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- Hometown:
- Greater Boston Area
- About Me:
- Author and fan of mysteries !
Golfer, sailor and old Rock & Roller
Thakns for dropping by and please check out my latest McCarthy Family Mystery: Shadow of Innocence.
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Shadow of Innocence: The Thin Man" meets "Pulp Fiction"
A unique mystery set amid the drugs-and- music scene of the sixties.
The Newport Folk Festival provides a groovy backdrop for this drug-and-sixties-music-soaked mystery, featuring partners in love and danger, Mick and Bridget, hopping on their motorcycles and into action. Aided by the rest of their family of detectives, they quip, banter, and plunge headlong into danger, as haughty Newport is threatened by a perverse, shadowy secret.
Mick and Bridget's exuberance and optimism manage to glimmer through even the darkest of perils, as they delve into a seamy world of drugs and sex, and are forced to match wits with both the mob and a shadowy psychopathic killer.
Shadow of Innocence has it all: adventure, sleuthing, humor, DSM (drugs, sex, music), and a perverse, shadowy secret that threatens to tear apart the posh Newport town.
Don't miss the McCarthy family in action.
Ric Wasley Author
Shadow of Innocence
Kunati - April 2007
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A sampling of Reviews for Shadow of Innocence
“Colorful and exciting.” Says David Pitt of Book List
“Wasley is well versed in the 1960s New England music scene (he was a folksinger and rocker), and he is able to make us feel as though we are in that time and place.”— David Pitt – Book List
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From the Library Journal...
P.I. Michael Prescott McCarthy, half Irish and half Boston Brahmin, and his partner Bridget Connolly go to Newport, RI, to rescue the cousin of his Vietnam army buddy. A killer in the tony resort is murdering people in vicious ways. Debut novelist Wasley uses his knowledge of music and personal experience in the Sixties to bring a certain reality to this tale.
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And from NYT Best Selling Author William Martin…
“Here's a recipe for a page-turner: Take a moment of high American drama - the tumultuous year of 1968. Add some cool New England locations - Harvard Square and the Newport Folk festival. Throw in a wisecracking Boston detective. No, wait... make that a whole family of Boston detectives. Let Ric Wasley cook it all up for you. Then sit down and enjoy. You'll be glad you did.”
William Martin, bestselling author of Back Bay, Harvard Yard, and The Lost Constitution
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- I Am A:
- Writer
- Books And Authors I Like:
- Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, Lee Burke, William Martin, George McDonald Fraser, Bernard Cornwell
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- Pulp fiction, Sin City, All Film Noir (especially Bogey!)
Ric Wasley's Blog
What would you do ?
What would you do?
Chapter Excerpt from Shadow of Innocence
Here's another particularly creepy, helpless-feeling situation with a brief but shuddering nod to the horror genre both classic and contemporary.
So read and think about... what would YOU do?!!
Here's another particularly creepy, helpless-feeling situation with a brief but shuddering nod to the horror genre both classic and contemporary.
So read and think about... what would YOU do?!!
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Bridget strained…
Continue Bridget strained…
Posted on October 2, 2007 at 4:17pm
What would you do? – “Don’t go down into that dark cellar alone!”
ContinueAnother in the "What would you do?" questions.…
Posted on September 1, 2007 at 5:12pm
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Thanks for stopping by and please check out my latest blog which contains an excerpt from my next McCarthy Family Mystery due out next Fall - The Scrimshaw.
And of course drop by Amazon or your favorite bookstore and take a look at the first two McCarthy Mysteries, Acid Test and Shadow of Innocence.
Thanks !
Ric
Ric Wasley
Author
Shadow of Innocence - Kunati - April 2007
Acid Test – Fall 2004
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http://www.kunati.com/shadow-of-innocence-hip-myster/
Ric Wasley has spent almost forty years wandering through corporate board - rooms and honky-tonk bars. He now divides his time between writing mystery novels – Shadow of Innocence & Acid Test - McCarthy Family Mysteries – and observing the really ‘juicy parts’ of the human condition
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New from Kunati Publishing: SHADOW OF INNOCENCE - The Newport Folk Festival provides a groovy backdrop for this fun and exciting mystery set in the music and drug soaked sixties. The Baby Boomers and everyone else are sure to enjoy this appealing mystery featuring a pair of musician partners in love and danger. Don't miss Shadow of Innocence From Kunati Publishing. Available now on; Amazon ,Barnes & Noble and at bookstores everywhere.
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Shadow of Innocence
Ric Wasley (Author)
1960s music and musicians take center stage in a fun Baby Boomer mystery
The Newport Folk Festival provides a groovy backdrop for this drug-and-sixties-music-soaked mystery, featuring partners in love and danger, Mick and Bridget, hopping on their motorcycles and into action. As the family of detectives quip, banter, and swing into action, posh Newport is threatened by a perverse, shadowy secret. Mick and Bridget's exuberance and optimism manage to glimmer through even the darkest of perils, as they delve into a seamy world of drugs and sex, and are forced to match wits with both the the mob and a shadowy psychopathic killer.
Ric Wasley is the author of Acid Test. He was a musician in New England in the 1960s. He lives in Boston.
Price: $24.95
Category: Mystery
Pages: 304
Book Type: Cloth
Size: 6 x 9
ISBN: 1601640064
Publisher: Künati Inc.