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Triggers
Phillip Weatherly’s biggest secret is that he’s a killer with a sealed juvenile record who grew up to become a bestselling crime author. Then, striking similarities between a homicide and his detective fiction novel get this adrenaline junkie—who trespasses into ruins—arrested. But is the murderer Weatherly or one of six others? In Weatherly’s book, a murderer stabs a victim to death at Manhattan’s abandoned City Hall Station. Years later, Mitchell’s real-life death mirrors the same MO and location. Detective Jónsdóttir discovers other suspects who could have wanted Mitchell dead and Weatherly incriminated because of their pasts. Throughout, Jónsdóttir also struggles with inner demons since she threw her homicidal father in prison. Who was triggered to commit this execution and why?
274 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 27, 2020
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About the author
Alexa Recio de Fitch
1 book15 followersAlexa Recio de Fitch is a crime fiction author. Her debut novel is titled Triggers and is available for purchase at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Alexa has published stories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Colombia through Orbis International Literary Journal (featured on the cover), Library Zine! Voices From Across the New York Public Library, Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, Women Writers, Women's Books, and El Heraldo. She worked at Hachette Book Group and McGraw-Hill and holds an English literature degree from the University of Notre Dame. Alexa is from Barranquilla, Colombia and lives in New York.
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March 4, 2020
Excellent modern-day "Whodunit" with lots of intriguing twists and turns. Triggers has all the literary elements in place for a suspenseful read. Loved the character and setting development of the novel. The author obviously did a great deal of research to bring the characters and setting to life! I felt as though I knew the characters and their surroundings as I read. Truly intriguing and kept me guessing until the end. Agatha Christie would be proud!!
January 31, 2020
Alexa is a phenomenal storyteller!
May 19, 2020
Must read.
Triggers by Alexa Fitch is a must read. This page turner has an intricate and engaging plot that will keep you hooked from beginning to end.
Triggers by Alexa Fitch is a must read. This page turner has an intricate and engaging plot that will keep you hooked from beginning to end.
June 4, 2020
Be prepared for this roller coaster of a mystery! An intricate story within a story thriller - nothing is really what it seems.
Phillip Weatherly is a top of the charts mystery writer who is having writer’s block. He urgently needs to find inspiration; he is broke, but cannot bear to let his wife Anya know the couple’s financial situation.
In Phillip’s novel, “Subterrânea”, a man is murdered in an abandoned subway station.
There is an identical murder in the same subway station, and Phillip ends up a suspect.
The homicide is investigated by Detective Jónsdóttir, who is burdened by a stigma.
Phillip himself has a tortuous past and is desperate to get back on track, to find inspiration for a new novel.
He embarks on several urban exploration trips, which are a bit morbid and very interesting, even for those who live in NYC and know the city well:
“He thought about how Washington Square Park, Bryant Park and Madison Square Park all had something in common. They all used to be burial fields for the destitute, in the 1800s, and then years later, the government built parks on top of them. It’s fascinating that just in Washington Square Park there are 20,000 corpses buried there that died from yellow fever and nobody knows about it. People just go there with their picnic blankets and their Frisbees, and they sit on 20,000 graves without a clue about what lies beneath them. It’s hilarious! If only they knew! Phillip thought.”
“Phillip had read that the Staten Island Farm Colony was a poor house established by the government. The destitute lived there in exchange for farm labor. However, the place became overcrowded, and with time, its inhabitants became too old to work the farm. When that happened, they refused to leave. They considered it their home, so they stayed there in what ended up becoming a decaying facility.”
“They swam until they found the subway cars. The Metropolitan Transit Authority had dropped these New York Red Birds into the ocean when they were retired.”
“North Brother Island had served many purposes throughout the years, but for the most part it had been a quarantine place.”
This side of the thriller is incredibly appealing - while biting my nails to figure out who the murderer was, I was taken into a journey of parts of the city that were completely oblivious to me. The story about Typhoid Mary and North Brother Island was particularly interesting in these times of quarantine, lockdowns and infectious disease. This story took me to my own private exploration of the history of infectious diseases!
I don’t want to offer any spoilers - this is one book you will want to savor!
I will say though that, towards the end, the turns and twists had my head spinning and my heart pulsing like crazy.
Absolutely worth reading!
Phillip Weatherly is a top of the charts mystery writer who is having writer’s block. He urgently needs to find inspiration; he is broke, but cannot bear to let his wife Anya know the couple’s financial situation.
In Phillip’s novel, “Subterrânea”, a man is murdered in an abandoned subway station.
There is an identical murder in the same subway station, and Phillip ends up a suspect.
The homicide is investigated by Detective Jónsdóttir, who is burdened by a stigma.
Phillip himself has a tortuous past and is desperate to get back on track, to find inspiration for a new novel.
He embarks on several urban exploration trips, which are a bit morbid and very interesting, even for those who live in NYC and know the city well:
“He thought about how Washington Square Park, Bryant Park and Madison Square Park all had something in common. They all used to be burial fields for the destitute, in the 1800s, and then years later, the government built parks on top of them. It’s fascinating that just in Washington Square Park there are 20,000 corpses buried there that died from yellow fever and nobody knows about it. People just go there with their picnic blankets and their Frisbees, and they sit on 20,000 graves without a clue about what lies beneath them. It’s hilarious! If only they knew! Phillip thought.”
“Phillip had read that the Staten Island Farm Colony was a poor house established by the government. The destitute lived there in exchange for farm labor. However, the place became overcrowded, and with time, its inhabitants became too old to work the farm. When that happened, they refused to leave. They considered it their home, so they stayed there in what ended up becoming a decaying facility.”
“They swam until they found the subway cars. The Metropolitan Transit Authority had dropped these New York Red Birds into the ocean when they were retired.”
“North Brother Island had served many purposes throughout the years, but for the most part it had been a quarantine place.”
This side of the thriller is incredibly appealing - while biting my nails to figure out who the murderer was, I was taken into a journey of parts of the city that were completely oblivious to me. The story about Typhoid Mary and North Brother Island was particularly interesting in these times of quarantine, lockdowns and infectious disease. This story took me to my own private exploration of the history of infectious diseases!
I don’t want to offer any spoilers - this is one book you will want to savor!
I will say though that, towards the end, the turns and twists had my head spinning and my heart pulsing like crazy.
Absolutely worth reading!
November 11, 2021
This book has many surprising twists and turns keeping you on your toes throughout. The characters stories are very unique and the author shows a deep psychological understanding of people through them.
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