Night Tremors

April 27, 2015
In Anthony Award–winner Coyle’s extremely dark sequel to 2013’s Yesterday’s Echo, Rich Cahill, a La Jolla, Calif., PI stuck doing such lowly jobs as photographing adulterous spouses, is drawn to the case of Randall Eddington. Imprisoned in San Quentin eight years earlier, at age 18, for the brutal murder of his parents and sister, Randall may get a new trial if fresh evidence can be verified. The investigation is complicated by the involvement of a vicious biker gang, the ethically compromised cops who may have known that Randall was framed, and Cahill’s own obsessive need to study every piece of the puzzle. Most PIs are hypercompetent and tough, but Cahill is fallible and painfully vulnerable—he keeps on trying to do the right thing. Readers should be prepared for a morally ambiguous ending to this sobering crime novel. Agent: Kimberley Cameron, Kimberley Cameron & Associates.

May 15, 2015

Rick Cahill is uneasy in his new profession as a private investigator. A former cop whose wife was brutally killed years ago, he has never escaped the stigma that he got away with murder. Now Rick spends his nights as a Peeping Tom, photographing the indiscretions of La Jolla's married class. Feeling dirty, Rick's ready for a change, and fate ushers in Texas attorney Timothy Buckley. Buckley pleads with Rick to help him free Randall Eddington, who was found guilty of savagely murdering his own family. Rick's investigations put him back in the crosshairs of the police, who still believe he's guilty of his wife's murder, and may very well cost him his last remaining friend from the past. VERDICT Coyle doesn't disappoint in this sophomore entry after the Anthony Award-winning Yesterday's Echoes. In this tale we find all the elements that garnered the first book such high praise: complex characters, snappy dialog, a fast-paced plot, and a clever blending of crime noir tropes with today's culture. The gods seem to take delight in persecuting Rick Cahill, but readers will relish this fast-paced and complex whodunit.--Amy Nolan, St. Joseph, MI

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May 1, 2015
Rick Cahill is not a happy man. The former police officer turned PI still has nightmares about a man he killed two years ago, and he feels that he is responsible for the murder of his wife. Despairing of taking more cases involving the tracking of unfaithful spouses, he decides to help a lawyer he despises free an imprisoned man who may have been unjustly convicted of murder. The case puts him at odds with both the police department and a nasty biker gang and leads to a high-speed chase around San Diego. Solid hard-boiled thriller fare.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)