Hell Hole by Chris Grabenstein
The Anthony Award winning John Ceepak series continues! Former MP John Ceepak is confronted with his most personal case yet when he must investigate the alleged suicide of an Army corporal who recently returned from Iraq. When it turns out that this "locked toilet stall" rest stop suicide is anything but an open-and-shut case, Ceepak and his partner, the young wisecracker Danny Boyle, realize that the corporal might have been privy to information that opens up a much larger conspiracy that strikes at the heart of our involvement in the Middle east and puts them on the wrong side of some very unpleasant people.... "Like its three predecessors, this one is narrated breezily by the cynical Boyle, and Grabenstein again shows his intimate knowledge of Jersey shore towns... But this series offers far more than a beach-book romp; Hell Hole is taut and satisfying crime fiction." -- Booklist
"A solid entry in the Ceepak series. Grabenstein... has a great ear for dialogue..." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Chris Grabenstein has raised the stakes in Hell Hole, the latest offering in the Ceepak mystery series. All the reasons I fell in love with the series are still there: Danny is still the Candide-like character through whom we see the honorable, lie-hating John Ceepak, the writing is still as smooth as glass and as honest as a boy scout, the dialogue still rings as true as a dinner bell. But in Hell Hole, Grabenstein has taken it to a whole new level. Like the boardwalk ride he describes, he drops the bottom out of what we think we know, and gives us a story that's as dark and mesmerizing as the Hell Hole itself. Don't let the sunny weather of Sea Haven fool you, Hell Hole is one spectacular, gripping ride." -- Louise Ure, Shamus Award-winning author of The Fault Tree
Chris Grabenstein is the Anthony Award winning author of the John Ceepak/Jersey Shore mysteries TILT A WHIRL, MAD MOUSE, WHACK A MOLE, and this summer's HELL HOLE. This summer also saw the debut of his Middle Grades mystery from Random House THE CROSSROADS, which Booklist called "an absorbing psychological thriller" and "a rip-roaring ghost story" in its starred review. Chris also wrote the thrillers SLAY RIDE and HELL FOR THE HOLIDAYS. A former improvisational comedian and advertising writer, he lives in New York with his wife, three cats, and a dog who once starred on Broadway in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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