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Jake Samson Mystery #6
Royal Flush
Self-effacing PI Jake Samson is understandably nervous about infiltrating the local Marin County neo-Nazi group, the Aryan Command. After all, he is Jewish. Trying to save a friend's goddaughter from a ruinous romantic entanglement with Royal Subic, a disenchanted neo-Nazi who is too terrified to defect from the group, Jake goes undercover as an aspiring right-wing extremist. He begins by frequenting a skinhead bar. After meeting with some predictably loathsome people like racists, menacing bikers, and brooding wannabes, Jake realizes that the group is indeed dangerous and might have murdered Royal's friend, who also had wanted to defect. Conspiracies will the Aryan Command assassinate a talk-show host? Are members of a leftist group responsible for the murder of one of the right-wingers? Is the Aryan Command connected internationally? Are there other infiltrators besides Jake? To complicate matters, Jake finds himself ambivalently attracted to one of the Command's more attractive members. Could she be an Israeli agent?
- GenresMysteryCozy Mystery
100 pages, Paperback
Published February 25, 2015
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Shelley Singer
31 books18 followersAka Lee Singer.
Shelley Singer is the author of a dozen published novels and many short stories. One of her mysteries was nominated for the prestigious Shamus Award of the Private Eye Writers of America. She has written mysteries, science fiction, and mainstream fiction. Singer began her working life as a reporter with UPI in Chicago. During a checkered and mercifully brief journalism career, she met such luminaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Jimmy Hoffa, Xavier Cugat, Mrs. Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, Jr., and a condemned killer on death row. She never met Joseph Stalin. She teaches fiction writing classes and does manuscript consulting.
Shelley Singer is the author of a dozen published novels and many short stories. One of her mysteries was nominated for the prestigious Shamus Award of the Private Eye Writers of America. She has written mysteries, science fiction, and mainstream fiction. Singer began her working life as a reporter with UPI in Chicago. During a checkered and mercifully brief journalism career, she met such luminaries as Nikita Khrushchev, Jimmy Hoffa, Xavier Cugat, Mrs. Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, Jr., and a condemned killer on death row. She never met Joseph Stalin. She teaches fiction writing classes and does manuscript consulting.
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September 10, 2018
Book 6: Royal Flush — 28 chapters (August 17-21, 2018)
Written 11 years after last book and set 5 years in the future of last book. Jake and Rosie have had a falling out, but are back together, with Rosie now in charge of a PI firm. Jake becomes embroiled in helping Artie’s godfather’s boyfriend leave an Ayran Command gang before someone else gets killed.
If you have read the first five books in this series and thought the fifth one was political, hold on to your hoolie-hoops…this one makes that one look like cupcakes and rainbows. I read this as part of a omnibus set and though it was written in 1999, today, 2018, due to the current president, this event is more current than ever.
That makes this feel much more scarier as it is fiction, but it is undoubtedly happening in real life somewhere.
A skinhead with a Neo-nazis tattoo has a change of heart and wants out of a gang. He got in for fun, but realized it was anything but. He (Royal,) becomes an informant of sorts for Jake and together they find out who murdered Jake’s friend and possibly another victim.
This was a twisty plot with lots of spies and double agents. Jake becomes a part of the gang to help the investigation along, but Rosie, who now owns and operates a real PI, isn’t too happy about it.
Overall a tense, vanilla-creme thriller.
I didn’t not like this new setup; felt like a totally different series.
Three stars.
Written 11 years after last book and set 5 years in the future of last book. Jake and Rosie have had a falling out, but are back together, with Rosie now in charge of a PI firm. Jake becomes embroiled in helping Artie’s godfather’s boyfriend leave an Ayran Command gang before someone else gets killed.
If you have read the first five books in this series and thought the fifth one was political, hold on to your hoolie-hoops…this one makes that one look like cupcakes and rainbows. I read this as part of a omnibus set and though it was written in 1999, today, 2018, due to the current president, this event is more current than ever.
That makes this feel much more scarier as it is fiction, but it is undoubtedly happening in real life somewhere.
A skinhead with a Neo-nazis tattoo has a change of heart and wants out of a gang. He got in for fun, but realized it was anything but. He (Royal,) becomes an informant of sorts for Jake and together they find out who murdered Jake’s friend and possibly another victim.
This was a twisty plot with lots of spies and double agents. Jake becomes a part of the gang to help the investigation along, but Rosie, who now owns and operates a real PI, isn’t too happy about it.
Overall a tense, vanilla-creme thriller.
I didn’t not like this new setup; felt like a totally different series.
Three stars.
January 4, 2020
Sixth in the series. A few years have passed. Now Jake has moved to Marin, where he works for Rosie, who has obtained her professional P.I. license. He gets a royal flush in the eponymous card game plated, a recurring motif in these murder mysteries. Royal also refers to Royal Subic, a teenage skinhead who had gotten involved in a neo-Nazi group in the East Bay, and now can't get out. He is dating Jake's goddaughter (of sorts) who appeals for his help. Domestic terror acts are being planned, so Jake goes undercover to find out the plans and try and help Royal. Who is really running things? Are there undercover agents in the Nazis, Nazi moles in the police force? Who do you trust?
Jake also buys and sells a home in Marin, to re-establish the funky bungalow with cottage on the property living dynamic he had with Rosie, her dog, and his two cats when they lived in the East Bay.
Jake also buys and sells a home in Marin, to re-establish the funky bungalow with cottage on the property living dynamic he had with Rosie, her dog, and his two cats when they lived in the East Bay.
March 7, 2025
I enjoyed this book more than a body has a right too! This story has more plot twists than you can shake a stick at. It is full of action, and I promise you will need to use a score card to keep up. The book is very well written. While most books these days that deal with people on the left or right are biased, the author took great care to give both sides of the aisle fair treatment. In short, they are both crazy and out of hand when you go to the extreme.
September 18, 2020
Enjoyed
I really enjoyed this latest book of yours and I am really looking forward to your next book in this series.
I really enjoyed this latest book of yours and I am really looking forward to your next book in this series.
August 19, 2021
It was ok
August 25, 2022
I thought it would never end.
March 10, 2016
Royal flush
This was a good read, but even though there was a lot of action, it seemed a bit tedious at times.
This was a good read, but even though there was a lot of action, it seemed a bit tedious at times.
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