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Last Words by Rich Zahradnik

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LAST WORDS
By: Rich Zahradnik

Coleridge Taylor #1
Camel Press
October 2014
On Sale: October 1, 2014
Featuring: Mark Voichek; Coleridge Taylor; Laura Wheeler
248 pages
ISBN: 1603812075
EAN: 2940150519152
Kindle: B00NY8TK2Y
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Suspense

In March of 1975, as New York City hurtles toward bankruptcy and the Bronx burns, newsman Coleridge Taylor roams police precincts and ERs. He is looking for the story that will deliver him from obits, his place of exile at the Messenger-Telegram. Ever since he was demoted from the police beat for inventing sources, the 34-year-old has been a lost soul.

A break comes at Bellevue, where Taylor views the body of a homeless teen picked up in the Meatpacking District. Taylor smells a rat: the dead boy looks too clean, and he’s wearing a distinctive Army field jacket. A little digging reveals that the jacket belonged to a hobo named Mark Voichek and that the teen was a spoiled society kid up to no good, the son of a city official.

Taylor’s efforts to protect Voichek put him on the hit list of three goons who are willing to kill any number of street people to cover tracks that just might lead to City Hall. Taylor has only one ally in the newsroom, young and lovely reporter Laura Wheeler. Time is not on his side.

If he doesn’t wrap this story up soon, he’ll be back on the obits pageβ€”as a headline, not a byline. Last Words is the first book in the Coleridge Taylor mystery series.

Coleridge Taylor

Last Words
LAST WORDS
#1.0 β€’ October 2014
Drop Dead Punk
DROP DEAD PUNK
#2.0 β€’ August 2015

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