Primary Crime

New England Cozy #2

by Steve Sherman

Presidential Candidates are off and running in the First-in-the-Nation New Hampshire Primary race. Ex-Boston detective Hugh Quint goes to a coffee for front-running promise-maker Freddy Foster and lands in the middle of a bizarre murder scene. When backwoods political watchdog Garth Mackey stumbles on a second body, Quint agrees to investigate the fast-talking pack of suspects. Dark-horse Willie Dowd trots his followers up Mount Monadnock, runs into spin-doctor Carla Unger, and springs into the limelight. Then salacious photographs drag White House candidates Rebecca Casey and Freddy Foster through the political dirt. Hot-shot reporter Andy Hoyt, one of the “Boys on the Bus,” jockeys for a scoop and bets are on that he’d kill for a Pulitzer. Quint is running a dead heat nearly to the finish. But with a few tricks of his own, and help from his learned and loony answerman Proctor Hammond, he out-stumps the cleverest of them all.

223 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2000