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Hot Tea...Cold Case: a Stephen Blackman mystery
Did the perfect company get away with the perfect crime?
They had the perfect business plan. The investors ponied up the millions they needed. The company was humming along on all cylinders.
And then one day they disappeared. Along with all their research, files and computers ... and a vial of the deadly Ebola virus that no one knew they had.
Enter Stephen Blackman, a fifty-something burned out lawyer working his first case as a private investigator. Hired to try and find the missing scientists, Blackman turns up a dead body instead.
And when the FBI arrives on the scene, Blackman can't be sure if they're the good guys or bad. But he's caught up in this high-stakes, high-risk and highly confusing case to find the missing scientists before someone releases the deadly virus on an unsuspecting world.
Blackman bounces against the worlds of international espionage, national politics and high technology in this exciting thriller, the first in a series featuring a different kind of private eye with a taste for tea and a nose for trouble.
234 pages, Paperback
Published October 10, 2014
3 people want to read
About the author
D.G. Stern
20 books9 followersIn addition to five adult mysteries, Hot Tea...Cold Case, There's Always Tomorrow, Stabbing Along the Straightaway, Chaos at the Concours and Panic in the Pits, D.G. Stern has authored the award winning Upton Charles-Dog Detective series for younger readers (www.uptoncharles.com), The Loneliest Tree, 25 Days of a Tropical Christmas, Sophie the Skunk and Francis the Firehouse Mouse
His taste for good wine and great food has been an inspiration in his writings and he is also the editor of Golf a la Carte, with a forward by Arnold Palmer (www.golfcookbook.com) featuring recipes from some of the nation's greatest golf clubs.
About his adult mysteries, Midwest Book Review has said, "...a riveting read of mystery and adventure, very much recommended reading."
The Upton Charles series (Something Fishy, Disappearing Diamonds, Winter Wonderland, Lost Loot, Ship Shape, Tip Top, Picture Perfect and Time tale) has impressed critics:
'This dog takes a bite out of crime.' Cambridge Chronicle
'Perfect for the read-to-me or the I-can-read-it myself age group.' Boston Globe
'Logical deductive thinking, teamwork, paying attention to random clues to put the jigsaw puzzle together, who would think these skills could be helped and taught by a dog, even a very smart dog?' Entrepreneur.com
'As a teacher of constructive logical, deductive thought, Upton rules.' Midwest Book Review
D.G. Stern is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Basket weaving and vintage car racing fill any empty moments.
His taste for good wine and great food has been an inspiration in his writings and he is also the editor of Golf a la Carte, with a forward by Arnold Palmer (www.golfcookbook.com) featuring recipes from some of the nation's greatest golf clubs.
About his adult mysteries, Midwest Book Review has said, "...a riveting read of mystery and adventure, very much recommended reading."
The Upton Charles series (Something Fishy, Disappearing Diamonds, Winter Wonderland, Lost Loot, Ship Shape, Tip Top, Picture Perfect and Time tale) has impressed critics:
'This dog takes a bite out of crime.' Cambridge Chronicle
'Perfect for the read-to-me or the I-can-read-it myself age group.' Boston Globe
'Logical deductive thinking, teamwork, paying attention to random clues to put the jigsaw puzzle together, who would think these skills could be helped and taught by a dog, even a very smart dog?' Entrepreneur.com
'As a teacher of constructive logical, deductive thought, Upton rules.' Midwest Book Review
D.G. Stern is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Basket weaving and vintage car racing fill any empty moments.
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