Category: Crime Publisher: Grand Mal Press
ISBN-10: 1937727394
Type: Fiction
Pages: 352
Copyright: 2013
ISBN-13: 9781937727390
Price: $4.99 (eBook)
Series private eye Thomas Haftmann takes on a case of a missing girl, a runaway to Florida.
Excerpt
Private eye Thomas Haftmann jumps at the opportunity to escape the frigid Northern Ohio weather. Beautiful, troubled Raina Toivela has run away from home again. All he has to do is fly down to Miami, show her photo around, ask a few questions, and take a stroll along the beach before coming back to his tiny office in a second-class resort town and the routine of skip-trace jobs. But it won’t be sunny beaches Haftmann will recall once he recovers from the bullet wound to his head. He’ll remember a beating from a professional boxer and the icy fear in his guts during that drive to the mangrove swamps with two gun thugs who planned to make him alligator bait for the amusement of their boss, a rich Cuban-American developer. Battered and bruised, Haftmann will go back to search for the girl once more, and this time he will find himself wading through a different kind of muck—one composed of lowlife schemers and rich degenerates with their drugs and sex parties, knowing two killers will be looking for him to finish the job, and aware at every step of his investigation that the man who ordered his murder and orchestrated Raina’s disappearance is watching his every move with blood colder than any reptile.
Professional Reviews
Haftmann Crosses the River Styx
A young woman who doesn't fit in. Parents who are desperate for a child to return. In this his latest work, Robb White infuses noir-fiction and the crime novel with a raw style that takes the reader on an uncomfortable journey that few seldom undertake. Haftmann, that Existential and rather miserable PI, is the tour guide and ferryman who shuttles the reader to the underworld of society in search of a lost soul. A must read not only for those who enjoy a good crime story but also for those who like the challenge of a style that makes demands of the reader.
A jaded cold case investigator finds himself trying to solve a thirty year old mystery when the skeletal remains of two missing teenagers are found in a national park.
A jaded cold case investigator finds himself trying to solve a thirty year old mystery when the skeletal remains of two missing teenagers are found in a national park.
