Suspense
Date Published: March 1, 2021
Publisher: Épouvantail Books
From Tropea, Italy to Michigan and Florida, the thieves Molly and April Danser are on the run, trying to escape from an enraged ex-US Marshal. He is hell bent on stopping them once and for all, his twisted black heart fired up for revenge and their total destruction. Will the sisters elude his blood-soaked hunt? They have their smarts and resource but have never faced a pursuit like this.
Can they somehow put an end to his blood lust?
What will they have to do to save themselves from his powerful and deadly claws?
The hunt is on…
Detective Richard ‘Rick’ Ables, Jr.
arrived at the Tropea apartment early the next morning, missing the Danser
sisters by more than thirty-six hours. Not his fault, the incompetent and
greedy airlines had once again dog-fucked his best-laid itinerary. Having
flashed his revoked US Marshal badge, he had walked and examined the girls’
rooms with the Mrs. Gior-something trailing and complaining, her Italian
sounding like tipsy Mexican. The rooms had been wiped and cleaned for new
guests, and as he stood on the front porch looking down at the ancient and
sun-stupid town, his lower throat gorged with the bile of frustration.
Descending the stairs
to the street, he wiped sweat from his brow with the back of his hand,
irritated further by the heat and air that felt mottled with sand and the smell
of sea rot. He set the case binder on the roof of his pop can of a budget rental,
unlocked the door, and climbed in behind the wheel. Syncing his SAT phone with
his laptop, he opened the binder in his lap while a connection was made to his
server back in Michigan. The first tab was the detailed chronology of the
pursuit, which he updated with his pocket pen, characterizing the Tropea search
as an empty gator hole. The laptop pinged, and he pulled it over from the
passenger seat.
His slow-witted inside
source had let him in on Molly’s strange motorcycle racing life. Details
from the search launched before arriving in this ass-up Italian town appeared
as red flag icons on a map display. One was in coastal China in a city called
Yantai. The second was near the Bristol shores in Britain. Doubting the girls
had the juice to get into communist slant land, he did a search on the UK
event, skimming the summary deep enough to see that the race was in two weeks.
“It smells right.”
He allowed his thoughts to rewind to the last time he was in
Britain. “This whole nut sack began there.”
About the Author
Greg Jolley earned a Master of Arts in Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in the very small town of Ormond Beach, Florida. When not writing, he researches historical crime, primarily those of the 1800s. Or goes surfing.
Contact Links
Twitter: @gfjolle
email: gfjolle@sbcglobal.net
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