Three Strikes And You're Dead

by J. Scott Payne, H. William Ruback (Illustrator)

All Brad Powers wanted was second career as a small-town cop. But even though he’s denied the job, he solves the community’s 20-year-old murder mystery anyway. Soon after the police chief rejects his work application, Powers – a retired Army investigator -- begins a slow inadvertent stumble into the intertwined lives of two Carlene, the predator, and Myra, her prey. Powers defeats an attack upon Myra, an event triggering not only his investigative instincts, but also a new murder plus an attempt upon his own life. Slowly he and a detective buddy peel away layers of relationships revealing insatiable greed, conspiracy, corruption, fraud, theft, fraud and the unsolved murder of Myra’s father.

242 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 30, 2015

About the author

I grew up in Kansas City and am a product of the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. After interning at the Kansas City Star, I did 1.3 hitch in the Army in Korea, Vietnam and -- worst of all -- Washington, D.C.

I returned to journalism but, tired of tropical weather, moved to Michigan where I've lived ever since, during that time doing graduate work at the University of Michigan.

Though retired now, I've been unable to stop writing. My first novel, A Corporal No More, will arrive on Kindle soon and I'm well underway on a second book.

Reviews

[Annie Thornton · Rating 4 out of 5]

First, let me just say that I love how the writer is a local MI writer and I had the opportunity to meet him and he signed my copy….awesome!
The story was great, however there were typos throughout and misspellings that made parts of it hard to read. Seems the editor was on vacation. This is why I give 4 stars.