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Atomic Night
Atomic Night, Part 1 of a new crime thriller set in Southern California, marks the beginning of the Chad Kidd thriller series. Part II has been released, and the curtain comes down with upcoming Part III.
Four years ago, firefighters found Chloe Nelson burned in a wheelbarrow in front of her tony home above Palm Springs, with two more charred and shot bodies inside the ruins. But the case went cold. Chloe was the 17 y.o. daughter of a retired Palm Springs P.D. police lieutenant named Phil Nelson.
The initial suspects were Chloe's estranged boyfriend Jay Strait and his friend Laird Bledsoe, two members of a dangerous clique of narcotics and party loving Coachella Valley teenagers. But the case has languished, partly because Bledsoe, the star high school quarterback, went on to become an Iraq war hero.
Chloe's best friend, the funky big-canvas artist Lizzy Grant, has rekindled interest in the murders with a hard-hitting Facebook campaign that indicts Jay Strait in the acid court of social media.
Chad Kidd, who bombs around the desert on a Kawasaki KLR650 and sips Milagro Silver to blow off steam, decides to take on the case to help his old police pal Phil.
The cast includes Lana Daniels, a Hollywood starlet turned real estate agent who has the hots for Kidd and suspiciously buys up dry desert plots all over Palm Springs. She's Jay Strait's mom, too.
Did Strait kill Chloe in a fit of jealous rage, because she passed him over for the handsome ne'er do well Travis Kincaid, who Lizzy calls "Cary Grant on acid"? Was Chloe pregnant at the time of her death, making it a quadruple murder? Kidd finds the case not so cut-and-dried when a Chechen thug named Yamdar leaves Lizzy threatening messages.
Four years ago, firefighters found Chloe Nelson burned in a wheelbarrow in front of her tony home above Palm Springs, with two more charred and shot bodies inside the ruins. But the case went cold. Chloe was the 17 y.o. daughter of a retired Palm Springs P.D. police lieutenant named Phil Nelson.
The initial suspects were Chloe's estranged boyfriend Jay Strait and his friend Laird Bledsoe, two members of a dangerous clique of narcotics and party loving Coachella Valley teenagers. But the case has languished, partly because Bledsoe, the star high school quarterback, went on to become an Iraq war hero.
Chloe's best friend, the funky big-canvas artist Lizzy Grant, has rekindled interest in the murders with a hard-hitting Facebook campaign that indicts Jay Strait in the acid court of social media.
Chad Kidd, who bombs around the desert on a Kawasaki KLR650 and sips Milagro Silver to blow off steam, decides to take on the case to help his old police pal Phil.
The cast includes Lana Daniels, a Hollywood starlet turned real estate agent who has the hots for Kidd and suspiciously buys up dry desert plots all over Palm Springs. She's Jay Strait's mom, too.
Did Strait kill Chloe in a fit of jealous rage, because she passed him over for the handsome ne'er do well Travis Kincaid, who Lizzy calls "Cary Grant on acid"? Was Chloe pregnant at the time of her death, making it a quadruple murder? Kidd finds the case not so cut-and-dried when a Chechen thug named Yamdar leaves Lizzy threatening messages.
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Bruce W. Perry
45 books22 followersI'm a big fan of good stories, and sharing them. I've been reading a lot since I was a towheaded kid, growing up in a small town with a reading and writing tradition called Concord, Massachusetts. Our house was about a half mile from Walden Pond. That didn't make me a better writer by osmosis, but it darn sure made me a reader! I was the kid sitting under a tree, head buried in a book. I read every hardcover and paperback I could get my hands on.
A family friend gave me anthologies of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells when I was in the third grade. They encompassed the first adult narratives and science fiction I had read. They were hardcover, heavy, and I couldn't put them down, until I had to put them down, because they were heavy.
I tend to read and write in several genres, mostly science fiction/dystopian, adventure, thriller, and detective, but I've written stories that don't really fall into either of those categories, as in the war romance Accidental Exiles or the satire Lost Young Love.
In my work life I've been a trade newsletter writer and a software engineer, as well as a landscaper and a really bad waiter. I've also written non-fiction books on fitness and software, including Fitness For Geeks.
When I'm not writing, I'm a nomad. I love to travel. I prefer writing outside with a pen, legal pad, and a nice view.
A family friend gave me anthologies of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells when I was in the third grade. They encompassed the first adult narratives and science fiction I had read. They were hardcover, heavy, and I couldn't put them down, until I had to put them down, because they were heavy.
I tend to read and write in several genres, mostly science fiction/dystopian, adventure, thriller, and detective, but I've written stories that don't really fall into either of those categories, as in the war romance Accidental Exiles or the satire Lost Young Love.
In my work life I've been a trade newsletter writer and a software engineer, as well as a landscaper and a really bad waiter. I've also written non-fiction books on fitness and software, including Fitness For Geeks.
When I'm not writing, I'm a nomad. I love to travel. I prefer writing outside with a pen, legal pad, and a nice view.
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