As Darkness Falls

by E. C. Ayres

Overview

As Darkness Falls, Book Two, of A Jake Fleming Investigation: Investigative reporter Jake Fleming, now laid off from his struggling San Francisco newspaper despite two Pulitzers, has elected to remain in London following his investigation of the murder of a friend there. Apart from a developing love interest, he's horrified and intrigued by a developing news story: an apparent reprise of Jack the Ripper in post-Conan Doyle London. He convinces his San Francisco newspaper to re-employ him as a freelancer to cover the story. But this new killer, while as stealthy as the original Ripper, is using both high technology and high finance to fund a planned global apocalypse.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160832043
Publisher:	Speaking Volumes
Publication date:	04/11/2022
Series:	A Jake Fleming Investigation , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

E.C. Ayres has a B.A. from Syracuse University. Ayres was a producer, writer and director of film and television programs and documentaries for over twenty years. Ayres moved to Florida’s Gulf Coast in 1989 to write mysteries with a Florida setting, and his first effort, Hour of the Manatee, won the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First P.I. Novel competition in 1992. With his ensuing Tony Lowell Mysteries, Ayres was one of the originators of the eco-thriller genre, and in Tony Lowell, he invented the first “hip” private detective. He recently spent three years working and teaching in Harbin, China where he wrote and has now published a new memoir, Inside the New China.