Blog Tour: CLEAN WIN by Kevin R. Doyle

Clean Win

by Kevin R. Doyle

 

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GENRE:   Mystery

 

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BLURB:

 

Laura Mosby is like a lot of young women, working in a job she doesn't like, looking for a way out, and doing her best to enjoy her privacy. When she dies a violent death at the hands of an intruder, it's at first brushed off as a standard homicide. But when Lieutenant Santiago, the supervising detective, comes across evidence linking her death to a local politician, he begins to see the faint threads of a much nastier scheme. Desperate to shield his people from potential harm, he turns to Sam Quinton, full-time gym owner and part-time private investigator, to help solve Laura's murder and help the police department evade the wrath of City Hall.

 

 

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Excerpt One:

 

We sat there for another minute or two before I prodded the cop. “Laura Mosby.”

           

“Right.” Santiago sat a little straighter, as if pulling himself back on track. “We’ve got a possible suspect.”

 

“From what the local news has reported, you’ve had more than one possible suspect.”

 

Santiago nodded. “A former boyfriend, another even more former boyfriend, and a low-rent cousin who lives out of state.”

 

“But?”

 

“But they were all dead ends. And now we’ve got someone new to look at.”

 

“Which I’m guessing has something to do with why you’re slumming enough to visit me this morning,” I said. “So why not get to it. Who’s the new favorite?”

 

Santiago looked away as he pressed his hands flat on his thighs. Despite our not-so-hot relationship, I decided to give him the time he needed.

 

He looked back my way, his expression as calm and controlled as I’d ever seen him.

 

“Bob Marlow,” he said, so quietly I almost missed it.

 

I blinked a couple of times, processing the name.

 

“Bob Marlow,” I repeated a few seconds later.

 

“Yeah,” Santiago said, giving me half a nod.

 

“As in Mayor Bob Marlow?”

 

Only a quarter of a nod this time, if that. “Yeah.”

 

“As in recently-announced candidate for governor Bob Marlow?”

 

No comment this time, except for Santiago giving me a dead-level stare.

 

“Well, shit,” I said.

 

“Yeah,” Santiago said.  




 

 

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 Review: An unsolved murder of a hair dresser. There have been several suspects with dead ends. Their latest suspect was a city mayor. A cop friend wanted to enlist the help of Detective Sam Quinton to find further proof to convict the mayor or clear him of the murder.

The investigation kicks off to a promising and captivating start. I just enjoy these murder mysteries with trying to figure out what happened and who did it.

Sam Quinton was your typical beat-nick P.I. that can get the answers and can get down n’ dirty if need be. His thinking was quick, candid, and gruff.

“If you’d been ready for it, I would have hit you a whole lot harder and you’d still be down.”

You get such a kick from Sam’s sly investigative skills. But what really draws you in is the murder mystery. Could the mayor have killed that girl? It would be too easy if it was the mayor. But if it wasn’t him, then who? Was this a cover-up or a set-up?

A great read from start to finish! Hooray for Clean Win!

 

Rating: 5 stars

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

A high-school teacher, former college instructor, and fiction writer, Kevin R. Doyle is the author of numerous short horror stories. He’s also written three crime thrillers, The Group, When You Have to Go There, and And the Devil Walks Away, and one horror novel, The Litter. In the last few years, he’s begun working on the Sam Quinton private eye series, published by Camel Press. The first Quinton book, Squatter’s Rights, was nominated for the 2021 Shamus award for Best First PI Novel.  The second book, Heel Turn, was released in March of 2021, while the third in the series, Double Frame, came out in March of 2022. The fourth Sam Quinton book, Clean Win, will be released in March of 203.

 

Web site: kevindoylefiction.com  

Facebook: facebook.com/kevindoylfiction

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6473241.Kevin_R_Doyle

 

Amazon buy link: https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Win-Quinton-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B0BN6X7WNW/

 

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