Former star athlete and current ghost writer Rick Devlin left Charleston in the rearview mirror just days after his father was sentenced to life in prison for killing his mother. Now--thirty years later--he is compelled to return home to the Carolina Lowcountry to care for the reviled murderer in his final days. Just minutes after reluctantly arriving at the hospice center, however, his father reveals a closely held secret about the night of the murder that causes Devlin to question whether the "trial of the century" was a total sham. "Think about all that blood they showed on that screen in the courtroom," the old man tells him. "The blood on the knife, and on your mother's clothes, and the floor. There has to be some of the killer's DNA in all of that. And I swear on your mother's grave, not one fucking speck of it is mine." The trial testimony was clear-cut, the evidence was slam-dunk, and the jury returned its "guilty" verdict in just over two hours. But now, as Devlin begins to poke around the edges of his mother's death, the duplicitous truths of the past become increasingly exposed--and treacherous. It seems everyone has something to hide, from the father-son team of lawyers looking out for the senior Devlin's dying interests, to a vicious bagman who leaves a trail of mayhem wherever he goes. Also caught up in the secret: a corrupt state cop, a sanctimonious Bible-thumping televangelist, the leader of a white supremacist hate group, an elderly black Korean War sniper, the ghosts of several redneck murderers, and the specter of a young black boy who died a most horrific death. As Devlin scrapes at the facts behind his mother's death--and deals with the painful facets of his family's dysfunction--he learns not just the truth about his mother's violent death, but also comes to grips with the difficult lessons of his own past.

Seven-Thirty Thursday (A Rick Devlin Novel)

Literature & Fiction

Reed, Bunzel

Literary

Suspense Publishing

Rags to Riches story of one of San Francisco's leading businessman, philanthropist and the founder of The Koret Foundation. A true american success story. A snapshot of San Francisco in the 1920's.

California Style The Joe Koret Story

Chronicle Books+

It may be hot in South Carolina, but Iraq War vet and crime-scene clean-up specialist Jack Connor is nothing but cool. Tightly plotted and skillfuly written… a winning series Alafair Burk

Carolina Heat (Jack Conner)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Epicenter Press

More than just a war veteran with a body covered with tattoos and a past still haunted by death, Jack Connor is a young man who treads carefully over the human minefields of greed, murder, treachery, and deceit as he scratches the underbelly of Charleston's power elite.

Hurricane Blues

What did TV reporter Rebecca Rose do that got her brutally murdered and left In a gutter in downtown Charleston? That's what Jack Connor- crime scene clean-up tech, Iraq War veteran, and the victim's one-time lover-wants to know when he and his crew are called to sanitize her murder scene. When the police learn of Connor's romantic link to the victim, they waste no time bringing him in as a "person of interest." Still dealing with emotional and physical scars from the battlefield, Connor takes it upon himself to find Rebecca's real killer - a search that leads him to scratch the underbelyl of the South Carolina low country.

Palmetto Blood (Jack Conner)