Kirkus Book Review"Petrosini's (Ambition Cliff, 2011) second novel is a sprawling tale of politics and family, as the United States and China face off.The story opens in a courtroom, introducing the plight of Andy Chang, who has been wrongly sentenced toprison for crimes against the Chinese government. But it's his father, Xo "Benny" Chang, who is the center of the Chang family's portion of the book. The plot follows several different characters, the first of which is Benny, ...

Justice doesn't have an expiration date.Statistics say half of all killers get away. They blend into the suburbs, they grow old, and they forget. But the families of the victims never do.When Detective Luca receives a cryptic call about a 25-year-old murder, he is pulled into the darkest corner of the city's history: the brutal, unsolved murder of a teenage girl. For two decades, a devastated mother has waited for answers, and a younger brother has lived wi...

He beat the odds. Now he has to beat a killer.Detective Frank Luca is back on the force, but the battle with cancer left scars that haven't fully healed. The surgery is over and the chemo is done, but a persistent mental fog threatens the one thing he relies on: his instincts.A brilliant serial killer is terrorizing the city, leaving behind a trail of confusing clues and rising bodies. Frank knows something isn't right, but with a new Sheriff waiting for hi...

Obsession can be deadly.What's worse than a missing man?A dead one.Following a messy divorce and the messier death of his partner, Detective Frank Luca needed a break. He needed sunlight and clean air. He needed a re-boot. So, he's traded the smog of New Jersey for the sun-kissed beaches of southwest Florida. Babes, bikinis, and booze.The easy life, right? Wrong.Working a missing persons case, Frank gets pulled back into the filth he...

In the face of a death-defying power, what's the "new normal"?Like all reporters, Jack longs for a breaking story but is stuck writing obituaries for a small-town rag. As his frustration mounts, it hits him that no one has died in over three days. Jack's odd observation becomes something far stranger when he connects a meteorite to the bizarre phenomenon.Seizing the opportunity, Jack breaks the story and after a struggle to control the meteorite’s power is resolved, a swell...

When a detective second-guesses his gut, he'll have to get creative to catch the killer.Luca worries cancer and divorce have dulled his razor-sharp instincts. So the detective is relieved when his next murder case seems like a no-brainer.When the wealthy victim is found dead in her private-island home, the gold-digging husband seems like the obvious killer.As Luca digs deeper and follows the clues, however, he uncovers a whole new line-up of possible suspects. No lo...

A fathers abandonment and subsequent death of his mother leave a young Nick Covington struggling to control his destiny. Emotionally hardened and yearning for a sense of security, he sets out to build a life believing that only financial success can provide the stability he seeks. He will do anything to achieve his goal and as obstacles crop up, Nick resorts to reckless behavior, breaking ethical and moral boundaries. His journey leads to stints in the Pennsylvania coal mines and Texas oil...

Peter hated him……and the murder was brutal.Could he really be the killer?Peter served his country in Afghanistan. The brain injury was severe. To survive in the hospital, he kept his focus on the one thing that mattered, Mary. What he found back home, broke him.Mary was with Billy, the bully who terrorized his childhood.When the police arrested him for Billy’s murder, they had just one problem……Peter claimed ...