath of the case, he helps the NOPD break up a child trafficking ring. During the raid, an innocent girl is killed on his watch, and he spirals into depression, and a drinking bender over it.
He takes on a case to follow the husband of socialite who she suspects is cheating on him, while at the same time agreeing to help a Cajun backwoodsman who is being wrongfully persecuted by the police. Richie also agrees to talk to a British banker that he knows, but this leads him to get involved with a nasty Russian mafia mobster.
As Richie delves more and more into things, the cases get more and more complex, involving white-collar crime, police corruption and the crime boss of New Orleans. Facing one dead-end after the next, Richie has to call on all of his skills, and his friends and colleagues, to navigate through the mess he's gotten himself into.
Could the socialite be involved with the backwoodsman? Is the banker not what he seems to be? Can the Russian mobster be reasoned with? The cases lead him through the streets of New Orleans and all of its colorful characters, and even to the Cayman Islands. But Richie needs to figure things out, and fast, because the clock is ticking, and his very life depends on it.
264 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 2, 2024
About the author
Chris DeFazio
22 books6 followersChris DeFazio, a Boston area native, is a career ER Doc. He's also a teacher to Northeastern University Physician Assistant students, a hack golfer, an amateur history buff, an avid traveler and a dog lover.
He'd always enjoyed writing as a hobby, and being particularly inspired by the works of Stephen King, Frank Herbert and Anthony Everitt, found the time and motivation to write a novel, A History in Blood, the first book in a planned series of three.
He'd always enjoyed writing as a hobby, and being particularly inspired by the works of Stephen King, Frank Herbert and Anthony Everitt, found the time and motivation to write a novel, A History in Blood, the first book in a planned series of three.
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