Dysfunctional, bumbling, crazy babe-magnet Dev Haskell, P.I., becomes the envy of every guy with a heartbeat when he’s hired to watch over a team of Gorgeous English Roller derby stars.
Though he’d rather be standing guard in the shower room, he suddenly finds himself under arrest and found guilty before he’s even charged. He’s got an attorney who drinks too much, a beautiful woman with a bad attitude, a feisty team of females ready to kill him – and no answers.
Bombshell is another fast paced, engrossing suspense thriller from Minnesota’s master of the bizarre, Mike Faricy.
Though he’d rather be standing guard in the shower room, he suddenly finds himself under arrest and found guilty before he’s even charged. He’s got an attorney who drinks too much, a beautiful woman with a bad attitude, a feisty team of females ready to kill him – and no answers.
Bombshell is another fast paced, engrossing suspense thriller from Minnesota’s master of the bizarre, Mike Faricy.
His entertaining tales are populated with the sort of quirky, oddball characters we’d all like to know more about, but wisely prefer to keep at a distance. They serve not so much as examples as they do warnings to the rest of us. None of his characters will be saving the world from terrorism, international banking conspiracies or coups to topple the government. Rather, they’re individuals inhabiting a world just below the surface of polite society. The difficulties they find themselves in are usually due to their own bad decisions, but then, bad decisions make for interesting tales.
All of his books are stand alone, read them in any order you wish. Russian Roulette introduces the bizarrely devilish Devlin Haskell as a PI with a foot on both sides of the law. Dev’s adventures continue in Mr. Softee and the soon to be released Bite Me. Mike is currently working on his latest top secret project. He graduated High School from St. Thomas Academy and earned a BA in history from St. Norbert College.
His latest book is the crime fiction, Bombshell.
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Daddy’s Ride Along by Mike
Faricy
Guest Post
I may write books of no
redeeming social value like my latest release, Bombshell. But I think
crime fiction even when written with a sense of humor and some romance should
still be accurate. I’m always ‘investigating’, attempting to learn something,
anything that would make my books a little more realistic. All my stories are
set in Minnesota St. Paul Minneapolis St. Paul Minneapolis St.
Paul Minneapolis St. Paul Minneapolis St.
Paul
A while back St. Paul
That may be, but my ride
along began at seven in the morning, so much for night duty. Mercifully for the
two officers I accompanied it was pretty boring. No kidding, their names were
Mike and Pat. They described the various codes coming across the radio. We
responded to two traffic accidents, little more than fender benders. A report
of a suspicious individual we never did see. An EMT call for some guy who fell
off a ladder and a handful of other forgettable incidents.
Toward the end of the shift
they offered to drop me off at home. As we pulled around the corner I wondered
what the neighbors would think when I was delivered to the door by the police.
Most likely it would just serve to confirm their suspicions. There was a gaggle
of kids playing on the boulevard halfway down the block, three of whom belonged
to me.
“Up there with all the kids,
that’s my house,” I said.
“All yours?”
“Mercifully no, the one
jumping in the puddle, splashing the others and in general being a pain in the
butt, he’s mine.”
They gave a knowing nod.
“Does that play DVD ’s?” One of the kids pointed at the computer
mounted on the front dash.
“No, it’s our computer so we
can check all sorts of things. Here, we can even look for bad guys or see if
someone has done something wrong.” Pat said, hitting the keyboard and bringing
up a screen.
“Yeah?” one of my kids
questioned. Probably thinking he’d just stolen a handful of cookies and exactly
how good was this system anyway?
“Sure, we can put someone’s
name in, well, like your dad,” he typed in my name, Mike Faricy, waited a
moment or two before the screen flashed. I’d love to say it came up with a gold
star or my drivers license image with a halo. Instead a red bar began to flash
across the screen that read OUTSTANDING WARRANT.
Pat turned round to look at
me through the mesh screen as I sat in the back seat of his squad car.
“Hmm-mmm seems there’s a
warrant out for daddy’s arrest.”
“You’re, you’re kidding,
right?” I said.
“Not according to our
records,” my two new pals had suddenly taken on a very serious tone.
One of the neighbor kids took
off running toward home. I’d labeled his mother ‘Miss Information’ a year or
two back; the whole neighborhood would be on this by dinner time.
“Read him his rights?” Mike
asked.
“Guys, come on, I’ve never
been arrested, you gotta believe me. Honest.”
My youngest daughter half
cried, “Daddy?”
That broke the ice. “Relax,
unpaid parking ticket. But I’d get it taken care of, sooner rather than later.”
“If you’ll let me out I’ll go
downtown and do it right now.”
I did just that, a
thirty-five dollar ticket from about a year and a half earlier, it cost
one-hundred-and-twenty-five dollars, but I’ve got a clean record. By the time I
arrived home my wife had received two phone calls from concerned neighbors
wanting to now where I was being held. No one seemed surprised there had been a
warrant issued. My son was bragging to his pals that I was wanted by the
police.
“What did we learn on our
ride along?” my wife asked later that evening. She smiled that sort of smile
that added ‘you idiot’ without having to actually say the words.
“Pay my parking tickets?”
“How about not getting one in
the first place. Go kiss the kids goodnight and let them know you’re no longer
a threat to society.”
No, you won’t read about my arrest
warrant when you pick up a copy of Bombshell (amzn.to/R1cIb5).
But I think you’ll have a fun read anyway. Thanks for taking the time to read
about my ride along, enjoy Bombshell, as well as my other books on
Amazon and don’t forget to tell two to three hundred of your closest friends.
Many thanks and all the best, Mike Faricy
My Review
Having read and reviewed previous works of Mike Faricy, I jumped at the chance to review Bombshell. It was absolutely delightful. His books are action-packed and offer the reader a tantalizing ride full of mystery. With words in the book blurb like "crazy babe-magnet" PI and "gorgeous English Roller Derby stars", you just know you are in for a wild ride and Bombshell doesn't disappoint.
Mike's books are well-written with great stories and loads of adventure that will keep you spell-bound and turning page after page as the plot unfolds. Looks like Mike has another hit on his hands with Bombshell.
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