Aberration

by Steven P. Marini

Overview

Jack Contino moves to Cape Cod, takes a job on the Dennis Police Department planning to live life in the slow lane, but things speed up when a black man is murdered. It's similar to a killing in Needham, but the trail leads to a South Shore white supremacist group.

DeeDee O'Hare and Judy Black are twenty-somethings sharing a summer rental in Dennis. DeeDee worked in a restaurant with the victim and has a boyfriend, Jared Wilkes, a local bartender with a roving eye...for Judy. Jack checks them out and learns that Jared has a checkered past calling for close scrutiny. He finds that Jared and the hate group have a link.

Mob figure Tommy Shea, Jack's old nemesis, is in the mix, but how is he involved? Jack has to find out. It's hard to solve a local murder when the Boston Mob has it in for you.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148273257
Publisher:	Gypsy Shadow Publishing Company LLC
Publication date:	07/08/2013
Series:	Jack Contino Crime Stories , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	326 KB

About the Author

Steve Marini holds a Master’s degree in Educational Technology from Boston University and a B.A. in Business Administration from New England College and has spent over thirty years in the Education/Training field, including posts in higher education and the federal government.

Although he describes himself as a “card carrying New Englander,” he lived for twenty-six years in Maryland while pursuing a career spanning four federal agencies. His background has enabled him to serve as a project manager at the National Security Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Fire Academy and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he worked with teams of experts in various fields to develop state-of-the-art training for both classrooms and distance learning technologies.

A “Baby Boomer,” Steve has taken up fiction writing as he moved into his career final frontier. Married for thirty-six years, a father of three and a grandfather, Steve and his wife Louise own a home on Cape Cod that will serve as his private writer’s colony for the years ahead.

Editorial Reviews

The latest crime thriller by Steven P. Marini describes the sort of hate group that is always a real concern to law enforcement. Marini leads readers through a submerged network of relationships that serve racial hatred and murder. Detective Jack Contino is a veteran cop from the "old school." He makes connections to penetrate and untangle a violent web of hate and murder. The ending is a shocker.

Retired police chief - Tom Leary

Steve Marini has hit the target dead center again with his newest novel, Aberration. Detective Jack Contino and his long-time friend and ally Leo are off on another adventure. Their latest foray into crime-stopping will bring them face to face with hate mongers, white supremacists and Jack's long-time nemesis again, Tommy Shea and his colleague, Sammy White. Another page-turner with non-stop action, vivid characterizations and a startling twist at the end. Not to be missed!

Author - Kevin Symmons

"Aberration" takes off like a bullet with a cool hero: Jack Contino, a cop's cop, who knows a thing or two about criminals, breaking cases and chasing down a cold one. You'll find yourself rooting for him all the way. And if it's the late 1970's you're nostalgic for, you'll feel right at home with this nifty mystery.

WBZ Radio - Jordan Rich