Rollie and the Missing Sunshine
(2025)(The third book in the Rollie Finch Mystery series)
A novel by Al Lamanda
Rollie Finch, private investigator, retired NYPD Detective, widower and father to three teenage girls, returns in an all new mystery/thriller.
Rollie is living his best life, working for lawyers, raising his daughters and entrenched in a serious relationship with school teacher Joanna Kearns.
Mrs. Angela Marino from San Francisco, contacts Rollie concerning her father, who was murdered in his Park Slope, Brooklyn home. After months, NYPD has made no progress on the case and Rollie agrees to accept the assignment.
After a trip to Brooklyn and a meeting with Brooklyn detectives, Rollie visits the home of the victim. A retired librarian, the victim was shot with a .357 revolver from close range while reading the book Mrs. Pepper and the Missing Sunshine. There are no signs of forced entry, a struggle, or anything missing from the home. To Rollie, it appears the victim knew his murderer.
Playing a hunch, Rollie contacts his former partner Bill Teal, who is now Assistant Chief of Detectives. Rollie’s hunch pays off as a second victim in Manhattan is discovered murdered the same way while reading the same book.
It doesn’t take Rollie long, working with Teal and then the FBI, to uncover a total of eight victims all murdered the exact same way. The question is why?
Rollie, as only Rollie can, uncovers the killer’s dark secret. All the victims were judges in the prestigious Crime Novel of the Year Award, which selected Mrs. Pepper and the Missing Sunshine over the killer’s own novel.
Feeling slighted by the judges, the deranged author plans to kill all thirty judges. Can Rollie stop him before he kills again? Or will Rollie wind up a victim himself?
Genre: Mystery
Rollie is living his best life, working for lawyers, raising his daughters and entrenched in a serious relationship with school teacher Joanna Kearns.
Mrs. Angela Marino from San Francisco, contacts Rollie concerning her father, who was murdered in his Park Slope, Brooklyn home. After months, NYPD has made no progress on the case and Rollie agrees to accept the assignment.
After a trip to Brooklyn and a meeting with Brooklyn detectives, Rollie visits the home of the victim. A retired librarian, the victim was shot with a .357 revolver from close range while reading the book Mrs. Pepper and the Missing Sunshine. There are no signs of forced entry, a struggle, or anything missing from the home. To Rollie, it appears the victim knew his murderer.
Playing a hunch, Rollie contacts his former partner Bill Teal, who is now Assistant Chief of Detectives. Rollie’s hunch pays off as a second victim in Manhattan is discovered murdered the same way while reading the same book.
It doesn’t take Rollie long, working with Teal and then the FBI, to uncover a total of eight victims all murdered the exact same way. The question is why?
Rollie, as only Rollie can, uncovers the killer’s dark secret. All the victims were judges in the prestigious Crime Novel of the Year Award, which selected Mrs. Pepper and the Missing Sunshine over the killer’s own novel.
Feeling slighted by the judges, the deranged author plans to kill all thirty judges. Can Rollie stop him before he kills again? Or will Rollie wind up a victim himself?
Genre: Mystery
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