Silent
Partner
by Stan
Schatt
Genre: Paranormal Mystery
Publisher: Pen-L Publishing
Number of pages:
239
Word Count:
60,000
Cover Artist:
Kelsey Rice
Book
Description:
Detective
“Frankie” Ryan tracks a sadistic killer while the press attacks her as a
feminist vigilante who takes the law into her own hands. The only one who can
help her is a tabloid reporter who can’t decide if he’s a psychic who sees
ghosts or is just going insane.
As they search
for the killer in a sunny seacoast city’s seamy S&M underside, they begin
to question everything they know about sexual identity. How can they find the
killer before he strikes again when he defies any description?
Silent Partner
is a paranormal mystery, a police procedure novel with a female detective that
will remind you of Harry Bosch, a ghost story that suggests what lies beyond
death, and a comic look at a tabloid where the “truth” is whatever sells.
Excerpt from Silent Partner
Frankie glared at Landry. His neck turned red, but he didn’t say anything. “How could I live without her? I was addicted to her. Once you had her in your system, you never wanted her to leave. When I was away from her, I thought of her constantly. It wasn’t just the sex. She was the smartest, wittiest woman I’ve ever known. She was the most interesting and exciting woman I’ve ever met. She was also the most manipulative woman I’ve ever met. I hated myself for not throwing her out, but I just couldn’t. Love is a horrible thing, and not the wonderful things
poets
say.”
“Did
she leave a note?” Frankie was trying to develop a timeline.
“I
came home around five-thirty, and she didn’t leave a note. I never believed her
notes anyway. You have to understand something about Lorna. She never admitted
she was wrong about anything, and she never apologized. She could convince
herself in a minute that anything she said was true. Lorna once left me a note
that she was going shopping with a girl friend. That friend called later and
didn’t know anything about the shopping. I told my wife I knew she lied to me,
and she became furious that I didn’t believe her. I’m sure she totally believed
that she was right and I was wrong. I think the shrinks call someone like that
a sociopath.” “We’ll need your
statement. Does your
wife have any
enemies?”
Frankie
said.
Marco
looked up. His eyes glistened from his tears. “It’s probably a long list. As I
told you, Detective, she didn’t play by the same rules as everyone else.”
“Let’s
start with the names of people you know had reason to dislike her,” Frankie
said.
About the Author
Stan Schatt grew
up in Phoenix, Arizona and now resides in Carlsbad, California. He has written
thirty-five books on a wide variety of subjects ranging from fiction to
technology. He is co-author of Journey
to a Different Dimension, an Amazon bestseller. He also authored Egypt Rising,
a YA novel focusing on a teen’s experience in Egypt at the time of the Egyptian
revolution of 2011. This novel contains paranormal elements including a secret
buried under the Sphinx. The paranormal mystery Silent Partner is Schatt’s
latest novel.
He has led
several careers including futurist and executive for many of the world’s
leading technology market research firms, police department administrator,
autopsy assistant, software trainer, Telecommunications Department Chairman,
and English professor. He taught at Tokyo University as a Fulbright exchange
professor. His non-fiction includes books on such diverse topics as strategies
for changing careers for a green industry job, studies of Michael Connelly and
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., network and data communications technology,
telecommunications, computer programming.
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