Dead Hero

by David Reichart

News of a murder hadn’t spread through Mobile so fast since the day Kennedy was assassinated. Adam Becker, hometown baseball star with a six-million-dollar contract and major league debut in the offing, left dead with a bullet hole in a parked car.Ten months later the case is still unsolved and the cops are sitting on their hands. Becker’s sister Cheryl is sure she can uncover a nugget to get the investigation moving again, and she’s sure she can do it herself. But she wants someone to watch her back while she does it.She doesn’t approach it by the book—the book as laid down by Palm Court Detectives boss Ernie Donavon. But she manages to end up with one of his agents, ex-Navy SEAL Jesse Yates, as her watchdog.It’s a long shot, but when Cheryl finds that an old girlfriend of Adam’s was never contacted by the police, a new lead opens up in the shape of the enigmatic multi-millionaire, new in town, with no past, no shortage of money, and a couple of dangerous house guests enjoying his spectacular riverside estate.Sure that the mystery man holds the key, Yates goes undercover and gets himself hired as bodyguard. He is soon so deep in treacherous territory that getting out is going to be a crapshoot requiring all his lethal skills and battle experience.This is Book Three in the Jesse Yates/Palm Court Detectives series.

191 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 6, 2018

About the author

My writing career included several years in the newspaper business as a reporter, copy editor and managing editor and five years as a freelance copywriter. While trying to make a living in the traditional sense, I managed to do a lot of writing in my spare time--work I wanted to do, things I wanted to write, things I never got paid for.

Eventually, my spare-time creative writing began to pay off. I signed with an agent in Los Angeles and later one in New York, and I managed to option my screenplay, Big Sandy, to a Hollywood producer and make some money.

I mention those close calls and moral victories because I think there are thousands of people with those kinds of experiences--writers who have studied their craft and paid their dues and who will now provide material for the exploding digital publishing revolution. I’m talking about writers who didn’t have the time, contacts, opportunity (okay, maybe talent) to succeed in the world of traditional publishing, but who, given the opportunity, just might find a market for their fiction.

I’ve enlisted in the Independent Publishing Revolution, and I’m a gung-ho soldier. There’s no doubt in my military mind that the best is yet to come, and I'm still dreaming about the day I'm finally proclaimed an overnight success.

Reviews

[Ellen White · Rating 5 out of 5]

A case unsolved, of a football player, that had signed a mega contract. Nine months and she wants Jesse to go with her and help find answers, and maybe find why he was killed. Good detailed plot , and the two main characters worked well together.

[barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read. Unexpected twists.

Fun book to read. Full of twists and turns till the very end. Never really sure who done it till the very end.