A New Prospect Virtual Book Tour June & July 2011
Join Wayne Zurl, author of the police mystery novel, A New Prospect (Black Rose Writing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in June & July 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!
About Wayne Zurl
Wayne Zurl grew up on Long Island and retired after working for twenty years with the Suffolk County Police Department, one of the largest municipal law enforcement agencies in New York and the nation. For thirteen of those years he served as a section commander supervising investigators.Prior to his police career, Zurl served on active duty in the US Army during the Vietnam War and later in the reserves.
In 2006 he began writing crime fiction. Seven of his Sam Jenkins mysteries have been produced as audio books and simultaneously published as eBooks. His first full-length novel, A New Prospect, traditionally published by Black Rose Writing, debuted in January 2011.
Zurl left New York to live in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee with his wife, Barbara.
For more information about Zurl or his writing, visit www.waynezurlbooks.net. Follow his book signing tour at www.booktour.com/authors/show/31206.
Connect with Wayne at Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/waynezurl or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001483038544.
About A New Prospect
Sam Jenkins never thought about being a fish out of water during the twenty years he spent solving crimes in New York. But things change, and after retiring to Tennessee, he gets that feeling. Jenkins becomes a cop again and is thrown headlong into a murder investigation and a steaming kettle of fish, down-home style.The victim, Cecil Lovejoy, couldn’t have deserved it more. His death was the inexorable result of years misspent and appears to be no great loss to anyone, except the prime suspect is Sam’s personal friend.
Jenkins’ abilities are attacked when Lovejoy’s influential widow urges politicians to reassign the case to state investigators.
Feeling like “a pork chop at a bar mitzvah” in his new workplace, Sam suspects something isn’t kosher when the family tries incessantly to force him out of the picture.
In true Jenkins style, Sam turns common police practice on its ear to insure an innocent man doesn’t falls prey to an imperfect system and the guilty party receives appropriate justice.
A NEW PROSPECT takes the reader through a New South resolutely clinging to its past and traditional way of keeping family business strictly within the family.
Latest News! A New Prospect was named best mystery of the year at the 2011 Next Generation Independent Publisher’s Book Awards! The link to the published results is www.indiebookawards.com/2011_winners_and_finalists.php.
My Thoughts
A New Prospect by Wayne Zurl is a great mystery/detective novel featuring Sam Jenkins, a retired New York City cop, and his wife Kate. They retired to Prospect, a small town in Tennessee awhile back and Sam has decided to work again as the Police Chief of this relatively small and quiet town. He thinks that this will be a job that will be great for a retired person to spend some time at. He is wrong as he soon finds himself embroiled in the murder of a prominent man. While trying to investigate this murder he is thwarted by small town politics, from the mayor, to the father in law of the murdered victim, to the murdered man's family. What ensues is a great who dun-nit. It will have you thinking until the end. I hope to see a series of this small town of Prospect and its inhabitants. I recommend it for the mystery lover.
I received this book from Pump Up Your Books and was not monetarily compensated for my review.
CelticLady (Kathleen Kelly)
