10 Days: A Dee Rommel Mystery

by Jule Selbo

Overview

Early summer, Portland, Maine...

Eleven months after young policewoman Dee Rommel's mysterious and life-altering on-the-job injury. Her medical leave is nearly up, and the Police Department and her ex-training officer, newly-single Detective Donato, expect her to reinstate. But her decision is postponed when she is challenged to step in for her godfather - private investigator Gordy Greer - to investigate the disappearance of a brilliant high-tech heiress, Lucy Claren, who has announced hasty wedding plans that could derail her father's empire.

Life is further complicated when Dee's good friend, Karla, is physically assaulted by a sadist that Dee had helped put behind bars. Newly released, he decides to turn his sights on justice-driven Dee, making it his personal mission to ensure her failure - and demise.

Dee dangerously navigates through the two worlds of crime - determined to survive them both... in just ten days.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781950627431
Publisher:	Pandamoon Publishing
Publication date:	08/11/2021
Series:	A Dee Rommel Mystery , #1
Pages:	332
Sales rank:	245,255
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Jule grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and at a young age, put on original plays in her garage and then making short films at the local junior high school. As a student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas she continued to write plays as well as short stories that were published in the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Her passion for theater eventually took her to UNC, Chapel Hill and then to New York City where her plays were performed off-off Broadway, in regional theaters and in Los Angeles; these earned her gigs writing for network television and, eventually, major film studios in Hollywood, both in live action and animated projects. She moved into academia in the early 2000s and became a professor at California State University, Fullerton, teaching Screenwriting classes and World Cinema. Her books on Story Structure and Screenwriting, Film Genre and Women Screenwriters are used in universities across the globe. She loved her yearly teaching stint in Florence, Italy -and this is where her prior novel Find Me in Florence was born. She moved to Portland, Maine to concentrate on writing novels -not realizing it was home to some of the country's most accomplished and exciting novelists. Other books include historical fiction: Dreams of Discovery, Based on the Life of Explorer John Cabot and Breaking Barriers, Laura Bassi and the Enlightenment. She loves being part of the writing community there, sailing with her husband and playing pickleball.

Editorial Reviews

Dee Rommel Mystery has everything - including Dee as the unlikely investigator, reminiscent of Jack Nicholson in Chinatown. She's in rehab for a life-altering injury, she's got a penchant for drinking - and through her seasoned eyes, we see the underbelly of Portland, a cast of quirky and dangerous characters, along with a riveting crime story that is so compelling and cinematic it cries out to be made into a Netflix series. It's that good." - Jamie Cat Callan, Creator of The Writers Toolbox, author of Bonjour Happiness and French Women Don't Sleep Alone

Jule Selbo's 10 DAYS boasts a high-octane plot introducing Dee Rommel, a streetwise protagonist whose personal creed drives a compelling narrative. Despite a permanent injury that impacts her mobility, Dee stands up to power brokers and thugs. She and the rest of Selbo's deeply human characters are so real and compelling you'll wish The Sparrow was your local. But it's Dee's personal courage and loyalty to her tight circle of friends that gives this debut novel its power and will have fans signaling for another round. - Brenda Buchanan, author of the Joe Gale Mysteries

10 DAYS is an action-packed story that bristles with raw energy. I tore right through it. Using the mean streets of Portland as her canvas, Jule Selbo has created a fascinating and complex protagonist in Dee Rommel. A great read for lovers of crime fiction! - Joseph Souza, best-selling and award-winning author of The Neighbor, Pray for the Girl and The Perfect Daughter. josephsouza.net

10 DAYS is riveting and fun and inventive, and best of all, it features Dee Rommel, a tough, fearless, beautiful sleuth with an intriguing past. Warning: this book will induce a powerful craving for a fried haddock sandwich. And you won't be able to put it down until the suspenseful and totally satisfying conclusion. - Kate Christensen, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man and The Last Cruise

In this engaging and fast-moving story set on the coast of Maine, Selbo gives us a damaged heroine dedicated to protecting others and struggling to protect herself as she finds her way forward after a devastating injury. - Kate Flora, Maine Literary Award-winning author of the Joe Burgess Series

Packed with richly detailed characters, we root for policewoman Dee Rommel to bring the bad guys out of their holes and into justice. 10 DAYS author Jule Selbo deftly contrasts the criminal elements of working-class vs high class, hi-tech vs low-tech. She knows the world and clearly illuminates Dee's own demons as she struggles to right humanity's wrongs-and decide the path of her own future. - Susan Merson, author of Oh Good, Now This

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