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Jonathon King, a journalist for twenty years, began his career at the Philadelphia Daily news. He has covered crime and criminal courts and was a national award-winning news feature writer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He now writes full time.
King won the 2003 Edgar Award for Best First Novel for The Blue Edge of Midnight.
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Fifth in the Max Freeman series:
Acts of Nature |
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Max Freeman and Detective Sherry Richards escape to Max's shack in the Florida Everglades. Their peaceful getaway turns into a desperate flight from a major hurricane and undesirables. |
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| Eye of Vengeance |
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Veteran crime reporter Nick Mullins is raising his nine-year-old daughter on his own after a drunk driver took the lives of Nick's wife and one of their two daughters.
Nick is covering the story of a convicted murderer dramatically gunned down with a single bullet to the head in front of a county jailhouse. He realizes that the victim was the subject of one of his old stories and proceeds to hunt for the sniper who may have Nick in his sights.
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Fourth in the Max Freeman series:
A Killing Night |
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Max Freeman reluctantly agrees to help his ex-lover, detective Sherry Richards, investigate a series of murders of female bartenders in Broward County. Conflicting loyalties set in when a former cop who served on the force with Max in Philadelphia becomes the leading suspect.
Signed f/f 1st edition, 1st printing in mylar dustjacket |
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Third in the Max Freeman series:
Shadow Men |
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It begins with an 80-year-old mystery. A father and his two sons vanished while working as laborers on a dangerous project to build the first road through the Florida Everglades. Now, years later, a series of letters are unexpectedly discovered by a descendant of these men. Driven by the need to know what happened to these lost members of his family, he starts asking questions - and is quickly stonewalled. With nowhere else to turn, he enlists the help of former Philadelphia police officer Max Freeman.
Living in his isolated shack in the Glades, Max starts his longshot investigation into the fate of the men. A newly minted private investigator working with his friend and attorney, Billy Manchester, Max is surprised to meet resistance immediately at every turn. The search for the truth quickly turns violent - and Max finds he has more to worry about than just 80-year-old ghosts. For there are powerful interests that want to make sure that the shadows of the past remain undisturbed - including some who will kill to make sure that they do. |
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Second in the Max Freeman series:
A Visible Darkness |
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Max Freeman's self-imposed isolation is interrupted when e receives a desperate call from his best friend, attorney Billy Manchester. There's been a string of suspicious deaths - all elderly women from a poor neighborhood, and all with sizable and recently sold-off insurance policies - which the police have been unable, or unwilling, to investigate. Billy suspects something sinister may be at work, and so, to help his friend, Max must pry where he's not wanted and act like the cop he's trying to forget he was.
To discover an unseen killer, Max will confront not only the dangers of a forgotten Florida cityscape but the unexpected and dark corners of his own past as well.
Dutton 2003 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by the author. |
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First in the Max Freeman series:
The Blue Edge of Midnight |
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On a night that will haunt him forever, ex-cop Max Freeman killed a 12-year-old child in self-defense in a Philadelphia shootout. Since then he has lived a solitary existence on the edge of the Florida Everglades, where he answers to no one save the demons tormenting his conscience.
But when he finds the corpse of a child along a shadowy riverbank, he's pulled back into the twisted maze of law and order - as a murder suspect.
Now Freeman has no choice but to hunt down a killer who has committed the unthinkable - even if it takes him to the darkest places of the soul...
2003 Edgar Award winner for Best First Novel. Dutton 2002 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by the author. |
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| Eye of Vengeance |
| by Sue Wilder |
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Be forewarned. Jonathon King’s newest book is not part of the Max Freeman series. Instead, the protagonist is Nick Mullins, a highly regarded South Florida Daily News crime reporter. Two years ago, Nick’s wife and one of his twin daughters were killed by a drunk driver. Nick has become a single father raising his other nine-year-old twin daughter. The drunk driver has been released from prison after serving only 18 months and Nick is obsessed with stalking him.
Nick is assigned to cover the shooting death of a convicted murderer. Coincidentally, the victim was the subject of one of his stories. Further investigation reveals that a prior shooting with the same MO, a single bullet to the head, resulted in the death of another subject of one of Nick’s stories. When a third man is shot, Nick realizes that the victims are part of a hit list from prior stories. Despite the skepticism of the police, Nick pursues the sniper before more bodies pile up.
Identification of the sniper is only the beginning of solving the case. It seems that the sniper has plans that involve Nick. The tension mounts as both the characters and the reader grapple with the balance between justice and vengeance.
Mr. King has done it again: An intriguing plot that is driven by the motives of superbly drawn characters. The writing is excellent. As in any good thriller, the story has an end, although the resolution is not a pat answer. The authenticity of Nick’s character reflects Mr. King’s career as a reporter. As usual, South Florida is well-described.
Eye of Vengeance is billed as a “stand alone.” This reader would welcome another book featuring Nick Mullins and/or eagerly awaits the return of Max Freeman. Clearly, Mr. King’s Edgar Award for Best First Novel for Blue Edge of Midnight was not an accident.
MUST READ!!
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| Posted 08-06-2006 |
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