Earl Town series by C. James Brown (#1-2)
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Overview: The son of a policeman, who has spent a quarter-century working with the world’s largest asset managers, C. James Brown has lived a fish out of water story. His goal is to make writing fiction his final career and for Earl Town to become a regular part of the reader’s life. Indian Summer was his first novel.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. Indian Summer
Earl Town is a former small-town police chief living in exile following the implosion of his marriage and promising career. Having fled to Boston, where he works as a P.I., Earl is hired by a beautiful young professional to find her boss, a financial executive who disappeared amid negotiations on a billion-dollar merger. The case presents Earl with no shortage of possibilities. Is someone trying to scuttle the deal? Did the man with a notorious wandering eye get bumped off by an angry husband or jealous rival? Or perhaps, the stressed-out playboy simply headed off to a warm beach with a sizzling beach bunny.
The mystery revolves around Indian Head, a historic yacht club in Greenwich, CT, but the investigation takes Earl to Manhattan, where the fish out of water attends an upper east side charity auction and rubs elbows with the wizards of Wall Street and a certain pantsuit wearing denizen of Chappaqua. High society views him as a rube, an affectation that the "wily sleuth protagonist" (Kirkus Reviews) cultivates and uses to his advantage as the stakes are raised and the scene shifts back to Greenwich.
When Earl determines foul play is at hand, his chief suspects are the man’s co-workers and fellow yachters, all of whom are proud members of America’s modern-day aristocracy. These elites don’t much like Earl, and as a result, they’ll underestimate him, mock him, and bludgeon him. When that fails, they’ll seduce him, which Earl doesn’t much mind, and even try to kill him, to which he strenuously objects.
It all comes down to whether or not a disgraced small-town cop is tough and clever enough to outsmart the smart set and bring a cold-blooded killer to justice.
2. Killing Influence
PI Earl Town returns in Killing Influence.
Two vivacious social media stars die just days apart. Both worked for Boom Productions, a self-described “arms dealer in the platform wars”—they create online content that generates billions of clicks. The timing of the seemingly unsuspicious deaths worries an aging mafia don whose granddaughter is a standout among Boom’s talent stable, so he hires PI Earl Town to investigate and Earl soon finds himself looking for clues among self-absorbed social media starlets, their fanatical parents, young social media entrepreneurs, rock stars, and gangsters.
The “wily sleuth” (Kirkus Reviews) finds a potential ally in a hard-nosed police detective assigned to the deaths. But it sure would help if Earl could remember just what he and she got up to on their first meeting at a boozy New Year’s Eve bash a few months prior. Then an old lawyer friend ropes Earl into looking for a dancer who disappeared while on the verge of a large payout. Working two cases is a problem when Earl’s clients are paying for his full attention, but issues magnify when the granddaughter is put in harm’s way and the don assigns his wet-behind-the-ears grandson to shadow Earl’s every move. The kid seems a simple-minded doofus at first, but Earl gradually comes to realize the heir didn’t fall far from the sociopathic family tree. Keeping his associate from killing witnesses, or being killed by them, adds to Earl’s burden as he uncovers a blackmail plot and races to prevent a killer from escaping justice.
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