Memorial Day

Mick Callahan #1

by Harry Shannon

Acclaimed author Harry Shannon makes his mystery debut with the hard-boiled novel, "Memorial Day," featuring an unlikely amateur detective who has as many problems of his own as the people he's investigating. Psychologist Mick Callahan was a television star until women, booze, and his own ego brought him down. Now the former Navy SEAL washout is a man on a mission -- to get his life back on track. He reluctantly accepts a job hosting a radio talk show near his little hometown of Dry Wells, Nevada. When a troubled young caller is murdered, Callahan decides to investigate. But when the mystery girl turns out to be the daughter of the richest man in the county, Mick is compelled to uncover the dying town's sordid secrets, wrestle with his own memories of an abusive childhood -- and literally run for his life on the climactic Memorial Day. Harry Shannon lives in Studio City, California.

Genres: Mystery

265 pages, Hardcover

First published May 13, 2004

About the author

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Harry Shannon has been an actor, a singer, an Emmy-nominated songwriter, a recording artist in Europe, a music publisher, a film studio executive and worked as a free-lance Music Supervisor on films such as “Basic Instinct” and “Universal Soldier.” He is author of the horror novels “Night of the Beast” and “Night of the Werewolf” in addition to “Daemon” (formerly “Night of the Daemon”). Harry also wrote the Mick Callahan suspense novels “Memorial Day,” (2005) “Eye of the Burning Man,” (2006) and “One of the Wicked” (Nov. 2008), as well as the acclaimed thriller “The Pressure of Darkness” (2006). His novel "Dead and Gone" (August 2008) has a movie version, screenplay by Shannon, and it is now on DVD via LionsGate. All of his early novels are now available via Amazon.com on Kindle, and some via Smashwords. His collection "A Host of Shadows" and the novella "PAIN" were recently published by Dark Regions Press. "CLAN" and "The Hungry" (co-written with Steven W, Booth) are also on Kindke and Nook. "The Dead Man: Kill Them All" we be released by Amazon.com via their new publishing company Thomas and Mercer. Harry can be contacted via his web site www.harryshannon.com. He is also a member of Top Suspense Group www.topsuspensegroup.com

Reviews

[Nancy Houston Fields · Rating 5 out of 5]

Off and running from the first page to the last. Love the pace of the book. Great characters played into the mystery of who to trust. Loved the changes that occurred in the two main characters throughout the book. Loved the kitty cat part, too.

[Aurelio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another in the series (see Burning Man review.)

[Tanya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good, quick story and I liked the characters

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this book got orphaned somehow because I thought I wrote a review. At any rate, I do remember I enjoyed it immensely.

[Connie Rodgers · Rating 3 out of 5]

The ending was not predictable, which was wonderful but the books all have the same theme. Mick may fall off the wagon; women are a constant temptation and he needs to be somewhere else. Memorial Day may have been the last one I will read.

[Kellie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This wasn’t so great. Mick is a guy who is a recovering alcoholic who ends up back in his home town (a small town in Las Vegas. HE is fighting the demons of his past. Trying to stay sober, he takes a job at the local radio station to fill in.
This story did not flow. There was minimal suspense and the character development is weak.

[Pam]

01/25/08 rec via pbs

[Rob Twinem · Rating 4 out of 5]

really enjoyed look forward to more in the series...