π¨π¨π¨π¨π¨ "Excellent read." " engrossing and entertaining. Engaging characters crafted in a personable style wend their way through twisted plots peppered with murders. Don't miss out on this exciting series of whodunits where it ain't over til it's over, baby." - Amazon Reviews
#READ #FREE via #KindleUnlimited #eBooks #Boxset π¨ Joey Mancuso Crime Mysteries: Volumes 1 - 3 (Joey Mancuso Mysteries) π¨ by Owen Parr https://amzn.to/3uiRWSO
BOOK 1 -A PRIEST, AN EX-COP, AND THREE BADASS BABES WALK INTO A BARβ¦
Lucky for readers, thatβs a great opportunity for the kind of rare mystery series with something for everyoneβa tough guy, three awesome women, and a classic Golden Age gentleman-detective clergyman. The twist? The cop and the cleric are half-brothers who operate a PI firm out of their bar.
Captain OβBrianβs Pub and Cigar Bar, with its old-world New York warmth and reliably friendly Irish bartender is a character in itself, the kind of place thatβs like home to its devotees.
So when one of the brothersβ best customers dies in an apparent suicide βa Wall Street guy celebrating a new client the night before-- they're just not feeling it. They know he wasnβt a guy who wanted to die; and they quickly find out he was someone a lot of people wanted dead.
Itβs a made-to-order financial puzzle for a couple of seasoned New York PIβs, with the kind of twists and scams and puzzles that warm a mystery fanβs heart like a shot of Jameson.
BOOK 2 -TOO MANY LEADS, TWO FEW BREAKS, AND only TEN DAYS TO GO IN THE TRIAL OF THE YEARβ¦
Things are finally turning around at Captain OβBrianβs Pub and Cigar Bar, an oddball location for a PI office, but the kind of warm, buzzy scene every mystery reader loves. After first getting fired, then earning a glowing reputation in his first high-profile case as a PI, ex-NYPD Detective Joey Mancusoβs back on the crime scene with his half-brother and Brooklynβs favorite man of the cloth, Father Dominic OβBrian.
Just in time for Christmas, a wealthy real estate developer named Harold Longworth is on trial for the murder of his wife in the bedroom of their Long Island mansion, and the Manhattan elite are glued to their seats.The odds are stacked steeply against the developer. It seems he called 911 twenty whole minutes after discovering his wifeβs body, was found covered in her blood, and his prints were on the murder weapon.
BOOK 3 -MANHATTAN PLAGUED BY TERROR: RED RIBBON KILLER RAMPAGES!The third outing in the gripping Mancuso-OβBrian murder mystery series, this case is particularly fascinating, Watsonβbecause itβs about to get personal!,h3>
When meticulous NYPD cop-turned-private eye Joey Mancuso is called in to help the Midtown South precinct solve a series of brutal murders targeting young professional women. Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy once said: βMurder is not about lust, and itβs not about violence. Itβs about possessionββa notion that haunts the NYPD when three isolated strangulation cases leave the midtown unit stumped.
Case #1 at first seems to be an eve of kinky sex gone wrong. But when second and third bodies turn upβthis time with the sign of the cross carved into their breastsβNew Yorkβs finest think they have a serial killer on their hands. There couldnβt be a better time to call in wry private investigator Joey Mancuso and his brother, Father Dominic OβBrian. Joey finds himself grasping at strawsβand concocting a psychological profile of his killer, thanks to some tips from his FBI agent sometime-girlfriend. Why the gruesome carving of the crucifix? And why are all the murders so close to NYPDβs Midtown South Precinct? The more Joey digs, the more he realizes his victims arenβt simply the victims of patterned sex crimes, but of a narcissistic psychopath gunning for someoneβsomeone with ties to the precinct, perhaps.
Fans of New York detective shows from Blue Bloods to Elementary will find it right up their alley, and devotees of Golden Age mysteries will love it, especially those set in New York, like Ellery Queen and Nero Wolfe; and those starring brainy clergymen, like Father Brown, The Rabbi, and Father Dowling.Author Owen Parr has modeled his heroes after Holmes and Watson, and all the Doylesque markings of a head-scratching, heart-racing puzzler lie in these pages.
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