Who Killed Joe Italiano? - Lamanda, Al
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On a much needed vacation with his daughter Regan and close friend Oz, in Puerto Rico, John Bekker, the reluctant private investigator from the Nero Award winning mystery novel With 6 You Get Wally finds his vacation cut short when on a hot night he can't sleep and takes some fresh air on the balcony of his hotel room. Bekker's hotel is directly across the street from famed Luquillo Beach. The ocean is invisible in the dark, but street lights illuminate the sidewalks. A man is calmly smoking a cigarette on the sidewalk, seemingly minding his own business. After a few minutes, a second man…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
On a much needed vacation with his daughter Regan and close friend Oz, in Puerto Rico, John Bekker, the reluctant private investigator from the Nero Award winning mystery novel With 6 You Get Wally finds his vacation cut short when on a hot night he can't sleep and takes some fresh air on the balcony of his hotel room. Bekker's hotel is directly across the street from famed Luquillo Beach. The ocean is invisible in the dark, but street lights illuminate the sidewalks. A man is calmly smoking a cigarette on the sidewalk, seemingly minding his own business. After a few minutes, a second man joins the smoker. They speak for a few seconds and then walk down to the beach and into total darkness. The following morning, Bekker is surprised to see dozens of police officers on the beach. A newspaper story details the murder of one of Puerto Rico's most famous and beloved businessmen and philanthropist, a man they call Joe Italiano. Bekker decides to speak with the detective in charge of the investigation, Gerardo Escalante, and tell him what he witnessed from his hotel room balcony. Bekker decides to stay in Puerto Rico and help Escalante with the investigation. He meets the governor who sheds some light on Joe Italiano's political ambitions. Joe Italiano believed that Puerto Rico should achieve statehood and was a vocal member of an organization with the same goal.
Autorenporträt
Al Lamanda was born and raised in New York City. For his work, he has been nominated for the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award, and won the Nero Wolfe Award for Best Mystery of the Year for his novel, With 6 You Get Wally, book five in the John Bekker Mysteries. The series continues with Who Killed Joe Italiano? (2018), For Deader or Worse (2019), and The Case of the Missing Fan Dancer, published by Encircle Publications in March 2022. In addition to his many mysteries, Al also writes Western novels under the name Ethan J. Wolfe, which have been highly received by the Western Historical Society. He served in the United States Marine Corps, and worked as a private investigator and professional bodyguard in New York, Massachusetts, and Florida. He also served as a security and loss prevention consultant for many large corporations. In his free time, Al studied boxing, mixing it up in many amateur fights, and still trains today.His historical fiction novel set in New York City in the late 1940s, City of Darkness, was published by Encircle in January, 2021. He has published two Rollie Finch Mysteries, Once Upon a Time on 9/11 (April 2021), and Rollie and the Missing Six (August 2022). Al is always working on his next novel.