Jake Samson is one of the nicer guys you will find in the private eye business, who operates in a relaxed, casual style with his BFF Rosie and her justice-dispensing two-by-four. Award-winning author Shelley Singer’s wonderfully wry narrative, and the obvious nonsexual affection between Jake and Rosie will have readers clamoring for more. Plus you can’t go wrong with adventures that take place in my hometown. Enjoy!
Samson’s Deal ( #1, The Jake Samson PI Series) (The Jake Samson Series)
Shelley Singer
Genre: World Literature | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Samson’s Deal is the FIRST novel in the Jake Samson mystery series by award-winning author Shelley Singer.
Murder, politics, and strange bedfellows…
Ex-Chicago-cop Jake Samson is tired of the rat race. He’s living in laid back Oakland, California with a couple of cats and just enough savings to eat canned oysters and accept collect calls from his bemused parents, when an old friend–a progressive political science processor–calls with an enticing offer. Seems the professor’s wife was found dead in the backyard of their Berkeley home, and he wants to pay Jake ten thousand dollars (plus expenses) to figure out whodunit.
The police pick up the usual leads; jealousy, dirty politics, and an estate worth killing for. Naturally, since the professor is the dead woman’s spouse, he’s the primary suspect. Samson doesn’t like the guy much, but the case heats up—quite literally–when the professor’s office is set afire by a radical right wing activist group, of which, it turns out, the wife was a member.
With his sidekick Rosie, and her justice-dispensing two-by-four, Samson follows a twisted trail leads through the Bay Area’s bizarre cultural labyrinth; from pop meditation ashrams to neo-Nazi rallies, to the startling, but all too human truth.
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Free Draw: Jake Samson #2 (The Jake Samson Series)
Shelley Singer
Genre: World Literature | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
The SECOND novel in the Jake Samson mystery series
A Nice Jewish Boy, His Lesbian BFF, and MURDER MOST MARIN…
Unafraid, unlicensed, and, in this case, unpaid, unofficial Bay Area P.I. Jake Samson and his carpenter sidekick Rosie set out to clear a friend of a murder charge. The victim is found stabbed to death in a damp redwood canyon in woodsy, wealthy Marin County, outside San Francisco. It’s up to Jake and Rosie to find the real killer, and they’ve got a number of suspects: the victim’s fellow executives at a questionable correspondence school, his divided and bitter family, and his quirky Marin County neighbors–a truly odd assortment of California woods dwellers.
But the real treats here are Singer’s dry humor and her characters: Jake, a nice Jewish boy with a rebellious–and very witty–streak; and Rosie, an irresistible twist on the sassy gay friend. Readers will love their easy, breezy relationship, and wish they had a friend like either one of them.
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