Thanks to Alissa Letkowski of Meryl L. Moss Media Relations, Inc., I am giving away copy of Treasure Coast.
Book Description:
A compulsive gambler goes to his sister’s funeral on Florida’s Treasure Coast and gets saddled with her loser-son, who is deep in debt to a vicious loan shark who sends a pair of sociopathic thugs to collect on the loan. But things go horribly awry and the gambler finds himself in the center of an outrageous kidnapping plot involving a conman selling mail-order tombstones, a psychic who channels the dead, and the erotically super-charged wife of a wealthy businessman.
The New York Times says, “Kakonis is a sharp gambler in the literary crap game – He just takes the pot.”
TREASURE COAST just got a great review from PW: “A darkly humorous caper novel that…offers strong entertainment.”
A reviewer for Up and Down these Mean Streets says: The bottom line is that Treasure Coast is a page turner, but you don’t just find yourself turning the pages. You savor the language, the mordant, unpleasant insights into human nature, fate, chance…the whole damn ball of wax.”
Treasure Coast is one of the first releases from the new publishing company, Brash Books. Bestselling authors Lee Goldberg and Joel Goldman created Brash to publish “the best crime novels in existence.”
About Tom Kakonis:
Tom Kakonis was born in California, squarely at the onset of the Depression, the offspring of a nomadic Greek immigrant and a South Dakota farm girl of Anglo-Saxon descent gone west on the single great adventure of her life. He has worked variously as a railroad section laborer, lifeguard, pool hall and beach idler, army officer, technical writer, and professor at several colleges in the Midwest. He published six crime novels before retiring for over a decade, and then resumed fiction writing with the novel Treasure Coast. Currently he makes his home in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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A captivating and interesting story. Loved learning about the author and his roots.
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Sorry everyone, I am away from home and just found out the Rafflecopter didn’t post. It is there now. Thanks for your patience!
I like that this is a darkly humorous book. Thanks for the giveaway.
I’m not in the mood for this kind of plot, and my TBR pile runneth over and over and over…but if I could be persuaded based on authorial voice alone, I can’t imagine a stronger sell than the quoted review’s claim: “The e bottom line is that Treasure Coast is a page turner, but you don’t just find yourself turning the pages. You savor the language, the mordant, unpleasant insights into human nature, fate, chance…the whole damn ball of wax.” I raise my glass and tip my hat to mordant, unpleasant insights into…that wax! Thanks for featuring this interesting writer. Cheers. Kara
It sounds like a fun and interesting read with lots of things going on in this book. I would read enjoy it. Thanks for having the giveaway.
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