Prime Suspect

by A. W. Gray, to be announced (Read by)

Overview

Lackey Ferguson met Marissa Hardin once, the morning he signed on to build a bathhouse at the Hardins’ fancy Fort Worth home. But when
Marissa is found brutally murdered, Lackey becomes the number one suspect in a trumped-up case, while a sexual psychopath runs loose. Desperate to find the real killer, Lackey must evade arrest while keeping an eye on his fiancée—who may just be the killer’s next target.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781482966756
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	06/15/2014
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.50(h) x 5.00(d)

About the Author

Charlie Thurston has appeared on stages across the country with Trinity Repertory Company, Chautauqua Theater Company, Creede Rep, and at Riverside Theatre and Redmoon Theater, among others. His favorite roles include Edgar in The Completely Fictional—Utterly True—Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen in The Long Christmas Ride Home, Tuzenbach in The Three Sisters, and Tony in You Can’t Take It with You. Charlie holds an MFA in acting from Brown University / Trinity Rep.

Editorial Reviews

Gray's ( The Man Offside ) tough, energetic new novel packs disturbing crime scenes, salty language and cynical working-class views of the power elite. Lackey Ferguson, an honest ex-serviceman who runs a contracting business in Fort Worth, Tex., wants to save enough money to take his fiancee, Nancy, on a San Francisco honeymoon. He figures he has it made when wealthy Percy Hardin hires him to build a $100,000 bathhouse for Mrs. Hardin. Lackey closes the deal, nobly fends off Mrs. Hardin's amorous advances and departs, nearly sideswiping a Volvo with his lovingly maintained pickup on the way out. Driving the Volvo is a vicious, unhinged parolee named Everett ``Monkey Man'' Wilson, who assaults and murders the hapless Mrs. Hardin per her loathsome husband's orders. Soon Lackey is interrogated by an unlovable assistant D.A. and two smarmy cops; meanwhile Nancy--shown on a TV news spot--has become part of Monkey Man's perverse fantasy life. Lackey evades arrest to get the goods on Percy, while Mexican-American Nancy thwarts racist, sexist cops anxious to pin the rap on him. Readers will sympathize with the underdog heroes of this rousing, hard-boiled suspense story. (July)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

The author of The Man Offside ( LJ 5/1/91) begins with a painfully obvious plot and only intermittent sparkle, but exciting retribution awaits in this crime novel's second half. Newly released from the armed services, Lackey Ferguson struggles to make a go of his small construction business in Fort Worth, but everything seems to work against him: a snide parole officer harasses the ex-cons he employs; the bank refuses to lend him money; and a racist cop vows that Lackey murdered the rich woman who earlier that day hired him. With the aid of spunky girlfriend Nancy, Lackey tracks the real killer. A marginal purchase.

Library Journal