Backlash: A Frank & Stein Murder Mystery

by Kerry Costello

New Release - January 2023

Ruthless and vicious, someone has a dark secret - and will go to any lengths to prevent its exposure! Hollywood comes to Florida when a film crew arrives in Naples on the Gulf Coast, to shoot Ricky Jordan's latest blockbuster movie. Detectives Randazzo and Armstrong are suddenly in the thick of it, when the movie set isn't the only place where shooting occurs. The pair are suddenly running for their lives….
This powerful page turning murder mystery will keep you glued to the very last page!

344 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 17, 2023

About the author

Kerry Costello was born in England but is of Irish heritage. In his late twenties he started his own successful travel business, eventually selling out to focus on enjoying life - traveling, fishing, cooking, and writing novels. Costello says he feels more Irish than English and is very much at home in America where he and his wife Lyn have had a home for many years.

“The Irish are great story tellers and poets,” says Costello. “James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, W B Yeats, Edna O’Brien, Brendan Behan, the list goes on. I don’t claim to be in the same class as these writers, but I just enjoy writing and entertaining people with my stories.

Reviews

[Brian Borgford · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the fourth book in the Frankie Armstrong series, and perhaps the most gripping. Frankie and his pal Sam (now retired police) have formed a partnership in private investigation. Their first case starts out rather benign but then morphs into a complex murder mystery. Lots of twists and turns kept my attention through to the end. The book provided a satisfactory ending, tying up all the loose ends, but I found the ending a bit disturbing.

[Leonore B. Kohn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Editing

The story was good, and I liked the characters, but the editing was terrible. Sometimes it was so confusing that I had to read a sentence over again to try to figure it out.